Critical approaches to security in Central Asia /
Central Asia remains on the periphery, both spatially and in people's imaginations. When the region does attract international attention, it is often related to security issues, including terrorism, ethnic conflict and drug trafficking. This book brings together leading specialists from a range...
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| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
2019.
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| Series: | Central Asian studies series ;
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Critical approaches to security in Central Asia / Edward Lemon
- Part I: State Security Discourses and the Geopolitics of Authoritarianism
- Framing Andijon, narrating the nation : Islam Karimov's account of the events of 13 May 2005 / Nick Megoran
- Disorder over the border : spinning the spectre of instability through time and space in Central Asia / Natalie Koch
- Islamic discourses in Azerbaijan : the securitization of 'non-traditional religious movements' / Galib Bashirov
- The terrorist attacks in the Volga region, 2012-13 : hegemonic narratives and everyday understandings of (in)security / Renat Shaykhutdinov
- Part II: The Discourses of Danger and Conflict Management in Central Asia
- Locating danger : Konfliktologiia and the search for fixity in the Ferghana valley borderlands / Madeleine Reeves
- The paradox of peacebuilding : peril, promise, and small arms in Tajikistan / John Heathershaw
- 'A wash with weapons'? : the case of small arms in Kyrgyzstan / S. Neil MacFarlane and Stina Torjesen
- In search of harmony : repairing infrastructure and social relations in the Ferghana valley / Christine Bichsel
- Part III: Everyday (In)security : Harmony, Accommodation and Resistance
- Living dangerously : securityscapes of Lyuli and LGBT people in urban spaces of Kyrgyzstan / Marc von Boemcken, Hafiz Boboyorov and Nina Bagdasarova
- Security matters in marriage : Uyghurs' perceptions of security in Xinjiang, China / Mei Ding
- Navigating the safety implications of doing research and being researched in Kyrgyzstan : cooperation, networks and framing / Nurbek Bekmurzaev, Philipp Lottholz and Joshua Meyer
- Kyrgyzstan's informal settlements : yntymak and the emergence of politics in place / Bert Cramer
- 'The state starts from the family': peace and harmony in Tajikistan's eastern Pamirs / Till Mostowlansky
- Counter-extremism, power and authoritarian governance in Tajikistan / Edward Lemon and Hélène Thibault.