Constructing the Uzbek state narratives of post-Soviet years / edited by Marlene Laruelle.

Other author Laruelle, Marlène.
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Publication InfoLanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2017]
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SeriesContemporary Central Asia : societies, politics, and cultures
Contents Uzbekistan's political construct -- When security trumps identity : Uzbekistan's foreign policy under Islam Karimov / Matteo Fumagalli -- The magic of territory : remaking of border landscapes as a spatial manifestation of nationalist ideology / Nick Megoran -- Grand corruption in Uzbekistan's telecommunications sector : root causes and social costs / Alisher Ilkhamov -- Uzbek political thinking in the third decade of independence / Morgan Y. Liu -- Agriculture and labor migration : changing the social fabric -- Government, cotton farms, and labor migration from Uzbekistan / Russell Zanca -- Uzbeks in Russia : a new diaspora or a transnational society? / Sergei Abashin -- Establishing an Uzbek Mahalla via smartphones and social media : everyday transnational lives of Uzbek labor migrants in Russia / Rustamjon Urinboyev -- Uzbek Islam : state control, resilience, and resistance -- Counter-extremism, secularism, and the category of religion in the United Kingdom and Uzbekistan : should we be studying Islam at all? / Johan Rasanayagam -- At the crossroads of religion and regime security : teaching Islam in Uzbekistan / Sebastien Peyrouse -- Moral exemplars and ordinary ethics : Sufism in Bukhara / Maria Louw -- The evolving Uzbek jihad : Islamist militant recruiting and state responses / Noah Tucker -- Renegotiating identities and cultural legacies -- Be(com)ing Uzbek : patterns of identification and processes of assimilation / Peter Finke -- The nation narrated : Uzbekistan's political and cultural nationalism / Marlene Laruelle -- Public life in private spaces in Uzbekistan : women, religion, and politics / Svetlana Peshkova -- Gender and changing women's roles in Uzbekistan : from Soviet workers to post-soviet entrepreneurs / Rano Turaeva-Hoehne.
Abstract This collection provides a broad examination of contemporary Uzbekistan. The contributors analyze its geostrategic significance, its economic potential, and its demographic importance. This study also argues that the country's political, social, and cultural evolutions symbolize the transformations of the region as a whole.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Issued in other formPrint version: Constructing the Uzbek state Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2017] 9781498538367
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LCCN 2017048357
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