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      Ethnicity, Authority, and Power in Central Asia
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      New Games Great and Small

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      Ethnicity, Authority, and Power in Central Asia book

      New Games Great and Small
      Edited ByRobert L. Canfield, Gabriele Rasuly-Paleczek
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2010
      eBook Published 9 September 2010
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203845486
      Pages 272
      eBook ISBN 9780203845486
      Subjects Area Studies, Politics & International Relations, Social Sciences
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      Canfield, R.L., & Rasuly-Paleczek, G. (Eds.). (2010). Ethnicity, Authority, and Power in Central Asia: New Games Great and Small (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203845486

      ABSTRACT

      The peoples of Greater Central Asia – not only Inner Asian states of Soviet Union but also those who share similar heritages in adjacent countries like Afghanistan and Pakistan, Iran, and the Chinese province of Xinjiang – have been drawn into more direct and immediate contact since the Soviet collapse. Infrastructural improvements, and the race by the great powers for access to the region’s vital natural resources, have allowed these peoples to develop closer ties with each other and the wider world, creating new interdependencies, and fresh opportunities for interaction and the exercise of influence. They are being integrated into a new, wider economic and political region which is increasingly significant in world affairs, owing to its strategically central location, and its complex and uncertain politics. However, most of its inhabitants are pre-eminently concerned with familial and local affairs.

      This work examines the viewpoints and concerns of a selection of groups in terms of four issues: government repression, ethnic group perspectives, devices of mutual support, and informal grounds of authority and influence. Responding to a need for in-depth studies concerning the social structures and practices in the region, the book examines trends and issues from the point of view of scholars who have lived and worked "on the ground" and have sought to understand the conditions and concerns of people in rural as well as urban settings. It provides a distinctive and timely perspective on this vital part of the world.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter |16 pages

      Introduction: A region of strategic importance

      ByROBERT L. CANFIELD

      part |2 pages

      Part I: Repressions and their consequences

      chapter 1|20 pages

      Authoritarianism and its consequences in ex-Soviet Central Asia

      chapter 2|20 pages

      The mobilization of tradition: Localism and identity among the Uyghur of Xinjiang

      part |2 pages

      Part II: Ethnic perceptions and reactions

      chapter 3|16 pages

      Central Asian attitudes towards Afghanistan: Perceptions of the Afghan war in Uzbekistan

      chapter 4|18 pages

      Alignment politics and factionalism among the Uzbeks of northeastern Afghanistan

      chapter 5|15 pages

      Afghanistan is not the Balkans: Central Asian ethnicity and its political consequences

      chapter 6|17 pages

      Pukhtun identity in Swat, northern Pakistan

      ByCHARLES LINDHOLM

      part |2 pages

      PART III Devices of mutual support

      chapter 7|15 pages

      The impact of war on social, political, and economic organization in southern Hazarajat

      chapter 8|19 pages

      An inter-regional history of Pashtun migration, c. 1775–2000

      part |2 pages

      PART IV Mechanisms of authority and influence

      chapter 9|9 pages

      Political games in post-Soviet Uzbekistan: Factions, protection, and new resistances

      chapter 10|22 pages

      Female mullahs, healers, and leaders of Central Asian Islam: Gendering the old and new religious roles in post-Communist societies

      chapter 11|52 pages

      Efficacy and hierarchy: Practices in Afghanistan as an example

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