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Ethnicity, Authority, and Power in Central Asia

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New Games Great and Small

Ethnicity, Authority, and Power in Central Asia

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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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