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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785497303321

Titolo

Ethnicity, authority and power in central Asia : new games great and small / / edited by Robert L. Canfield and Gabriele Rasuly-Paleczek

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon, England ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-136-92749-2

1-136-92750-6

1-282-91303-4

9786612913037

0-203-84548-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (268 p.)

Collana

Central Asian studies series

Altri autori (Persone)

CanfieldRobert L (Robert Leroy)

Rasuly-PaleczekGabriele

Disciplina

305.800958

Soggetti

Authoritarianism - Asia, Central

Ethnicity - Asia, Central

Political persection - Asia, Central

Asia, Central Ethnic relations

Asia, Central Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Maps; Introduction: A region of strategic importance; Part I: Repressions and their consequences; 1 Authoritarianism and its consequences in ex-Soviet Central Asia; 2 The mobilization of tradition: Localism and identity among the Uyghur of Xinjiang; Part II: Ethnic perceptions and reactions; 3 Central Asian attitudes towards Afghanistan: Perceptions of the Afghan war in Uzbekistan; 4 Alignment politics and factionalism among the Uzbeks of northeastern Afghanistan

5 Afghanistan is not the Balkans: Central Asian ethnicity and its political consequences6 Pukhtun identity in Swat, northern Pakistan; Part III: Devices of mutual support; 7 The impact of war on social, political, and economic organization in southern Hazarajat; 8 An inter-regional history of Pashtun migration, c. 1775-2000; Part IV:



Mechanisms of authority and influence; 9 Political games in post-Soviet Uzbekistan: Factions, protection, and new resistances; 10 Female mullahs, healers, and leaders of Central Asian Islam: Gendering the old and new religious roles in post-Communist societies

11 Efficacy and hierarchy: Practices in Afghanistan as an exampleIndex

Sommario/riassunto

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 o