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Altstadt Audrey L. <1953-> |
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Frustrated democracy in post-Soviet Azerbaijan / / Audrey L. Altstadt |
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Washington, District of Columbia ; ; New York : , : Woodrow Wilson Center Press : , : Columbia University Press, , 2017 |
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1 online resource (346 pages) : illustrations, maps, tables |
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Islam and politics - Azerbaijan - History |
Geopolitics - Azerbaijan - History |
Petroleum industry and trade - Political aspects - Azerbaijan - History |
Post-communism - Azerbaijan - History |
Democracy - Azerbaijan - History |
Political corruption - Azerbaijan - History |
Authoritarianism - Azerbaijan - History |
Azerbaijan Politics and government 1991- |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Maps and Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Languages and Spelling -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. A Starting Point: History and Geopolitics and What They Tell Us -- 2. The Open Wound: Mountainous Karabagh and National Consciousness -- 3. Azerbaijan's Best and Brightest: The Rise, Decline, and Renewal of the Democratic Opposition -- 4. Oil Lifts All Boats? Social and Economic Repercussions and the Rise of Corruption -- 5. Jail for the "Donkey Bloggers": Crushing Youth Activism, Human Rights, and a Free Media -- 6. Allah-u Akbar: Islam in Azerbaijan- Piety, Politics, and the Future -- 7. What's Next? The Choices Ahead -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography of Major Sources -- Index |
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Frustrated Democracy in Post-Soviet Azerbaijan follows a newly independent oil-rich former Soviet republic as it adopts a Western |
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model of democratic government and then turns toward corrupt authoritarianism. Audrey L. Altstadt begins with the Nagorno-Karabagh War (1988-1994) which triggered Azerbaijani nationalism and set the stage for the development of a democratic movement. Initially successful, this government soon succumbed to a coup. Western oil companies arrived and money flowed in-a quantity Altstadt calls "almost unimaginable"-causing the regime to resort to repression to maintain its power. Despite Azerbaijan's long tradition of secularism, political Islam emerged as an attractive alternative for those frustrated with the stifled democratic opposition and the lack of critique of the West's continued political interference. Altstadt's work draws on instances of censorship in the Azerbaijani press, research by embedded experts and nongovernmental and international organizations, and interviews with diplomats and businesspeople. The book is an essential companion to her earlier works, The Azerbaijani Turks: Power and Identity Under Russian Rule and The Politics of Culture in Soviet Azerbaijan, 1920-1940. |
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UNINA9910838193503321 |
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Bühlmann Vera |
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Architectonics Books. The Digital, a Continent? : Nature and Poetics / / Vera Bühlmann; ed. by Ludger Hovestadt, Vera Bühlmann |
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Basel : , : Birkhäuser, , [2023] |
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2024 |
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1 online resource (532 p.) |
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Applied Virtuality Book Series , , 2196-3118 ; ; 22 |
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ARCHITECTURE / Study & Teaching |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Instead of a Preface, a Frontispiece -- Incipit, a Chord -- Tempered in the Time of the Analemma -- Didascalicon -- Digital Ekphrasis -- The Digital, a Continent? -- Cosmoliteracy and Anthropography -- Statuesque Words |
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in Locum Tenens: Cornucopian Instruments, Lieu-tenants of Statements -- Photosynthesis: Cosmic Convivia of Meteora Alloys -- The Alphabetic Absolute -- Capital Bodies: Secrets of the Universe -- In Medias Naturae -- The Instrumentation of Space: Time, Cosmos, Politics -- Entwurf of the Method and Ethics of its Discourse: Cartesianism Reconsidered -- Once Upon the Autonomy of Words -- Bibliography |
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Die Autorin erörtert eine Denkweise über digitale Technik, die sich auf den neuen Materialismus stützt. The Digital, a Continent? verwendet dabei beispielhaft die Photosynthese und die Kernspaltung als ebenso künstliche wie natürliche Prozesse, um zu erklären, wie die digitale Technik im Paradigma einer "kommunikativen Physik" gesehen werden kann und in der Poetik mit mathematischem Denken zusammenspielt. Die Autorin schlussfolgert, dass wir uns selbst und die digitale Technik besser verstehen können, wenn wir Vorstellungen davon entwickeln, wie Energie, Form und Intellekt in einer Architektonik von Welt in vielfältiger Weise zusammenspielen. Theoretische Betrachtung der digitalen Technik Bildliche Sprache und Naturwissenschaft Neuer Band der Reihe Applied Virtuality Book Series |
In The Digital, a Continent?, the author argues in favor of a way of thinking about digital technology that draws on the new materialism. She uses photosynthesis and nuclear fission as examples of processes that are as artificial as they are natural to explain how digital technology can be viewed within the paradigm of a "communicative physics" in which poetics interacts with mathematical thinking. The author concludes that we can better understand ourselves and digital technology by developing notions of the multifaceted ways energy, form, and intellect interact in global architectonics. Theoretical consideration of digital technology Visual language and science New volume in the Applied Virtuality Book Series |
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