04008nam 22005655 450 991013661330332120200629160452.0978981102392710.1007/978-981-10-2392-7(CKB)3710000000903266(EBL)4718065(DE-He213)978-981-10-2392-7(MiAaPQ)EBC4718065(EXLCZ)99371000000090326620161014d2017 u| 0engurnn|008mamaatxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierSymbols and the Image of the State in Eurasia /by Anita Sengupta1st ed. 2017.Singapore :Springer Singapore :Imprint: Springer,2017.1 online resource (145 pages)SpringerBriefs in Political Science,2191-5466Description based upon print version of record.981-10-2391-3 981-10-2392-1 Includes bibliographical references.Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The Politics of Nation Branding in Uzbekistan -- Chapter 3. The Heart of Eurasia and the ancient land of the Kazakhs -- Chapter 4. Reconstructed Pasts: The state and its margins -- Chapter 5. Multicultural Societies and Imperatives of a ‘Singular Faith’ -- Chapter 6. The Emergence of a New Dialogue? Regional strategies and initiatives -- Chapter 7. Conclusions: The Politics of Symbolism.This book discusses the significance of cultural symbols/‘images’ in the nation-building of Eurasian states that emerged out of the former Soviet Union. It particularly focuses on the cases of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan in the post-Soviet era and argues that the relationship between nation- and image-building has been particularly relevant for Eurasian states. In an increasingly globalized world, nation-state building is no longer an activity confined to the domestic arena. The situating of the state within the global space and its ‘image’ in the international community (nation branding) becomes in many ways as crucial as the projection of homogeneity within the state. The relationship between politics and cultural symbols/ ‘images’, therefore acquires and represents multiple possibilities. It is these possibilities that are the focus of Symbols and the Image of the State in Eurasia. It argues that the relationship between politics and cultural symbols/ ‘images’, became particularly relevant for states that emerged in the wake of the disintegration of the Soviet Union in Central Asia. It extends the argument further to contend that the image that the state projects is largely determined by its legacy and it attempts to do this by taking into account the Uzbek and Kazakh cases. In the shaping of the post-Soviet future these legacies and projections as well as the policy implications of these projections in terms of governmentality and foreign policy have been decisive. .SpringerBriefs in Political Science,2191-5466Political sociologyRussia—Politics and governmentEthnology—AsiaPolitical Sociologyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X22170Russian and Post-Soviet Politicshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/911170Asian Culturehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/411040Political sociology.Russia—Politics and government.Ethnology—Asia.Political Sociology.Russian and Post-Soviet Politics.Asian Culture.300Sengupta Anitaauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1058196BOOK9910136613303321Symbols and the Image of the State in Eurasia2497791UNINA