03783nam 2200469 450 991081044990332120220519144301.01-4985-3837-1(CKB)3790000000535182(MiAaPQ)EBC5122194(Au-PeEL)EBL5122194(CaPaEBR)ebr11464059(OCoLC)1006525047(EXLCZ)99379000000053518220220519d2017 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierConstructing the Uzbek state narratives of post-Soviet years /edited by Marlene LaruelleLanham, Maryland :Lexington Books,[2017]©20171 online resource (xvi, 367 pages) illustrationsContemporary Central Asia : Societies, Politics, and CulturesPrint version: Constructing the Uzbek state. Lanham, Maryland : Published by Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., 2017 9781498538367 (DLC) 2017044944 Includes bibliographical references and index.Uzbekistan's political construct -- When security trumps identity : Uzbekistan's foreign policy under Islam Karimov / Matteo Fumagalli -- The magic of territory : remaking of border landscapes as a spatial manifestation of nationalist ideology / Nick Megoran -- Grand corruption in Uzbekistan's telecommunications sector : root causes and social costs / Alisher Ilkhamov -- Uzbek political thinking in the third decade of independence / Morgan Y. Liu -- Agriculture and labor migration : changing the social fabric -- Government, cotton farms, and labor migration from Uzbekistan / Russell Zanca -- Uzbeks in Russia : a new diaspora or a transnational society? / Sergei Abashin -- Establishing an Uzbek Mahalla via smartphones and social media : everyday transnational lives of Uzbek labor migrants in Russia / Rustamjon Urinboyev -- Uzbek Islam : state control, resilience, and resistance -- Counter-extremism, secularism, and the category of religion in the United Kingdom and Uzbekistan : should we be studying Islam at all? / Johan Rasanayagam -- At the crossroads of religion and regime security : teaching Islam in Uzbekistan / Sebastien Peyrouse -- Moral exemplars and ordinary ethics : Sufism in Bukhara / Maria Louw -- The evolving Uzbek jihad : Islamist militant recruiting and state responses / Noah Tucker -- Renegotiating identities and cultural legacies -- Be(com)ing Uzbek : patterns of identification and processes of assimilation / Peter Finke -- The nation narrated : Uzbekistan's political and cultural nationalism / Marlene Laruelle -- Public life in private spaces in Uzbekistan : women, religion, and politics / Svetlana Peshkova -- Gender and changing women's roles in Uzbekistan : from Soviet workers to post-soviet entrepreneurs / Rano Turaeva-Hoehne.This collection provides a broad examination of contemporary Uzbekistan. The contributors analyze its geostrategic significance, its economic potential, and its demographic importance. This study also argues that the country's political, social, and cultural evolutions symbolize the transformations of the region as a whole.Contemporary Central Asia : societies, politics, and cultures.UzbekistanPolitics and government1991-UzbekistanForeign relations1991-UzbekistanEconomic conditions1991-958.7086Laruelle MarlèneMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910810449903321Constructing the Uzbek state3969202UNINA