Central Asia and the Caucasus : transnationalism and diaspora / / edited by Touraj Atabaki and Sanjyot Mehendale

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (254 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.8/00958/090511
• Soggetto topico: Nationalism - Asia, Central; Nationalism - Caucasus
• Soggetto geografico: Asia, Central Ethnic relations; Caucasus Ethnic relations
• Altri autori: AtabakiTouraj MehendaleSanjyot <1965->
• 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; Figures and tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; Notes on contributors; 1 Introduction Transnationalism and diaspora in Central Asia and the Caucasus; 2 Nationalism from without Theorizing the role of diasporas in contemporary conflict; 3 Towards a typology of diasporas in Kazakhstan; 4 Russians in post Soviet Central Asia Issues and concerns; 5 State homeland and diaspora The Armenian and Azerbaijani cases; 6 Diaspora and global civil society The impact of transnational diasporic activism on Armenia's post Soviet transition ; 7 Afghan communities in Uzbekistan A preliminary case study8 Uighur community in 1990s Central Asia A decade of change; 9 The Afghan diaspora Reflections on the imagined country; 10 Islam in China Transnationalism or transgression; 11 The Assyrian diaspora Cultural survival in the absence of state structure; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, a number of linkages have been established between newly independent Central Asian states, or populations within them, and diaspora ethnic groups. This book explores the roles that diaspora communities play in the recent and ongoing emergence of national identities in Central Asia and the Caucasus. The loyalties of these communities are divided between their countries of residence and those states that serve as homeland of their particular ethno-cultural nation, and are further complicated by connections with contested transnational notions of common
• Titolo autorizzato: Central Asia and the Caucasus
• ISBN: 1-134-31993-2; 1-134-31994-0; 0-203-60246-3; 1-280-10788-X; 0-203-49582-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910784683103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Transnationalism.