TY  - BOOK
AU  - Laruelle,Marlene
AU  - Abashin,Sergey
AU  - Finke,Peter
AU  - Fumagalli,Matteo
AU  - Ilkhamov,Alisher
AU  - Liu,Morgan Y.
AU  - Maria Louw,Maria
AU  - Megoran,Nick
AU  - Peshkova,Svetlana
AU  - Peyrouse,Sebastien
TI  - Constructing the Uzbek State: Narratives of Post-Soviet Years
T2  - Contemporary Central Asia: Societies, Politics, and Cultures Series
SN  - 9781498538374
AV  - DK948.8657 .C667 2017 
U1  - 958.7086 
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Blue Ridge Summit
PB  - Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
KW  - Uzbekistan-Politics and government-1991-
KW  - Uzbekistan-Foreign relations-1991-
KW  - Uzbekistan-Economic conditions-1991-
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. UZBEKISTAN'S POLITICAL CONSTRUCT -- Ch01. When Security Trumps Identity -- Ch02. The Magic of Territory -- Ch03. Grand Corruption in Uzbekistan's Telecommunications Sector -- Ch04. Uzbek Political Thinking in the Third Decade of Independence -- Part II. AGRICULTURE AND LABOR MIGRATION -- Ch05. Government, Cotton Farms, and Labor Migration from Uzbekistan -- Ch06. Uzbeks in Russia -- Ch07. Establishing an "Uzbek Mahalla" via Smartphones and Social Media -- Part III. UZBEK ISLAM -- Ch08. Counter-Extremism, Secularism, and the Category of Religion in the United Kingdom and Uzbekistan -- Ch09. At the Crossroads of Religion and Regime Security -- Ch10. Moral Exemplars and Ordinary Ethics -- Ch11. The Evolving Uzbek Jihad -- Part IV. RENEGOTIATING IDENTITIES AND CULTURAL LEGACIES -- Ch12. Be(com)ing Uzbek -- The Nation Narrated -- Ch14. Public Life in Private Spaces in Uzbekistan -- Ch15. Gender and Changing Women's Roles in Uzbekistan -- Bibliography -- Acronyms -- Index -- About the Editor and Contributors
N2  - 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
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ER  -