Critical Approaches to Security in Central Asia
Central Asia remains on the periphery, both spatially and in peoples imaginations. When the region does attract international attention, it is often related to security issues, including terrorism, ethnic conflict, and drug trafficking. This book brings together leading specialists from a range of disciplines, including geography, anthropology, sociology, and political science, to discuss how citizens and governments within Central Asia think about and practise security.
The authors explore how governments use fears of instability to bolster their rule, and how securitized populations cope with (and resist) being labelled threats through strategies that are rarely associated with security, including marriage and changing their appearance. This collection examines a wide range of security issues, including Islamic extremism, small arms, interethnic relations, and border regions. Although coverage of the region often departs from preconceived notions of the region as dangerous, obscure, and volatile, the chapters in this book all place emphasis on the way local people understand security and harmony in their daily lives.
This book will be of interest to students and researchers of Central Asian Studies as well as Security Studies and Political Science. The chapters were originally published in the journal Central Asian Survey.
Edward Lemon is a Kennan Institute Fellow at the Daniel Morgan Graduate School, Washington, D.C., USA. He has previously held positions at Columbia University, New York City, USA and the University of Exeter, UK. His research examines authoritarian governance, religion, security, and migration in Eurasia.
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Institutional Reform in Central Asia
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Edited by Joachim Ahrens and Herman W. Hoen
Growing Up in the North Caucasus
Society, family, religion and education
Irina Molodikova and Alan Watt
Soviet Orientalism and the Creation of Central Asian Nations
Alfrid K. Bustanov
Soviet Nation-Building in Central Asia
The making of the Kazakh and Uzbek nations
Grigol Ubiria
The Afghan-Central Asia Borderland
The State and Local Leaders
Suzanne Levi-Sanchez
Kyrgyzstan - Regime Security and Foreign Policy
Kemel Toktomushev
Legal Pluralism in Central Asia
Local Jurisdiction and Customary Practices
Mahabat Sadyrbek
Identity, History and Trans-Nationality in Central Asia
The Mountain Communities of Pamir
Edited by Carole Faucher and Dagikhudo Dagiev
Critical Approaches to Security in Central Asia
Edited by Edward Lemon
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The following chapters were originally published in the journal Central Asian Survey. When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Chapter 2
Framing Andijon, narrating the nation: Islam Karimovs account of the events of 13 May 2005
Nick Megoran
Central Asian Survey, volume 27, issue 1 (March 2008) pp. 1531
Chapter 3
Disorder over the border: spinning the spectre of instability through time and space in Central Asia
Natalie Koch
Central Asian Survey, volume 37, issue 1 (January 2018) pp. 1330
Chapter 4
Islamic discourses in Azerbaijan: the securitization of non-traditional religious movements
Galib Bashirov
Central Asian Survey, volume 37, issue 1 (January 2018) pp. 3149
Chapter 5
The terrorist attacks in the Volga region, 201213: hegemonic narratives and everyday understandings of (in)security
Renat Shaykhutdinov
Central Asian Survey, volume 37, issue 1 (January 2018) pp. 5067
Chapter 6
Locating danger: konfliktologiia and the search for fixity in the Ferghana Valley borderlands
Madeleine Reeves
Central Asian Survey, volume 24, issue 1 (March 2005) pp. 6781
Chapter 7
The paradox of peacebuilding: peril, promise, and small arms in Tajikistan
John Heathershaw
Central Asian Survey, volume 24, issue 1 (March 2005) pp. 2138
Chapter 8
Awash with weapons?: the case of small arms in Kyrgyzstan
S. Neil MacFarlane and Stina Torjesen
Central Asian Survey, volume 24, issue 1 (March 2005) pp. 519
Chapter 9
In search of harmony: repairing infrastructure and social relations in the Ferghana Valley
Christine Bichsel
Central Asian Survey, volume 24, issue 1 (March 2005) pp. 5366
Chapter 10
Living dangerously: securityscapes of Lyuli and LGBT people in urban spaces of Kyrgyzstan
Marc von Boemcken, Hafiz Boboyorov and Nina Bagdasarova
Central Asian Survey, volume 37, issue 1 (January 2018) pp. 6884
Chapter 11
Security matters in marriage: Uyghurs perceptions of security in Xinjiang, China
Mei Ding
Central Asian Survey, volume 37, issue 1 (January 2018) pp. 8599
