Ethnographies of the state in Central Asia [electronic resource] : performing politics / edited by Madeleine Reeves, Johan Rasanayagam, and Judith Beyer.

Includes index.

Part I. Staging the political -- The global performance state: a reconsideration of the Central Asian "weak state" / John Heathershaw -- Dialogic authority: kazakh Aitys poets and their patrons / Eva-Marie Dubuisson -- Performing democracy: state-making through patronage in Kyrgyzstan / Aksana Ismailbekova -- "There is this law . . ." performing the state in the Kyrgyz courts of elders / Judith Beyer -- Part II. Political materials, political fantasies -- The master plan of Astana: between the "art of government" and the "art of being global" / Alima Bissenova -- State building(s): built forms, materiality, and the state in Astana / Mateusz Laszczkowski -- The bulldozer state: Chinese socialist development in Xinjiang / Ildiko Beller-Hann -- The time of the border: contingency, conflict, and popular statism at the Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan boundary / Madeleine Reeves -- Part III. Moral positionings -- Reclaiming Ma'naviyat: morality, criminality, and dissident politics in Uzbekistan / Sarah Kendzior -- The reshaping of cities and citizens in Uzbekistan: the case of Namangan's "new Uzbeks" / Tommaso Trevisani -- Massacre through a kaleidoscope: fragmented moral imaginaries of the state in Central Asia / Morgan Liu -- Cold War memories and post-Cold War realities: the politics of memory and identity in the everyday life of Kazakhstan's radiation victims / Cynthia Werner and Kathleen Purvis-Roberts.

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