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Bonds of Blood? - State-building and Clanship in Chechnya and Ingushetia (Hardcover)
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Bonds of Blood? - State-building and Clanship in Chechnya and Ingushetia (Hardcover)
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The North Caucasus, specifically Chechnya and Ingushetia is a
region that has experienced some of the deadliest and most
protracted conflicts in Europe. Chechnya is currently a
totalitarian enclave within the increasingly authoritarian Russian
Federation, while Ingushetia still suffers from lingering political
conflicts and chronic problems with the quality of governance. By
examining the relationship between state and society, this book
considers how state-building has unfolded in a region with highly
complex social structures, a history of colonialism, Soviet
authoritarianism, and later post-Soviet wars and trauma. Focusing
on a systematic analysis of subnational state-building in
post-Soviet Chechnya and Ingushetia and the role of teips (clans)
in this process, this study responds to the widely accepted
academic claim that governance and ethnic consolidation in the
North Caucasus are shaped by the politics of teips and the belief
that late and uneven modernization, and the survival of tribal
structures have been accountable for systematic failures in
state-building in the region. The research is based on over 200
interviews which the author carried out in Ingushetia and Chechnya,
as well as interviews with Chechen exiled politicians in Europe.
The book also features never-before-seen access to the archives of
the Chechen Parliament during the period of de facto independence.
Through research into the socio-anthropological analysis of the
clans and how they function towards political systems,
Sokirianskaia shows how the teips lost their traditional
organizational structure and roles, becoming incapable of
mobilizing for political action. She argues that while teip
symbolism has remained politically relevant, and the bonds of
kinship are highly important, they do not form the basis of
politics and subnational state-building in Chechnya and Ingushetia.
Consequently, subnational authoritarianism is not the result of the
pre-existing social composition of the society, but a reflection of
institutional rules imposed by Moscow.
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