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Movement, Power and Place in Central Asia and Beyond - Contested Trajectories (Hardcover)
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Movement, Power and Place in Central Asia and Beyond - Contested Trajectories (Hardcover)
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Central Asia is a region singularly marked by attempts to transform
social life by transforming place. Drawing together established
scholars and a new generation of historians, geographers and
anthropologists, this volume brings empirical specificity and
theoretical depth to debates about the politics of place-making in
this diverse region, making an important contribution to Central
Asian studies and a distinctive regional comparison to the 'spatial
turn' in social analysis. Case studies draw on archival research
and oral history to explore the workings-and unintended
consequences-of policies aimed at sedentarizing, collectivizing and
resettling populations as a means to fix and territorialize space.
The book also examines ethnographic studies attuned to the role of
movement in sustaining social life, from Soviet-era trade networks
that linked rural Central Asia and the Russian metropolis, to
pilgrimage routes through which 'kazakhness' is articulated, to the
contemporary moralization of migration abroad in search of work.
Rather than analysing 'flows' as abstract processes, the book
enquires about effortful activity, material infrastructures,
political relations and social habits through which people, ideas,
knowledge, skills and material objects move or are prevented from
moving. As such, it offers new insights into the complex
intersections of movement, power and place in this important region
over the last two centuries. This book was originally published as
a special issue of Central Asian Survey.
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