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The perception of Central Asia and its place in the world has come
to be shaped by its large oil and gas reserves. Literature on
energy in the region has thus largely focused on related
geopolitical issues and national policies. However, little is known
about citizens' needs within this broader context of commodities
that connect the energy networks of China, Russia and the West.
This multidisciplinary special issue brings together
anthropologists, economists, geographers and political scientists
to examine the role of all forms of energy (here: oil, gas,
hydropower and solar power) and their products (especially
electricity) in people's daily lives throughout Central Asia and
the Caucasus. The papers in this issue ask how energy is understood
as an everyday resource, as a necessity and a source of
opportunity, a challenge or even as an indicator of exclusionary
practices. We enquire into the role and views of energy sector
workers, rural consumers and urban communities, and their
experiences of energy companies' and national policies. We further
examine the legacy of Soviet and more recent domestic energy
policies, the environmental impact of energy use as well as the
political impact of citizens' energy grievances. This book was
published as a special issue of Central Asian Survey.
The perception of Central Asia and its place in the world has come
to be shaped by its large oil and gas reserves. Literature on
energy in the region has thus largely focused on related
geopolitical issues and national policies. However, little is known
about citizens' needs within this broader context of commodities
that connect the energy networks of China, Russia and the West.
This multidisciplinary special issue brings together
anthropologists, economists, geographers and political scientists
to examine the role of all forms of energy (here: oil, gas,
hydropower and solar power) and their products (especially
electricity) in people's daily lives throughout Central Asia and
the Caucasus. The papers in this issue ask how energy is understood
as an everyday resource, as a necessity and a source of
opportunity, a challenge or even as an indicator of exclusionary
practices. We enquire into the role and views of energy sector
workers, rural consumers and urban communities, and their
experiences of energy companies' and national policies. We further
examine the legacy of Soviet and more recent domestic energy
policies, the environmental impact of energy use as well as the
political impact of citizens' energy grievances. This book was
published as a special issue of Central Asian Survey.
Kyrgyzstan is probably the best known of any central Asian country,
the one that has elicited the most academic publications, reports
by NGOs or advocacy groups, and op-eds in the media. The country
opened up massively to Western influence through development aid
for civil society and for economic reforms, faced two revolutions
in 2005 and 2010, and experienced bloody interethnic conflict in
2010. Kyrgyzstan is therefore commonly studied as a twin case: that
of having been, for more than two decades, both an "island of
democracy" in Central Asia-and the only country of the region to
have made the transition to a parliamentary regime-and the
archetypical example of a "failing state," one marked by endemic
corruption, criminalization of the state apparatus, and collapse of
public services. This volume goes beyond these two cliches and
provides a research-based and unideological narrative on the
country. It identifies political dynamics, their powerbrokers, and
the role of international organizations; investigates the profound
social transformations of both the rural and the urban worlds; and
examines the broad feeling, by local actors, that Kyrgyzstan's
fragile state identity should be consolidated. This book gives the
floor to the new generation of scholars whose long-term
vernacular-language field research made it possible to provide new
interpretative prisms for the complex evolution of Kyrgyzstan.
Kyrgyzstan is probably the best known of any central Asian country,
the one that has elicited the most academic publications, reports
by NGOs or advocacy groups, and op-eds in the media. The country
opened up massively to Western influence through development aid
for civil society and for economic reforms, faced two revolutions
in 2005 and 2010, and experienced bloody interethnic conflict in
2010. Kyrgyzstan is therefore commonly studied as a twin case: that
of having been, for more than two decades, both an "island of
democracy" in Central Asia-and the only country of the region to
have made the transition to a parliamentary regime-and the
archetypical example of a "failing state," one marked by endemic
corruption, criminalization of the state apparatus, and collapse of
public services. This volume goes beyond these two cliches and
provides a research-based and unideological narrative on the
country. It identifies political dynamics, their powerbrokers, and
the role of international organizations; investigates the profound
social transformations of both the rural and the urban worlds; and
examines the broad feeling, by local actors, that Kyrgyzstan's
fragile state identity should be consolidated. This book gives the
floor to the new generation of scholars whose long-term
vernacular-language field research made it possible to provide new
interpretative prisms for the complex evolution of Kyrgyzstan.
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