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A comprehensive study of nation-building in post-Soviet Central Asia. Committed to internationalism, Kazakhstan and other central Asian states nevertheless embrace classically nationalist conceptions of the nation-state. Their unabashed celebration of borders and citizenship challenges Western views of nationalism as a dying ideology transcended by cosmopolitanism. Drawing on twenty years of fieldwork, Central Peripheries reveals the origin of central Asian national consciousness in imaginary and ritualized efforts to grapple with the Soviet past.
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Central Peripheries, Marlène Laruelle
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- Released
- 2021
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- Title
- Central Peripheries
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Marlène Laruelle
- Publisher
- UCL Press
- Released
- 2021
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 262
- ISBN10
- 180008014X
- ISBN13
- 9781800080140
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, History
- Rating
- 4 out of 5
- Description
- A comprehensive study of nation-building in post-Soviet Central Asia. Committed to internationalism, Kazakhstan and other central Asian states nevertheless embrace classically nationalist conceptions of the nation-state. Their unabashed celebration of borders and citizenship challenges Western views of nationalism as a dying ideology transcended by cosmopolitanism. Drawing on twenty years of fieldwork, Central Peripheries reveals the origin of central Asian national consciousness in imaginary and ritualized efforts to grapple with the Soviet past.