Ethnographies of the State in Central Asia: Performing Politics

by Bruce Grant

Book Overview

With fresh and provocative insights into the everyday reality of politics in post-Soviet Central Asia, this volume moves beyond commonplaces about strong and weak states to ask critical questions about how democracy, authority, and justice are understood in this important region. In conversation with current theories of state power, the contributions draw on extensive ethnographic research in settings that range from the local to the transnational,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253011418
• ISBN13: 9780253011411
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips)
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher