This thesis explores the phenomenon of clan-based regional solidarity groups and their role in the political life of the Republic of Uzbekistan. It argues that the weak solidarity of the Uzbek ethnie is at root a function of historical socio-cultural and geographical patterns th…
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The purpose of this study was to examine the motivation of Uzbek women who committed acts of self-immolation and survived. The study examined the role of the religion and culture of Islam, whether the act of self-immolation was a suicide attempt or an act of protest, and whether…
This dissertation examines the response of urban Central Asian families and individuals to the collapse of the U.S.S.R. and their strategies for coping with rapid changes in their power, authority and responsibilities. Based on fourteen months of ethnographic fieldwork conducted…
A growing body of literature links religion to a variety of beneficial health outcomes, but many aspects of the influence of religion on health attitudes and behaviors remain uninvestigated. Most existing work linking religion to health focuses on the United States and other Wes…
This thesis examines the politics of social movements in three different contexts: Uzbekistan, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait. These modern Islamic movements advocate radical ideology as a way to reach power following the Western revolutionary model. They invented ostensible "Islamic …
This dissertation examines the resilience mechanisms of the newly emerging livelihood activities of peasants, farmers, and traders in rural areas in post-Soviet Uzbekistan. Women's coping, preserving, and accumulating resilience demonstrate their capabilities for transforming an…
An analysis of how Uzbekistan s cultural and political elites engaged in a program of nation-building through culture, particularly by staging spectacular mass events, after the fall of the Soviet Union.
The politics of culture in Uzbekistan 1991-2002 -- Mapping the landscape of national identity in Uzbekistan -- Cultural form : globalization and the spectacular state -- Cultural content and postcolonial civic nationalism -- Culture production and participation in the spectacula…
An analysis of how Uzbekistan s cultural and political elites engaged in a program of nation-building through culture, particularly by staging spectacular mass events, after the fall of the Soviet Union.
An analysis of how Uzbekistan s cultural and political elites engaged in a program of nation-building through culture, particularly by staging spectacular mass events, after the fall of the Soviet Union.
This volume examines the ways that cultural elites were mobilized as part of Uzbekistan's nation-building project in the early years of independence, and how institutional and cultural restraints on nation building now function.