Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/02634937.2022.2134300
Rick Fawn, Karolina Kluczewska, O. Korneev
ABSTRACT By shifting the study of European Union (EU)–Central Asian relations from its fixed category of black-boxing both the EU and Central Asia, this article advances the case for the approach of examining multi-level and multi-actor interactions that identify the dynamic processes of reciprocal action and meaning-making that characterize the mutual cooperation. It distinguishes perceptions, interests and practices, pointing to the rationales and modes of behaviour of multiple EU and Central Asian actors. The article also advances five reasons why EU studies should take more interest in Central Asia, given that the EU’s larger external relations and security agenda extends to this region. Similarly, it shows that Central Asian studies can benefit from the analysis of the region’s interactions with external actors, including the EU, given that external actors contribute to reshaping national policy agendas and influence everyday life.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-22DOI: 10.1080/02634937.2022.2123157
A. Kamalov
view. The Soviet system worked on dual tracks, celebrating diversity while embedding Russian superiority. The structural embedding was the stronger force. Edgar is more concerned with the messiness of lives lived than with theory, which is a great strength of the book. Her informants span generations, from those whomet in the chaos of the Second World War to the children of perestroika. Marriages between Muslims and non-Muslims were rare, and when they occurred they were almost always between Muslim men and Slavic women. Edgar considers the minefields of relations with the in-laws, cultural identity and language as well as marriages that were happy or unhappy in general. While Edgar stresses that the data are not systematic enough to support rigorous analysis, broad patterns do emerge. Families tended to be hostile to the idea of mixed marriage, except for the most dedicated communists. The appearance of grandchildren usually fixed that problem, but not always. A major concern for Kazakh and especially Tajik families was that the Slavic bride would not fulfil expected duties to her in-laws with the appropriate deference. While some brides did indeed chafe at the model of the selfless ‘Eastern woman’, others embraced it as providing a more supportive network than Soviet Russian family dysfunction. Meanwhile the few Central Asian women who married Slavs were attracted to their husbands’ less patriarchal demeanour. Raising children posed many dilemmas: What to name them? Whose language should they speak? Whose nationality should they claim on their passports when they turned 16? Like mixed couples everywhere, parents made choices depending on practical considerations and family and personal opinions. However, the Soviet insistence on distinct, stable national categories forced particular choices. While few multi-ethnic children reported being harassed by their peers, a child with an Islamic name and a Slavic appearance, or vice versa, caused consternation. Parents tried to match names with physiognomy. Many of these children were raised with Russian as their first language, but if neither of their parents were Russian they could not claim ‘Russian’ on their passports, no matter how much Pushkin they had imbibed. If they did not identify with the nationality of either parent, or if they believed they were Soviet citizens first and foremost, the state did not allow them to choose ‘both’ or ‘none’. The Communist Party said it was working toward a world without nations, but underneath its actions were driven by older ideas of fixed racial and gender hierarchies that permeated Soviet society. Edgar’s study provides a fascinating window into these contradictions.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-22DOI: 10.1080/02634937.2022.2117134
Selbi Hanova
ABSTRACT
This paper identifies the interplay between narratives on Central Asia as a region. It compares European Union (EU) narratives with those of the five post-Soviet states of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. By doing so, it investigates the manifestations of narratives, stories and narrators who continue to construct and convey certain discourses about the region, comparing EU discourse and that of the local political elites in Central Asia, respectively. By looking at official discourse conveyed by the presidents of the countries and in key foreign policy documents, the interplay of narratives as dialogues between narrators is analysed, thus expanding into ideational analysis, an emerging trend in the literature on post-Soviet Central Asia.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-14DOI: 10.1080/02634937.2022.2113034
Paul Chaney
ABSTRACT This first pan-regional analysis of civil society organizations’ perspectives on the contemporary situation of human rights defenders (HRDs) in the Commonwealth of Independent States uses United Nations’ Universal Periodic Review (UPR) data and reveals a shrinking civil space as HRDs face a raft of rights pathologies, including threats, violence and murder. Their work is curtailed by increasing state restrictions on freedom of association and expression. The analysis reveals how women HRDs are particularly subject to discrimination and gender-based oppression. The malaise is compounded by impunity for offenders, corruption and government inaction following earlier UPR recommendations. The findings are theorized with reference to Weissbrodt’s causal typology and Hollyer and Rosendorf’s model of authoritarian government treaty accession.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-12DOI: 10.1080/02634937.2022.2115009
S. Krivokhizh, E. Soboleva
ABSTRACT Since the collapse of the USSR, the European Union (EU) and China have launched a range of leadership initiatives in Central Asia. Focusing on non-traditional security, connectivity and water management cooperation, this paper contributes to the special issue by highlighting the evolution of the EU's goals and practices in Central Asia, contrasting them with China's leadership strategy, and discussing implications for states in the region. The EU and China have diverging approaches to Central Asia due to differences in foreign policy goals and domestic politics. Nevertheless, as of now there seems to be no rivalry between their projects, as neither claims sole leadership nor builds formal institutions with exclusive membership. The presence of two very different leaders is beneficial for Central Asian states as it has allowed them to draw more material resources, generate new ideas, diversify partners and balance external influence.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-07DOI: 10.1080/02634937.2022.2113033
L. Rekhviashvili
ABSTRACT This article points out the need to talk about the political society, or the politics and resistances, of subaltern groups in Eastern Europe and Eurasia. Existing literature frames diversity marginalized struggles as civil society struggles or decries the weakness of donor-driven, disembedded civil societies, reproducing the understanding of political life in the region in terms of absences, voids and deficiencies. Challenging this subsumption or dismissal of subaltern struggles, I advance two arguments. First, I argue against broadening the civil society concept to include various subaltern struggles as this approach risks overwriting differences between those groups that mobilize as rights-bearing citizens and the ones that are not recognized or treated as civil society. Instead, I propose acknowledging the historically and spatially contingent character of civil society and the defining role of the state and other actors in shaping which struggles fall within or beyond institutional and discursive frameworks of legality and legitimacy. Second, I argue that Patra Chatterjee’s concept of ‘political society’ can serve better as a meta-vocabulary to account for a diversity of struggles shunted as backwards, premodern and uncivilized, and to refocus research from what is absent to what is present, towards understanding counter-hegemonic discourses and practices.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-07DOI: 10.1080/02634937.2022.2121488
Published in Central Asian Survey (Vol. 42, No. 1, 2023)
发表于《中亚调查》(2023年第42卷第1期)
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Pub Date : 2022-09-05DOI: 10.1080/02634937.2022.2095352
O. Korneev, Karolina Kluczewska
ABSTRACT Examining the European Union’s (EU) engagement with Central Asia since the early 1990s, we see an increased commitment to context sensitivity. Arguably, in order to design ‘better’ interventions, the EU needs to know more about this region. This article explores three means of EU learning: in the field – through EU officials’ first-hand experience of working at EU Delegations in Central Asia; about the field – through programmed channels of external expert knowledge, and in particular think tanks; and from the field – during institutionalized consultations with multiple local actors, such as academics, journalists and non-governmental organizations. It is argued that despite this complex learning infrastructure, EU knowledge production on Central Asia has a predominantly performative character. Rather than leading to changes in its relations with Central Asia, new knowledge produced by the EU aims at legitimizing this organization’s pre-existing frameworks of engagement and practices of interactions with the region, and substantiating existing policy priorities.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.1080/02634937.2022.2110357
Shoshana Keller
Imankulov, J., and K. Konkobaev. 2014. Arkhitektura Turkestana Epokhi Karakhanidov: Istoriko-Teoreticheskoe Issledovanie. Ankara: Kurultai po Injenerii, Arkhitektury i Gradostroitelstvu Tiurkskogo Mira. Kochnev, B. 2006. Numizmaticheskaia Istoriia Karakhanidskogo Kaganata (991–1209 Gg). Moscow: Sofia. McClary, R. 2020. Medieval Monuments of Central Asia: Qarakhanid Architecture of the 11th and 12th Centuries. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Imankulov，J.和K.Konkobaev。2014年，土耳其总统卡拉汉尼多夫：Istoriko Teoreticheskoe Issledovanie。安卡拉：Kurultai po Injenerii，Arkhitektury i Gradostroitelstvu Tiurkskogo Mira。Kochnev，B.2006。Numizmaticheskaia Istoria Karakhanidskogo Kaganata（991–1209 Gg）。莫斯科：索菲亚。麦克拉里，R.2020。中亚中世纪遗迹：卡拉汗王朝11世纪和12世纪的建筑。爱丁堡：爱丁堡大学出版社。
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Pub Date : 2022-08-30DOI: 10.1080/02634937.2022.2110354
Dilrabo Tosheva
Dilnoza Duturaeva ’ s Qarakhanid Roads to China presents us with a challenge of breaking down epistemological barriers and the importance of bringing Chinese sources and scholarship together with Russian and Western works. She devotes her work to the role of the Qarakhanid dynasty of the tenth – twelfth centuries CE, and she o ff ers a model for how to study this dynasty ’ s history when the written sources are scant and court histories absent. Over three centuries of rule, the dynasty commissioned only two literary projects. Beyond these we are left to rely on the hostile information of neighbouring dynasties and the notes of travellers who often presented unreliable information. However, the dynasty gives us a sense of the men of action, rather than the men of court historians. This is why before any revised and fuller political history of the dynasty, we are presented with the history of Qarakhanid architectural endeavours by local and European architectural historians (Imankulov and Konkobaev 2014; McClary 2020), the history of coinage detailed by Soviet scholars (Kochnev 2006), and now the history of trade and exchange by Duturaeva. This book focuses on more than Qarakhanid trade and exchange as detailed via descriptions of Sino-Turkic relations. It also fea-tures the history of the Silk Road before the Mongol Empire ’ s globalization , and it is, indeed, the fi rst Silk Road account during the Qarakhanid period written in any language. By focusing on trade and diplomatic relations between Central Asia and China, Duturaeva deconstructs earlier Silk Road decline theories, which posited that trade substantially declined after the Tang dynasty only to revive after the Mongol conquest. The work contains six chapters, including an introduction and conclusion. Duturaeva begins with the discussion of the existing literature and earlier approaches in understanding the pre-Mongol history of Central Asia, which often relied on one sort of historical evidence, mainly Islamic sources.
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