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Author Liu, Morgan Y

Title Under Solomon's throne : Uzbek visions of renewal in Osh / Morgan Y. Liu
Published Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, ©2012
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Description 1 online resource (328 pages)
Series Central Eurasia in context
Central Eurasia in context.
Contents Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Interviews, Translations, and Transliteration -- Introduction: A City for Thought -- Chapter 1. Bazaar and Mediation -- Chapter 2. Border and Post-Soviet Predicament -- Chapter 3. Divided City and Relating to the State -- Chapter 4. Neighborhood and Making Proper Persons -- Chapter 5. House and Dwelling in the World -- Chapter 6. Republic and Virtuous Leadership -- Conclusion: Central Asian Visions of Societal Renewal -- Notes -- References -- Index
Summary Winner of the 2014 Central Eurasian Studies Society Book Award in the Social Sciences. Under Solomon's Throne provides a rare ground-level analysis of post-Soviet Central Asia's social and political paradoxes by focusing on an urban ethnic community: the Uzbeks in Osh, Kyrgyzstan, who have maintained visions of societal renewal throughout economic upheaval, political discrimination, and massive violence. Morgan Liu illuminates many of the challenges facing Central Asia today by unpacking the predicament of Osh, a city whose experience captures key political and cultural issues of the region as a whole. Situated on the border of Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan—newly independent republics that have followed increasingly divergent paths to reform their states and economies—the city is subject to a Kyrgyz government, but the majority of its population are ethnic Uzbeks. Conflict between the two groups led to riots in 1990, and again in 2010, when thousands, mostly ethnic Uzbeks, were killed and nearly half a million more fled across the border into Uzbekistan. While these tragic outbreaks of violence highlight communal tensions amid long-term uncertainty, a close examination of community life in the two decades between reveals the way Osh Uzbeks have created a sense of stability and belonging for themselves while occupying a postcolonial no-man's-land, tied to two nation-states but not fully accepted by either one
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Nativistic movements -- Kyrgyzstan -- Osh
Post-communism -- Kyrgyzstan -- Osh
Uzbeks -- Kyrgyzstan -- Osh -- Government relations
Uzbeks -- Kyrgyzstan -- Osh -- Economic conditions
Uzbeks -- Kyrgyzstan -- Osh -- Social conditions
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Politics and government
Ethnic relations
Nativistic movements
Post-communism
SUBJECT Osh (Kyrgyzstan) -- Politics and government
Osh (Kyrgyzstan) -- Ethnic relations
Subject Kyrgyzstan -- Osh
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780822977926
0822977923
1306555868
9781306555869
9780822961772
0822961776