BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1 KNOWLEDGE AND POWER IN POST-SOVIET SPACE; 2 THE COLONIAL LOGIC OF SCIENCE IN CENTRAL ASIA; 3 THE SOCIAL SCIENCE PROJECT IN SOVIET KIRGIZIA; 4 KNOWLEDGE AND NATIONAL IDENTITY DURING PERESTROIKA; 5 SOCIAL SCIENCE AFTER COMMUNISM; 6 RE-DISCIPLINING KNOWLEDGE IN KYRGYZSTAN: Alternative visions of sociology between Marx and the market; 7 PUBLIC SOCIAL SCIENCE IN CENTRAL ASIA; CONCLUSION; POSTSCRIPT; NOTES; WORKS CITED; INDEX
Summary
Through careful historical and ethnographic research and extensive use of local scholarly works, this book provides a persuasive and careful analysis of the production of knowledge in Central Asia
