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Incomplete state-building in Central Asia : the state as social practice / Viktoria Akchurina.

Akchurina, Viktoria, author.
2022
DK859.56
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Title
Incomplete state-building in Central Asia : the state as social practice / Viktoria Akchurina.
Author
Akchurina, Viktoria, author.
ISBN
9783031141829 (electronic bk.)
3031141822 (electronic bk.)
9783031141812
3031141814
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14182-9
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
Copyright
©2022
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xvii, 342 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color).
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-031-14182-9 doi
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DK859.56
Dewey Decimal Classification
327.58
Summary
This book is about transformation of the state and an incomplete state-building. It defies the transitology assumption of continuity, linearity and dichotomy of formal and informal in the transformation of the state. Contrary to the conventional approaches, it claims that any social order or its political scaffolding, the state, is always incomplete and we need to develop cognitive maps to better understand that incompleteness. It reflects on the social practices, processes and patterns that evolve as a non-linear result of three sets of factors: those that are historical, external, and elite-driven. Three Central Asian states - Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan - are examined here comparatively as case studies, as Central Asia represents an interesting terrain to challenge conventional understanding of the state. Specifically, the book captures a paradox at hand: how come three states, which made different political, economic, cultural, and social choices at the outset of their independence in the 1990s, have ended up as so-called "weak states" in the 2000s and onwards? This puzzle can be better understood through looking at the relationship among three main sets of factors that shape state-building processes, such as history, external actors, and local elites. This book applies an interdisciplinary approach, combining political anthropology, political economy, sociology, and political science. It helps conceptualize and understand social and political order beyond the "failed state" paradigm. Viktoria Akchurina is Senior Lecturer at the OSCE Academy in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Her research focuses on state-building in Central Asia and the Middle East, comparatively.
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Critical security studies in the Global South.
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Intro
A Love Letter to Central Asia
About This Book
Contents
Abbreviations
List of Figures
List of Tables
1 Introduction: The State as Social Practice
Organization of the Book
References
2 The Incomplete State: Fifty Shades of Failure
Indicators of Failure: Explananda or Explicantia?
The Incomplete State: Defining and Operationalizing the Explanandum
Transnationality: Crime and Survival
Cross-Sectionality: Drugs for "Hearts and Minds"
Entrysm: Mutual Trust Networks, their Stakeholders, and Social Structures
Conclusion
A Note on Methodology

Case Study Method: Definitions, Controversies, Advantages
Case Selection Strategies
Data Collection
References
3 Understanding State-Building in Central Asia
Introduction
The Myths and the Scripts: From the Heartland to the Broken-State Theory
From Duality to Integrity: Theorizing from Within Central Asia
Strong vs. Weak States
Rationality vs. Irrationality
Institutional vs. Historical Contextualization of the State
Formal vs. Informal
Main Propositions of the Book: The Heartland Gets Stronger Wherever It is Broken
The State as Social Practice
Conclusion

5 Impact of External Actors on States and Societies
Introduction
Organizing Security
Border Management: Materializing Symbolic Borders and the Idea of Threat
Materialized Borders: Standardizing National Security Infrastructures
Societal Consequences of Borders: Creating the "Island Pockets"
Cases of Batken, Vorukh, Sokh, and Shahimardan
Case 1: Batken (Kyrgyzstan)
Case 2: Sokh and Shahimardan (Uzbekistan)
Case 3. Vorukh (Tajikistan)
Organizing Economies
Introduction
CAREC: Promoting Non-standard Trade-Supporting Parallel Survival Strategies?

CAREC's Societal Consequences: Integrating Peasanty into the Parallel Realms of the Bazaar
CASA-1000: The New Silk Road and the Soviet Logistics
CASA-1000 Societal Consequences: Internal Displacement and Identity of Resistance
Organizing Societies
Introduction
Formal Civil Society: Institutionalization, Patronage, and Legitimacy
Parallel Civil Society: Outsourcing Ideological Power
Islamic NGOs: The Narratives of Betrayal and Their Sponsors
The Civil "Underground" and Its Sponsors
Conclusion
References

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