1st Edition
Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Central Asia
The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Central Asia offers the first comprehensive, cross-disciplinary overview of key issues in Central Asian studies. The 30 chapters by leading and emerging scholars summarise major findings in the field and highlight long-term trends, recent observations and future developments in the region. The handbook features case studies of all five Central Asian republics and is organised thematically in seven sections:
- History
- Politics
- Geography
- International Relations
- Political Economy
- Society and Culture
- Religion
An essential cross-disciplinary reference work, the handbook offers an accessible and easyto- understand guide to the core issues permeating the region to enable readers to grasp the fundamental challenges, transformations and themes in contemporary Central Asia. It will be of interest to researchers, academics and students of the region and those working in the field of Area Studies, History, Anthropology, Politics and International Relations.
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Introduction: Introducing Central Asian Studies
Rico Isaacs and Erica Marat
PART I HISTORY
1. Central Asia before the advent of Russian Dominion
Michael Hancock
2. Russian rule in Central Asia
Ian Campbell
3. Collectivisation, Sedentarism and Famine in Central Asia
Niccolo Pianciola and Marianne Kamp
4. Development in Post-war Central Asia
Artemy M. Kalinovsky
PART II POLITICS
5. Varieties of Authoritarianism in Central Asia
David Lewis
6. Informal Governance, ‘Clan’ politics and Corruption
Aksana Ismailbekova
7. Nation-Building in Central Asia: Policy and Discourse
Aziz Burkhanov and Dina Sharipova
8. Unsettled Space: Unfinished Histories of Border Delimitation in the Ferghana Valley
Madeleine Reeves
PART III GEOGRAPHY
9. Boundaries, Borders and Identities
Alexander Diener and Vincent Atman
10. The history of water politics in Central Asia
Christine Bichsel
11. Rethinking Spectacular Cities: Beyond Authoritarianism and Mastermind Schemes
Mateusz Laszczkowski and Natalie Koch
12. Politics of Green Development: Trees vs. Roads
Emil Nasritdinov
PART IV INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
13. Russia and Central Asia: Evolving Mutual Perceptions and the Rise of Postcolonial Perspectives
Marlene Laruelle
14. China-Central Asia Relations: Re-learning to Live Next to the Giant
Nargis Kassenova
15. U.S. Policy and Central Asia
Charles Ziegler
16 Domestic Sources of Foreign Policy in Central Asia
Shairbek Juraev
17. Military Power and Capacity
Erica Marat
18. Globalisation and Migration in Central Asia
Caress Schenk
PART V POLITICAL ECONOMY
19. Economic Reform and Development in Central Asia
Richard Pomfret
20. Oil, Capital, and Labour Around the Caspian
Maurizo Totaro and Paolo Sorbello
21. Corruption
Johan Engvall
22. Modernisation and development in Central Asia
Liga Rudzite and Karolina Kluczewska
PART VI SOCIETY AND CULTURE
23. The Nationalization of Traditions
Svetlana Jacquesson
24. Thinking with Gender About Central Asia
Svetlana Peshkova
25. Contemporary Art in Central Asia
Alexandra Tsay
26. Language Policy and Language in Central Asia
William Fierman
PART VII RELIGON
27. Islam Renewal in Central Asia
Bayram Balci
28. Securitisation of Religion in Central Asia
Edward Lemon
29. Liberalism and Islam in Central Asia
Galym Zhussipbek
30. Tengrism
Rico Isaacs
Biography
Rico Isaacs is Associate Professor in Politics at the University of Lincoln, UK, and the editor of Central Asian Survey. His recent books include, among others, Party System Formation in Kazakhstan (2011), Nation-Building and Identity in the Post-Soviet Space (with A. Polese, 2016) and Politics: An Introduction, 3rd edition (with B. Axford, V. Browne and R. Huggins, 2018), also published by Routledge.
Erica Marat is Associate Professor at the College of International Security Affairs at the National Defence University, Washington, D.C. Her research focuses on violence, mobilisation and security institutions in Eurasia, India and Mexico. She is also the author of The Politics of Police Reform: Society against the State in Post-Soviet Countries (2018).