Border Work: Spatial Lives of the State in Rural Central Asia Contributor(s): Reeves, Madeleine (Author) |
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ISBN: 0801449979 ISBN-13: 9780801449970 Publisher: Cornell University Press OUR PRICE: $128.70 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2014 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Social Science | Regional Studies - History | Asia - Central Asia |
Dewey: 958.7 |
LCCN: 2013036994 |
Series: Culture and Society After Socialism |
Physical Information: 1" H x 6.3" W x 9.3" (1.25 lbs) 312 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian - Chronological Period - 21st Century |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: In Central Asia's Ferghana Valley, where Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan meet, state territoriality has taken on new significance in these states' second decade of independence, reshaping landscapes and transforming livelihoods in a densely populated, irrigation-dependent region. Through an innovative ethnography of social and spatial practice at the limits of the state, Border Work explores the contested work of producing and policing territorial integrity when significant stretches of new international borders remain to be conclusively demarcated or effectively policed.Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, Madeleine Reeves follows traders, farmers, water engineers, conflict analysts, and border guards as they negotiate the practical responsibilities and social consequences of producing, policing, and deriving a livelihood across new international borders that are often encountered locally as chessboards rather than lines. She shows how the negotiation of state spatiality is bound up with concerns about legitimate rule and legitimate movement, and explores how new attempts to secure the border, materially and militarily, serve to generate new sources of lived insecurity in a context of enduring social and economic inter-dependence. A significant contribution to Central Asian studies, border studies, and the contemporary anthropology of the state, Border Work moves beyond traditional ethnographies of the borderland community to foreground the effortful and intensely political work of producing state space. |
Contributor Bio(s): Reeves, Madeleine: - Madeleine Reeves is Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester. She is the coauthor of Surviving the Transition? Case Studies of Schools and Schooling in the Kyrgyz Republic Since Independence, editor of Movement, Power and Place in Central Asia and Beyond: Contested Trajectories, and coeditor of Ethnographies of the State in Central Asia: Performing Politics. |