Under Solomon's throne : Uzbek visions of renewal in Osh / Morgan Y. Liu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Liu, Morgan Y.

Series:

Central Eurasia in context

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Uzbeks--Kyrgyzstan--Osh--Social conditions.

Uzbeks.

Uzbeks--Kyrgyzstan--Osh--Economic conditions.

Uzbeks--Kyrgyzstan--Osh--Government relations.

Post-communism--Kyrgyzstan--Osh.

Post-communism.

Nativistic movements--Kyrgyzstan--Osh.

Nativistic movements.

Economic conditions.

Social conditions.

Osh (Kyrgyzstan)--Ethnic relations.

Osh (Kyrgyzstan).

Osh (Kyrgyzstan)--Politics and government.

Kyrgyzstan--Osh.

Physical Description:

xii, 280 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2012]

Summary:

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 arid cultural issues of the region as a whole. Situated on the border of Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, 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.

The first ethnographic monograph based on extensive local-language fieldwork in a Central Asian city, this study examines the culturally specific ways that Osh Uzbeks are making sense of their post-Soviet dilemmas. These practices reveal deep connections with Soviet and Islamic sensibilities and with everyday acts of dwelling in urban neighborhoods. Osh Uzbeks engage the spaces of their city to shape their orientations relative to the wider world, postsocialist transformations, Islamic piety, moral personhood, and effective leadership. Book jacket.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Bazaar and Mediation 20

Chapter 2 Border and Post-Soviet Predicament 43

Chapter 3 Divided City and Relating to the State 74

Chapter 4 Neighborhood and Making Proper Persons 105

Chapter 5 House and Dwelling in the World 125

Chapter 6 Republic and Virtuous Leadership 148.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780822961772

0822961776

OCLC:

761853101