Border work : spatial lives of the state in rural Central Asia / Madeleine Reeves.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reeves, Madeleine, author.

Series:

Culture and society after socialism.

Culture and Society after Socialism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Borderlands--Fergana Valley.

Borderlands.

Ethnology--Fergana Valley.

Ethnology.

Fergana Valley--Politics and government.

Fergana Valley.

Fergana Valley--Ethnic relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (309 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, New York ; London : Cornell University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Locations : place and displacement in southern Ferghana

Delimitations : ethno-spatial fixing in the twentieth century

Trajectories : mobility and the afterlives of internationalism

Gaps : working a "chessboard" border

Impersonations : manning the border, enacting the state

Separations : conflict and the escalation of force.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780801470882

0801470889

9780801449970

0801449979

9780801470899

0801470897

OCLC:

872115350