Surviving everyday life : the securityscapes of threatened people in Kyrgyzstan / edited by Marc von Boemcken, Nina Bagdasarova, Aksana Ismailbekova and Conrad Schetter.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Von Boemcken, Marc, editor.

Bagdasarova, Nina, editor.

Ismailbekova, Aksana, editor.

Schetter, Conrad, editor.

Series:

Spaces of peace, security and development.

Spaces of peace, security and development

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civil rights--Kyrgyzstan.

Civil rights.

Human security--Kyrgyzstan.

Human security.

Social conflict--Kyrgyzstan.

Social conflict.

Kyrgyzstan--Social conditions--21st century.

Kyrgyzstan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 215 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2020.

Summary:

Moving beyond state-centric and elitist perspectives, this volume examines everyday security in the Central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and written by scholars from Central Asia and beyond, it shows how insecurity is experienced, what people consider existential threats, and how they go about securing themselves. It concentrates on individuals who feel threatened because of their ethnic belonging, gender or sexual orientation. It develops the concept of 'securityscapes', which draws attention to the more subtle means that people take to secure themselves - practices bent on invisibility and avoidance, on disguise and trickery, and on continually adapting to shifting circumstances. By broadening the concept of security practice, this book is an important contribution to debates in Critical Security Studies as well as to Central Asian and Area Studies.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgements

Preface

Introduction

Studying Danger in Central Asia: Towards a Concept of Everyday Securityscapes

Security Practices and the Survival of Cafes in Southern Kyrgyzstan

Securing the Future of Children and Youth: Uzbek Private Kindergartens and Schools in Osh

Selective Memories, Identities and Places: Everyday Security Practices of the Mughat Lyulis in Osh

How to Live with a Female Body: Securityscapes against Sexual Violence and Related Interpretation Patterns of Kyrgyz Women

Romantic Securityscapes of Mixed Couples: Resisting Moral Panic, Surviving in the Present and Imagining the Future

The Space–Time Continuum of the ‘Dangerous’ Body: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Securityscapes in Kyrgyzstan

Postscript: Towards a Research Agenda on Security Practices

Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 19 Mar 2021).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-5292-1197-2

1-5292-1198-0

1-5292-1196-4

OCLC:

1178650743