TY - BOOK ID - 80839501 TI - Nationalism in Central Asia PY - 2017 SN - 0822982390 9780822982395 0822964422 9780822964421 PB - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania DB - UniCat KW - Nationalism KW - Consciousness, National KW - Identity, National KW - National consciousness KW - National identity KW - International relations KW - Patriotism KW - Political science KW - Autonomy and independence movements KW - Internationalism KW - Political messianism KW - Uzbekistan KW - Kyrgyzstan KW - Jierjisi gong he guo KW - Jumhūrī-i Qirqīzistān KW - Kirghizia KW - Kirgisia KW - Kirgisien KW - Kirgisistan KW - Kirgizii︠a︡ KW - Kirgizistan KW - Kirgiziya KW - Kirgizstan KW - Kirugisu KW - Kirugisutan KW - Kuruguzu KW - Kuruguzusutan KW - Kyrghyzstan KW - Kyrgyz Republic KW - Kyrgyz Respublikasy KW - Kyrgyzskai︠a︡ Respublika KW - Kyrgyzskaya Respublika KW - Kyrgyzstan Respublikasy KW - Qirghiz Respublikasi KW - Qīrghīzistān KW - Qırğız Respublikası KW - Qırğızstan KW - Qirqīzistān KW - Republic of Kyrgyzstan KW - Respublika Kyrgyzstan KW - Кыргыз Республикасы KW - Кыргызстан KW - Кыргызская Республика KW - Киргизия KW - キルギス KW - キルギスタン KW - クルグズ KW - クルグズスタン KW - Kirghiz S.S.R. KW - Ȯzbăkistan KW - Oʻzbekiston Respublikasi KW - Republic of Uzbekistan KW - Respublika Uzbekistan KW - Usbekistan KW - Uzbakastān KW - Uzbakistān KW - Ŭzbekiston KW - Ŭzbekiston Respublikasi KW - Uzbekiston Respublikasy KW - Wuzibiekesitan KW - ازبکستان KW - 乌兹别克斯坦 KW - Uzbek S.S.R. KW - Boundaries KW - Politics and government KW - Relations UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80839501 AB - Nick Megoran explores the process of building independent nation-states in post-Soviet Central Asia through the lens of the disputed border territory between Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan. In his rich "biography" of the boundary, he employs a combination of political, cultural, historical, ethnographic, and geographic frames to shed new light on nation-building process in this volatile and geopolitically significant region. Megoran draws on twenty years of extensive research in the borderlands via interviews, observations, participation, and newspaper analysis. He considers the problems of nationalist discourse versus local vernacular, elite struggles versus borderland solidarities, boundary delimitation versus everyday experience, border control versus resistance, and mass violence in 2010, all of which have exacerbated territorial anxieties. Megoran also revisits theories of causation, such as the loss of Soviet control, poorly defined boundaries, natural resource disputes, and historic ethnic clashes, to show that while these all contribute to heightened tensions, political actors and their agendas have clearly driven territorial aspirations and are the overriding source of conflict. As this compelling case study shows, the boundaries of the The Ferghana Valley put in succinct focus larger global and moral questions of what defines a good border. ER -