Boris Petric

Where Are All Our Sheep?

Kyrgyzstan, A Global Political Arena

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Produktbeschreibung

Describes the path of economic and political liberalization chosen by post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan and its eventual dependence on the outside world, particularly on international aid. Explains how the Kyrgyz have turned this economic "opening up" into a subtle strategy to capture all manner of resources from abroad. Describes the encounters between the local population and the well-meaning foreigners who came to reform them.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9781782387831
• ISBN-10: 1782387838
• Artikelnr.: 42968880

Autorenporträt

Boris Petric is a Social Anthropologist and a Senior Researcher at the CNRS in Marseilles. His first book Pouvoir, don et réseaux en Ouzbékistan post-soviétique (2002), was awarded the Le Monde prize for university research. He recently edited Democracy at Large: NGO's, Political Foundations, Think Tanks and International Organisations (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Map of Central Asia
Map of Kyrgyzstan
Introduction: Someone Ate All Our Sheep
1. On the Kyrgyz Highlands
2. In Search of a Baseline
3. Looking Back on a Soviet Economy of Intensive Livestock Farming
4. From Kolkhoz to Village
5. The Anthropologist in the Face of Social Change
6. Some Local Authority Figures
* The Former Kolkhoz Chairman: The Bashkarma
* The New Official Local Authority: The Ayil Okmotu
* The "Biznesman": Economic Power
* The Shepherd: A Prestigious but Powerless Figure
* The Moldo or the Affirmation of Religious Authority
7. The Rise of NGOs and the Development of Private Enterprise
8. Logics of Power: Appropriation, Plunder, and Capture of Resources
Chapter 1. Manas, Unesco, and the Kyrgyz Fabula
9. Manas: Political Uses of a Traditional Oral Epic
* Indigenization and Nationalization of the Epic
* Manas 1000: Political Ritual of the New Kyrgyz Identity
* Manas Gumbez: A National Heritage Site
* Manas Ayili and the Building of an International Image
10. UNESCO: Global Entrepreneur of the Kyrgyz National Imaginary
11. Polysemous Perceptions of the Creation of the New National Imaginary
12. Democracy, Decentralization, Tribal Identity, and Minorities
13. Affirmation of Ethnic Identity in the South of the Country
14. Enhancing "Tribal" Identity in the North
15. Manas in a Context of Globalization
Chapter 2. Kyrgyzstan and Good Governance Experts
* The Ideology of Good Governance: Minimal Government, Private
Enterprise and Civil Society
* The UNPD: Decline of the State, Promotion of Local and Traditional
Political Practices
* From an Economic Planning Culture to a Project Culture
* Promoting Democracy
* The Development of Local Kyrgyz NGOs
* Electoral Assistance: Technical Aid or Political Interference
Chapter 3. Elections and the Promotion of Democracy
16. Ethnography of an Election
17. IFES and Elections: Democracy@large
18. Ethnography of an American Political Foundation Training Session
19. Training and Strategy of Influence
* Eligibility: The Demokrat and Kyrgyzness
Chapter 4. The Fall of the Common House
* The Soviet Regime or the Ambition to Establish Absolute Control over
Human Flows
* Askar Akayev's Common House Ideology and Emigration of the
Russian-Speaking Population
* Rural Exodus and Urban Sprawl
* From Migration to Increased Kyrgyz Mobility
* The Russian Perspective: Gastarbeiter
* The Political Weight of Remittances in Kyrgyzstan
Chapter 5. The Bazaar: Symbol of a Society of Traders
20. The Bazaar: The Return to a Natural Economic Order?
21. The "Bazarkoms": New Social Figures
22. Property and Political Protection: The Dordoy Bazaar and Askar Salymbekov
* From Dordoy Bazar to Dordoy Associatsia: The Transmission of Capital
* Patronage and Political Clientele
* Redistribution and Social Legitimacy
* Soccer and Kok-boru
* Giving to the Dead and to God: Monuments and Jubilees
23. The Changing Face of the Bazaar: The Labor Market on Avenue Maladoja
Guardia
Chapter 6. Civil Society and Election Monitoring
* Koalitsia and the National Democratic Institute
* Baisalov: Portrait of a Democracy Promotion Icon
* Koalitsia and the ENEMO Transnational Network
* Intellectual Influences: Non-Violent Movements
* Koalitsia's Hour of Glory: The Tulip Revolution
* Participative Observation in an Election Mission
* The Election Mission: A Multi-camp Caravan
* The Deployment of Observers
* Return to the Capital and Debriefing
* The Press Conference
* Cocktail Hour: The Communion Ritual of Democracy Promoters
* Communion of Contentious Actors: Opposition Coalition, Koalitsia, and
Kel-Kel
Chapter 7. The Transnationalization of Politics
* Anthropology of a Fraudulent Election
* Electoral Observation and Local Dynamics
* A Changing Political Personnel: From Appointees to Elected Officials
* Becoming a Deputat: An Exemplary Political Battle
* Political Transhumance, Opposition, Marginalization, and Exile
* Political Practices and Regional Factionalism
* The New Role of the President and Appointed Political Personnel
* From Communism to Keminism
* From Keminism to Teyitism
* The Political Change in 2005: Revolution, Overthrow, or Coup?
Conclusion: The Kyrgyz Laboratory and the Global Politics
Afterword: From the Kyrgyz Fabula to the Ethnic Apocalypse?
Appendix I: Kyrgyz Republic Timeline
Appendix II: Census of Kyrgyzstan Population
Index