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Under Solomons Throne Uzbek Visions Of Renewal In Osh Morgan Y Liu

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Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press

File Extension: PDF

File size: 2.93 MB

Pages: 297

Author: Morgan Y. Liu

ISBN: 9780822961772, 0822961776

Language: English

Year: 2012

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Under Solomons Throne Uzbek Visions Of Renewal In Osh Morgan Y Liu by Morgan Y. Liu 9780822961772, 0822961776 instant download after payment.

Winner of the 2014 Central Eurasian Studies Society Book Award in the Social Sciences.

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 and cultural issues of the
region as a whole. Situated on the border of Uzbekistan and
Kyrgyzstan—newly independent republics that have followed increasingly
divergent paths to reform their states and economies—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. While these
tragic outbreaks of violence highlight communal tensions amid long-term
uncertainty, a close examination of community life in the two decades
between reveals the way Osh Uzbeks have created a sense of stability and
belonging for themselves while occupying a postcolonial no-man’s-land,
tied to two nation-states but not fully accepted by either one.

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.…