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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Uzbek"”.
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The role of Islam in the Uzbek politics
… aim of describing a general picture of Islam in Uzbekistan since an understanding of governance and Islam will be helpful to analyze the Andijan event. The second part will criticize the Andijan uprising as a case study to demonstrate whether there is enough evidence to call the uprising as a …
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The Security Situation for Central Asia: Afghanistan, Water, and Uzbek Stability
… water usage needs and patterns.</p> <p>Lastly, Uzbekistan presents some challenges due to its centrality in the region, clan infighting, the unresolved issue of succession, and the tenuous stability in the country.</p>
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The Repeasantization of an Uzbek Kolkhoz: An Ethnographic Account of Postsocialism
… parallels and contrasts are drawn between Uzbekistan and other socialist/postsocialist settings, such as China, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania. Repeasantization is a process whereby the focus of economic activity in villages becomes further centered on households and the pooling of family …
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When a Pound Weighed a Ton: The Cotton Scandal and Uzbek National Consciousness
… web of illegal activity that developed in the Uzbek S.S.R. was astonishing. Sharaf Rashidov was the man largely held as responsible for bringing about the massive amount of corrupt activity in Uzbekistan by utilizing cotton, Uzbekistan’s most important export, to build his network.Rashidov …
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Discursive (in)stability: Moral subjectivities and global hierarchies in transnational migrant women’s narratives
… themselves, focusing on the case of women from Uzbekistan living in the United States. While research has highlighted how transnational movement destabilizes identity and communicative practice, I focus on the ways in which migrant women use discursive moves to (re)organize their social …
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Financial sustainability of public Higher Education Institutions in Uzbekistan
… in 1991, a central topic of higher education in Uzbekistan has been how to fill the gap left by the reduced government funding at public Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). The majority of the Uzbek universities, as in many other countries, have responded to the decline in public allocations …
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Redefining historical Bukhara : professional architectural vision of the national heritage in late Soviet Uzbekistan (1965 - 1991)
… images and text available in the professional Uzbek SSR architectural journal, Architecture and Construction in Uzbekistan (ACU). Using these journals, this thesis illustrates how architectural professionals engaged in creating new meanings for Bukhara's historical environment, as an important …
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Living Socialism: The Bulgarian Socialist Humanist Experiment
… between Haskovo in Bulgaria and Tashkent in the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic (international socialism); internal tourism (nation); and the exhibition of art in the Haskovo gallery (aesthetics). The socialist system, in these and other programs, invested tremendous resources to direct the …
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Hybridizing Sovietness, Modernity, Nationality and Provinciality in Uzbekistan, 1941–1984
This dissertation is focused on post-WWII Uzbekistan as a space of multifaceted interactions of the local Uzbek population with the war evacuees from European regions of the Soviet Union. This topic, just as the problem of postwar social experiences in Uzbekistan in general, is a major lacuna in …
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Central Asian Civil Society: Dynamics of Associational Life in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan
… society practised in contemporary Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan and provides a common thread on which to base a Central Asian understanding of civil society. I look to find out factors and constituents, which on the surface might be different from a classical liberal concept of civil society. The …
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State-sanctioned torture in Uzbekistan and beyond : a legal analysis
… torture that is being committed in Uzbekistan. In the early chapters, the definitions, meanings and understanding of what torture is and represents in a contemporary society are investigated, whilst the historical origins, uses and justifications for torture are also explored. …
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What explains authoritarian success and failure in Central Asia? : Exploring regime stability, economic performance, and governance strategies
… Three countries, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan were selected for the case study. The economic and social characteristics of these countries, as well as the governance strategies adopted by their regimes, were then evaluated in detail. The sources utilized in the analysis included …
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By hotter winds : the road to Samarkand
… than that. Turkmen oil and gas merchants, Uzbek nationalists, Kyrgyz mountain folk and Tajik peasants all live in close and unfriendly proximity. Stalin pencilled in their borders on a whim, and with the fall of communism in 1989, many were left stranded, minorities under foreign rule. This …