UID:
almahu_9949747613302882
Format:
1 online resource (268 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781529220025
Series Statement:
Spaces of Peace, Security and Development Series
Content:
Drawing on decolonial perspectives on peace, statehood and development, this illuminating book examines post-liberal statebuilding in Central Asia. Through its analysis, the book highlights the problem with assumptions about liberal democracy, modern statehood and capitalist development as the standard template for post-conflict countries.
Note:
Front Cover -- Series page -- Post-Liberal Statebuilding in Central Asia: Imaginaries, Discourses and Practices of Social Ordering -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Notes on Transliteration and Language -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- Entry: on (im)possible futures -- Post-liberalism: understanding (dis)order in a post-Western-dominated world -- Contributions to critical perspectives on peace, security and development -- Outline of the book -- 2 Theorizing Post-Liberal Forms of Statebuilding and Order-Making Globally -- Introduction -- Post-liberal thought from imperial history to the present -- The failures and transmutations of 'liberalism' in the non-West … and the West -- Theorizing post-liberal peace: emancipation, governmentality and decoloniality -- Emancipation vs governmentality? -- Toward a decolonial perspective on post-liberal order -- 'Community security' as discourse and practice of peace- and statebuilding -- Community safety as crime prevention and neoliberal governmentality -- The global spread of community policing and its discontents -- Conclusion: Theorizing post-liberalism globally -- 3 From Imaginary to Practice: Capturing the Multiple Meanings of Peace, Security and Order -- Heteroglossia: the multiplicity of meanings in social processes -- Conceptualizing the role of social imaginaries in social ordering -- A cooperative and practice-based approach to research -- Reflections from fieldwork and beyond -- Conclusion -- 4 Imaginaries and Discourses of Social Order in Kyrgyzstan -- Introduction: Imaginaries of social order and transformations -- The Western 'liberal peace' imaginary -- The imaginary West -- Globalization and capitalist development teleology -- 'Made in Kyrgyzstan' -- Hard work, perseverance and coping strategies.
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The 'politics of sovereignty' imaginary -- The 'bad West' -- Soviet modernity -- Ethno-nationalism -- Anti-colonialism -- The 'tradition and culture' imaginary -- 'Traditional' versus 'foreign' Islam -- Traditional institutions and concepts of social order -- Traditional knowledge as a source of well-being -- Connections between humans, the natural and spiritual domain -- Post-liberal statebuilding in Kyrgyzstan: a framework -- 5 Local Crime Prevention Centres and the (After) Lives of the State in Rural Kyrgyzstan -- Life in rural Kyrgyzstan between Soviet legacy and 'new market realities' -- From economic and institutional collapse to a moral economy of survival -- Translocal livelihoods and their implications for community security -- Local-level governance, social institutions and crime prevention -- Local self-governance and social institutions during and after the Soviet Union -- LCPCs between executive authority and societal concerns -- International security and peacebuilding programming -- Practices and discourses of community security in southern Kyrgyzstan -- LCPC 'success stories': overall results and implications -- Building 'peoples' friendship' after identity-based conflict -- Conclusion -- 6 Shaping Peace, Social Order and Resilience: Territorial Youth Councils and the Field of Youth Policy -- TYCs between conflict prevention and long-term peacebuilding -- Mobilization, fluctuation and division of labour -- Delegated, but flexibilized authority -- Discourses and practices of TYC initiatives -- Peace, tolerance and exchange between groups and locales -- National ideology and the 'right path' -- Tackling concrete problems: racketeering and poverty -- Self-help and solidarity -- A voice of or vis-à-vis youth? Opportunities and limitations of youth participation and youth policy in Kyrgyzstan -- Conclusion.
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7 Reform Deadlock for Stability? The Civic Union 'For Reforms and Result' -- Introduction: Community security and police reform as post-liberal statebuilding -- From political activism to forging security expertise -- Practising and interpreting community security -- Status of working groups -- Understanding of security problems and solutions: community 1 -- Understanding of security problems and solutions: community 2 -- Potentials, implications and interpretation of community-level projects -- Producing (and ignoring) knowledge -- Conclusion -- 8 Conclusion -- Practices, discourses and imaginaries of social order in Kyrgyzstan -- Governmentality and decolonial horizons in post-liberal statebuilding -- Appendix 1: Maps of Kyrgyzstan -- Appendix 2: Abridged Inventory of Gathered Data -- Appendix 3: Civic Union Newspaper (Russian Version) -- References -- Index -- Back Cover.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Lottholz, Philipp Post-Liberal Statebuilding in Central Asia Bristol : Bristol University Press,c2022 ISBN 9781529220001
Language:
English
Keywords:
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