Laura L Adams

The Spectacular State

Culture and National Identity in Uzbekistan

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examines the ways that cultural elites were mobilized as part of Uzbekistan's nation-building project in the early years of independence, and how institutional and cultural restraints on nation building now function.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780822346517
• ISBN-10: 0822346516
• Artikelnr.: 29427391

Autorenporträt

Laura L. Adams is a lecturer on sociology and co-director of the Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus at Harvard University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction. The Politics of Culture in Uzbekistan 1991–2002
1. Mapping the Landscape of National Identity in Uzbekistan
2. Cultural Form: Globalization and the Spectacular State
3. Cultural Content and Postcolonial Civic Nationalism
4. Culture Production and Participation in the Spectacular State
Conclusion. Spectacle and the Ideology of National Independence
Notes
Bibliography
Index