1st Edition
Movement, Power and Place in Central Asia and Beyond Contested Trajectories
1. Introduction: Contested trajectories and a dynamic approach to place, Madeleine Reeves, University of Manchester.
Part I: Incomplete spatialisation
2. Friendship under Lock and Key: the Soviet Central Asian border, 1918-1934, Charles Shaw, Stanford University.
3. Territorializing Tajikistan: Forced resettlement and the bordering of the Soviet empire-state in the 1920s and 1930s, Botagoz Kassymbekova, Humboldt University.
4. Empire promoted, empire contested: the Shcherbina expedition of 1896-1903, Ian Campbell, University of Michigan.
5. Vanguard of "Socialist Colonization?" The Krasnyi Vostok Expedition of 1920, Robert Argenbright, University of Utah.
Part II: Doing place
6. Settling descent: Place-making and genealogy in Talas, Kyrgyzstan, Judith Beyer, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle-Saale.
7. Claiming an Ancestral Homeland: Kazakh Pilgrimage and Migration in Inner Asia, Eva-Marie Dubuisson and Anna Genina, University of California, Berkeley and University of Michigan
8. When we think through flow: contrasting meanings of water in the social sciences, at Kyrgyz hydro-dams, pilgrimage sites and pastures, Jeanne Féaux de la Croix, Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin.
9. The Accidental Traders: Marginalization and Opportunity from the Southern Margins to Late Soviet Moscow, Jeff Sahadeo, Carleton University.
10. Leaving to enable others to remain: Remittances and New Moral Economies of Migration in Southern Kyrgyzstan, Eliza Isabaeva, University of Berne.
11. Staying put: on the gendered politics of im/mobility at a time of migration, Madeleine, Reeves University of Manchester.
Biography
Madeleine Reeves is an RCUK Research Fellow in Conflict Cohesion and Change at the University of Manchester. She teaches in the Department of Social Anthropology and is a member of the ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change.
