1st Edition
The Transformation of Tajikistan The Sources of Statehood
1. Introduction: the sources of statehood in Tajikistan, John Heathershaw, University of Exeter, and, Edmund Herzig, University of Oxford
I. The roots of statehood
2. “Hapless Imperialists: European ‘Developers’ in Soviet Central Asia in the 1920s and 1930s”, Botagoz Kassymbekova, Humboldt University, Berlin
3. “Soviet population transfers and interethnic relations in Tajikistan: assessing the concept of ethnicity,” Olivier Ferrando, Sciences Po, Paris
4. “Mediating Patron-Cliental Power: the Legacy of Pre-Soviet Taxation Institutions in the Post-Soviet State”, Hafiz Boboyorov, Center for Development Research, Bonn University
II. Islam and statehood
5. “From Revival to Mutation: The Religious Personnel of Islam in Tajikistan from De-Stalinisation to Independence (1953-1991)”, Stephane Dudoignon, CNRS, Paris
6. “Defining normative Islam: Some remarks on contemporary Islamic Thought in Tajikistan – Hoji Akbar Turajonzoda’s Sharia and Society” Tim Epkenhans, University of Freiburg
III. Gender and statehood
7. “Affairs of the State: gender, sex and marriage in Tajikistan”, Colette Harris, University of East Anglia
8.“Wedding rituals and the struggle over national identities”, Sophie Roche, Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, and Sophie Hohmann, EHESS and INED, Paris
IV. Security, economy and statehood
9. “Counter Narcotics policies in Tajikistan and their impact on state-building,” Filippo de Danieli, School of Oriental and African Studies
10. “State and security in Central Asia: the importance of local actors”, Stina Torjesen, University of Tromso
11. “The globality of Tajikistan: failed state or state transformation?”, John Heathershaw, University of Exeter
Biography
John Heathershaw is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Exeter. He is the author of Post-Conflict Tajikistan: The Politics of Peacebuilding and the Emergence of Legitimate Order.
Edmund Herzig is Soudavar Professor of Persian Studies and Fellow of Wadham College, University of Oxford.
