Disorder over the border: spinning the spectre of instability through time and space in Central Asia. Issue 1 (2nd January 2018)
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- Journal Article
- Title:
- Disorder over the border: spinning the spectre of instability through time and space in Central Asia. Issue 1 (2nd January 2018)
- Main Title:
- Disorder over the border: spinning the spectre of instability through time and space in Central Asia
- Authors:
- Koch, Natalie
- Abstract:
- ABSTRACT: Across Eurasia, authoritarian leaders have sought to justify their 'strong-hand' approach to government by framing instability as a security threat and the strong state as a guarantor of political stability. Such 'regimes of certainty' promote a modernist valorization of order, the flip side of which is a demonization of political disorder instability, or mere uncertainty. Examining the spatial and temporal imaginaries underpinning such narratives about in/stability in Central Asia, this paper compares official discourse in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, where state-controlled media and official publications have stigmatized political instability in Kyrgyzstan as indicative of the dangers of political liberalization and a weak state. Ostensibly about the 'other', these narratives are also about scripting the 'self'. I argue that official interpretations of 'disorder over the border' in Kyrgyzstan are underpinned by a set of spatial and temporal imaginaries that do not merely reflect regional moral geographies, but actively construct them.
- Is Part Of:
- Central Asian survey. Volume 37:Issue 1(2018)
- Journal:
- Central Asian survey
- Issue:
- Volume 37:Issue 1(2018)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 37, Issue 1 (2018)
- Year:
- 2018
- Volume:
- 37
- Issue:
- 1
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2018-0037-0001-0000
- Page Start:
- 13
- Page End:
- 30
- Publication Date:
- 2018-01-02
- Subjects:
- Authoritarianism -- political geography -- critical security studies -- Kazakhstan -- Uzbekistan
Asia, Central -- Periodicals
958.005 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.tandfonline.com/ ↗
- DOI:
- 10.1080/02634937.2017.1338667 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0263-4937
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