Creating and contesting meanings of place and community in the Ylay Talaa Valley of Kyrgyzstan

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ID11449915
AutoresAlan J Deyoung (University of Kentucky), Alan Deyoung, Rakhat Zholdoshalieva (Institute for Christian Studies, autor de correspondencia), Umut Zholdoshalieva (Bishkek Humanities University)
Año2013
Volumen32
Número2
Páginas161-174
Fecha de publicación2013-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCentral Asian Survey (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0263-4937 • E-ISSN: 1465-3354
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/02634937.2013.771981
OpenAlexW2051215709
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas16

Formal schooling was virtually non-existent before the Soviet power in nomadic Kyrgyzstan, as communal life and learning was organized informally at the household and clan level. During the Soviet period, however, educational success became an avenue to a new form of upward social and geographical mobility, and the school provided new and prestigious positions for local teachers and administrators. This paper explores how the externally imposed Soviet collectivization policies reshaped the understandings and meanings of place and community during the twentieth century, a reshaping that centrally involved redefining education and the importance of ‘the school’. In the post-Soviet period, the utility of secondary and higher education in local and national labour markets has diminished, as has the power and prestige of educators. Yet the appeal of education lingers on. The authors seek to document these claims using oral histories, ethnographic interviews and participant observations in the Ylay Talaa Valley of the Kyrgyz Republic

Appeal · Clan · Economic growth · Ethnography · Period (music · Political science · Power (physics · Power structure · Prestige · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Law · Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development

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