Sally N Cummings
Biographic Data
| ID | 1277461 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sally N Cummings |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sally N |
| FAMILY NAME | Cummings |
| SIGNATURE | CUMMINGS S N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of St Andrews |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 99 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Entangled interpretations and a transnational art exhibition: The case of (…) Ketsin! Art from the Kyrgyz Republic (Shoreditch, May 2013)
Through the case study of a visual arts exhibition on the Kyrgyz Revolution, (...) Ketsin! (May 2013), this article traces the complex set of factors that influence how a transnational exhibition is interpreted. Combining literatures on visual representation, the role of intentionality in authorship, and, museum and gallery studies, I propose here the notion of ‘entangled interpretations’ to convey the overlapping and muddled layers rather than d…
Empire and After: Toward a Framework for Comparing Empires and Their Consequences in the Post-Imperial Middle East and Central Asia
This article compares and contrasts the variations in paths from empire to sovereignty in the Middle East and Central Asia. We identify differences in empires and their impact; examine the drivers of transition from empire to sovereignty, the international system and nationalist mobilization; assess the consequences of imperial transmissions for state formation and nation-building; and link these factors to the degree of rupture with empire in th…
Author–critic forum: Popular protest and regime change in Central Asia
Weapons of the wealthy: predatory regimes and elite-led protests in Central Asia, by Scott Radnitz, Ithaca, New York, Cornell University Press, 2010, 231pp., US$49.95 (hardback), US$24.95 (paperbac
Leaving Lenin: Elites, official ideology and monuments in the Kyrgyz Republic
Many Lenin monuments remain in cities around the former Soviet republics and a few national or regional authorities have decreed it against the law to deface or remove them. The Lenin monument in Bishkek, capital city of the Kyrgyz Republic, is an example of both policies. On two main counts, however, the fate of this particular bronze statue of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin has been unusual. Only in the Kyrgyz case was the country's central Lenin monume…
State, regime, and government in the Kyrgyz Republic (1991–2010): Disaggregating a Relationship
This article explores how differentiating between the concepts of state, regime, and government adds analytical purchase to our understanding of post-independent politics in the ex-Soviet Kyrgyz Republic. By looking at the ways in which the government, regime, and state interact, it aims to strengthen existing understandings of why early liberalisation was thwarted in this republic, presidential rule proved twice difficult to maintain, and why th…
Sovereignty After EmpireComparing the Middle East and Central Asia
"Sovereignty After Empire" published on by Edinburgh University Press.
Sovereignty after Empire: Comparing the Middle East and Central Asia
This is a unique, systematic comparison of empires and of their consequences for sovereignty in the Middle East and Central Asia. It brings theory on empire and sovereignty to bear on empirical variation across the two regions.
Sovereignty After Empire: Comparing the Middle East and Central Asia
How does empire affect the route to successor sovereign state systems and the features of the sovereignty of these systems? This unique systematic comparison of empires and of their consequences for sovereignty in the Middle East and Central Asia brings theory on empire and sovereignty to bear on empirical variation across the two regions. The novel approach to understanding the political structures of states in two significant areas of the non-E…
Central Asia
Inscapes, Landscapes and Greyscapes: The Politics of Signification in Central Asia
In the post-communist world, Katherine Verdery (1999, p. 25) argues that the fate of famous political corpses helps us to see political transformation as something more than a technical process—of
Soviet rule, nation and film: The Kyrgyz ‘Wonder’ years
What happens if a community is encouraged to imagine itself visually when its political vessel is a modernising nation‐state within a multinational communist federation? Cinematic works, in their distillation of time and space, contribute to the kinds of imaginings that sustain nation‐states. How this cultural technology reflected and promoted nation‐building in the Soviet era is the subject of this article. It explores how the tensions within th…
Situating the ‘Tulip Revolution’
The authors assess various writings on the 'coloured revolutions' more generally and the 'Tulip Revolution' specifically. They place this scholarship into three broad categories: an assessment of the Akaev years from a democratization and state-building perspective; the nature of and relationship between formal and informal institutions prior to and after March 2005; and, finally, the domestic and international factors behind mobilization. These …
Introduction: ‘Revolution’ not revolution
Temir Birnazarov's 100-minute film Route of Hope (2008) captures the story of Kyrgyzstan's uncertain and unexpected journey from Soviet communism since 1991. The film tells the story of 19 passenge
Legitimation and Identification in Kazakhstan
This article analyzes Kazakhstan's contested process of nation- and state-building through a closer examination of the links between legitimation and identity. A wider Weberian emphasis on how the elite relates itself to the broader relationship between rulers and ruled illuminates the difficulties Kazakhstan's elite has encountered in providing both a collective identity and one of self. This complex symbiotic relationship between self-legitimat…
Islam in the former soviet union
A History of Islamic Societies (Second Edition) , Ira M.Lapidus, Cambridge University Press, 2002, HBK: ISBN: 0521770564 £80.00, PBK: ISBN: 0521779332 £29.95, pp. 1000 (including: figures, maps, bibliography & index) Islam in Post‐Soviet Russia: Public and Private Faces, Hilary Pilkington & Galina Yemelianova (eds), Routledge Curzon, 2003, HBK: ISBN: 0415297346 £60.00 $90.00, pp. 307 (including: bibliography and index) Jihad: The Rise of Militant…
Conceptualising State Capacity: Comparing Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan
Strengthening the state is central to the post-communist reform agenda. Here, state capacity combines organisational, material and social resources and is conceptualised along four dimensions: ideational, political, technical and implementational. This conceptualisation is applied to a comparative, survey-based analysis in 2002 of 125 medium-ranking officials in two post-communist Central Asian countries, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. The findings r…
Eurasian bridge or murky waters between east and west? Ideas, identity and output in Kazakhstan's foreign policy
Kazakhstan's policies on both nation building and foreign policy have carried in-built contradictions. Both sets of policies have attempted to strengthen simultaneously an ethnic Kazakh national identity and a civic Kazakhstani state identity. They serve the dual challenge of consolidating the ethnic Kazakh nation and appeasing the large non-Kazakh, primarily Russian, minority. Nation building and foreign policy have proved symbiotic. President N…
Happier bedfellows? Russia and Central Asia under Putin
2001). Happier bedfellows? Russia and Central Asia under Putin. Asian Affairs: Vol. 32, No. 2, pp. 142-152
Conceptualising State Capacity: Comparing Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan
Strengthening the state is central to the post-communist reform agenda. Here, state capacity combines organisational, material and social resources and is conceptualised along four dimensions: ideational, political, technical and implementational. This conceptualisation is applied to a comparative, survey-based analysis in 2002 of 125 medium-ranking officials in two post-communist Central Asian countries, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. The findings r…
Legitimation and Identification in Kazakhstan
This article analyzes Kazakhstan's contested process of nation- and state-building through a closer examination of the links between legitimation and identity. A wider Weberian emphasis on how the elite relates itself to the broader relationship between rulers and ruled illuminates the difficulties Kazakhstan's elite has encountered in providing both a collective identity and one of self. This complex symbiotic relationship between self-legitimat…
Eurasian bridge or murky waters between east and west? Ideas, identity and output in Kazakhstan's foreign policy
Kazakhstan's policies on both nation building and foreign policy have carried in-built contradictions. Both sets of policies have attempted to strengthen simultaneously an ethnic Kazakh national identity and a civic Kazakhstani state identity. They serve the dual challenge of consolidating the ethnic Kazakh nation and appeasing the large non-Kazakh, primarily Russian, minority. Nation building and foreign policy have proved symbiotic. President N…
Leaving Lenin: Elites, official ideology and monuments in the Kyrgyz Republic
Many Lenin monuments remain in cities around the former Soviet republics and a few national or regional authorities have decreed it against the law to deface or remove them. The Lenin monument in Bishkek, capital city of the Kyrgyz Republic, is an example of both policies. On two main counts, however, the fate of this particular bronze statue of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin has been unusual. Only in the Kyrgyz case was the country's central Lenin monume…
Happier bedfellows? Russia and Central Asia under Putin
2001). Happier bedfellows? Russia and Central Asia under Putin. Asian Affairs: Vol. 32, No. 2, pp. 142-152
Inscapes, Landscapes and Greyscapes: The Politics of Signification in Central Asia
In the post-communist world, Katherine Verdery (1999, p. 25) argues that the fate of famous political corpses helps us to see political transformation as something more than a technical process—of
Soviet rule, nation and film: The Kyrgyz ‘Wonder’ years
What happens if a community is encouraged to imagine itself visually when its political vessel is a modernising nation‐state within a multinational communist federation? Cinematic works, in their distillation of time and space, contribute to the kinds of imaginings that sustain nation‐states. How this cultural technology reflected and promoted nation‐building in the Soviet era is the subject of this article. It explores how the tensions within th…
Situating the ‘Tulip Revolution’
The authors assess various writings on the 'coloured revolutions' more generally and the 'Tulip Revolution' specifically. They place this scholarship into three broad categories: an assessment of the Akaev years from a democratization and state-building perspective; the nature of and relationship between formal and informal institutions prior to and after March 2005; and, finally, the domestic and international factors behind mobilization. These …
State, regime, and government in the Kyrgyz Republic (1991–2010): Disaggregating a Relationship
This article explores how differentiating between the concepts of state, regime, and government adds analytical purchase to our understanding of post-independent politics in the ex-Soviet Kyrgyz Republic. By looking at the ways in which the government, regime, and state interact, it aims to strengthen existing understandings of why early liberalisation was thwarted in this republic, presidential rule proved twice difficult to maintain, and why th…
Introduction: ‘Revolution’ not revolution
Temir Birnazarov's 100-minute film Route of Hope (2008) captures the story of Kyrgyzstan's uncertain and unexpected journey from Soviet communism since 1991. The film tells the story of 19 passenge
Islam in the former soviet union
A History of Islamic Societies (Second Edition) , Ira M.Lapidus, Cambridge University Press, 2002, HBK: ISBN: 0521770564 £80.00, PBK: ISBN: 0521779332 £29.95, pp. 1000 (including: figures, maps, bibliography & index) Islam in Post‐Soviet Russia: Public and Private Faces, Hilary Pilkington & Galina Yemelianova (eds), Routledge Curzon, 2003, HBK: ISBN: 0415297346 £60.00 $90.00, pp. 307 (including: bibliography and index) Jihad: The Rise of Militant…
Happier bedfellows? Russia and Central Asia under Putin
2001). Happier bedfellows? Russia and Central Asia under Putin. Asian Affairs: Vol. 32, No. 2, pp. 142-152
Eurasian bridge or murky waters between east and west? Ideas, identity and output in Kazakhstan's foreign policy
Kazakhstan's policies on both nation building and foreign policy have carried in-built contradictions. Both sets of policies have attempted to strengthen simultaneously an ethnic Kazakh national identity and a civic Kazakhstani state identity. They serve the dual challenge of consolidating the ethnic Kazakh nation and appeasing the large non-Kazakh, primarily Russian, minority. Nation building and foreign policy have proved symbiotic. President N…
Islam in the former soviet union
A History of Islamic Societies (Second Edition) , Ira M.Lapidus, Cambridge University Press, 2002, HBK: ISBN: 0521770564 £80.00, PBK: ISBN: 0521779332 £29.95, pp. 1000 (including: figures, maps, bibliography & index) Islam in Post‐Soviet Russia: Public and Private Faces, Hilary Pilkington & Galina Yemelianova (eds), Routledge Curzon, 2003, HBK: ISBN: 0415297346 £60.00 $90.00, pp. 307 (including: bibliography and index) Jihad: The Rise of Militant…
Conceptualising State Capacity: Comparing Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan
Strengthening the state is central to the post-communist reform agenda. Here, state capacity combines organisational, material and social resources and is conceptualised along four dimensions: ideational, political, technical and implementational. This conceptualisation is applied to a comparative, survey-based analysis in 2002 of 125 medium-ranking officials in two post-communist Central Asian countries, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. The findings r…
Legitimation and Identification in Kazakhstan
This article analyzes Kazakhstan's contested process of nation- and state-building through a closer examination of the links between legitimation and identity. A wider Weberian emphasis on how the elite relates itself to the broader relationship between rulers and ruled illuminates the difficulties Kazakhstan's elite has encountered in providing both a collective identity and one of self. This complex symbiotic relationship between self-legitimat…
Situating the ‘Tulip Revolution’
The authors assess various writings on the 'coloured revolutions' more generally and the 'Tulip Revolution' specifically. They place this scholarship into three broad categories: an assessment of the Akaev years from a democratization and state-building perspective; the nature of and relationship between formal and informal institutions prior to and after March 2005; and, finally, the domestic and international factors behind mobilization. These …
Introduction: ‘Revolution’ not revolution
Temir Birnazarov's 100-minute film Route of Hope (2008) captures the story of Kyrgyzstan's uncertain and unexpected journey from Soviet communism since 1991. The film tells the story of 19 passenge
Central Asia
Inscapes, Landscapes and Greyscapes: The Politics of Signification in Central Asia
In the post-communist world, Katherine Verdery (1999, p. 25) argues that the fate of famous political corpses helps us to see political transformation as something more than a technical process—of
Soviet rule, nation and film: The Kyrgyz ‘Wonder’ years
What happens if a community is encouraged to imagine itself visually when its political vessel is a modernising nation‐state within a multinational communist federation? Cinematic works, in their distillation of time and space, contribute to the kinds of imaginings that sustain nation‐states. How this cultural technology reflected and promoted nation‐building in the Soviet era is the subject of this article. It explores how the tensions within th…
Sovereignty After EmpireComparing the Middle East and Central Asia
"Sovereignty After Empire" published on by Edinburgh University Press.
Sovereignty after Empire: Comparing the Middle East and Central Asia
This is a unique, systematic comparison of empires and of their consequences for sovereignty in the Middle East and Central Asia. It brings theory on empire and sovereignty to bear on empirical variation across the two regions.
Sovereignty After Empire: Comparing the Middle East and Central Asia
How does empire affect the route to successor sovereign state systems and the features of the sovereignty of these systems? This unique systematic comparison of empires and of their consequences for sovereignty in the Middle East and Central Asia brings theory on empire and sovereignty to bear on empirical variation across the two regions. The novel approach to understanding the political structures of states in two significant areas of the non-E…
Author–critic forum: Popular protest and regime change in Central Asia
Weapons of the wealthy: predatory regimes and elite-led protests in Central Asia, by Scott Radnitz, Ithaca, New York, Cornell University Press, 2010, 231pp., US$49.95 (hardback), US$24.95 (paperbac
Leaving Lenin: Elites, official ideology and monuments in the Kyrgyz Republic
Many Lenin monuments remain in cities around the former Soviet republics and a few national or regional authorities have decreed it against the law to deface or remove them. The Lenin monument in Bishkek, capital city of the Kyrgyz Republic, is an example of both policies. On two main counts, however, the fate of this particular bronze statue of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin has been unusual. Only in the Kyrgyz case was the country's central Lenin monume…
State, regime, and government in the Kyrgyz Republic (1991–2010): Disaggregating a Relationship
This article explores how differentiating between the concepts of state, regime, and government adds analytical purchase to our understanding of post-independent politics in the ex-Soviet Kyrgyz Republic. By looking at the ways in which the government, regime, and state interact, it aims to strengthen existing understandings of why early liberalisation was thwarted in this republic, presidential rule proved twice difficult to maintain, and why th…
Empire and After: Toward a Framework for Comparing Empires and Their Consequences in the Post-Imperial Middle East and Central Asia
This article compares and contrasts the variations in paths from empire to sovereignty in the Middle East and Central Asia. We identify differences in empires and their impact; examine the drivers of transition from empire to sovereignty, the international system and nationalist mobilization; assess the consequences of imperial transmissions for state formation and nation-building; and link these factors to the degree of rupture with empire in th…
Entangled interpretations and a transnational art exhibition: The case of (…) Ketsin! Art from the Kyrgyz Republic (Shoreditch, May 2013)
Through the case study of a visual arts exhibition on the Kyrgyz Revolution, (...) Ketsin! (May 2013), this article traces the complex set of factors that influence how a transnational exhibition is interpreted. Combining literatures on visual representation, the role of intentionality in authorship, and, museum and gallery studies, I propose here the notion of ‘entangled interpretations’ to convey the overlapping and muddled layers rather than d…
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