Hierarchies of Place, Hierarchies of Empowerment
Geographies of Talk about Postsocialist Change in Uzbekistan
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11046647 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Morgan Y Liu (Harvard University Press, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 423-438 |
| Publication date | 2005-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Nationalities Papers (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-5992 • E-ISSN: 1465-3923 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00905990500193295 |
| OpenAlex | W2093065272 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 3 |
This study concerns how people throughout Uzbekistan were making sense of the tremendous socioeconomic changes taking place in their Central Asian republic during their first decade of independence from Soviet rule in 1991. This paper analyzes talk about the daily struggles of Uzbekistanis in order to arrive at ground-level insight about the kind of postsocialist state Uzbekistan was becoming in the 1990s, and how its citizens envisioned it. The extent to which people felt empowered to understand and potentially act on social issues, I argue, depended on geographical location. Looking at a series of focus group interviews conducted in three Uzbekistani cities in 1996, I identify spatial inflections in talk about social problems. The results of the study allow us to think about the Uzbekistani state's changing bases of legitimation since the late 1990s
Empowerment · Geography · Independence (probability theory · Legitimation · Political science · Politics · Population · Social change · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · State (computer science · Gender Studies · Law · Philippine History and Culture · Soviet and Russian History · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
| Citations per year | 0.21 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2007 - 2023 (17) |
| Highly cited | No |