The Return of the Aryan Myth

Tajikistan in Search of a Secularized National Ideology

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11047780
AutoresMarlène Laruelle (0000-0001-8289-2695, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, autor de correspondencia)
Año2007
Volumen35
Número1
Páginas51-70
Fecha de publicación2007-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaNationalities Papers (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0090-5992 • E-ISSN: 1465-3923
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1080/00905990601124462
OpenAlexW2033539915
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas32
Referencias citadas3

For more than a decade, the five Central Asian republics have been “readjusting” their academic institutions in response to the new borders created by the fall of the USSR and subsequent independence in 1991. Both the university system and the Academy of Sciences have been called on to rethink their research policy in order to meet the new national stakes and current political demands. Thus, the elaboration of a national discourse is a particularly relevant object of study in order to observe the different modes of legitimization of the new Central Asian states and the scholarly tools they deem necessary for their political ratification. Consequently, in retracing the genealogy of the contemporary historical analyses we must pose a question regarding the development of the academic disciplines and the data concerning their political environment. Does Tajik independence in 1991 involve rethinking the genesis of the nation and the scholarly fields linked to the elaboration of the national narrative? Why have the political authorities declared 2006 the “year of the Aryan civilization”

Aryan race · Ideology · Independence (probability theory · Political science · Politics · Secularization · Social science · Sociology · Law · Russia and Soviet political economy · Soviet and Russian History