Sociology of Central Asian Youth

Mohd. Aslam Bhat is Assistant Professor in Sociology at Govt. Degree College Magam, Jammu & Kashmir, India

• Prologue 1. Introduction Post/Late Variety Theory, Youth Research and Central Asian Context 2. Locating Young Central Asian Recourse to History 3. Uzbek Youth Culture in the Quandary of Transition 4. Constituting Post-Soviet Uzbek identities Three Types of Youth 5. Young People Facing Post-Soviet "State" A Landscape of Uzbekistan 6. Epilogue Mainstreaming Perspectives on Central Asian Pattern Bibliography

"Shifting attention away from youth studies' usual suspects of USA, Northern Europe and Australia, this book represents a much welcomed and important contribution to 'decolonising' knowledge. Bhat does an exceptional job of bringing the particularities of the post-Soviet Central Asian context to the fore, whilst authoritatively grounding these specifics in wider and, indeed, global ongoing debates about young people, social transformation and the continuance of social reproduction".-- Steven Roberts, Monash University, Australia."Bhat offers not only a new take on Uzbek youth from a South Asian perspective that reflects Central Asia's current global and regional entanglements, but also a much-needed bridge between Central Asian Studies and classical sociology".-- Stefan Kirmse, Humboldt University, Berlin – Germany."A very timely, engaging and scholarly text with an interpretative lens. Bhat provides a remarkably clear and lucid picture of the aspirations, anticipations and risks experienced by young people in post-Soviet Uzbekistan, and Central Asia at large, while at the same time locating it within the contemporary sociological debates and discourses very succinctly and in a concise manner".--Professor Ajay Patnaik, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi – IndiaThe Sociology of Central Asian Youth is an interesting and original study of the youth of Uzbekistan that will certainly initiate new dialogue about youth in all of Central Asia." -- Timothy May, Professor of Central Eurasian History in the College of Arts and Letters, University of North Georgia.