Symbolism and Power in Central Asia

Sally N. Cummings teaches at the University of St. Andrews. Her current research focuses on the politics of culture and political communication, primarily in Central Asia. Her publications include: Domestic and International Perspectives on Kyrgyzstan’s ‘Tulip Revolution’ (Routledge, 2009), Kazakhstan: Power and the Elite (IB Tauris 2005), Oil, Transition and Security in Central Asia (London and New York: Routledge, 2003) and Kazakhstan: Centre-Periphery Relations (London: Royal Institute of International Affairs and Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 2000).

• 1. Inscapes, Landscapes and Greyscapes: The Politics of Signification in Central Asia Sally N. Cummings 2. Legitimising Central Asian Authoritarianism: Political Manipulation and Symbolic Power Anna Matveeva 3. Nation Branding in Central Asia: A New Campaign to Present Ideas about the State and the Nation Erica Marat 4. Searching for Kamalot: Political Patronage and Youth Politics in Uzbekistan Eric M. McGlinchey 5. Michael Romm’s Ascent of Mount Stalin: A Soviet Landscape? Stuart Horsman 6. The Art of the Impossible: Political Symbolism, and the Creation of National Identity and Collective Memory in Post-Soviet Turkmenistan Michael Denison 7. Promising Futures? Education as a Symbolic Resource of Hope in Kyrgyzstan Sarah S. Amsler 8. Identity, Symbolism, and the Politics of Language in Central Asia William Fierman 9. The Invention of Legitimacy: Struggles in Kyrgyzstan to Craft an Effective Nation-State Ideology Asel Murzakulova and John Schoeberlein 10. Mass Spectacle and Styles of Governmentality in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan Laura L. Adams and Assel Rustemova 11. Materialising State Space: ‘Creeping Migration’ and Territorial Integrity in Southern Kyrgyzstan Madeleine Reeves 12. Tajikistan’s Virtual Politics of Peace John Heathershaw