Spectacular State - Culture and National Identity in Uzbekistan

Informationen zum Autor Laura L. Adams is a lecturer on sociology and co-director of the Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus at Harvard University. Klappentext Examines the ways that cultural elites were mobilized as part of Uzbekistan's nation-building project in the early years of independence, and how institutional and cultural restraints on nation building now function. Zusammenfassung An analysis of how Uzbekistans cultural and political elites engaged in a program of nation-building through culture! particularly by staging spectacular mass events! after the fall of the Soviet Union. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments vii Introduction. The Politics of Culture in Uzbekistan 1991–2002 1. Mapping the Landscape of National Identity in Uzbekistan 2. Cultural Form: Globalization and the Spectacular State 3. Cultural Content and Postcolonial Civic Nationalism 4. Culture Production and Participation in the Spectacular State Conclusion. Spectacle and the Ideology of National Independence Notes Bibliography Index

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Laura Adams, Laura L Adams, Laura L. Adams
• Edition: Duke University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 05.02.2010
• EAN: 9780822346517
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4651-7
• Pages: 256
• Thèmes: Politics, History, and Culture; Politics, History, and Culture
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Histoire > Autres; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sociologie > Général, dictionnaires