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With the collapse of communism, post-communist societies scrambled to find meaning to their new independence. Central Asia was no exception. Events, relationships, gestures, spatial units and objects produced, conveyed and interpreted meaning. The new power container of the five independent states of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan would significantly influence this process of signification. Post-Soviet Central Asia is an intriguing field to examine this transformation: a region which did not see an .. This book not only widens our understandings of developments in this geopolitically important region but also contributes to broader studies of representation, ritual, power and identity.This book was published as a special issue of Europe-Asia Studies.

Author

Sally N. Cummings, Cummings, Sally N. (edt)

Publisher

Routledge

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780415815970

Subjects

Political Science, Science, Social_sciences