Border Work : Spatial Lives of the State in Rural Central Asia
- Submitting institution
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The University of Manchester
: B - Social Anthropology
- Unit of assessment
- 22 - Anthropology and Development Studies : B - Social Anthropology
- Output identifier
- 43530315
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- ISBN
- 9780801477065
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- March
- Year of publication
- 2014
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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A - SoSS
- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This 110,000-word monograph draws on long-term ethnographic research (2003-2012) in the Ferghana valley region of Central Asia. The book critically reframes how we think about the border politics of ‘weak states’ by exploring the settings in which the state and its contested sovereignty are invoked by customs officers, border guards and the traders whose transboundary movement they would regulate. This reframing was dependent upon long-term ethnographic research across the borders of Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, using local-language interviews, as well as the critical analysis of primary source materials, including legislation, news reports and archival documents, in Kyrgyz, Uzbek and Russian.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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