Surviving Everyday Life
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Surviving Everyday Life

The Securityscapes of Threatened People in Kyrgyzstan

  1. 228 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Surviving Everyday Life

The Securityscapes of Threatened People in Kyrgyzstan

About this book

Moving beyond state-centric and elitist perspectives, this volume examines everyday security in the Central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and written by scholars from Central Asia and beyond, it shows how insecurity is experienced, what people consider existential threats, and how they go about securing themselves.

It concentrates on individuals who feel threatened because of their ethnic belonging, gender or sexual orientation. It develops the concept of 'securityscapes', which draws attention to the more subtle means that people take to secure themselves ā€“ practices bent on invisibility and avoidance, on disguise and trickery, and on continually adapting to shifting circumstances. By broadening the concept of security practice, this book is an important contribution to debates in Critical Security Studies as well as to Central Asian and Area Studies.

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Yes, you can access Surviving Everyday Life by von Boemcken, Marc,Bagdasarova, Nina,Marc von Boemcken,Nina Bagdasarova,Aksana Ismailbekova,Conrad Schetter in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Politics & International Relations & Asian Politics. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series Information
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. List of Figures and Tables
  7. List of Contributors
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Preface
  10. 1 Introduction
  11. 2 Studying Danger in Central Asia: Towards a Concept of Everyday Securityscapes
  12. 3 Security Practices and the Survival of Cafes in Southern Kyrgyzstan
  13. 4 Securing the Future of Children and Youth: Uzbek Private Kindergartens and Schools in Osh
  14. 5 Selective Memories, Identities and Places: Everyday Security Practices of the Mughat Lyulis in Osh
  15. 6 How to Live with a Female Body: Securityscapes against Sexual Violence and Related Interpretation Patterns of Kyrgyz Women
  16. 7 Romantic Securityscapes of Mixed Couples: Resisting Moral Panic, Surviving in the Present and Imagining the Future
  17. 8 The Spaceā€“Time Continuum of the ā€˜Dangerousā€™ Body: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Securityscapes in Kyrgyzstan
  18. 9 Postscript: Towards a Research Agenda on Security Practices
  19. Index