scholarly journals Spatialising state practices through transnational repression

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Saipira Furstenberg ◽  
Edward Lemon ◽  
John Heathershaw
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
State Power ◽  
Stage Model ◽  
Security Practices ◽  
Political Exile ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Transnational Space

Abstract This article theorises the repressive security practices of authoritarian states in the context of transnationalism and globalisation. While emerging research on transnational repression has identified a range of extraterritorial and exceptional security practices adopted by authoritarian states, it has not fully studied the implications of such practices on space and statecraft. Using data from the Central Asia Political Exile Database project (CAPE) and interviews conducted with exiled Tajik opposition groups based in Russia and Europe, we theorise the spatial connections between the territorial and extraterritorial security practices using the concept of assemblages. We further outline how these practices escalate in a three-stage model, in which exiles go on notice, are detained and then rendered or assassinated. Such an approach sheds light on the inherent links between the normalisation of security practices and the creation of transnational space with distinct forms of geographical state power that is embedded in non-national spaces and is manifested through spatially organised actors, networks, and technologies within assemblages.

Olivier Roy. The new Central Asia. The Creation of Nations

2006 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 611-615
Author(s):  
Albrecht Rothacher
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
The Creation

Postscript: Towards a Research Agenda on Security Practices

2020 ◽  
pp. 203-210
Author(s):  
Conrad Schetter
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Future Study ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Related Research ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Marginalized Groups ◽  
Security Practices ◽  
The Future

The chapter asks how the insights generated here can make a more general contribution to the future study of everyday security practices of marginalized groups. It emphasizes the importance of taking into account the factors of space and time when analyzing security. In particular, it supports calls to analyze security practices beyond the limiting framework of the 'nation-state'. A stronger focus on individual future-making activities may very much enrich security-related research. Moreover, the chapter asks to what extent the findings collected in this volume may similarly apply to marginalized – and often violently repressed – people in other parts of Central Asia.

scholarly journals Strategic cooperation of electric power systems of Russia and Central Asia for the creation of common Eurasian electric power space

2019 ◽  
Vol 139 ◽  
pp. 01003
Author(s):  
Lyudmila Chudinova ◽  
Sergei Podkovalnikov
Keyword(s):  
Power Systems ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
Electric Power ◽  
Electric Power Systems ◽  
Strategic Cooperation ◽  
The Creation

The paper considers electric power integration projects realized and to be implemented on the territory of Eurasia, that include Russia and countries of Central Asia, neighboring regions of Caucasus, South Asia, and others. Studies are focused on the effectiveness of electric power integration of electric power systems of Russia and Central Asia in the long-term perspective, with account of electric ties with neighboring countries.

scholarly journals Challenges to the sustainable use of water resources in the Ili River basin of Central Asia

2019 ◽  
Vol 81 ◽  
pp. 01009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabir Nurtazin ◽  
Niels Thevs ◽  
Margulan Iklasov ◽  
Norman Graham ◽  
Ruslan Salmurzauli ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Water Resources ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
Distribution Systems ◽  
Water Distribution ◽  
Sustainable Use ◽  
Hydrological Regime ◽  
Careful Consideration ◽  
Flow Rates ◽  
Ili River Basin ◽  
Using Data

Water is a scarce resource in Central Asia, and many catchments span international boundaries, among them that of the Ili River, which is shared by China and Kazakhstan. Since 1970, the natural hydrological regime of the Ili River, both absolute flow rates and cycles, has changed due to construction of reservoirs such as that at Kapchagai, as well as natural climatic cycles and the growth of water consumption in the basin. Using data from Kazhydromet, we calculated that flow rates below Kapchagai dam averaged 468 m3/sec before construction of the dam, 366 m3/sec while the reservoir was being filled, and 489 m3/sec between 1988 and 2013. The dam has profoundly altered the annual cycle of flows in the river, with reductions in the summer and increases in the winter, when water is released to produce hydropower. The effects of these changes are being heightened by China’s increasing diversion of the river’s water. The sustainable use of decreasing water resources to conserve the biodiversity of the Ili-Balkhash basin’s ecosystems mandates a solution to the water allocation challenge between China and Kazakhstan. This will require a basin-wide approach that includes modernization of water distribution systems and careful consideration to relative priority needs for food, hydropower, and communal uses in both countries.

Resisting the Opportunity for Change

2017 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 392-405 ◽  
Author(s):  
James N. Druckman ◽  
Martin J. Kifer ◽  
Michael Parkin
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Political Environment ◽  
2016 Election ◽  
Previous Election ◽  
Unique Nature ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Online Campaigning ◽  
Using Data ◽  
And Shifts ◽  
The Web

This article explores congressional campaigning on the web in 2016. What impact did the unique nature of the 2016 election have on those involved with the creation and maintenance of congressional campaign websites? Did it cause them to alter their approach to online campaigning? Using data from a survey of campaign insiders, we find that the factors that influence how congressional campaigns view and use their websites were largely impervious to the unique electoral environment. Results show that, consistent with previous election years, campaigns maintained a fairly uniform view of likely visitors and target audiences, and they tended to see their campaign websites as digital hubs, best used for capturing the campaign’s overall message. We also find that, as in other years, nonincumbents continued to use their websites to campaign more aggressively than incumbents. Overall, the results suggest that congressional campaigning on the web is primarily driven by stable factors that transcend technological advancements and shifts in the political environment.

Sanitation and Seeing: The Creation of State Power in Early Colonial Fiji

1990 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Thomas
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Indigenous Population ◽  
State Power ◽  
British Rule ◽  
Early Colonial ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Rule System ◽  
Indirect Rule

British rule in the former Crown Colony of Fiji was a paradoxical affair in several ways. The first Governor, Sir Arthur Gordon, had been shocked by the dispossession of the New Zealand Maori and was determined to subordinate settler interests in Fiji to those of the indigenous population. From the time of cession by a group of paramount chiefs in 1874, administrative policies and structures aimed to defend, protect, and institutionalize the traditional Fijian communal system. For example, what were thought to be traditional chiefly privileges, such as rights to produce, were legally enshrined and articulated with an indirect rule system of appointed village, district, and provincial chiefs. Land was made the inalienable property of clan groups of certain types (which Fijians were obliged to create where they did not already exist).

From Soviet Republics to Independent Countries: Challenges of Transition in Central Asia

2007 ◽  
Vol 6 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 291-312 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mirzohid Rahimov
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
Regional Integration ◽  
Economic Reforms ◽  
Historical Period ◽  
Economic Regulation ◽  
Interstate Relations ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Central Asian ◽  
The Creation

AbstractIn the twentieth century, the Central Asian countries of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan passed through a complex historical period. They were originally founded as republics of the Soviet Union in the 1920s-30s as a result of national and territorial state delimitation. The process of the creation of new national state formations began after the Soviet Union disintegrated and these republics achieved independence. At the same time, the region's nations are facing complex problems of transition and the creation of new societies. Nevertheless, these countries have to continue the process of political and economic reforms, as well as development of civic institutions. The Central Asian nations established contacts with foreign states and international organizations and started to form a system of interstate relations between the countries of the region. There are potentials for development of regional integration of Central Asia. Future integration will depend on the readiness of the nations to carry out political and economic reforms, introduce forms and methods of economic regulation compatible with global norms, and most important, international support of political reforms and regional integration.

scholarly journals Carrying Out the Policy of Zoning in Middle Asia

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 4656-4660
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Total Population ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Ethnic Composition ◽  
Middle Asia ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Autonomous Regions ◽  
Administrative Units

This article highlights the processes of zoning policies implemented in Central Asia and provides information on administrative units in the newly created republics of Central Asia, the preparation of their borders and territories, as well as the total population of the Soviet republics and autonomous regions. National-territorial delimitation and the creation of new Soviet republics and autonomous regions in Central Asia necessitated zoning in Central Asia, including Uzbekistan. The distribution consisted of two interrelated aspects: economic zoning and administrative zoning. The ethnic composition of the population in Central Asia during the period of regionalization policy, various levels of economic and cultural development and other factors, including the abolition of provinces, regions and districts in the Uzbekistan SSR, district commissions and regions instead of administrative units. and the creation of rural (Soviet) rural councils.

scholarly journals FORMATION OF GEOGRAPHY AS A SCIENCE IN UZBEKISTAN IN THE XX CENTURY

2020 ◽  
pp. 202-203
Author(s):  
Tolibov Nurbek
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
Important Research ◽  
Great Contribution ◽  
Stage Of Development ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
The Creation

From ancient times the scientists of Central Asia have made a great contribution to the development of geography. In the twentieth century, Uzbekistan experienced its own stage of development. This article analyzes the most important research conducted in the twentieth century for the development of geography in Uzbekistan, the work on the creation of geographical atlases and maps, as well as geographical dictionaries in the country.

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