Ethnographies of the state in Central Asia: performing politics

Introduction: Performances, Possibilities, and Practices of the Political in Central Asia Johan Rasanayagam, Judith Beyer, and Madeleine Reeves Part I. Staging the Political 1. The Performance State: A Reconsideration of the Central Asian Weak John Heathershaw 2. Dialogic Authority: Kazakh Aitys Poets and Their Patrons Eva-Marie Dubuisson 3. Performing Democracy: State-Making through Patronage in Kyrgyzstan Aksana Ismailbekova 4. There is This Law... Performing the State in the Kyrgyz Courts of Elders Judith Beyer Part II. Political Materials, Political Fantasies 5. The Master Plan of Astana: Between the Art of Government and the Art of Being Global Alima Bissenova 6. State Building(s): Built Forms, Materiality, and the State in Astana Mateusz Laszczkowski 7. The Bulldozer State: Chinese Socialist Development in Xinjiang Ildiko Beller-Hann 8. The Time of the Border: Contingency, Conflict and Popular Statism at the Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan Boundary Madeleine Reeves Part III. Moral Positionings 9. Reclaiming Ma'naviyat: Morality, Criminality and Dissident Politics in Uzbekistan Sarah Kendzior 10. The Reshaping of Cities and Citizens in Uzbekistan: The Case of Namangan's New Uzbeks Tommaso Trevisani 11. Massacre Through a Kaleidoscope: Fragmented Moral Imaginaries of the State in Central Asia Morgan Liu 12. Cold War Memories and Post-Cold War Realities: The Politics of Memory and Identity in the Everyday Life of Kazakhstan's Radiation Victims Cynthia Werner and Kathleen Purvis-Roberts