Youth and Globalization in Central Asia Everyday Life between Religion, Media, and International Donors
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Stefan B. Kirmse
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Youth and Globalization in Central Asia Everyday Life between Religion, Media, and International Donors
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Campus Verlag
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9783593419770
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Sozialstrukturforschung
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English
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Im zentralasiatischen Kirgistan, einst Teil der Sowjetunion, liegt die Stadt Osch. Sie gilt als Zentrum von Islamismus, politischer Instabilität und Entwicklungshilfe. Doch sie ist zugleich von der Globalisierung in all ihren Facetten geprägt. Stefan B. Kirmse zeigt, was dies für den Alltag junger Menschen bedeutet: Sie sind in besonderer Weise wirtschaftlichen Zwängen und sozialem Druck unterworfen. Sie bewegen sich zwischen globalen Medien, religiösen Strömungen und westlichen Geldgebern und nutzen globale Verflechtungen auf vielfältige Art. Ein ethnografisches Porträt, das Erfahrungen von Postsozialismus und Globalisierung im muslimischen Raum miteinander verbindet. The Central Asian Republic of Kyrgyzstan, formerly part of the Soviet Union, is home to the city of Osh - a city renowned as an epicenter of Islamism and political instability. Yet, it is also shaped by globalization in all its manifestations. Stefan Kirmse explores what this means for young people's everyday lives. He shows that youth move between global media, religious groups and Western donors, crafting their own unique experiences of globalization in an ongoing process of bricolage. At the same time, they are subject to particular economic constraints and communal expectations.
Stefan B. Kirmse, Ph.D., Sozialwissenschaftler, ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter an der HU Berlin.
In the late Soviet period, bloody ethnic clashes rocked Central Asia's Ferghana Valley, situated in the border region of Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan. Already dubbed 'the valley of blood and tears' after violence between Uzbeks and Meshketian Turks had left hundreds of people dead in 1989 (Crowfoot and Glebov 1989, 155), another ethnic conflict erupted the following year. This time, fighting between Kyrgyz and Uzbeks caused hundreds of deaths in and around the city of Osh. In the 1990s, armed Islamist groups began to operate in the valley, now considered 'the bastion of Islamic activism in the whole of Central Asia'
Contents
8
Acknowledgements
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Introduction
14
1 Everyday Life in the City: Youth between Family, Friends, and the State
40
2 Of Magicians, Missionaries, and “Mujahedeen”: The Emergence of a Transnational Religious Space
90
3 Globalization as Choice: Youth in the Marketplace for Styles and Identities
128
4 Multiple Constraints: Between Communal Expectations and Collective Identities
168
5 “Youth Spaces” and Global Gateways: On the Effects of International Donor Activity
210
Conclusion
266
Abbreviations and Acronyms
284
Glossary of Terms
286
Bibliography
294
Appendices
316
Index
332
