Border Work: Spatial Lives of the State in Rural Central Asia

by Madeleine Reeves

Book Overview

In Central Asia's Ferghana Valley, where Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan meet, state territoriality has taken on new significance in these states' second decade of independence, reshaping landscapes and transforming livelihoods in a densely populated, irrigation-dependent region. Through an innovative ethnography of social and spatial practice at the limits of the state, Border Work explores the contested work of producing and policing "territorial...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801477069
• ISBN13: 9780801477065
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher