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  • Islam in Post-Soviet Uzbekistan

    The Morality of Experience

    by Johan Rasanayagam ...
    The Uzbekistan government has been criticized for its brutal suppression of its Muslim population. This book, which is based on the author's intimate acquaintance with the region and several years of ethnographic research, is about how Muslims in this part of the world negotiate their religious practices despite the restraints of a stifling authoritarian regime. Fascinatingly, the book also shows ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Constructing the Uzbek State

    Narratives of Post-Soviet Years

    by Marlene Laruelle, Sergey Abashin, Peter Finke, Matteo Fumagalli, Alisher Ilkhamov, Svetlana Peshkova, Sebastien Peyrouse, Johan Rasanayagam, Noah Tucker, Rustamjon Urinboyev0, Russell Zanca1, Morgan Y. Liu2, Nick Megoran3, Rano Turaeva-Hoehne4, Maria Louw5 ...
    Series series Contemporary Central Asia: Societies, Politics, and Cultures
    Over the past three decades, Uzbekistan has attracted the attention of the academic and policy communities because of its geostrategic importance, its critical role in shaping or unshaping Central Asia as a region, its economic and trade potential, and its demographic weight: every other Central Asian being Uzbek, Uzbekistan’s political, social, and cultural evolutions largely exemplify the ... Read more

    $168.99 CAD

  • Ethnographies of the State in Central Asia

    Performing Politics

    by Madeleine Reeves, John Heathershaw, Eva-Marie Dubuisson, Aksana Ismailbekova, Alima Bissenova, Mateusz Laszczkowski, Ildiko Beller-Hann, Sarah Kendzior0, Tommaso Trevisani1, Morgan Yih-Yang Liu2, Cynthia Werner3, Kathleen Purvis-Roberts4 ...
    With fresh and provocative insights into the everyday reality of politics in post-Soviet Central Asia, this volume moves beyond commonplaces about strong and weak states to ask critical questions about how democracy, authority, and justice are understood in this important region. In conversation with current theories of state power, the contributions draw on extensive ethnographic research in ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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    How Islamophobia Helps Our Enemies and Threatens Our Freedoms

    by Arsalan Iftikhar, Reza Aslan ...
    When a murderous psychopath goes on a killing spree, law enforcement officials and the media never make his religion the central issue-unless he happens to be a Muslim. Then it sets off another frenzied wave of commentary about the inherent evils that lurk within the Muslim faith. From Fox News talking heads, who regularly smear Muslim leaders as secret terrorists, to Bill Maher, who has made ... Read more

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  • Empires of the Silk Road

    A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present

    by Christopher I. Beckwith ...
    The first complete history of Central Eurasia from ancient times to the present day, Empires of the Silk Road represents a fundamental rethinking of the origins, history, and significance of this major world region. Christopher Beckwith describes the rise and fall of the great Central Eurasian empires, including those of the Scythians, Attila the Hun, the Turks and Tibetans, and Genghis Khan and ... Read more

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  • The Politics of the Veil

    by Joan Wallach Scott ...
    Series series The Public Square
    In 2004, the French government instituted a ban on the wearing of "conspicuous signs" of religious affiliation in public schools. Though the ban applies to everyone, it is aimed at Muslim girls wearing headscarves. Proponents of the law insist it upholds France's values of secular liberalism and regard the headscarf as symbolic of Islam's resistance to modernity. The Politics of the Veil is an ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • A Little War That Shook the World

    Georgia, Russia, and the Future of the West

    by Ronald D. Asmus, Strobe Talbott ...
    The brief war between Russia and Georgia in August 2008 seemed to many like an unexpected shot out of the blue that was gone as quickly as it came. Former Assistant Deputy Secretary of State Ronald Asmus contends that it was a conflict that was prepared and planned for some time by Moscow, part of a broader strategy to send a message to the United States: that Russia is going to flex its muscle in ... Read more

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  • My Fellow Prisoners

    by Mikhail Khodorkovsky ...
    The Russian oil mogul and activist offers reflections on his decades-long incarceration under Putin in this "illuminating and brave" prison memoir ( The Washington Post).Mikhail Khodorkovsky was Russia's most successful businessman—and an outspoken critic of the Kremlin. As his oil company Yukos revived the Russian oil industry, Khodorkovsky began sponsoring programs to encourage civil society and ... Read more

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    South Sudan, humanitarian failure and celebrity

    by Alex Perry ...
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  • Open Letter

    On Blasphemy, Islamophobia, and the True Enemies of Free Expression

    by Charb ...
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  • Russia and the North

    Edited by Elana Wilson Rowe ...
    Russia holds more Arctic territory than any other state, yet unlike other Arctic states it does not have a unified strategy identifying economic and political aims for the North. Russia's policies on the North are dispersed across a variety of fields from domestic migration politics to oil and gas development. This volume engages the disparate elements of Russian northern policy and illustrates ... Read more

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  • Putin and the Oligarch

    The Khodorkovsky-Yukos Affair

    by Professor Richard Sakwa ...
    The arrest of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the head of the Yukos oil company, on 25 October 2003, was a key turning point in modern Russian history. At that time Khodorkovsky was one of the world's richest and most powerful men, while Yukos had been transformed into a vast and lucrative oil company that was set to go global. On all counts, this looked like a success story, but it was precisely at this ... Read more

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