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Photographing Central Asia: from the periphery of the Russian empire to global presence
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Svetlana Gorshenina; Sergei Abashin; Bruno De Cordier; Tatiana Saburova

Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter (2022), viii, 431 pp., figures, tables, index

ISBN 978-3-11-075442-1 (print); 978-3-11-075446-9 (pdf) CC BY-NC-ND

"The aim of this volume is to interpret photography as a specific tool that reifies reality, subjectively frames it, and fits it into various political, ideological, commercial, scientific, and artistic contexts. Without reducing the entire argument to the binary of ‘photography and power’, the ... more

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Information flows and radicalization leading to violent extremism in Central Asia

Search for Common Ground; Internews (2019), 77 pp.

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"The study is comprised of three main parts: a desk study of available and accessible material – reports, documents and media material; a qualitative study comprising over 200 interviews with ordinary people, experts, and persons with direct experience with radicalization leading to violent extrem...ism (RVE); and a quantitative component consisting of national surveys of people’s information consumption habits. For the desk study, the effort was made to gain as broad a picture as possible, that is, to cover all five countries of Central Asia – Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. However, predictably and unfortunately, Uzbekistan and especially Turkmenistan proved difficult cases to study in full. For both the qualitative and quantitative field research activities, for several reasons, only the first three countries were included. As a result, this study is able to report most robustly on these three countries and propose observations regarding Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan only to a limited extent. Based on the desk study, the drivers of extremist sympathies as established in existing research have been political grievances (injustice from state structures; identity-based discrimination; oppressive political regimes, etc), economic difficulties (unemployment; indebtedness; poverty; and desire for quick and greater income) and ideological motivations (resentment of false values; striving for the singularly just and true life; for reward in a perceived afterlife). To these push and pull factors are added a range of enabling factors, such as migration, young age, gender (women), and means of communication. All these drivers of RVE need to be treated with caution, as stressed by various authors and suggested by evidence gained in field research. A general observation, gained from the desk research and supported by evidence in both qualitative and quantitative field studies, was the difference among the countries in degree of control over the information space, or the degree of hegemony over public discourse. Of the three most fully studied countries, hegemonic discourse was the strongest in Tajikistan, followed by Kazakhstan, and the least in Kyrgyzstan. Uzbekistan, analyzed to a limited extent, would be closer to the extreme of Tajikistan, whereas Turkmenistan was too closed to make reasonably robust observations." (p.3) more

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Cinema in Central Asia: rewriting cultural histories

Michael Rouland; Gulnara Abikeyeva; Birgit Beumers (eds.)

London; New York: Tauris (2013), xx, 297 pp., illustr., index

ISBN 978-1-84511-901-0 (pbk); 978-1-84511-900-3 (hbk); 978-0-75569-735-9 (online)

"Cinema in Central Asia is the first comprehensive and up-to-date account of the cinema of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan from its origins to the present day. Bringing together specialists from Central Asia, Russia, Europe and the United States, this companion to the... more

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Community media: international perspectives

Linda K. Fuller (ed.)

New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2007), xiii, 258 pp., index

ISBN 978-1-4039-7794-6

"This collection of writing on community media describes attempts at local media development and case studies of functioning projects. It presents a range of perspectives on grassroots media originating from community groups; research representing participant observation; hands-on community involvem... more

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The media situation in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan: five country reports

Vienna: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media (2002), 130, 150 pp.

"These five country reports: on Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, provide a general overview of the current state of media affairs in the country concerned, focus on media legislation and cases of harassment of journalists and provide country-specific recommendations t... more

Photographing Central Asia: from the periphery of the Russian empire to global presence Quick overview

Information flows and radicalization leading to violent extremism in Central Asia

Cinema in Central Asia: rewriting cultural histories

Community media: international perspectives

The media situation in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan: five country reports

Photographing Central Asia: from the periphery of the Russian empire to global presence
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