Moving beyond state-centric and elitist perspectives, this volume examines everyday security in the Central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and written by scholars from Central Asia and beyond, it shows how insecurity is experienced, what people consider existential threats, and how they go about securing themselves. It concentrates on individuals who feel threatened because of their ethnic belonging, gender or sexual orientation. It develops the concept of 'securityscapes', which draws attention to the more subtle means that people take to secure themselves – practices bent on invisibility and avoidance, on disguise and trickery, and on continually adapting to shifting circumstances. By broadening the concept of security practice, this book is an important contribution to debates in Critical Security Studies as well as to Central Asian and Area Studies.

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Information

Publisher

Bristol University Press

Year

2020

ISBN

9781529211979

Topic

Politics & International Relations

Subtopic

International Relations

Index

Politics & International Relations

Cover
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Figures and Tables
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Preface
1 Introduction
2 Studying Danger in Central Asia: Towards a Concept of Everyday Securityscapes
3 Security Practices and the Survival of Cafes in Southern Kyrgyzstan
4 Securing the Future of Children and Youth: Uzbek Private Kindergartens and Schools in Osh
5 Selective Memories, Identities and Places: Everyday Security Practices of the Mughat Lyulis in Osh
6 How to Live with a Female Body: Securityscapes against Sexual Violence and Related Interpretation Patterns of Kyrgyz Women
7 Romantic Securityscapes of Mixed Couples: Resisting Moral Panic, Surviving in the Present and Imagining the Future
8 The Space–Time Continuum of the ‘Dangerous’ Body: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Securityscapes in Kyrgyzstan
9 Postscript: Towards a Research Agenda on Security Practices
Index