Modern Clan Politics

Released on by Edward Schatz
preview-18

  • Modern Clan Politics Book Detail

  • Author : Edward Schatz
  • Release Date : 2012-09-01
  • Publisher : University of Washington Press
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 279
  • ISBN 13 : 0295803495
  • File Size : 96,96 MB
DOWNLOAD BOOK

Modern Clan Politics by Edward Schatz PDF Summary

Book Description: Edward Schatz explores the politics of kin-based clan divisions in the post-Soviet state of Kazakhstan. Drawing from extensive ethnographic and archival research, interviews, and wide-ranging secondary sources, he highlights a politics that poses a two-tiered challenge to current thinking about modernity and Central Asia. First, asking why kinship divisions do not fade from political life with modernization, he shows that the state actually constructs clan relationships by infusing them with practical political and social meaning. By activating the most important quality of clans - their "concealability" - the state is itself responsible for the vibrant politics of these subethnic divisions which has emerged and flourished in post-Soviet Kazakhstan. Subethnic divisions are crucial to understanding how group solidarities and power relations coexist and where they intersect. But, in a second challenge to current thinking, Schatz argues that clan politics should not be understood simply as competition among primordial groups. Rather, the meanings attributed to clan relationships - both the public stigmas and the publicly proclaimed pride in clans - are part and parcel of this contest. Drawing parallels with relevant cases from the Middle East, East and North Africa, and other parts of the former USSR, Schatz concludes that a more appropriate policy may be achieved by making clans a legitimate part of political and social life, rendering them less powerful or corrupt by increasing their transparency. Political scientists, sociologists, anthropologists, policy makers, and others who study state power and identity groups will find a wealth of empirical material and conceptual innovation for discussion and debate.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Modern Clan Politics books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

Modern Clan Politics

Modern Clan Politics

File Size : 82,82 MB
Total View : 8492 Views
DOWNLOAD

Edward Schatz explores the politics of kin-based clan divisions in the post-Soviet state of Kazakhstan. Drawing from extensive ethnographic and archival researc

The Rule of the Clan

The Rule of the Clan

File Size : 83,83 MB
Total View : 3807 Views
DOWNLOAD

A revealing look at the role kin-based societies have played throughout history and around the world A lively, wide-ranging meditation on human development that