Friendship under lock and key: the Soviet Central Asian border, 1918–34

Shaw, Charles Gray

doi:10.1080/02634937.2011.607966

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“…The Soviet response was to introduce military border guards along the bank of the Panj. By the mid-1930s the border between GBAO and Afghan Badakhshan had become impermeable (Shaw (2011)).…”

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Civil War, Famine and the Persistence of Human Capital: Evidence from Tajikistan

Grogan

2021

Comp Econ Stud

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Civil War, Famine and the Persistence of Human Capital: Evidence from Tajikistan

Grogan

2021

Comp Econ Stud

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“…A wave of forced collectivisation and sedentarisation starting in 1929 left the pastoralists feeling betrayed. Robbed of their property, many left for China and Afghanistan (Kreutzmann : 277–81; Shaw : 338–9, 343). In the early 1930s, a report from Murghab complained that ‘Party and state organs had been fully colonized by former state adversaries who committed a range of “blatantly anti‐Soviet activities”’ (Shaw : 343–4) – among them simply running away and seeking refuge outside Soviet borders.…”

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“…To control this vast territorial edge exclusively by military means was impossible. The task at hand was thus to turn the area's mobile pastoralists, used to hedge their bets and maintain a variety of connections regardless of borderlines, into a loyal borderland population (Shaw ).…”

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Provisions for remoteness: cutting connections and forging ties in the Tajik Pamirs

Saxer¹

2019

Soc Anthropol

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How does remoteness emerge from the very connections envisioned to unmake it? And how do connections arise from remoteness? In this article, I address these questions by taking remoteness and connectivity not as opposites but as entangled forces that condition each other. To explore this evolving nexus, I focus on provisions: the notion of provision denotes, at once, a foresight or visions of a better future, a rule or law, and supplies coming in from the outside. Looking into three junctures of cutting connections and forging ties in the Tajik Pamirs – the Soviet system of Moscow provisioning, wayfaring Pajero drivers and international trophy hunting – I show how provisions (of all three kinds) were instrumental in shaping the repeating return of remoteness in the region.

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“…Starting in the 1930s, the separation between 'socialist' and 'capitalist' realms was tied to ideological and economic considerations. 49 Yet it also materialized as border infrastructure as well as general social and infrastructural development in Gorno-Badakhshan. This included the construction of new roads, hospitals, and schools, the promotion of gender equality, access to privileged provisioning of basic goods, educational opportunities, and mobility within the Soviet Union.…”

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Faraway Siblings, So Close: Ephemeral conviviality across the Wakhan divide

Mostowlansky¹

2018

Mod. Asian Stud.

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In this article, I set out to explore the possibility of a shared life between two places in the highlands of Pakistan and Tajikistan—a region dissected by Afghanistan's narrow Wakhan corridor, by present-day nation-state boundaries, by historical divisions between Central and South Asia, and by a former Cold War frontier. Moving away from a take on conviviality as specifically tied to urban spaces and face-to-face encounters, I attempt to trace the processes that determine the coming and going of shared modes of being. In doing so, I first situate the two places—Karimabad and Khorog—in their respective post-Cold War borderlands and point to their historically ambivalent status as ‘marginal’ places at the frontier, culturally diverse ‘hubs’, and sites of globalization. Then I analyse the historical build-up—material and ideological—that led to the establishment of specific forms of connection and disconnection between the two places. In the last part of the article, I discuss how people in and from Karimabad and Khorog seek out opportunities to attain shared instances of common sociality, which often remain ephemeral and subject to regimes of power. Finally, I argue that the cases of these two ‘marginal hubs’ highlight the importance of looking beyond the conventional ‘imperial centre’ when debating the dynamics that lead people to desire, create, and abandon ties across difference.

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Friendship under lock and key: the Soviet Central Asian border, 1918–34

Cited by 20 publications

References 9 publications

Civil War, Famine and the Persistence of Human Capital: Evidence from Tajikistan

Civil War, Famine and the Persistence of Human Capital: Evidence from Tajikistan

Provisions for remoteness: cutting connections and forging ties in the Tajik Pamirs

Faraway Siblings, So Close: Ephemeral conviviality across the Wakhan divide

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