From monuments to mahallas: contrasting memories in the urban landscape of Osh, Kyrgyzstan

Harrowell, Elly

doi:10.1080/14649365.2014.972972

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“…Other key research tools included the extensive use of participant observation and a visual methodology, which involved participant photography research, discussed more extensively elsewhere (Davies, 2013). As with other research in post-socialist space (Disney, 2015;Harrowell, 2014), the identities of all participants are concealed and any information that may be damaging to those I have spent time with has been withheld.…”

Section: An Ethnography Of Chernobylmentioning

confidence: 96%

Informal Economies in Post-Socialist Spaces

Morris¹,

Polese²

2015

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Section: An Ethnography Of Chernobylmentioning

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Informal Economies in Post-Socialist Spaces

Morris¹,

Polese²

2015

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“…In Rwanda, post-conflict spatial politics included changing place names and holding officially sponsored rituals of memorialisation (Thomson, 2011: 443). In the southern Kyrgyzstani city of Osh, following inter-ethnic violence in 2010, the Kyrgyz authorities asserted symbolic, spatial control over this city with a historically Uzbek cultural core through the construction of statues to ethnic Kyrgyz national heroes at the main entrances to the city (Harrowell, 2015). The city authorities also promoted plans -ultimately unsuccessfully -for urban reconstruction that would undermine traditional Uzbek patterns of living in courtyard houses (Megoran, 2012).…”

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Illiberal peace? Authoritarian modes of conflict management

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Heathershaw²,

Megoran³

2018

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In a contested international order, ideas of liberal peacebuilding are being supplanted by state-centric, authoritarian responses to internal armed conflicts. In this article we suggest that existing research has not yet sufficiently recognised this important shift in conflict management practice. Scholarship in peace and conflict studies has avoided hard cases of ‘illiberal peace’, or categorises them simply as military victories. Drawing on accounts of state responses to conflicts in Russia, Sri Lanka, China, Ethiopia, Rwanda and Turkey, we develop an alternative conceptual framework to understand authoritarian conflict management as a form of wartime and post-conflict order in its own right. Although violence is central to these orders, we argue that they are also dependent on a much wider range of authoritarian policy responses, which we categorise in three major domains: firstly, discourse (state propaganda, information control and knowledge production); secondly, spatial politics (both military and civilian modes of controlling and shaping spaces); and thirdly, political economy (the hierarchical distribution of resources to produce particular political outcomes). In conclusion, we propose a research agenda that moves on from discussions of liberal peace to examine hard cases of contemporary conflict and conflict management.

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“…Erecting a monument, whether by the governing authorities or by non‐elite groups, can be a powerful tool to acknowledge past wrongs and give voice to victims’ experience, something that is all the more powerful when anchored in the landscape in bricks and mortar (Connerton, ). Commemorative spaces in places as diverse as Kyrgyzstan (Harrowell, ), South Africa (Marschall, ) and Chile (Baxter, ) have all been examined by researchers, their role in promoting – or obstructing – reconciliation subjected to critical scrutiny.…”

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Towards a spatialised understanding of reconciliation

Harrowell

2017

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Funding information Allan and Nesta Ferguson Charitable TrustThis paper argues that we should conceive of reconciliation spatially in order to unlock new insights into the process of reconciling divided societies. It seeks to respond to recent calls to put peace at the heart of geographical research, and suggests that one way in which the challenge of developing peace geographies can be meaningfully progressed is by exploring the spatial elements of the notion of reconciliation. The paper identifies four areas where a spatialised approach to reconciliation is beginning to emerge across the disciplines of urban planning, legal geographies, political science and international development. These include the role of the built environment as a facilitator of reconciliation, the existence of spatial barriers to reconciliation, the role of formalised spaces of reconciliation and the impact of everyday spaces of reconciliation. The paper interrogates the way that space creates possibilities for processes of reconciliation, and the ways that distinctive types of space are in turn created by these processes. Finally, it suggests fruitful avenues for future research, including by working across disciplines. K E Y W O R D Sgeographies of peace, peacebuilding, reconciliation, space ---

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From monuments to mahallas: contrasting memories in the urban landscape of Osh, Kyrgyzstan

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Cited by 22 publications

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Informal Economies in Post-Socialist Spaces

Informal Economies in Post-Socialist Spaces

Illiberal peace? Authoritarian modes of conflict management

Towards a spatialised understanding of reconciliation

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