The manufacturing of Islamic lifestyles in Tajikistan through the prism of Dushanbe's bazaars

Stephan-Emmrich, Manja; Mirzoev, Abdullah

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“…Increased contact with other parts of the Muslim world, the proliferation of movements like the Tablighi Jamaat and the investment of foreign Muslim donors in the region, combined with an established network of local Islamic schools and greater access to Islamic materials at home, has led to a variegated religious sphere (Botoeva 2018;Doolotkeldieva 2020;Nasritdinov 2012;Nasritdinov and Esenamanova 2017;Pelkmans 2017;Stephan-Emmrich 2018;Toktogulova 2014). Labour remittances and the growth of a middle class in places like Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan has also led to the development of a religious middle class, with its incumbent consumption patterns and tastes (Bissenova 2017;Botoeva 2020;Stephan-Emmrich and Mirzoev 2016). Easy, affordable access to the Internet has facilitated the growth of popular Islamic teachers who weigh in on national trends and affairs (Bigozhin 2019).…”

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Anthropology of Transformation

2022

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This collection of essays is the result of the joint efforts of colleagues and students of the leading social anthropology and post-socialism theorist, Professor Chris Hann. With the thirtieth anniversary of the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 2019 as their catalyst, the authors reflect upon Chris Hann’s lifelong fieldwork in the discipline, spanning regions as diverse as East Central Europe, Turkey, and the Chinese north-west. The collapse of the Berlin Wall naturally triggered a plethora of analysis and scholarly research. Sociocultural anthropology, with its focus on ethnographic study and on the gradual evolution of social relations, sharply contrasted with the emphasis on dramatic rupture brought about by the 1989 transition. Continuing in this tradition, this volume, through micro-level analysis of societal transformation from the post-war years to the present day, provides an alternative perspective to the neoliberalist views often encountered in the scholarship on political and economic modernisation. The more nuanced analysis of social transformations proposed here is a particularly useful tool in the investigation of contemporary issues such as the COVID-19 pandemic, the refugee ‘crisis’, and the rise of right-wing populism in Eastern Europe and elsewhere. Anthropology of Transformation will be of interest to researchers in the fields of socio-cultural anthropology, religion and economics. Moreover, the book’s discussion of issues widely discussed beyond the field of academia such as neoliberalism and the welfare state, and populist and exclusionary politics, will appeal to non-specialist readers.

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Anthropology of Transformation

2022

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“…The Arab Gulf states are a privileged place to pursue this question, structured as they are by migratory labour, and powerful as they are in structuring the social worlds and imaginaries of the places from where migrants to the Gulf hail. Current research on migration to the Gulf has shown a remarkable sensibility for the lives, paths and networks of migrants to and in the Gulf states, the exploitation of migrant labour in the political economy of oil states, the role of migrants in Gulf cities and societies, and the making and remaking of livelihoods in the places from which migrant workers hail (Davidson 2014;Elsheshtawy 2010;Andrew Gardner 2010;2012a;2012b;Ghannam 2002;Gruntz 2008;Gruntz and Pagès El-Karoui 2013;Kamrava and Babar 2012;Kanna 2013;Osella and Osella 2007;Pelican 2014;Wippel et al 2014;Fernandez and de Regt 2014;Jain and Oommen 2016;Stephan-Emmrich and Mirzoev 2016;Hanieh 2011). Some researchers have also developed interesting questions about diasporic lives and informal citizenship that go beyond the reduction of migrants to mere labour force (see, e.g., Vora 2013; Kanna 2010).…”

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A Bigger Prison

Schielke

2020

Suomen Antropologi

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How does existential mobility-the sense of being able to move forward in one's life-relate to the experience of borders and limitations? Tawfiq is an Egyptian man who once longed to migrate to Europe or the United States, but has since then worked on and off as migrant worker in the Arab Gulf states. He has reflected on this question by using the metaphor of walls:prison walls over which one wants to jump, new walls which one faces next, walls that gently guide you to a certain direction, and the idea that facing and overcoming obstacles is what human life is about. Based on a longitudinal fieldwork with Egyptian labour migrants to the Gulf, this article takes up migrant labourers' reflections about different senses of migration and travel, dreams, money, walls, limits, escape, steps, stability, return, postponement, forward movement and loops. Such ideas are helpful for thinking about the existential pursuits of moving forward in life, the moral shape of social becoming, and the political economy of migrant labour. Taken together, they also contribute to a non-binary understanding of movement and stasis, limits and openings, and the direction and magnitude of steps on the path of social becoming.

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Bazaar as a Microcosm of Political Activity

Shreshtha

Mishra

2022

Managing the Post-Colony

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The manufacturing of Islamic lifestyles in Tajikistan through the prism of Dushanbe's bazaars

Cited by 22 publications

References 18 publications

Anthropology of Transformation

Anthropology of Transformation

A Bigger Prison

Bazaar as a Microcosm of Political Activity

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