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“Shiftingattentionawayfromyouthstudies’usualsuspectsofUSA,Northern Europe and Australia, this book represents a much welcomed and important contribution to ‘decolonising’ knowledge. Bhat does an exceptional job of bringing the particularities of the post-Soviet Central Asian context to the fore, whilst authoritatively grounding these specifics in wider and, indeed, global ongoing debates about young people, social transformation and the continuance of social reproduction.” Steven Roberts, Monash University, Australia “Bhat offers not only a new take on Uzbek youth from a South Asian per- spective that reflects Central Asia's current global and regional entangle- ments, but also a much-needed bridge between Central Asian Studies and classical sociology.” Stefan Kirmse, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany “Avery timely, engaging and scholarly text with an interpretative lens. Bhat provides a remarkably clear and lucid picture of the aspirations, anticipations and risks experienced by young people in post-Soviet Uzbekistan, and Cen- tral Asia at large, while at the same time locating it within the contemporary sociological debates and discourses very succinctly and in a concise manner.” Professor Ajay Patnaik, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India “The Sociology of Central Asian Youth is an interesting and original studyof the youth of Uzbekistan that will certainly initiate new dialogue about youth in all of Central Asia.” Timothy May, Professor of Central Eurasian History in the College of Arts and Letters, University of North Georgia This page intentionally left blank The Sociology of Central Asian Youth At the onset of the twenty-first century, ‘youth studies’ emerged as a distinct field of inquisition. Discourses and debates in the field have since become more sophisticated, and the spectrum of analysis has likewise broadened. However, it is striking to note how little reference is made toyoung people of peripheral regions like Central Asia. The Sociology of Central Asian Youth seeks to critically broaden the dis- cussion on youth transitions discourse by moving beyond the geographical terrain of North America, Britain, Australia and Western Europe. The work establishes an in-depth understanding of young Central Asians, with a special focus on those in Uzbekistan. This is accomplished through the explanatory powers of the various forms of sociological theory and, specifically, by pur- suing an ambitious aim: to introduce the classic sociological debate about the relationship between structure and agency in social behaviour into the study of modern Central Asia. Presenting the experiences of youth against the backdrop of contemporary socio-economic and cultural changes in the post-Soviet space, this empirical monograph will appeal to postgraduate students and post/doctoral research- ers interested in fields such as Youth Studies, Central Asian Studies, Social Anthropology, Cultural Studies and Sociology. Mohd. AslamBhatisAssistant Professor in Sociologyat Govt. DegreeCollege Magam, Jammu & Kashmir, India. Routledge Advances in Sociology Forafulllistoftitlesinthisseries,pleasevisitwww.routledge.com/series/SE0511 New Directions in Elite Studies Edited by Johan Heilbron, Felix Bühlmann, Johs. 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Aslam Bhat Firstpublished2018 byRoutledge 2ParkSquare,MiltonPark,Abingdon,OxonOX144RN andbyRoutledge 711ThirdAvenue,NewYork,NY10017 RoutledgeisanimprintoftheTaylor&FrancisGroup,aninformabusiness ©2018Mohd.AslamBhat TherightofMohd.AslamBhattobeidentifiedasauthorofthisworkhas beenassertedbyhiminaccordancewithsections77and78ofthe Copyright,DesignsandPatentsAct1988. Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereprintedorreproducedor utilisedinanyformorbyanyelectronic,mechanical,orothermeans,now knownorhereafterinvented,includingphotocopyingandrecording,orin anyinformationstorageorretrievalsystem,withoutpermissioninwriting fromthepublishers. Trademarknotice:Productorcorporatenamesmaybetrademarksor registeredtrademarks,andareusedonlyforidentificationandexplanation withoutintenttoinfringe. BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary LibraryofCongressCataloginginPublicationData Names:Bhat,Mohd.Aslam,author. Title:ThesociologyofCentralAsianyouth:choice,constraint,risk/ Mohd.AslamBhat. Description:1Edition.|NewYork:Routledge,2018.|Series:Routledge advancesinsociology|Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. Identifiers:LCCN2017050637|ISBN9780815380603(hardback)| ISBN9781351212830(ebk) Subjects:LCSH:Youth–Asia,Central–History.|Post-communism–Asia, Central.|Groupidentity–Asia,Central.|Asia,Central–Economic conditions–1991- Classification:LCCHQ799.A75B432018|DDC305.2350958–dc23 LCrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2017050637 ISBN:978-0-8153-8060-3(hbk) ISBN:978-1-351-21283-0(ebk) TypesetinTimesNewRoman byTaylor&FrancisBooks For Aapa & Daddy Jaan This page intentionally left blank Contents List of figures x Acknowledgements xi Prologue xii 1 Introduction: Post-/late variety theory, youth research and the Central Asian context 1 2 Locating the young Central Asian: Recourse to history 29 3 Uzbekyouth culture in the quandary of transition 56 4 Constituting post-Soviet Uzbek identities: Three types of youth 71 5 Young people facing the post-Soviet ‘state’: A landscape of Uzbekistan 92 6 Epilogue: Mainstreaming perspectives on the Central Asian pattern 119 Bibliography 134 Index 155
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