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Kosovo and Serbia

Contested Options and Shared Consequences
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Azan on the Moon is an in-depth anthropological study of people's lives along the Pamir Highway in eastern Tajikistan. Constructed in the 1930s in rugged high-altitude terrain, the road fundamentally altered the material and social fabric of this former Soviet outpost on the border with Afghanistan and China. The highway initially brought sentiments of disconnection and hardship, followed by Soviet modernization and development, and ultimately a sense of distinction from bordering countries and urban centers that continues to this day. Based on extensive fieldwork and through an analysis of construction, mobility, technology, media, development, Islam, and the state, Till Mostowlansky shows how ideas of modernity are both challenged and reinforced in contemporary Tajikistan. In the wake of China's rise in Central Asia, people along the Pamir Highway strive to reconcile a modern future with a modern past. Weaving together the road, a population, and a region, Azan on the Moon presents a rich ethnography of global connections

Product Details

PublisherUniversity of Pittsburgh Press
Publish DateDecember 12, 2016
Pages336
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconHardback
EAN/UPC9780822944690
Dimensions9.1 X 6.0 X 1.3 inches | 1.4 pounds

Reviews

This volume covers multiple aspects of the Kosovo conflict in extraordinarily thorough ways. These include historical interpretations of the origins of the ethnonationalist conflict, the internationalization of the Kosovo problem, the impact of international agencies in post-1999 Kosovo, the Kosovo question in post-2001 Serbian politics, questions of minority rights, and the prospects of economic cooperation between Kosovo and Serbia in regional context.-- "Besnik Pula, Virginia Tech"

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