TY - JOUR
T1 - Security and gendered national identity in Uzbekistan
AU - Koch, Natalie
N1 - Funding Information:
Natalie Koch is a PhD candidate in the Department of Geography at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her research focuses on political and cultural geography in the former Soviet space, with a special emphasis on geopolitics and nation-building in Central Asia. Her dissertation is about the role of Astana, Kazakhstan’s new capital city, in the government’s state-and nation-building project since independence. Her research is currently supported by a US National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship and an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant. Natalie’s recent publications include articles on the June 2010 violence in Kyrgyzstan in Eurasian Geography and Economics (2010) and on modernity and the built environment in Astana in Social and Cultural Geography (2010).
PY - 2011/8
Y1 - 2011/8
N2 - Contributing to the growing literature on feminist geopolitics, this article addresses the security discourses employed by the Karimov regime in Uzbekistan's postindependence nation-building process. It examines the ways in which militarism and the 'culture of war' are productive of gendered national identities in Uzbekistan, focusing on how the 'protector-protected' relationship figures prominently in the Karimov regime's anti-terrorist rhetoric. It does so through a textual analysis of the Andijon uprising and the 'Day of Memory and Honor' holiday. It argues that the terrorist threat has been a driving factor in the pervasive militarization of society, but that official responses to state violence in Andijon obscure alternative security concerns of the general population in Uzbekistan - and more specifically those of women. It adds to existing feminist geopolitics literature by expanding it into a new empirical context, while rejecting the assertion that a 'geopolitical' analysis necessarily entails a 'global' approach.
AB - Contributing to the growing literature on feminist geopolitics, this article addresses the security discourses employed by the Karimov regime in Uzbekistan's postindependence nation-building process. It examines the ways in which militarism and the 'culture of war' are productive of gendered national identities in Uzbekistan, focusing on how the 'protector-protected' relationship figures prominently in the Karimov regime's anti-terrorist rhetoric. It does so through a textual analysis of the Andijon uprising and the 'Day of Memory and Honor' holiday. It argues that the terrorist threat has been a driving factor in the pervasive militarization of society, but that official responses to state violence in Andijon obscure alternative security concerns of the general population in Uzbekistan - and more specifically those of women. It adds to existing feminist geopolitics literature by expanding it into a new empirical context, while rejecting the assertion that a 'geopolitical' analysis necessarily entails a 'global' approach.
KW - Andijon
KW - Feminist geopolitics
KW - Militarism
KW - Nation-building
KW - Uzbekistan
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U2 - 10.1080/0966369X.2011.583346
DO - 10.1080/0966369X.2011.583346
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:79960929125
SN - 0966-369X
VL - 18
SP - 499
EP - 518
JO - Gender, Place and Culture
JF - Gender, Place and Culture
IS - 4
ER -