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Hidden mobilities in post-Soviet spaces: boundaries, scales, identities and informal routes to livelihood
[working paper]
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Universität Bonn, Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung
Abstract We analyze the hidden mobilities, in physio-spatial, epistemic and social terms that are part and parcel of livelihood strategies in places dominated by informal institutions and authoritarian governance regimes. Soviet and post-Soviet Uzbekistan and Tajikistan serve as empirical references to devel... view more
We analyze the hidden mobilities, in physio-spatial, epistemic and social terms that are part and parcel of livelihood strategies in places dominated by informal institutions and authoritarian governance regimes. Soviet and post-Soviet Uzbekistan and Tajikistan serve as empirical references to develop the theoretical perspective. We link this analysis with an analysis of the roles of boundaries, scales and mobilities in general, with special emphasis on the role of formal and informal institutions and on networks of mobility. We thus link a Deleuzian-inspired frame with a new institutionalist perspective on development and discuss the potential of development interventions to alter rules, roles and routes of people and the influence of mobilities, hidden and visible, to alter the effects of development (intervention).... view less
Keywords
livelihood; rural area; Deleuze, G.; behavior; identity formation; population; mobility barrier; nation state; Uzbekistan; cultural identity; living conditions; migration; mobility readiness; USSR successor state; national identity; Tajikistan
Classification
Migration, Sociology of Migration
Ethnology, Cultural Anthropology, Ethnosociology
Cultural Sociology, Sociology of Art, Sociology of Literature
Method
theory formation
Document language
English
Publication Year
2014
City
Bonn
Series
Crossroads Asia Working Paper Series, 20
ISSN
2192-6034
Status
Published Version; reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works