[Discussion] PUBL.- Managing Independence & the Soviet Legacy in Central Asia (in French)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

PUBL.- Managing Independence & the Soviet Legacy in Central Asia (in Fren=
ch)

Publication: Gestion de l'independance et legs sovietique en Asie
centrale [Managing Independence and the Soviet Legacy in Central Asia],
edited by Sebastien Peyrouse
Cahiers d'Asie centrale, no. 13-14, Edisud/IFEAC, 2004, 334 pp. (in Frenc=
h)

Since Independence, new official discourses in each of the Central Asian
States have attempted to condemn, more or less virulently, the former
Soviet regime. However, one should not be deluded by leaders and
governments' thundering declarations about official change and renewal,
and by the multiple discourses that exist around a specific national way
of development. Despite the reforms launched since 1991 and whatever
political leaders' true or simulated willingness to engage in such a
process, less than a decade and a half is not sufficient to remove the
political-economic system that was dominant for several decades.

In Western journalistic circles, Central Asia is often viewed as a new
area located close to sensitive countries (e.g. Afghanistan, Northern
Pakistan), on weapons and drug routes and threatened by possible Islamic
destabilization. One could deplore such a mass-media perception, which
lacks any historical hindsight. Contemporary Central Asia is first of
all a cultural space with more than a century and a half of a Russian-
Soviet legacy. The idea of a political, religious and national renewal
quite often seems to be an optical illusion, resulting from the prior
obscurity of Central Asia: the independence of 1991, which is often
presented as a rebirth, actually appears to be both an outcome and a
beginning.

This new issue of Cahiers d'Asie centrale addresses the question of
continuity between Soviet and Post-Soviet Central Asia, a rarely
addressed but fundamental thematic to understanding the contemporary
situation of the area and to escape many cliches. It does not view
continuity as a postulate and neither denies the reforms that have been
engaged in nor the several quick evolutions that have taken place over
recent years. It acknowledges the violent shock caused by the collapse
of the Soviet Union and the real "rupture" felt by Soviet citizens.
However, this issue firstly aims to show the general public the many
Soviet aspects that are too quickly forgotten about but which cannot be
ignored in order to understand the evolution of these countries,
especially their present move towards authoritarianism. It also aims to
remind academic circles about the difficulty in carrying out research
about Central Asia without a knowledge or at least consciousness of
the Russian-Soviet experience, essential in order to avoid the mirage of
a "rebirth".

Table of Contents

Introduction par Sebastien Peyrouse et Marlene Laruelle, p. 9


Regards Sur Le Contemporain : Evolutions Et Lignes De Continuite

Boris Petric, Svetlana Jacquesson, Jean-Francois Gossiaux, Andre Bourgeot=
.
"L'emergence de nouveaux pouvoirs locaux sur les cendres d'un kolkhoze
kirghize (region de Naryn)", pp. 21-44

Marlene Laruelle.
"Continuite des elites intellectuelles, continuite des problematiques
identitaires : ethnologie et "ethnogenese" a l'Academie des Sciences
d'Ouzbekistan", pp. 45-76

Sebastien Peyrouse.
"La gestion du fait religieux en Asie centrale: poursuite du cadre
conceptuel sovietique et renouveau factice", pp. 77-120

Sophie Hohmann.
"Sante publique en Ouzbekistan contemporain: continuites sovietiques et
limites des processus engages", pp. 121-162

Ga=EBl Raballand.
"Permanences conceptuelles et fonctionnelles du systeme economique
sovietique en Asie centrale", pp. 163-175


L'experience Sovietique, Matrice Theorique Et Pratique

Isabelle OHAYON.
"Du campement au village: sedentarisation et transformation de l'aoul
kazakh
a la periode sovietique", pp. 177-198

Catherine POUJOL.
"L'islam en heritage : nouvelle approche d'une problematique
persistante, entre resistance participative et acculturation passive",
pp. 199-214

Serge=EF N. ABACHIN.
"Les descendants de saints en Asie centrale: elite religieuse ou
nationale?", pp. 215-230

Rinat H. CHIGABDINOV.
"De la question du socialisme islamique au Turkestan: le parcours d'Arif
Klevleev (1874-1918)", pp. 231-243


Les Politiques Publiques De L'eau En Asie Centrale Post-Sovietique

Julien THOREZ, Pierre THOREZ.
"Le partage des eaux dans le Caucase oriental et les republiques d'Asie
centrale, une manifestation des tensions post-sovietiques", pp. 245-260

Rapha=EBl JOZAN, Charles BAUBION.
"Un souffle de reforme sur la politique de l'eau en Ouzbekistan?", pp.
261-284

Jeremy ALLOUCHE.
"Continuite et discontinuite dans la politique de l'eau en Asie
centrale", pp. 285-301


Jeune Recherche.

Alice MOSCARITOLO.
"L'Occident multiple ou les representations de l'autre dans le regard
d'etudiants ouzbeks", pp. 303-320


Notes Et Documents.

Jean-Christophe ROUX.
"La presse ecrite en Ouzbekistan", pp. 321-325


Comptes Rendus, P. 327


Dernieres Parutions Disponibles La Bibliotheque De L'ifeac, p. 331




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