Negotiating Well-Being in Central Asia

ISBN-13: 9780367739935 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 124 str.

David W. Montgomery

Opis

This book is the first collection devoted to a regional exploration of issues of well-being and shows how visions, spaces, and cosmologies of well-being influence an analysis of Central Asia and informs an understanding of everyday life.

It was published as a special issue of Central Asian Survey.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Negotiating well-being in Central Asia  Visions of well-being  2. Ordering ideals: accomplishing well-being in a Kyrgyz cooperative of elders  3. How to build a better future? Kyrgyzstani development workers and the ‘knowledge transfer’ strategy  Spaces of well-being  4. ‘The state starts from the family’: peace and harmony in Tajikistan’s eastern Pamirs  5. Relations made over tea: reflections on a meaningful life in a Central Asian mountain village  6. Sewing to satisfaction: craft-based entrepreneurs in contemporary Kyrgyzstan  Cosmologies of well-being  7. Anxiety, order and the other: well-being among ethnic Kyrgyz and Uzbeks  8. Even honey may become bitter when there is too much of it: Islam and the struggle for a balanced existence in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan  9. Discovering a sense of well-being through the revival of Islam: profiles of Kazakh imams in Western Mongolia

O autorze

David W. Montgomery is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh and Director of Program Development for CEDAR—Communities Engaging with Difference and Religion.