Land and Power in Khorezm: Farmers, Communities, and the State in Uzbekistan's Decollectivisation

摘要: This is the first detailed "grass roots" account of Uzbekistan's protracted decollectivisation process. It explores continuity and change in relations between rural communities, agricultural producers, local state authorities cotton-growing region Khorezm. Built up during Soviet period, cotton sector has maintained its importance for communities years following independence, although economic parameters social conditions have worsened significantly. reform path does not follow that most post-socialist scenarios with past remains strong. Despite seeming immobility, view on society presented this book unveils an unexpectedly dynamic situation, characterized by shifts patronage relations, struggles over legitimacy, transformations family structure community life. Poised state, their emerging stratum absentee farm "sponsors," focus new farmers ("fermer") a place society. What emerges from complexly articulated agrarian concern: inequalities are rooted political economy cotton. (Series: Halle Studies Anthropology Eurasia - Vol. 23)