Imagining Kyrgyzstan's nationhood and statehood: reactions to the 2010 Osh violence Wilkinson, Cai 2015, Imagining Kyrgyzstan's nationhood and statehood: reactions to the 2010 Osh violence, Nationalities papers : the journal of nationalism and ethnicity, vol. 43, no. 3, pp. 417-436, doi: 10.1080/00905992.2014.961127. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Imagining Kyrgyzstan's nationhood and statehood: reactions to the 2010 Osh violence Author(s) Wilkinson, Cai orcid.org/0000-0002-8702-750X Journal name Nationalities papers : the journal of nationalism and ethnicity Volume number 43 Issue number 3 Start page 417 End page 436 Total pages 20 Publisher Taylor & Francis Place of publication London, Eng. Publication date 2015 ISSN 0090-5992 1465-3923 Keyword(s) investigation Kyrgyzstan nation-building norms Osh statehood Summary This article explores the tensions inherent in how Kyrgyzstan's nationhood and statehood have been imagined and practised via an analysis of local reactions to the findings of the Kyrgyzstan Inquiry Commission's (KIC) investigation into the 2010 Osh violence and in particular the threat narrative that developed in opposition to the investigation. In the wake of the clashes that erupted in Osh in June 2010, a recurrent theme was calls from the international community for an independent investigation. Within Kyrgyzstan, however, some politicians argued that investigations violated the republic's sovereignty. Despite local reluctance, a number of investigations did subsequently take place. Yet the reports of the respective investigations did little to quell controversy, with the KIC report being strongly criticized and declared a threat to national security. The strength of feeling demonstrated by this reaction was indicative of long-standing and unresolved tensions in Kyrgyzstan between international and local imaginings of nationhood and statehood. The article concludes by arguing that nationhood and statehood need to be reimagined to focus on re-establishing state–society relations by both local and international actors in order for Kyrgyzstan to begin repairing the already fragile sociopolitical relationships that were grievously damaged by the violence and the subsequent investigations. Language eng DOI 10.1080/00905992.2014.961127 Field of Research 169999 Studies in Human Society not elsewhere classified Socio Economic Objective 970116 Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Copyright notice ©2014, Taylor & Francis Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30068225 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Arts and Education Alfred Deakin Research Institute School of Humanities and Social Sciences Related Links Link Description Connect to published version Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Mon, 15 Dec 2014, 11:39:33 EST Mon, 15 Dec 2014, 11:43:12 EST Mon, 15 Dec 2014, 11:44:52 EST Tue, 16 Dec 2014, 04:00:39 EST Wed, 21 Jan 2015, 14:28:17 EST Wed, 04 Mar 2015, 05:05:05 EST Thu, 05 Mar 2015, 10:13:00 EST Thu, 05 Mar 2015, 10:19:00 EST Fri, 03 Jul 2015, 13:57:42 EST Fri, 10 Jul 2015, 12:45:19 EST Fri, 10 Jul 2015, 12:47:11 EST Wed, 14 Oct 2015, 08:53:14 EST Wed, 07 Sep 2016, 08:08:01 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 3 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 254 Abstract Views, 5 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Mon, 15 Dec 2014, 11:44:52 EST

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