Abstract
Pamirian spaces are perceived as marginal and peripheral mountainous regions in independent states that are quite diverse and complex entities. The contested colonial space of Central Asia resulted in the formation of diverse spaces that can be related to path-dependent developments. Their relationships with the respective centres of power have been dependent on the socio-political regimes that prevail and that have changed and been transformed over time from autocratic emirates and fiefdoms to revolutionary laboratories and independent states during the last quarter century. Civilisational imaginations and developmental strategies of external actors have contributed to societal processes and economic performances that are rooted in path dependency.
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Ghulam Amin Beg (2009); George Schaller et al. (1987); UNESCO 2014. http://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/5535. Accessed 01 Nov 2014.
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IOL/P6S/18/C 17: The progress of Russia in Central Asia by Michail Ivanovich Veniukoff (1878:2).
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Michail Ivanovich Veniukoff (1878:1–2).
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Michail Ivanovich Veniukoff (1878:2).
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Michail Ivanovich Veniukoff (1878:19).
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Andrei Jevegenievich Snyesreff (1909).
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Hermann Kreutzmann and Stefan Schütte (2011:108) presented a map with the varying claims of contenders around the Pamirs.
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M. Nazif Shahrani (1979).
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Kreutzmann, H. (2016). Pamirian Spaces: Mapping Process Geographies in the Mountainous Periphery. In: Kreutzmann, H., Watanabe, T. (eds) Mapping Transition in the Pamirs. Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23198-3_1
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