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As Long as the Capital Is Far Away: Multi-Scalar Peripheralization in Central Asia

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Understanding Geographies of Polarization and Peripheralization

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Abstract

This chapter addresses the making of peripheries in the context of post-Soviet Central Asia. The chapter refers to Henri Lefebvre, and to de Certeau’s distinction between strategies and tactics, in order to provide a dense description of local actor constellations and their impacts on changing ranges of manoeuvre of local elites in two peripheral metropolitan regions in Central Asia — Khujand, as the regional centre of northern Tajikistan, and Osh, as the regional centre of southern Kyrgyzstan.1

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  1. Wladimir Sgibnev
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  1. Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Germany

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Sgibnev, W., Ismailbekova, A. (2015). As Long as the Capital Is Far Away: Multi-Scalar Peripheralization in Central Asia. In: Lang, T., Henn, S., Sgibnev, W., Ehrlich, K. (eds) Understanding Geographies of Polarization and Peripheralization. New Geographies of Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137415080_5

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