As long as the Capital is far away: multi-scalar regionalisation in Central Asia
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Understanding Geographies of Polarization and Peripheralization
Perspectives from Central and Eastern Europe and Beyond
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015
S. 80-97
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.