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Author:   David Gullette (University of Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan) ,  Jeanne Féaux de la Croix (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138097278

ISBN 10:   1138097276
Pages:   138
Publication Date:   07 June 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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1. Mr Light and people’s everyday energy struggles in Central Asia and the Caucasus: an introduction David Gullette and Jeanne Féaux de la Croix Energy dystopias 2. The illumination of marginality: how ethnic Hazaras in Bamyan, Afghanistan, perceive the lack of electricity as discrimination Melissa Kerr Chiovenda 3. Kyrgyzstan’s dark ages: framing and the 2010 hydroelectric revolution Amanda E. Wooden Politics, practices and entitlements 4. Resource dependence and measurement technology: international and domestic influences on energy sector development in Armenia and Georgia Jason E. Strakes 5. Flows of oil, flows of people: resource-extraction industry, labour market and migration in western Kazakhstan Philipp Frank Jäger 6. Notes on the moral economy of gas in present-day Azerbaijan Tristam Barrett Resource consumption and its impacts 7. Switching off or switching source: energy consumption and household response to higher energy prices in the Kyrgyz Republic Franziska Gassmann and Raquel Tsukada 8. Bottom-up and top-down dynamics of the energy transformation in the Eastern Pamirs of Tajikistan’s Gorno Badakhshan region Tobias Kraudzun

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David Gullette, PhD is a social anthropologist and development specialist. His work has focused on ‘tribalism’ and politics in Kyrgyzstan, as well as a range of issues contributing to conflict and poverty in the region. His work includes mining as well as anthropology in international development work. Jeanne Féaux de la Croix, PhD is a social anthropologist specializing in resource and development issues. She has conducted studies of ageing, landscape perception and dam development in Kyrgyzstan. Based at the German university of Tübingen, she leads a junior research group on the Cultural History of Water in Central Asia, and co-ordinates a Volkswagen Foundation project on the social and environmental history of the Naryn and Syr Darya river.

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