{"product_id":"border-work-spatial-lives-of-the-state-in-rural-central-asia-culture-and-society-after-socialism-9780801477065","title":"Border Work: Spatial Lives of the State in Rural Central Asia (Culture and Society after Socialism)","description":"\u003cp\u003eDrawing on extensive and carefully designed ethnographic fieldwork in the Ferghana Valley region  where the state borders of Kyrgyzstan  Tajikizstan and Uzbekistan intersect  Madeleine Reeves develops new ways of conceiving the state as a complex of relationships  and of state borders as socially constructed and in a constant state of flux. She explores the processes and relationships through which state borders are made  remade  interpreted and contested by a range of actors including politicians  state officials  border guards  farmers and people whose lives involve the crossing of the borders. In territory where international borders are not always clearly demarcated or consistently enforced  Reeves traces the ways in which states attempts to establish their rule create new sources of conflict or insecurity for people pursuing their livelihoods in the area on the basis of older and less formal understandings of norms of access. As a result the book makes a major new and original contribution to scholarly work on Central Asia and more generally on the anthropology of border regions and the state as a social process. Moreover  the work as a whole is presented in a lively and accessible style. The individual lives whose tribulations and small triumphs Reeves so vividly documents  and the relationships she establishes with her subjects  are as revealing as they are engaging. Border Work is a well-deserved winner of this years Alexander Nove Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45960367145013,"sku":"ByrdShop_0801477069","price":59.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780801477065.jpg?v=1788285109","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/border-work-spatial-lives-of-the-state-in-rural-central-asia-culture-and-society-after-socialism-9780801477065","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}