Post-Soviet Central Asia: Changing Context, Changing Elites?

IIAS LECTURE by Vincent Fourniau.

Professor of history of Central Asia at the École des Hautes Études and Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris. Former Director of the Institut Francais, Tashkent-Uzbekistan

Tuesday, 6 December 2005
13.00 hrs

ISHSS, Room A
Prins Hendrikkade 189-B, Amsterdam

Central Asian states are all claiming new and independent socio-cultural policies revolving around Change and Heritage, and Western countries are willing to see them from this point of view of drastic changes operated since 1991. However, a closer glance to these countries show a great level of continuity compared with the period before 1991. If continuity is easy to scrutinize as far as the political elites are concerned, this is not the case in regard to the notion of Heritage. This is why this lecture aims at observing the National ideologies of the contemporary states of Central Asia.

This public lecture is organized by the UvA/IIAS course on Central Asia: ‘The Emergence of Modern Central Asia. From protectorate to sovereign states: Soviet and post-Soviet Central Asia’, Prof. Touraj Atabaki