This essay discusses the interplay of nationalism and internationalism amongst Soviet youth from the 1960s to the early 1980s, arguing that there was much that united the language, underlying ...concepts and problems of these political agendas. More than that: they were mutually constitutive, while mobilising youth and generating enthusiasm and anger on a large scale. At the same time, national and international questions became more republicanised in these years: they were experienced and tackled differently across the republics. To show this, the essay discusses a range of archival materials and published sources from Soviet Armenia, Central Asia and Ukraine.
My reading of The 'Oxford Handbook' of the 'History of International Law', edited by Bardo Fassbender and Anne Peters, has undoubtedly been framed by my own field of research. This field is not ...international law, but the historical anthropology of Russia and Eurasia and includes changing legal practice in a context of increasing global connectedness. My review is therefore not intended to relate the Oxford Handbook to the wider historiography of international law, which I leave to other contributions in this symposium; it is meant to offer an external perspective on the question of Eurocentric analysis. The editors of the Handbook have identified Eurocentrism as one of the key challenges to overcome in the study of international law.
This article combines an investigation of legal practice in late tsarist Russia with an analysis of imperial rule. The Judicial Reform of 1864 introduced new legal principles, institutions, and rules ...of court procedure into the empire. Focusing on legal interaction in the newly established circuit courts in Crimea and Kazan, this article explores the implications of Tatar legal involvement in state courts for both the empire's legal reform process and its policies toward ethnic and religious minorities. It discusses the courts as tools for the integration of these multiethnic regions with the imperial center and shows how legal unification developed in a context of dynamic, and locally specific, plural legal orders. It concludes that minority policies were characterized by the simultaneous pursuit of integration and the promotion of difference. The article draws mainly on court records from Kazan and Simferopol (Crimea), newspaper coverage, and on the reports and memoirs of jurists.
This article discusses experiences of cultural globalization among young Muslims in Osh, Kyrgyzstan, and male students in particular. Drawing on studies of globalization and youth culture, the ...article suggests that the everyday lives of boys and young men can be understood as negotiations in a 'marketplace for styles and identities'. The students engage with an unprecedented range of cultural repertoires, from 'true Islam' and Christian messages to global capitalism and Russian rap music. Based on extensive ethnographic research, the article discusses young people's interactions with transnational actors and media images, and their appropriation of a number of 'spaces' made available by globalization. In commercial outlets such as Internet cafés, in religious circles and sports clubs, male students experiment with styles and identities, often without experiencing contradictions. However, their choices are not random. Their reception and utilization of 'global' cultural goods and ideas are constrained by their socio-economic, linguistic, ethnic, religious and gender backgrounds and by various rules at the local, regional and national levels.
This article explores the participation of university students in non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and other forms of association in the city of Osh, Kyrgyzstan. While the literature tends to ...criticize donor interventions in the post-Soviet space, an analysis of donor-funded youth projects calls for a more differentiated evaluation. It is argued that youth-oriented associations appeal to the students of Osh because these associations have created much needed 'youth spaces'. In some cases, however, the appeal has little to do with the missions of the projects. Whatever the blueprints prepared by foreign donors, youth-oriented clubs and NGOs provide young people with opportunities for entrepreneurship, for leisure pursuits and for experimenting with their dreams and fantasies. Offering a case study of a group of students who have joined a donor-funded NGO, Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE), the article then charts the students' appropriation of this NGO.
For the youth of Central Asia, life has changed. Even Osh, formerly a marginal city in the Fergana Valley, is integrated in globalisation. Young people use global media, replicate identities and ...cultural practices that they then adapt to familiar expectations as well as local conditions. The everyday life of young Kyrgyz and Uzbeks differs moderately rather than fundamentally from that of young people elsewhere in the postSoviet space or in the globalized world. Adapted from the source document.
Our modern legal system is based on the principle of equality. But is equality perhaps not also a concept that inadequately describes the complexity of normative orders? Highly differentiated ...societies with a multitude of collective identities and functional rationalities are in a permanent state of tension with this legal postulate. The contributions to this volume examine how this tension has developed in Europe and Latin America over the last 200 years
New Courts in Late Tsarist Russia Kirmse, Stefan B.
Journal of modern European history,
01/2013, Volume:
11, Issue:
2
Journal Article
This article explores the new circuit courts introduced in late tsarist Russia in the 1860s as an interactive space in which jurists and ordinary subjects of the Empire shaped and experienced state ...policy. Furthermore, by focusing on Crimea and Kazan, two regions that were home to significant numbers of Muslim Tatars, it considers the court system as a point of entry into the study of imperial rule over ethnic and religious minorities. Discussing the role of Tatars in the new courts and competing visions of imperial society as communicated in the courtroom, the article argues that the new legal system furthered the integration of Tatars into the institutions of the Empire. At the same time, the courts contributed to an increasing differentiation among Muslims (as those in the Steppe region, Central Asia and the Caucasus remained outside the system). The article draws mainly on court records from Kazan and Simferopol (Crimea), newspaper coverage and on the reports and memoirs of jurists.
Das Leben der Jugendlichen in Zentralasien hat sich verändert. Selbst Osch, früher eine randständige Stadt im Ferganatal, ist in die Globalisierung eingebunden. Jugendliche nutzen globale Medien, ...reproduzieren Identitäten und kulturelle Praktiken, die sie familiären Erwartungen sowie lokalen Besonderheiten anpassen. Der Alltag jugendlicher Kirgisen und Usbeken unterscheidet sich eher graduell als grundsätzlich von dem der Jugendlichen im postsowjetischen Raum oder in der globalisierten Welt. For the youth of Central Asia, life has changed. Even Osh, formerly a marginal city in the Fergana Valley, is integrated in globalisation. Young people use global media, replicate identities and cultural practices that they then adapt to familiar expectations as well as local conditions. The everyday life of young Kyrgyz and Uzbeks differs moderately rather than fundamentally from that of young people elsewhere in the post-Soviet space or in the globalized world.
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