Negotiating Well-being in Central Asia

Negotiating Well-being in Central Asia

Montgomery, David W.

Taylor & Francis Ltd

12/2020

124

Mole

Inglês

9780367739935

15 a 20 dias

250

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1. Introduction: Negotiating well-being in Central Asia Visions of well-being 2. Ordering ideals: accomplishing well-being in a Kyrgyz cooperative of elders 3. How to build a better future? Kyrgyzstani development workers and the 'knowledge transfer' strategy Spaces of well-being 4. 'The state starts from the family': peace and harmony in Tajikistan's eastern Pamirs 5. Relations made over tea: reflections on a meaningful life in a Central Asian mountain village 6. Sewing to satisfaction: craft-based entrepreneurs in contemporary Kyrgyzstan Cosmologies of well-being 7. Anxiety, order and the other: well-being among ethnic Kyrgyz and Uzbeks 8. Even honey may become bitter when there is too much of it: Islam and the struggle for a balanced existence in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan 9. Discovering a sense of well-being through the revival of Islam: profiles of Kazakh imams in Western Mongolia
Central Asia;well-being;relationships of meaning;elders;employment;morality;family;Islam;ethnicity;communities