A tale of two presidents: personality cult and symbolic nation-building in Turkmenistan
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00905992.2015.1028913" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00905992.2015.1028913</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00905992.2015.1028913" target="_blank" >10.1080/00905992.2015.1028913</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
A tale of two presidents: personality cult and symbolic nation-building in Turkmenistan
Original language description
This article proposes a comparison of the attitudes of the first and second presidents of Turkmenistan to discuss possible overlap between personality cult, as it has been initiated and developed by the two presidents after independence, and nation-building narratives in the country. Nation-building in post-Soviet spaces has been studied comprehensively, but this paper is distinguished by two interpretative frameworks. First, this article is possibly the first comparison of personality cult as it has been constructed by the two Turkmen presidents since 1991. Second, it looks at some specific aspects of the personality cult as possible markers of a Turkmen national identity that becomes, by force of this, de-ethnicized. We suggest that a number of idiosyncratic aspects of the personality cult in Turkmenistan contribute to construct an official nation-building narrative so concentrated on the figure of the president as to minimize the ethnic features of nation-building measures that scho
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
AD - Political sciences
OECD FORD branch
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Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2015
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Nationalities Papers
ISSN
0090-5992
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
43
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
22
Pages from-to
457-478
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-84929311606