State-building in the Soviet Union and the Idea of the Uyghurs in Central Asia
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60460709%3A41110%2F20%3A81621" target="_blank" >RIV/60460709:41110/20:81621 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/10357823.2020.1738337" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1080/10357823.2020.1738337</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10357823.2020.1738337" target="_blank" >10.1080/10357823.2020.1738337</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
čeština
Original language name
State-building in the Soviet Union and the Idea of the Uyghurs in Central Asia
Original language description
Nationalists usually emphasise the timeless and primordialist origins of the nation, but states also make conscious efforts to construct nations. Drawing on the case of the Uyghurs, this article shows how states support certain nationalist tendencies and use them - with varying degrees of success - to advance particular ideologies. In the 1930s, as a consequence of Soviet national policy, different ethnicities joined a new Uyghur nation. The state therefore constructed the Uyghurs (together with other ethnic groups) through a political decision. In doing so the state emphasised the primordial aspect of Uyghurdom, however, whereby the nation should have existed from time immemorial and its attributes should be stable and firm. After WorldWar II, both the Chinese government and Uyghur leaders in Xinjiang fighting against that government adopted this Sovietinspired concept of a united Uyghur nation, and it was also adopted by Uyghurs in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan. States have t
Czech name
State-building in the Soviet Union and the Idea of the Uyghurs in Central Asia
Czech description
Nationalists usually emphasise the timeless and primordialist origins of the nation, but states also make conscious efforts to construct nations. Drawing on the case of the Uyghurs, this article shows how states support certain nationalist tendencies and use them - with varying degrees of success - to advance particular ideologies. In the 1930s, as a consequence of Soviet national policy, different ethnicities joined a new Uyghur nation. The state therefore constructed the Uyghurs (together with other ethnic groups) through a political decision. In doing so the state emphasised the primordial aspect of Uyghurdom, however, whereby the nation should have existed from time immemorial and its attributes should be stable and firm. After WorldWar II, both the Chinese government and Uyghur leaders in Xinjiang fighting against that government adopted this Sovietinspired concept of a united Uyghur nation, and it was also adopted by Uyghurs in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan. States have t
Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50900 - Other social sciences
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Asian Studies Review
ISSN
1035-7823
e-ISSN
1467-8403
Volume of the periodical
44
Issue of the periodical within the volume
4
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
17
Pages from-to
709-725
UT code for WoS article
000523960900001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85082492848