A tale of two presidents: personality cult and symbolic nation-building in Turkmenistan

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Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

A tale of two presidents: personality cult and symbolic nation-building in Turkmenistan

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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

Název v anglickém jazyce

A tale of two presidents: personality cult and symbolic nation-building in Turkmenistan

Popis výsledku anglicky

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

Druh

J_x - Nezařazeno - Článek v odborném periodiku (Jimp, Jsc a Jost)

CEP obor

AD - Politologie a politické vědy

OECD FORD obor

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Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2015

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Nationalities Papers

ISSN

0090-5992

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

43

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

3

Stát vydavatele periodika

GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Počet stran výsledku

22

Strana od-do

457-478

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-84929311606