3/2018 The Ambiguities of Hybridity

Issue 3/2018 The Ambiguities of Hybridity

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Methodology and Theory

Editors

The Ambiguities of Hybridity

Alexander Semyonov

The Ambiguity of Federalism as a Postimperial Political Vision: Editorial Introduction

Forum Ab Imperio: Political Imaginaries at the End of Empire

Karuna Mantena, Rama Sundari Mantena

Introduction: Political Imaginaries at the End of Empire

Forum Ab Imperio: Political Imaginaries at the End of Empire

Rama Sundari Mantena

Anticolonialism and Federation in Colonial India

Forum Ab Imperio: Political Imaginaries at the End of Empire

Kavita Saraswathi Datla

Sovereignty and the End of Empire: The Transition to Independence in Colonial Hyderabad

Forum Ab Imperio: Political Imaginaries at the End of Empire

Adom Getachew

Securing Postcolonial Independence: Kwame Nkrumah and the Federal Idea in the Age of Decolonization

Forum Ab Imperio: Political Imaginaries at the End of Empire

History

Stephen Badalyan Riegg

Neotraditionalist Rule to the Rescue of the Empire? Viceroy I. Vorontsov-Dashkov amid Crises in the Caucasus, 1905–1915

Ulfat Abdurasulov

Conflict as a Resource: The Anatomy of the “Turkmen Unrest” in Khwarazm, 1914–1916

Kairat Balabiyev, Zhuldyz Turekulova

Hybridity and Coherence of Kazakhs’ Legal Practices: The Aqsaqal Courts in the System of Legal Institutions and Practices (Second Half of the Nineteenth Century–Early Twentieth Century)

Bakhtiyar Babajanov, Paolo Sartori

The Origins of the Soviet Discourse about “Good Islam” in Central Asia

Newest Mythologies

Svetlana Malysheva

Soviet Death and Hybrid Soviet Subjectivity: Urban Cemetery as a Metatext

Historiography

Pavel Shablei

Subjectivity and Diversity: Rethinking the Legal History of Central Asia

Forum Ab Imperio: Paolo Sartori, Visions of Justice: Sharīʿan and Cultural Change in Russian Central Asia (Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2016).

Bakhtiyar Babajanov

Muslim’s Juridical Field in Imperial Turkestan: Cultural Transfer or Adaptation?

Forum Ab Imperio: Paolo Sartori, Visions of Justice: Sharīʿan and Cultural Change in Russian Central Asia (Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2016).

Sergei Abashin

A Different History of “Russian Turkestan”?

Forum Ab Imperio: Paolo Sartori, Visions of Justice: Sharīʿan and Cultural Change in Russian Central Asia (Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2016).

Book Reviews

Anna Nemirovskaya

Boris Mironov, The Standard of Living and Revolutions in Russia, 1700–1917, ed. Gregory L. Freeze (Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2012). 668 pp., ills. Index. ISBN: 978-0-415-60854-1.

Nikolay Promyslov

Вадим Ададуров. Война цивилизаций: Социокультурная история русского похода Наполеона. Т. 1: Религия – Язык. Киев: Лаурус, 2017. 400 с. Источники и литература. Именной указатель. Географический указатель. ISBN: 978-617-7313-16-7.

Lucien J. Frary

Evrydiki Sifneos, Imperial Odessa: Peoples, Spaces, Identities (Leiden: Brill, 2018). 286 pp., ills. Bibliography. Index of Names. Index of Places. Index of Subjects. ISBN: 978-90-04-31360-6.

Metin Atmaca

Moritz Deutschmann, Iran and Russian Imperialism: The Ideal Anarchists, 1800–1914 (London and New York: Routledge, 2016). xii, 221 pp., ills. Index. ISBN: 978-1-138-93701-7.

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Issue 3/2018 The Ambiguities of Hybridity

Methodology and Theory

The Ambiguities of Hybridity

The Ambiguity of Federalism as a Postimperial Political Vision: Editorial Introduction

Introduction: Political Imaginaries at the End of Empire

Anticolonialism and Federation in Colonial India

Sovereignty and the End of Empire: The Transition to Independence in Colonial Hyderabad

Securing Postcolonial Independence: Kwame Nkrumah and the Federal Idea in the Age of Decolonization

History

Neotraditionalist Rule to the Rescue of the Empire? Viceroy I. Vorontsov-Dashkov amid Crises in the Caucasus, 1905–1915

Conflict as a Resource: The Anatomy of the “Turkmen Unrest” in Khwarazm, 1914–1916

Hybridity and Coherence of Kazakhs’ Legal Practices: The Aqsaqal Courts in the System of Legal Institutions and Practices (Second Half of the Nineteenth Century–Early Twentieth Century)

The Origins of the Soviet Discourse about “Good Islam” in Central Asia

Archive

A “Thief-Turned- Sleuth” Vanka Kain: The Anatomy of a “Hybrid”

Documents Characterizing the Evolving Status of the “Informer” and “Sleuth” Vanka Kain (1741–1749)

Newest Mythologies

Soviet Death and Hybrid Soviet Subjectivity: Urban Cemetery as a Metatext

Historiography

Subjectivity and Diversity: Rethinking the Legal History of Central Asia

Muslim’s Juridical Field in Imperial Turkestan: Cultural Transfer or Adaptation?

A Different History of “Russian Turkestan”?

Book Reviews

Boris Mironov, The Standard of Living and Revolutions in Russia, 1700–1917, ed. Gregory L. Freeze (Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2012). 668 pp., ills. Index. ISBN: 978-0-415-60854-1.

Evrydiki Sifneos, Imperial Odessa: Peoples, Spaces, Identities (Leiden: Brill, 2018). 286 pp., ills. Bibliography. Index of Names. Index of Places. Index of Subjects. ISBN: 978-90-04-31360-6.

Moritz Deutschmann, Iran and Russian Imperialism: The Ideal Anarchists, 1800–1914 (London and New York: Routledge, 2016). xii, 221 pp., ills. Index. ISBN: 978-1-138-93701-7.

List of Contributors

Our Authors

“The Archives Talk” – Paolo Sartori’s Contribution to the History of Central Asia

¡Viva la filología! Or, The Freedom of Critical Thinking

Yuri Slezkine, The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017). 1104 pp., ills. Index. ISBN: 978-0-691-17694-9.

Marlene Laruelle (Ed.), Being Muslim in Central Asia: Practices, Politics, and Identities (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2018). 327 pp., ills. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-90-04-30680-6.

Yulia Gradskova and Sara Sanders (Eds.), Institutionalizing Gender Equality. Historical and Global Perspectives (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2015). 272 pp. Index. ISBN: 978-1-4985-1674-7.

Axel Honneth, The Idea of Socialism: Towards a Renewal (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2017). 145 pp. Index. ISBN: 978-1-5095-1212-6.

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