Between national idea and international conflict: the Roghun HHP as an anti-colonial endeavor, body of the nation, and national wealth

Suyarkulova, Mohira

doi:10.1007/s12685-014-0113-7

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“…However, facing a stalemate in bilateral relations and limited prospects for financing, the Government of Tajikistan is struggling to realize the Rogun HPP project. The project has now taken a life of its own, elevated to the status of "symbol of the nation" and a "national idea" (Suyarkulova, 2014). In other words, tied to the project is massive political baggage that goes beyond economic and technical considerations.…”

Section: The Government Of Tajikistan Pathway: the Rogun Hydropower Pmentioning

confidence: 99%

Rethinking energy security and services in practice: National vulnerability and three energy pathways in Tajikistan

Laldjebaev¹,

Morreale

Sovacool

et al. 2018

Energy Policy

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To help answer questions about availability, accessibility, sustainability and other dimensions of energy security, the vulnerability approach concentrates the attention of policymakers on the assessment of risks associated with natural, technical, political and economic factors. This understanding, combined with a focus on energy services (e.g. lighting, heating, telecommunications, mobility, etc.) helps to prioritize actions to achieve the goal of energy security. This paper conceptualizes energy security as low vulnerability of vital energy systems and sustained provision of modern energy services. Taking Tajikistan as a case, this paper highlights key vulnerabilities including neglect of environmental conditions, insufficient energy production capacity, unreliable and expensive energy imports, dwindling power infrastructure causing technical and economic losses, inadequate transparency in the power sector, lack of regional cooperation in energy and water resources sharing, and inadequate financial resources to address these challenges. Three major proposals presented by the World Bank, the United Nations Development Program, and the Government of Tajikistan to achieve energy security in Tajikistan are evaluated. Specifically, they lack a focus on energy services and therefore overlook people's socio-cultural context and appropriate energy needs. This paper highlights energy services as critical to people's wellbeing and socioeconomic development.

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Section: The Government Of Tajikistan Pathway: the Rogun Hydropower Pmentioning

confidence: 99%

Rethinking energy security and services in practice: National vulnerability and three energy pathways in Tajikistan

Laldjebaev¹,

Morreale

Sovacool

et al. 2018

Energy Policy

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“…These efforts were aimed at overcoming the significant regional, confessional, linguistic and ethnic divisions that still keep surfacing (Beeman 1999;Laruelle 2007;Marat 2008). These campaigns include various attempts at 'nationalising' historyto appropriate the Aryan civilisation for the Tajik nation (Laruelle 2007;Suyarkulova 2013) and promulgate the Samanid Empire (892-999) as the 'golden age' of Tajik statehood (Blakkisrud and Nozimova 2010;Nourzhanov 2001)as well as more forward-looking mobilisation around the construction of the Roghun Dam as a 'national idea' 5 and symbol of national pride, prosperity and progress (Menga 2015;Suyarkulova 2014).…”

Section: Nation-building and History In Post-independence Tajikistanmentioning

confidence: 99%

Museums, memory and meaning‐creation: (re)constructing the Tajik nation

Blakkisrud

Kuziev²

2019

Nations and Nationalism

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To overcome the traumas of the 1992–1997 civil war, the Tajik authorities have turned to history to anchor their post‐independence nation‐building project. This article explores the role of the National Museum of Tajikistan, examining how the museum discursively contributes to ‘nationalising’ history and cultural heritage for the benefit of the current Tajik nation‐building project. Three main discursive strategies for such (re)construction of Tajik national identity are identified: (1) the representation of the Tajiks as a transhistorical community; (2) implicit claims of the site‐specificity of the historical events depicted in the museum, by representing these as having taken place within the territory of present‐day Tajikistan, thereby linking the nation to this territory; and (3) meaning‐creation, endowing museum objects with meanings that fit into and reinforce the grand narrative promulgated by the museum. We conclude that the National Museum of Tajikistan demonstrates a rich and promising, although so far largely unexplored, repertoire of representing Tajik nationness as reflected in historical artefacts and objects of culture: the museum is indeed an active participant in shaping discursive strategies for (re)constructing the nation.

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“…Interestingly, the same company is in charge of building the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam [103]. The Rogun project has continuously been condemned by mainly the Uzbek authorities for constituting a strong threat to downstream irrigation projects [104]. Studies indicate, however, that hydropower could be produced in the Rogun Dam with only minor effects for downstream users [82].…”

Section: Future Of Water Management In Central Asiamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In a similar way as for the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam the entire population of Tajikistan has mobilized to build the Rogun hydropower plant by sale of plant shares [74,103]. Consequently, the resemblance of large-scale hydropower development in poor upstream countries with downstream hegemons is striking when comparing the Nile and the Amu Darya where both the Great Renaissance Dam and the Rogun Dam are portrayed as national symbols and parts of regional projects [80,104].…”

Section: Future Of Water Management In Central Asiamentioning

confidence: 99%

Could Changing Power Relationships Lead to Better Water Sharing in Central Asia?

Zhupankhan

Tussupova

Berndtsson

2017

Water

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Abstract:Even though Central Asia is water rich, water disputes have characterized the region after crumbling of the Soviet Union in 1991. The uneven spatial distribution and complex pattern of transboundary water sources with contrasting national water needs have created an intricate water dilemma. Increasing national water needs, water claims by surrounding countries, uncertainties in renewable water volumes, and effects of climate change will put further strain on the future water use in Central Asia. We argue that the present power distribution with three downstream hegemons (Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan) and two upstream much poorer countries with less political influence (Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan) is not likely to lead forward to a greater willingness to share water. We discuss this situation with the analogue Egypt-Sudan-Ethiopia in the Nile Basin. Thus, as in the case of Ethiopia in the Nile Basin, gradually economically stronger upstream countries Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan due to hydropower development are likely to eventually re-define the hydropolitical map of Central Asia. As in the case of the Nile Basin, a more even power balance between upstream and downstream countries may lead to an improved political structure for a much needed better collaboration on water issues.

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Between national idea and international conflict: the Roghun HHP as an anti-colonial endeavor, body of the nation, and national wealth

Cited by 11 publications

References 8 publications

Rethinking energy security and services in practice: National vulnerability and three energy pathways in Tajikistan

Rethinking energy security and services in practice: National vulnerability and three energy pathways in Tajikistan

Museums, memory and meaning‐creation: (re)constructing the Tajik nation

Could Changing Power Relationships Lead to Better Water Sharing in Central Asia?

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