2014
DOI: 10.1080/14649365.2014.972972
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From monuments to mahallas: contrasting memories in the urban landscape of Osh, Kyrgyzstan

Abstract: This document is the author's post-print version, incorporating any revisions agreed during the peer-review process. Some differences between the published version and this version may remain and you are advised to consult the published version if you wish to cite from it.

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“…Other key research tools included the extensive use of participant observation and a visual methodology, which involved participant photography research, discussed more extensively elsewhere (Davies, 2013). As with other research in post-socialist space (Disney, 2015;Harrowell, 2014), the identities of all participants are concealed and any information that may be damaging to those I have spent time with has been withheld.…”
Section: An Ethnography Of Chernobylmentioning
confidence: 96%
“…Other key research tools included the extensive use of participant observation and a visual methodology, which involved participant photography research, discussed more extensively elsewhere (Davies, 2013). As with other research in post-socialist space (Disney, 2015;Harrowell, 2014), the identities of all participants are concealed and any information that may be damaging to those I have spent time with has been withheld.…”
Section: An Ethnography Of Chernobylmentioning
confidence: 96%
“…In Rwanda, post-conflict spatial politics included changing place names and holding officially sponsored rituals of memorialisation (Thomson, 2011: 443). In the southern Kyrgyzstani city of Osh, following inter-ethnic violence in 2010, the Kyrgyz authorities asserted symbolic, spatial control over this city with a historically Uzbek cultural core through the construction of statues to ethnic Kyrgyz national heroes at the main entrances to the city (Harrowell, 2015). The city authorities also promoted plans -ultimately unsuccessfully -for urban reconstruction that would undermine traditional Uzbek patterns of living in courtyard houses (Megoran, 2012).…”
Section: Spatial Practicesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Erecting a monument, whether by the governing authorities or by non‐elite groups, can be a powerful tool to acknowledge past wrongs and give voice to victims’ experience, something that is all the more powerful when anchored in the landscape in bricks and mortar (Connerton, ). Commemorative spaces in places as diverse as Kyrgyzstan (Harrowell, ), South Africa (Marschall, ) and Chile (Baxter, ) have all been examined by researchers, their role in promoting – or obstructing – reconciliation subjected to critical scrutiny.…”
Section: Exploring the Relationship Between Space And Reconciliation mentioning
confidence: 99%