The Rogun Complex: Public Roles and Historic Experiences of Dam-Building in Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan

Féaux de la Croix, Jeanne; Suyarkulova, Mohira (2015). The Rogun Complex: Public Roles and Historic Experiences of Dam-Building in Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. Cahiers d’Asie Centrale, 25, pp. 103-132.

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This paper describes the building of Rogun hydropower station and how Soviet and post-soviet governments have conveyed its benefits to different audiences. Tracing public discussions from the late Soviet period, the authors used archives, ethnographic and interview methods to investigate how citizens are affected ideologically, economically and politically by the project. The Rogun project is compared to dam-building processes in the Kyrgyz Republic. Authors argue that the Soviet roots of the projects, and seemingly the outcomes are similar in the two countries, despite different political processes and public levels of discussion and dissent in each country.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Art and Cultural Studies > Institute of Social Anthropology

UniBE Contributor:

Féaux de la Croix, Jeanne Eileen

Subjects:

300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology

ISSN:

2075-5325

Language:

English

Submitter:

Jana Samira Lamatsch

Date Deposited:

03 Jan 2024 16:34

Last Modified:

03 Jan 2024 16:34

BORIS DOI:

10.48350/191001

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/191001

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