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标题：‘Bringing lights to the yurts’: Visions of future and belonging surrounding pastures and hydropower in Kyrgyzstan
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作者：Jeanne Féaux de la Croix
期刊名称：Anthropology of East Europe Review
印刷版ISSN：1054-4720
电子版ISSN：2153-2931
出版年度：2014
卷号：32
期号：2
页码：49-67
语种：English
出版社：East European Anthropology Group and SOYUZ (the Research Network for Postsocialist Cultural Studies)
摘要：Abstract: Drawing on everyday use patterns and poetry from the Toktogul valley, this article compares notions of future and belonging about two sites that embody visions of what Kyrgyzstan ought to be: hydroelectric dams and mountain pastures. There is no simple equation between hydroelectric dams and ‘modernity’, mountain pastures and ‘tradition’. The dams are viewed as a source of future wealth but also create potential liabilities, while renewed intensive use of mountain pastures arose through privatization usually described as ‘modernizing’. Both sites formally constitute state property, but ‘belong’ to citizens in entirely different ways, with government actors monopolizing access to dams while non-ethnic Kyrgyz are excluded from the use of highland pastures. A comparison of the use and imagination of the two places points to moments of conjunction and conflict between these visions and practices, and their political consequences in everyday access to these conceptual and material resources. Keywords: chronopolitics, dams, pasture, poetry, resource access.