| ID | 090584 |
| Title Proper | Tajikistan's virtual politics of peace |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Heathershaw, John |
| Publication | 2009. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Tajikistan's peace is symbolic not just in that it conceals an alternative reality but in that its symbols often indicate the absence of the object which they ostensibly represent-and the presence of its antonym. These signs are constructive of the kind of peace that has emerged in Tajikistan over the last decade and a half. Yet, as this essay has demonstrated interpretively, symbolic politics in Tajikistan is in some respects enveloped by a virtual politics of peace and peacebuilding where such a rendering of presence and absence is illusive. This substitution of an object's fixed meaning by shifting markers which develop a life of their own is an inherent ambiguity found in signs of international peacebuilding and national stabilisation. |
| `In' analytical Note | Europe-Asia Studies Vol. 61, No. 7; Sep 2009: p1315-1336 |
| Journal Source | Europe-Asia Studies Vol. 61, No. 7; Sep 2009: p1315-1336 |
| Key Words | Tajikistan ; Peace ; Virtual Politics |