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120723
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2013.
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The UNESCO office in Uzbekistan has been relatively successful in nominating cultural practices to The Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Selection for the List conveys prestige and draws international attention to local culture that is deemed of universal value. What is striking about the first successful nominations from Uzbekistan is that they point to the inseparability of Tajik and Uzbek culture, a touchy subject for both Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. In this article the author looks at how the politics of ethnic cultural heritage play out through these projects, highlighting the tensions between a rhetoric of diversity promoted both by UNESCO and by the official national ideology, and practices that demonstrate a more mundane, ethnically exclusive sense of national culture. Although ostensibly celebrating the rich diversity of Uzbekistan's national culture and eschewing the strict delineation of Tajik culture from Uzbek culture, the effect of UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage programmes is to perpetuate the occlusion of Tajik culture in Uzbekistan.
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090582
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2009.
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In this article we explore this relationship between state and population that Michel Foucault (1991) termed governmentality, in order to highlight what we find to be important differences between the two countries that larger political analyses might overlook. We do not attempt to theorise or explain as much as we seek to interpret the differences, sometimes subtle and sometimes not, in what techniques and practices are enacted, what forms of knowledge are produced, and what kinds of subjects are constituted in each country.
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