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SUMMARY:"What do we know about local democracy in Kyrgyzstan?" - Asel Dool
 otkeldieva\, University of Exeter
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CONTACT:Prajakti Kalra
DESCRIPTION:Most scholars of contentious literature expect the main means 
 of contestation in Kyrgyzstan to be found on the streets and with the use 
 of violence on provincial roads. From two revolutions to daily demonstrati
 ons the protest phenomenon came to be associated with radical means hence 
 casting doubts about their potential for democratization. My ethnographic 
 observations\, however\, indicate the presence of other emerging forms of 
 social contestation. The fieldwork I conducted in Jalal-Abad province at a
  state owned factory Kyrgyzneftegaz\, which became a highly contentious pl
 ace between the work collective and party politics between 2010 and 2013\,
  indicates the presence of institutionalized forms of contestation. In thi
 s paper I would like to illustrate the co-existence of formal and informal
  mechanisms of political participation in Kyrgyzstan.
LOCATION: Room S1\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambridge\, CB
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