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Leaving The House Of Memory: Post-Soviet Traces Of Deportation Memory, Rebecca Gould
Leaving The House Of Memory: Post-Soviet Traces Of Deportation Memory, Rebecca Gould
Rebecca Gould
No abstract provided.
Secularism And Belief In Georgia’S Pankisi Gorge, Rebecca Gould
Secularism And Belief In Georgia’S Pankisi Gorge, Rebecca Gould
Rebecca Gould
No abstract provided.
The Modernity Of Premodern Islam In Contemporary Daghestan, Rebecca Gould
The Modernity Of Premodern Islam In Contemporary Daghestan, Rebecca Gould
Rebecca Gould
“The Modernity of Premodern Islam in Contemporary Daghestan,” Contemporary Islam: Dynamics of Muslim Life 5.2 (2011): 161-183.
The Spoils Of War, Rebecca Gould
The Spoils Of War, Rebecca Gould
Rebecca Gould
The Light Of The Ancestors (By Idris Bazorkin), Rebecca Gould
The Light Of The Ancestors (By Idris Bazorkin), Rebecca Gould
Rebecca Gould
"Light of the Ancestors" is excerpted from the Ingush writer Idris Bazorkin's novel, Dark Ages.
Transgressive Sanctity: The Abrek In Chechen Culture, Rebecca Gould
Transgressive Sanctity: The Abrek In Chechen Culture, Rebecca Gould
Rebecca Gould
The ancient tradition of the abrek (bandit) was developed into a political institution during the second half of the nineteenth and early twentieth century by Chechen and other Muslim peoples of the Caucasus as a strategy for dealing with the overwhelming military force of Russia's imperial army. During the Soviet period, the abrek became a locus for oppositional politics and arguably influenced the representations of violence and anti-colonial resistance during the recent Chechen Wars. This article is one of the first works of English-language scholarship to historicize this institution. It also marks the beginning of a book project entitled A …
Language Dreamers: Race And The Politics Of Etymology In The Caucasus, Rebecca Gould
Language Dreamers: Race And The Politics Of Etymology In The Caucasus, Rebecca Gould
Rebecca Gould
No abstract provided.
The Abrek In Chechen Folklore, Rebecca Gould
Chechens Through The Russian Prism, Rebecca Gould
Behind The Wall Of The Caucasus, Rebecca Gould
Book Review: Chechnya: Tombstone Of Russian Power, Rory J. Conces
Book Review: Chechnya: Tombstone Of Russian Power, Rory J. Conces
Philosophy Faculty Publications
From December 1994 to August 1996, Russia was engaged in the Chechen War, a Vietnam-style quagmire that exemplified, on the one hand, the end of Russia as a great military and imperial power, and, on the other hand, "one of the greatest epics of colonial resistance in the past century.'' No analysis can hope to understand the totality of forces that lend to the stability (or instability) of nations with large minority populations unless it first examines the conditions that led to the Russian defeat in Chechnya. At the center of that problem lies an interesting issue. What aspects of …
L.P. Semenov, Chakh Akhriev (Ingush Ethnographer), L P. Semenov
L.P. Semenov, Chakh Akhriev (Ingush Ethnographer), L P. Semenov
Rebecca Gould
No abstract provided.