Books & Edited Volumes by David W Montgomery
Central Asia: Contexts for Understanding - University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022
UNCORRECTED PAGE PROOFS - front matter | Central Asia is a diverse and complex region of the wo... more UNCORRECTED PAGE PROOFS - front matter | Central Asia is a diverse and complex region of the world often characterized in the West as exotic, remote, and difficult to understand. Central Asia: Contexts for Understanding offers the most comprehensive introduction to the region available for students and general readers alike. Combining thematic chapters with detailed case studies, readers will learn to appreciate the richly interconnected aspects of life in Central Asia. These wide-ranging, easy-to-understand contributions from many of the leading scholars in the field provide the context needed to understand Central Asia and presents a launching point for further reading and research.
Central Asia: Contexts for Understanding, Notes Volume - University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022
The separate Notes Volume accompanying Central Asia: Contexts for Understanding (University of Pi... more The separate Notes Volume accompanying Central Asia: Contexts for Understanding (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022)
Central Asia is a diverse and complex region of the world often characterized in the West as exotic, remote, and difficult to understand. Central Asia: Contexts for Understanding offers the most comprehensive introduction to the region available for students and general readers alike. Combining thematic chapters with detailed case studies, readers will learn to appreciate the richly interconnected aspects of life in Central Asia. These wide-ranging, easy-to-understand contributions from many of the leading scholars in the field provide the context needed to understand Central Asia and presents a launching point for further reading and research.
Everyday Life in the Balkans - Indiana University Press, 2019
Everyday Life in the Balkans gathers the work of leading scholars across disciplines to provide a... more Everyday Life in the Balkans gathers the work of leading scholars across disciplines to provide a broad overview of the countries of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, and Turkey. This region has long been characterized as a place of instability and political turmoil, from World War I, through the Yugoslav Wars, and even today as debate continues over issues such as the influx of refugees or the expansion of the European Union. However, the work gathered here moves beyond the images of war and post-socialist stagnation which dominate Western media coverage of the region to instead focus on the lived experiences of the people in these countries. Contributors consider a wide range of issues including family dynamics, gay rights, war memory, religion, cinema, fashion, and politics. Using clear language and engaging examples, Everyday Life in the Balkans provides the background context necessary for an enlightened conversation about the policies, economics, and culture of the region.
David W. Montgomery presents a rich ethnographic study on the practice and meaning of Islamic lif... more David W. Montgomery presents a rich ethnographic study on the practice and meaning of Islamic life in Kyrgyzstan. As he shows, becoming and being a Muslim are based on knowledge acquired from the surrounding environment, enabled through the practice of doing. Through these acts, Islam is imbued in both the individual and the community. To Montgomery, religious practice and lived experience combine to create an ideological space that is shaped by events, opportunities, and potentialities that form the context from which knowing emerges. This acquired knowledge further frames social navigation and political negotiation.
Through his years of on-the-ground research, Montgomery assembles both an anthropology of knowledge and an anthropology of Islam, demonstrating how individuals make sense of and draw meanings from their environments. He reveals subtle individual interpretations of the religion and how people seek to define themselves and their lives as “good” within their communities and under Islam.
Based on numerous in-depth interviews, bolstered by extensive survey and data collection, Montgomery offers the most thorough English-language study to date of Islam in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan. His work provides a broad view into the cognitive processes of Central Asian populations that will serve students, researchers, and policymakers alike.
Whether looking at divided cities or working with populations on the margins of society, a growin... more Whether looking at divided cities or working with populations on the margins of society, a growing number of engaged academics have reached out to communities around the world to address the practical problems of living with difference. This book explores the challenges and necessities of accommodating difference, however difficult and uncomfortable such accommodation may be. Drawing on fourteen years of theoretical insights and unique pedagogy, CEDAR—Communities Engaging with Difference and Religion—has worked internationally with community leaders, activists, and other partners to take the insights of anthropology out of the classroom and into the world. Rather than addressing conflict by emphasizing what is shared, Living with Difference argues for the centrality of difference in creating community, seeking ways not to overcome or deny differences but to live with and within them in a self-reflective space and practice. This volume also includes a manual for organizers to implement CEDAR’s strategies in their own communities.
Much scholarship of any region focuses on the perceived problems that hold back a population. Cen... more Much scholarship of any region focuses on the perceived problems that hold back a population. Central Asia is no exception, as it is a region with political, economic, and environmental problems that seem to keep Central Asians from a "better" future. Alongside all the struggles of life, however, are relationships of meaning and wellness that contribute to a "life worth living." Recognizing the struggles of everyday life, contributors to this book explore how people navigate relationships to find meaning, how elders attempt to re-establish morality, and how development workers pursue new futures. Such futures centre around the role of family, friends, and meaningful employment in yielding contentment; and the influence of Islam, ethnicity, and hospitality on community.
The first regional collection to take well-being as a frame of analysis, the contributors show how visions, spaces, and cosmologies of well-being inform everyday life in Central Asia. This volume will appeal not only to those interested in Central Asia, but more broadly to anyone concerned with how taking well-being into account better captures the complex realities of life in any region.
This book was published as a special issue of Central Asian Survey.
Includes:
* Montgomery, David W. 2013. "Negotiating well-being in Central Asia." Central Asian Survey 32 (4):423-431.
* Beyer, Judith. 2013. "Ordering ideals: accomplishing well-being in a Kyrgyz cooperative of elders." Central Asian Survey 32 (4):432-447.
* Féaux de la Croix, Jeanne. 2013. "How to build a better future? Kyrgyzstani development workers and the ‘knowledge transfer’ strategy." Central Asian Survey 32 (4):448-461.
* Mostowlansky, Till. 2013. "‘The state starts from the family’: peace and harmony in Tajikistan's eastern Pamirs." Central Asian Survey 32 (4):462-474.
* Montgomery, David W. 2013. "Relations made over tea: reflections on a meaningful life in a Central Asian mountain village." Central Asian Survey 32 (4):475-486.
* Botoeva, Aisalkyn, and Regine A. Spector. 2013. "Sewing to satisfaction: craft-based entrepreneurs in contemporary Kyrgyzstan." Central Asian Survey 32 (4):487-500.
* Borbieva, Noor O'Neill. 2013. "Anxiety, order and the other: well-being among ethnic Kyrgyz and Uzbeks." Central Asian Survey 32 (4):501-513.
* Louw, Maria. 2013. "Even honey may become bitter when there is too much of it: Islam and the struggle for a balanced existence in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan." Central Asian Survey 32 (4):514-526.
* Werner, Cynthia, Holly Barcus, and Namara Brede. 2013. "Discovering a sense of well-being through the revival of Islam: profiles of Kazakh imams in Western Mongolia." Central Asian Survey 32 (4):527-541.
Includes:
* Montgomery, David W. 2015. "Introduction: The Politics of Well-being in Central Asia.... more Includes:
* Montgomery, David W. 2015. "Introduction: The Politics of Well-being in Central Asia." Central Asian Affairs 2 (1):1-9.
* Murtazashvili, Jennifer Brick. 2015. "Bad Medicine: Diagnosing the Failure of State-Building Efforts in Afghanistan." Central Asian Affairs 2 (1):10-34.
* Montgomery, David W. 2015. "Islam beyond Democracy and State in Kyrgyzstan." Central Asian Affairs 2 (1):35-50.
* Schwab, Wendell. 2015. "Islam, Fun, and Social Capital in Kazakhstan." Central Asian Affairs 2 (1):51-70.
* Roche, Sophie. 2015. "Twenty-five Somonis for a Good Future: How Young Women in Tajikistan Shape Their Futures and Secure Their Present." Central Asian Affairs 2 (1):71-94.
* Zanca, Russell. 2015. "Eat, Drink, and Be Merry, and Damn the Dictatorship: Concepts and Conduct of Well-being in Uzbekistan." Central Asian Affairs 2 (1):95-115.
Papers by David W Montgomery
The Central Asian World, 2023
When people talk about religion, they frequently reference an experience—or a series of
experien... more When people talk about religion, they frequently reference an experience—or a series of
experiences—that explains how they make sense of religion and its place in the world.
Sometimes this experience is revelatory—of an insight gained that explains one’s life
trajectory—and sometimes it is more dismissive of religion all together. At different
levels—local, national, international as well as individual and collective—experience gets used to instantiate positions that get presented as authoritative and overlooked as being biased. In the case of Central Asia, Islam is often experienced in ways that impact understandings of security. Often, security discussions are framed at national and international levels that are guided by assumptions about the role of Islam in society that can seem quite removed from local understandings of Islam and security. Ethnographers working on the region have provided nuanced understandings of these tensions, and are here encouraged to engage beyond the confines of traditional scholarship to hold accountable characterizations of religion and security that are incongruent with the experiences of our interlocutors.
Translating Contexts into Policy, Central Asia: Contexts for Understanding, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022
UNCORRECTED PAGE PROOFS, "Translating Contexts into Policy" chapter in Central Asia: Contexts for... more UNCORRECTED PAGE PROOFS, "Translating Contexts into Policy" chapter in Central Asia: Contexts for Understanding | citation: Abramson, David M., Laura L. Adams, and David W. Montgomery. 2022. Translating Contexts into Policy. In Central Asia: Contexts for Understanding, edited by David W. Montgomery. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. 715-723.
Religion, Central Asia: Contexts for Understanding, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022
UNCORRECTED PAGE PROOFS, "Religion" chapter in Central Asia: Contexts for Understanding | citat... more UNCORRECTED PAGE PROOFS, "Religion" chapter in Central Asia: Contexts for Understanding | citation: Montgomery, David W. 2022. Religion. In Central Asia: Contexts for Understanding, edited by David W. Montgomery. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. 361-377
Profiles of Anthropological Praxis: An International Casebook, 2022
This chapter describes the role of anthropology and the anthropologist in CEDAR programs aimed at... more This chapter describes the role of anthropology and the anthropologist in CEDAR programs aimed at developing tools for living with difference across diverse communities.
Full citation:
Montgomery, David W., Adam B. Seligman, and Rahel R. Wasserfall. 2022. "Learning to Live with Difference: How CEDAR Takes Anthropology Out of the Classroom and Into the World." In Profiles in Anthropological Praxis: An International Casebook, edited by Terry M. Redding and Charles C. Cheney, 213-223. New York: Berghahn Books.
KRITIS, 2022
Artikel ini menjelaskan tentang proses CEDAR (Community Engaging Difference and Religion) sebuah ... more Artikel ini menjelaskan tentang proses CEDAR (Community Engaging Difference and Religion) sebuah lembaga swadaya masyarakat untuk menyebarkan ide dan praktek tentang bagaimana hidup bersama yang lain. CEDAR telah berkembang sejak awal dibentuk pada tahun 2003 dengan nama
This is the Bahasa Indonesia version of:
Montgomery, David W., Adam B. Seligman, and Rahel R. Wasserfall. 2022. "Learning to Live with Difference: How CEDAR Takes Anthropology Out of the Classroom and Into the World." In Profiles in Anthropological Praxis: An International Casebook, edited by Terry M. Redding and Charles C. Cheney, 213-223. New York: Berghahn Books.
The Review of Faith & International Affairs, 2021
Pluralism recognizes diversity and aims to facilitate peaceful coexistence across a variety of in... more Pluralism recognizes diversity and aims to facilitate peaceful coexistence across a variety of interests and convictions. Across Central Asia, states have become increasingly authoritarian and in turn less favorable to implementing political and legal structures commonly seen as necessary for pluralism. The question about the potential for pluralism in Central Asia, however, is different from one on how to build pluralism. In this article, I argue that despite the less-than-sanguine prospects for pluralism to emerge across the region, pluralism can be built through programming that engages difference and creates new solidarities around shared experience, without the insistence on shared meaning.
European Neighborhood Council , 2021
The two-part ENC In-Depth podcast is part of a Regional Policy Dialogue implemented in cooperatio... more The two-part ENC In-Depth podcast is part of a Regional Policy Dialogue implemented in cooperation with the Oxus Society for Central Asian Affairs and the Hollings Center for International Dialogue. Both in-depth discussions are dedicated to the recently published report on Emerging Forms of Islamic Civil Society in Central Asia.
The discussions circle around the definition, forms and roles of Islamic Civil Society, and their emergence in Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan in the post-Soviet era, within the context of different value systems including state secularism, local authorities and Western-backed civil society, by taking the period of Covid-19 pandemic and it’s results into consideration.
Reset Dialogues, Jul 23, 2020
Bulletin of the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hiroshima University. Studies in integrated arts and sciences , 2021
アダム・B・セリグマン＆デヴィッド・W・モンゴメリ 「人権の悲劇―リベラリズムと所属の喪失」 : 邦訳論文と訳者解題
本文訳および解題：大池 真知子
The abstract of the or... more アダム・B・セリグマン＆デヴィッド・W・モンゴメリ 「人権の悲劇―リベラリズムと所属の喪失」 : 邦訳論文と訳者解題
本文訳および解題：大池 真知子
The abstract of the original article (Society 56 (2019): 203-209) is as follows: We argue here that human rights are as much the problem as they are the solution to the contemporary challenge of constructing civil society, observing that the seemingly inherent long-term social and political consequences of close to half a century of advocating human rights to the exclusion of other components of human good and
Society, 2019
We argue here that human rights are as much the problem as they are the solution to the contempor... more We argue here that human rights are as much the problem as they are the solution to the contemporary challenge of constructing civil society, observing that the seemingly inherent long-term social and political consequences of close to half a century of advocating human rights to the exclusion of other components of human good and fulfillment have been at the expense of any sense of shared belonging. Delineating between rights and belonging, we show how the extreme right has latched on to a tangible argument for belonging while the left has responded by continuing to advocate for abstract, universal, and unencumbered human rights to the detriment of its efforts to build civil society.
Everyday Life in the Balkans, 2019
[Uncorrected Page Proofs] -- Montgomery, David W. 2019. "The Hardest Time Was the Time without Mo... more [Uncorrected Page Proofs] -- Montgomery, David W. 2019. "The Hardest Time Was the Time without Morality": Religion and Social Navigation in Albania. In Everyday Life in the Balkans, edited by David W. Montgomery. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 265-277.
Religion, State and Society, 2016
In equating political Islam with radicalism and rebellion against the state, security analysts ma... more In equating political Islam with radicalism and rebellion against the state, security analysts make a number of assumptions about the religious, the secular and security. Within the Central Asian context, the discursive fusing of religiosity with radicalism produces a bogeyman in which national and foreign governments, although offering quite different countermeasures , have found a common enemy. This securitization of Islam distorts our understanding of these movements whose approach is seldom " radical " in form. We identify six claims which are axiomatic to both international and national secularist security discourses with respect to Islam in the region. We then demonstrate that popular Muslim discourse and political practice—in the findings of an original survey and ethnographic research in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan—provide a more complex picture than that found in elite discourses. While the six propositions can be refuted in objective terms, they remain relevant to how the problem is subjectively produced and reproduced in elite discourse and practice. As particular secularist claims about Islam, they inform national and international policies toward religious freedom and Islamic movements across Central Asia. Many of these themes appear in weaker and ambiguous forms in popular discourse, and continue to limit Muslim political participation.
As researchers in Central Asian Studies, we discuss the different perspectives our methodological... more As researchers in Central Asian Studies, we discuss the different perspectives our methodological approaches provide to understanding the content and context of Islam, security, and the state in the region. We acknowledge the role of bias in creating narratives that dominate regional and international discourse and question mono-causal explanations of Islamic practice and the roots of radicalism. As such, we offer insights into the challenges and best practices of doing research on Islam and security and posit Central Asian Studies as a case for the value of multidisciplinary research.
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Books & Edited Volumes by David W Montgomery
Central Asia is a diverse and complex region of the world often characterized in the West as exotic, remote, and difficult to understand. Central Asia: Contexts for Understanding offers the most comprehensive introduction to the region available for students and general readers alike. Combining thematic chapters with detailed case studies, readers will learn to appreciate the richly interconnected aspects of life in Central Asia. These wide-ranging, easy-to-understand contributions from many of the leading scholars in the field provide the context needed to understand Central Asia and presents a launching point for further reading and research.
Through his years of on-the-ground research, Montgomery assembles both an anthropology of knowledge and an anthropology of Islam, demonstrating how individuals make sense of and draw meanings from their environments. He reveals subtle individual interpretations of the religion and how people seek to define themselves and their lives as “good” within their communities and under Islam.
Based on numerous in-depth interviews, bolstered by extensive survey and data collection, Montgomery offers the most thorough English-language study to date of Islam in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan. His work provides a broad view into the cognitive processes of Central Asian populations that will serve students, researchers, and policymakers alike.
The first regional collection to take well-being as a frame of analysis, the contributors show how visions, spaces, and cosmologies of well-being inform everyday life in Central Asia. This volume will appeal not only to those interested in Central Asia, but more broadly to anyone concerned with how taking well-being into account better captures the complex realities of life in any region.
This book was published as a special issue of Central Asian Survey.
Includes:
* Montgomery, David W. 2013. "Negotiating well-being in Central Asia." Central Asian Survey 32 (4):423-431.
* Beyer, Judith. 2013. "Ordering ideals: accomplishing well-being in a Kyrgyz cooperative of elders." Central Asian Survey 32 (4):432-447.
* Féaux de la Croix, Jeanne. 2013. "How to build a better future? Kyrgyzstani development workers and the ‘knowledge transfer’ strategy." Central Asian Survey 32 (4):448-461.
* Mostowlansky, Till. 2013. "‘The state starts from the family’: peace and harmony in Tajikistan's eastern Pamirs." Central Asian Survey 32 (4):462-474.
* Montgomery, David W. 2013. "Relations made over tea: reflections on a meaningful life in a Central Asian mountain village." Central Asian Survey 32 (4):475-486.
* Botoeva, Aisalkyn, and Regine A. Spector. 2013. "Sewing to satisfaction: craft-based entrepreneurs in contemporary Kyrgyzstan." Central Asian Survey 32 (4):487-500.
* Borbieva, Noor O'Neill. 2013. "Anxiety, order and the other: well-being among ethnic Kyrgyz and Uzbeks." Central Asian Survey 32 (4):501-513.
* Louw, Maria. 2013. "Even honey may become bitter when there is too much of it: Islam and the struggle for a balanced existence in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan." Central Asian Survey 32 (4):514-526.
* Werner, Cynthia, Holly Barcus, and Namara Brede. 2013. "Discovering a sense of well-being through the revival of Islam: profiles of Kazakh imams in Western Mongolia." Central Asian Survey 32 (4):527-541.
* Montgomery, David W. 2015. "Introduction: The Politics of Well-being in Central Asia." Central Asian Affairs 2 (1):1-9.
* Murtazashvili, Jennifer Brick. 2015. "Bad Medicine: Diagnosing the Failure of State-Building Efforts in Afghanistan." Central Asian Affairs 2 (1):10-34.
* Montgomery, David W. 2015. "Islam beyond Democracy and State in Kyrgyzstan." Central Asian Affairs 2 (1):35-50.
* Schwab, Wendell. 2015. "Islam, Fun, and Social Capital in Kazakhstan." Central Asian Affairs 2 (1):51-70.
* Roche, Sophie. 2015. "Twenty-five Somonis for a Good Future: How Young Women in Tajikistan Shape Their Futures and Secure Their Present." Central Asian Affairs 2 (1):71-94.
* Zanca, Russell. 2015. "Eat, Drink, and Be Merry, and Damn the Dictatorship: Concepts and Conduct of Well-being in Uzbekistan." Central Asian Affairs 2 (1):95-115.
Papers by David W Montgomery
experiences—that explains how they make sense of religion and its place in the world.
Sometimes this experience is revelatory—of an insight gained that explains one’s life
trajectory—and sometimes it is more dismissive of religion all together. At different
levels—local, national, international as well as individual and collective—experience gets used to instantiate positions that get presented as authoritative and overlooked as being biased. In the case of Central Asia, Islam is often experienced in ways that impact understandings of security. Often, security discussions are framed at national and international levels that are guided by assumptions about the role of Islam in society that can seem quite removed from local understandings of Islam and security. Ethnographers working on the region have provided nuanced understandings of these tensions, and are here encouraged to engage beyond the confines of traditional scholarship to hold accountable characterizations of religion and security that are incongruent with the experiences of our interlocutors.
Full citation:
Montgomery, David W., Adam B. Seligman, and Rahel R. Wasserfall. 2022. "Learning to Live with Difference: How CEDAR Takes Anthropology Out of the Classroom and Into the World." In Profiles in Anthropological Praxis: An International Casebook, edited by Terry M. Redding and Charles C. Cheney, 213-223. New York: Berghahn Books.
This is the Bahasa Indonesia version of:
Montgomery, David W., Adam B. Seligman, and Rahel R. Wasserfall. 2022. "Learning to Live with Difference: How CEDAR Takes Anthropology Out of the Classroom and Into the World." In Profiles in Anthropological Praxis: An International Casebook, edited by Terry M. Redding and Charles C. Cheney, 213-223. New York: Berghahn Books.
The discussions circle around the definition, forms and roles of Islamic Civil Society, and their emergence in Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan in the post-Soviet era, within the context of different value systems including state secularism, local authorities and Western-backed civil society, by taking the period of Covid-19 pandemic and it’s results into consideration.
本文訳および解題：大池 真知子
The abstract of the original article (Society 56 (2019): 203-209) is as follows: We argue here that human rights are as much the problem as they are the solution to the contemporary challenge of constructing civil society, observing that the seemingly inherent long-term social and political consequences of close to half a century of advocating human rights to the exclusion of other components of human good and
Central Asia is a diverse and complex region of the world often characterized in the West as exotic, remote, and difficult to understand. Central Asia: Contexts for Understanding offers the most comprehensive introduction to the region available for students and general readers alike. Combining thematic chapters with detailed case studies, readers will learn to appreciate the richly interconnected aspects of life in Central Asia. These wide-ranging, easy-to-understand contributions from many of the leading scholars in the field provide the context needed to understand Central Asia and presents a launching point for further reading and research.
Through his years of on-the-ground research, Montgomery assembles both an anthropology of knowledge and an anthropology of Islam, demonstrating how individuals make sense of and draw meanings from their environments. He reveals subtle individual interpretations of the religion and how people seek to define themselves and their lives as “good” within their communities and under Islam.
Based on numerous in-depth interviews, bolstered by extensive survey and data collection, Montgomery offers the most thorough English-language study to date of Islam in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan. His work provides a broad view into the cognitive processes of Central Asian populations that will serve students, researchers, and policymakers alike.
The first regional collection to take well-being as a frame of analysis, the contributors show how visions, spaces, and cosmologies of well-being inform everyday life in Central Asia. This volume will appeal not only to those interested in Central Asia, but more broadly to anyone concerned with how taking well-being into account better captures the complex realities of life in any region.
This book was published as a special issue of Central Asian Survey.
Includes:
* Montgomery, David W. 2013. "Negotiating well-being in Central Asia." Central Asian Survey 32 (4):423-431.
* Beyer, Judith. 2013. "Ordering ideals: accomplishing well-being in a Kyrgyz cooperative of elders." Central Asian Survey 32 (4):432-447.
* Féaux de la Croix, Jeanne. 2013. "How to build a better future? Kyrgyzstani development workers and the ‘knowledge transfer’ strategy." Central Asian Survey 32 (4):448-461.
* Mostowlansky, Till. 2013. "‘The state starts from the family’: peace and harmony in Tajikistan's eastern Pamirs." Central Asian Survey 32 (4):462-474.
* Montgomery, David W. 2013. "Relations made over tea: reflections on a meaningful life in a Central Asian mountain village." Central Asian Survey 32 (4):475-486.
* Botoeva, Aisalkyn, and Regine A. Spector. 2013. "Sewing to satisfaction: craft-based entrepreneurs in contemporary Kyrgyzstan." Central Asian Survey 32 (4):487-500.
* Borbieva, Noor O'Neill. 2013. "Anxiety, order and the other: well-being among ethnic Kyrgyz and Uzbeks." Central Asian Survey 32 (4):501-513.
* Louw, Maria. 2013. "Even honey may become bitter when there is too much of it: Islam and the struggle for a balanced existence in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan." Central Asian Survey 32 (4):514-526.
* Werner, Cynthia, Holly Barcus, and Namara Brede. 2013. "Discovering a sense of well-being through the revival of Islam: profiles of Kazakh imams in Western Mongolia." Central Asian Survey 32 (4):527-541.
* Montgomery, David W. 2015. "Introduction: The Politics of Well-being in Central Asia." Central Asian Affairs 2 (1):1-9.
* Murtazashvili, Jennifer Brick. 2015. "Bad Medicine: Diagnosing the Failure of State-Building Efforts in Afghanistan." Central Asian Affairs 2 (1):10-34.
* Montgomery, David W. 2015. "Islam beyond Democracy and State in Kyrgyzstan." Central Asian Affairs 2 (1):35-50.
* Schwab, Wendell. 2015. "Islam, Fun, and Social Capital in Kazakhstan." Central Asian Affairs 2 (1):51-70.
* Roche, Sophie. 2015. "Twenty-five Somonis for a Good Future: How Young Women in Tajikistan Shape Their Futures and Secure Their Present." Central Asian Affairs 2 (1):71-94.
* Zanca, Russell. 2015. "Eat, Drink, and Be Merry, and Damn the Dictatorship: Concepts and Conduct of Well-being in Uzbekistan." Central Asian Affairs 2 (1):95-115.
experiences—that explains how they make sense of religion and its place in the world.
Sometimes this experience is revelatory—of an insight gained that explains one’s life
trajectory—and sometimes it is more dismissive of religion all together. At different
levels—local, national, international as well as individual and collective—experience gets used to instantiate positions that get presented as authoritative and overlooked as being biased. In the case of Central Asia, Islam is often experienced in ways that impact understandings of security. Often, security discussions are framed at national and international levels that are guided by assumptions about the role of Islam in society that can seem quite removed from local understandings of Islam and security. Ethnographers working on the region have provided nuanced understandings of these tensions, and are here encouraged to engage beyond the confines of traditional scholarship to hold accountable characterizations of religion and security that are incongruent with the experiences of our interlocutors.
Full citation:
Montgomery, David W., Adam B. Seligman, and Rahel R. Wasserfall. 2022. "Learning to Live with Difference: How CEDAR Takes Anthropology Out of the Classroom and Into the World." In Profiles in Anthropological Praxis: An International Casebook, edited by Terry M. Redding and Charles C. Cheney, 213-223. New York: Berghahn Books.
This is the Bahasa Indonesia version of:
Montgomery, David W., Adam B. Seligman, and Rahel R. Wasserfall. 2022. "Learning to Live with Difference: How CEDAR Takes Anthropology Out of the Classroom and Into the World." In Profiles in Anthropological Praxis: An International Casebook, edited by Terry M. Redding and Charles C. Cheney, 213-223. New York: Berghahn Books.
The discussions circle around the definition, forms and roles of Islamic Civil Society, and their emergence in Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan in the post-Soviet era, within the context of different value systems including state secularism, local authorities and Western-backed civil society, by taking the period of Covid-19 pandemic and it’s results into consideration.
本文訳および解題：大池 真知子
The abstract of the original article (Society 56 (2019): 203-209) is as follows: We argue here that human rights are as much the problem as they are the solution to the contemporary challenge of constructing civil society, observing that the seemingly inherent long-term social and political consequences of close to half a century of advocating human rights to the exclusion of other components of human good and
«радикализации» подобного рода не подкрепляется доказательствами.
issue is one of theory and connects to the problem of theorising movement: how people navigate their religious lives is not linear but much more random, related to events, and at times reified by (though always engaging with) the assumptions of policy agendas and the ethnographic imagination. Exploring implications that the policy and ethnographic frames have for Muslims in the Kyrgyz Republic, I argue that in synthesising the impact of different frames of analysis, a ‘theory of the rough ground’, while anything but neat, better portrays life as it is experienced locally.
Whether you’re overjoyed or petrified at seeing Donald J. Trump in the White House, there’s probably one thing everyone can agree on: the other half of the country has gone mad. Yet despite our sharp ideological divisions, we all have to live together. David W. Montgomery (GRS’03,’07) is an expert on helping people with fundamental differences get along with each other. He says the secret is not to look for common ground, but to acknowledge our diversity—and disagreements. Montgomery is the coauthor of Living with Difference: How to Build Community in a Divided World (University of California Press, 2015) and director of program development for CEDAR, Communities Engaging with Difference & Religion. The book, written with Professor of Religion Adam B. Seligman and Rahel R. Wasserfall, is based on CEDAR’s experiences bringing people of different backgrounds and faiths (or none at all) together. The educational nonprofit runs fortnightly programs designed to encourage people to build a more tolerant world....
Bridging the divide is not about overcoming it, nor is it about acting as if there is no divide. The 2016 presidential election made the division within our country feel insurmountable....