Nightmarizing states : affective encounters with counter-extremism in Kazakhstan
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- Maurizio Totaro (UGent)
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- After two violent episodes in the cities of Aktobe and Almaty during the summer of 2016, Islamic extremism resurfaced forcibly as an object of securitization in Kazakhstan. By focusing on anti-terror simulations and the performance of a theater play in the city of Aqtau, in this paper I argue that encounters with security measures and performances are formative moments for people's sensual apprehension of "the threat" and "the state" through the circulation of affects and emotions, lending a visceral dimension to the understanding of (in)security. Rather than uncritically enhancing the need for further securitization, the affective encounters were constitutive of wider political assessments, and of the very sense and meaning of "security".
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- Sociology and Political Science, DANGER, DISCOURSES, SPACES, TIME
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-01HDECFJY60NJ757WSCEKRC8TQ
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- Totaro, Maurizio. “Nightmarizing States : Affective Encounters with Counter-Extremism in Kazakhstan.” PROBLEMS OF POST-COMMUNISM, vol. 68, no. 2, 2021, pp. 141–50, doi:10.1080/10758216.2020.1757465.
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- Totaro, M. (2021). Nightmarizing states : affective encounters with counter-extremism in Kazakhstan. PROBLEMS OF POST-COMMUNISM, 68(2), 141–150. https://doi.org/10.1080/10758216.2020.1757465
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- Totaro, Maurizio. 2021. “Nightmarizing States : Affective Encounters with Counter-Extremism in Kazakhstan.” PROBLEMS OF POST-COMMUNISM 68 (2): 141–50. https://doi.org/10.1080/10758216.2020.1757465.
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- Totaro, Maurizio. 2021. “Nightmarizing States : Affective Encounters with Counter-Extremism in Kazakhstan.” PROBLEMS OF POST-COMMUNISM 68 (2): 141–150. doi:10.1080/10758216.2020.1757465.
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- 1.Totaro M. Nightmarizing states : affective encounters with counter-extremism in Kazakhstan. PROBLEMS OF POST-COMMUNISM. 2021;68(2):141–50.
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- [1]M. Totaro, “Nightmarizing states : affective encounters with counter-extremism in Kazakhstan,” PROBLEMS OF POST-COMMUNISM, vol. 68, no. 2, pp. 141–150, 2021.
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