Introduction, Marlene Laruelle
Part I: Uzbekistan's Political Construct
Chapter 1: When Security Trumps Identity: Uzbekistan's Foreign Policy under Islam Karimov, Matteo Fumagalli
Chapter 2: The Magic of Territory: Remaking of Border Landscapes as a Spatial Manifestation of Nationalist Ideology, Nick Megoran
Chapter 3: Grand Corruption in Uzbekistan's Telecommunications Sector: Root Causes and Social Costs, Alisher Ilkhamov
Chapter 4: Uzbek Political Thinking in the Third Decade of Independence, Morgan Y. Liu
Part II: Agriculture and Labor Migration. Changing the Social Fabric
Chapter 5: Government, Cotton Farms, and Labor Migration from Uzbekistan, Russell Zanca
Chapter 6: Uzbeks in Russia: A New Diaspora or a Transnational Society?, Sergei Abashin
Chapter 7: Establishing an "Uzbek Mahalla" via Smartphones and Social Media: Everyday Transnational Lives of Uzbek Labor Migrants in Russia, Rustamjon Urinboyev
Part III: Uzbek Islam: State Control, Resilience, and Resistance
Chapter 8: Counter-Extremism, Secularism, and the Category of Religion in the United Kingdom and Uzbekistan: Should We Be Studying Islam at All?, Johan Rasanayagam
Chapter 9: At the Crossroads of Religion and Regime Security: Teaching Islam in Uzbekistan,
Sebastien Peyrouse
Chapter 10: Moral Exemplars and Ordinary Ethics: Sufism in Bukhara, Maria Louw
Chapter 11: The Evolving "Uzbek Jihad": Islamist Militant Recruiting and State Responses, Noah Tucker
Part IV: Renegotiating Identities and Cultural Legacies
Chapter 12: Be(com)ing Uzbek: Patterns of Identification and Processes of Assimilation,
Peter Finke
Chapter 13: The Nation Narrated: Uzbekistan's Political and Cultural Nationalism, Marlene Laruelle
Chapter 14: Public Life in Private Spaces in Uzbekistan: Women, Religion, and Politics, Svetlana Peshkova
Chapter 15: Gender and Changing Women's Roles in Uzbekistan: From Soviet Workers to Post-Soviet Entrepreneurs, Rano Turaeva-Hoehne