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Discourse and social change
- Publisher
- Brill
- Copyright
- © 2014 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
- Subject
- Articles
- ISSN
- 2214-2282
- eISSN
- 2214-2290
- DOI
- 10.1163/22142290-00102005
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
Between 2009 and 2011 Tajikistan experienced one of the worst bouts of political violence since the end of the country’s civil war. The fighting was concentrated in the Rasht Valley, an area traditionally associated with opposition to the regime. As a result, the government attempted to fix the meaning of the conflict around the signifiers “international terrorism” and “radical Islam.” This framing directly reproduced the regime’s hegemony through legitimating the removal of opponents and contrasting the Tajik “self” with the terrorist “other.” The hegemonic narrative was incomplete and contained inconsistencies. As a result, anti-hegemonic actors attempted to undermine its legitimacy. Although these critical articulations destabilized the narrative, due to their dispersed and divergent nature, it ultimately maintained its hegemonic position.
Journal
Central Asian Affairs – Brill
Published: Sep 12, 2014
Keywords: Tajikistan; terrorism; Islam; conflict; framing