TY - JOUR
T1 - How master frames mislead
T2 - The division and eclipse of nationalist movements in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan
AU - Markowitz, Lawrence P.
N1 - Funding Information:
The author wishes to acknowledge fellowship support from Fulbright-Hays and International Research & Exchanges Board, which enabled field research that contributed to material presented in this article.
PY - 2009/5
Y1 - 2009/5
N2 - This article examines how a successful master frame in one location can promote mobilization failure in another by misleading movement entrepreneurs. It revisits two cases of low nationalist mobilization in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan to demonstrate that a fuller explanation should include the tactical choices - good and bad - of movement leaders. In both cases, a transnational anti-imperial master frame misled separatist nationalists, causing them to undervalue critical shifts in the political environments in their republics. In Uzbekistan, this frame left the Birlik nationalist movement open to division by the state in the aftermath of inter-ethnic violence, while it made Tajikistan's Rastokhez movement susceptible to eclipse by regionalist mobilization in Tajikistan.
AB - This article examines how a successful master frame in one location can promote mobilization failure in another by misleading movement entrepreneurs. It revisits two cases of low nationalist mobilization in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan to demonstrate that a fuller explanation should include the tactical choices - good and bad - of movement leaders. In both cases, a transnational anti-imperial master frame misled separatist nationalists, causing them to undervalue critical shifts in the political environments in their republics. In Uzbekistan, this frame left the Birlik nationalist movement open to division by the state in the aftermath of inter-ethnic violence, while it made Tajikistan's Rastokhez movement susceptible to eclipse by regionalist mobilization in Tajikistan.
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U2 - 10.1080/01419870801961508
DO - 10.1080/01419870801961508
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:70449348219
SN - 0141-9870
VL - 32
SP - 716
EP - 738
JO - Ethnic and Racial Studies
JF - Ethnic and Racial Studies
IS - 4
ER -