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Volume 43, 2015 - Issue 3: "Imagined" vs "real" nation-building: language and identity policies between theory and practice in Central Asia
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Building a nation through a dam: the case of Rogun in Tajikistan

Filippo MengaDepartment of Social Sciences, University of Cagliari, ItalyCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 479-494 | Received 14 Oct 2013, Accepted 17 Apr 2014, Published online: 08 Jul 2014

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