@article{article_267055, title={The Center-Local Relationship in Uzbekistan: The Case of Tashkent Mahallas}, journal={Bilig}, pages={123–146}, year={2014}, author={Çolpan Kavuncu, Ayşe}, keywords={Decentralization, Uzbekistan, Mahalla Kengash, post-Soviet Transition, center-local relationship}, abstract={This article examines the two dynamics causing conflict in the center-local relationship in post-Soviet geography – an issue that is lacking in many post-Soviet studies – through the case of the mahalla-scaled policies of Uzbek regime within the conceptual framework of a neo-Gramscian perspective: (a) the conflict between the decentralization policy of the nation- states in order to adapt to the structural hegemony of neoliberalism and the original conditions of the post-Soviet tran- sition era, which have resulted in the centralist tendency of the nation-states – the creation of a nation-state and the creation of a private sector by the state; (b) the conflict between the tactics of different mahalla kengashes, which are a form of local social relations, and the strategies of the national state related with the mahalla kengash.}, number={71}, publisher={Khoja Akhmet Yassawi International Kazakh-Turkish University}