Prevrashenie (Transformation) of Bacha: Cracks and Ghostly Matters in the National/ist Heritage of Central Asia

Current attempts by local national/ist governments to impose a rigid binary gender order on local populations are as colonial as the Russian and Soviet colonial attempts to remake Central Asian communities; these efforts are deemed to fail. Bach[ch]a (adolescent feminine male performers), as a gender position and socio-cultural insti- tution not reduced to sexuality, is but one example of such efforts’ futility. By adapting to a changing socio-political context, bacha did not disappear; overtime, this institu- tion prevratilos’ (has transformed) into something else.

Author

• Vilkovisky, Maria
• Peshkova, SvetLana
• Jenrbekova, Ruthia

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.30965/22142290-12340020

Keyword

• colonial
• Soviet
• nationalist
• gender
• Bacha(s)
• queer
• bachcha
• Central Asia

Date created

• 2022

Related url

•  https://brill.com/view/journals/caa/caa-overview.xml

Type of Work

• Article

Source

• 22142290-12340020

License

• All rights reserved

Rights statement

• In Copyright

GW Unit

• Central Asian Affairs Journal

Persistent URL

•  https://scholarspace.library.gwu.edu/work/zk51vh669

In Collection:

• Central Asian Affairs

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