Moving beyond state-centric and elitist perspectives, this volume examines everyday security in the Central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and written by scholars from Central Asia and beyond, it shows how insecurity is experienced, what people consider existential threats, and how they go about securing themselves.

Contributions by: Conrad Schetter, Asel Myrzabekova, Kathrin Oestmann, Hafiz Boboyorov