Rustamjon Urinboyev
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Rustamjon Urinboyev is a leading scholar in legal anthropology, corruption studies, and post-Soviet governance, with a focus on Central Asia. His work challenges conventional understandings of corruption by examining how informal practices and “living law” shape everyday life in authoritarian contexts. His most-cited paper, “Rethinking Corruption in Post-Soviet Uzbekistan: Ethnography of ‘Living Law’” (2014), draws on ethnographic fieldwork in a rural Ferghana village to reveal how local norms and rituals—such as the *nikoh toi* wedding ceremony—blur the lines between legality, morality, and survival. This study has been influential in reorienting corruption research toward grassroots perspectives, earning recognition for its methodological depth and theoretical innovation. Urinboyev’s broader contributions include analyzing state-society relations, legal pluralism, and the resilience of informal economies in Uzbekistan and beyond. With over 2 citations on this foundational paper and growing impact across anthropology, law, and political science, his work is essential reading for scholars of post-Soviet transitions, governance, and the anthropology of the state. His ethnographic approach offers a rare, ground-level view of how ordinary people navigate and reshape state power.
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