read the chapters below, the book is here:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YrB7aqwbuNWD3Za_1…

1. Diener and Hagan, The Uzbekistan-Kyrgyzstan Boundary (Chapter 3)
2. Diener and Hagan, Locating Kurdistan (Chapter 7)
3. Diener and Hagan The Wakhan Corridor (Chapter 4)
4. Diener and Hagan, The Border Enclaves of India and Bangladesh (Chapter 2)

answer the question:

1. Writing about the Uzbek-Kyrgyz boundary, Nick Megoran states that the border is “more than a line on a map. It is crucial to the struggles over the power to identify, claim, and rule post-Soviet Ferghana Valley space” with a boundary that was drawn as “the creative whim of Stalin.” Deconstruct this statement using the case studies of the Uzbek-Kyrgyz and India-Bangladesh enclaves/exclaves, the Wakhan corridor, and the Kurdish quest for a homeland as your illustrative examples. How might you apply the ideas of “conceived,” “perceived,” and “lived” spaces to these cases?
2. In the case studies you read, how do history, culture, religion, and nationalism explain the anomalous nature of borders as they exist and the conflicts they create? And how would you explain Northrop’s statement that “borders divide people, but in Central Asia, they created people as well”?
3. Do you think the Kurds will ever have their own state? Why or why not?
4. How did the division of the Pamir region between the Russian and later the Soviet state on the one hand and Afghanistan on the other affect the lives of the inhabitants of the Pamirs?
5. How and why were the India-Bangladesh enclaves created? Why did the resolution of this issue take so long?