Semantics of frontier disloyalty in the border regions of Inner Asia

Abstract

In research on political loyalty, projections and manifestations of loyalty are considered as a dynamic process open to alternatives and subordinated to the current cultural and social situation. Loyalty is seen as a difficult choice of a subject among many cultural and confessional alternatives, largely primary in relation to the classical concepts of "identity" and "ethnicity". In the perspective of frontier danger presented in the article, the drama of disloyalty is not in danger of choice, but in the impossibility of meeting a given level of political and cultural loyalty. The examples shown represent the problem of indelible guilt of people excluded from the imaginary community of loyal citizens and imprisoned in the territorial trap of a politically dangerous territory directly related to the discourses of frontier disloyalty. In this perspective, the problem of disloyalty is not solvable, since each new decision generates new suspicions.