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Law, society and corruption lessons from the Central Asian context Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-29 Timur Dadabaev
Published in Central Asian Survey (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Strengthening academia: embracing an open dialogue on fieldwork in the authoritarian states of Central Asia Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-22 Anna Jordanova
Students embarking on fieldwork across Eurasia, Africa and Latin America will encounter various political practices of regimes and conflicts involving varying levels of open violence. Although they...
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Women’s dance traditions of Uzbekistan: legacy of the silk road Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-13 Leora Eisenberg
Published in Central Asian Survey (Vol. 43, No. 3, 2024)
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Forgotten project of a private agricultural plantation in the Khanate of Khiva, Uzbekistan Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-13 Akifumi Shioya
This article re-evaluates a failed large irrigation enterprise and agricultural plantation in the Khanate of Khiva, an Imperial Russian protectorate in contemporary Uzbekistan, during the 1910s. Co...
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The varying levels of contrasting adaptation in Central Asia’s climate change politics Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Morena Skalamera
Central Asia is highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. There is, however, a lack of research on how local businesses, political elites and the general public perceive the need for comp...
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Between ‘info-killers’ and ‘spies’: three strategies for interviewing government officials across Central Asia Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Bakhytzhan Kurmanov
Researchers conducting politically sensitive studies in the authoritarian region of Central Asia face significant obstacles beyond government control over knowledge production. These challenges inc...
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Slow anti-Americanism: social movements and symbolic politics in Central Asia Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-23 Raushan Zhandayeva
Published in Central Asian Survey (Vol. 43, No. 3, 2024)
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Nation-branding in practice: the politics of promoting sports, cities and universities in Kazakhstan and Qatar Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-23 Halil Kürşad Aslan
Published in Central Asian Survey (Vol. 43, No. 3, 2024)
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Ambivalent heritage: tourism, weddings and pilgrimage in Hisor, Tajikistan Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-24 Benjamin Gatling
This article considers the social and symbolic work of Hisor as a site of Tajikistan’s cultural heritage. Hisor carries with it an array of meanings and represents a convergence of multiple spheres...
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Navigating complex narratives: understanding challenges of Russian-related research in Kazakhstan Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-12 Sanat Kushkumbayev, Aigerim Bakhtiyarova
The idea for this research note emerged in the aftermath of a survey that we conducted with Kazakhstani experts about their perceptions of the Western and Russian vectors in Kazakhstan’s foreign po...
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Qazaqstan. Kazakhstan. قازقستان : labirinty sovremennogo postkolonialnogo diskursa [Qazaqstan, Kazakhstan, قازقستان : labyrinths of a modern post-colonial discourse] Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-12 Kamila Kovyazina
Published in Central Asian Survey (Vol. 43, No. 2, 2024)
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The emotional sight of neoliberalized port infrastructure in the city of Poti, Georgia Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-11 Boris Komakhidze
This article traces an ethnography-based analysis of the historical Poti port as it has been socially imagined through the lenses of ideological transformations. Situated at a nexus of Black Sea tr...
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Foreign fighters and international peace: joining global jihad and marching back home Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-03 Edward Lemon
Published in Central Asian Survey (Vol. 43, No. 3, 2024)
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‘Linguistic compatriots’: on the relationship between Tajik and Judeo-Tajik language and literature Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-03 Thomas Loy
This paper follows the traces of Tajik and Judeo-Tajik literature in the early Soviet period and compares some prominent works and biographies of Tajik and Bukharan Jewish writers. In the 1920s and...
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Navigating tradition: agency of young urban women in Kyrgyzstan during wedding negotiations and early marriage Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-03 Iuliia Iui-ki, Elena Kosterina
Daughters-in-law (or kelins1 in the Kyrgyz language) have traditionally been portrayed in Kyrgyz society as holding a low social status, and are commonly subject to oppressive and negative practice...
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Iranian, Afghan or Central Asian? Patterns of mobility among Persianate Jews in the 19th and early 20th centuries Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-03 Ariane Sadjed
Focusing on aspects of mobility and daily life, this paper aims to highlight the history of nineteenth century Persian Jews as one of interconnectedness, but also separation. Various forms of inter...
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‘I became an Uzbek’: Jewish-Uzbek encounters in World War Two evacuation Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-31 Leora Eisenberg
Examinations of WWII-era Jewish evacuation to Central Asia traditionally focus either on the elite or the common people, subsequently concluding that the locale either fostered interethnic harmony ...
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Migration from Central Asia: stories and identity formation Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Mehmet Akif Okur
Published in Central Asian Survey (Vol. 43, No. 2, 2024)
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‘As long as you’re not an asshole’: insider-outsider dynamics in queer research Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-30 Elliot Napier
This research note is a contribution to the growing body of literature discussing the methodological, ethical and personal questions of researching queer issues in Central Asia. Through reflective ...
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Experiences of female early-career professionals in male-dominated STEM companies in Kazakhstan Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Aliya Kuzhabekova, Dinara Mukhamejanova, Ainur Almukhambetova
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Kazakhstan put forward elaborate initiatives to address gender segregation in the labour market. However, female professionals are still heavily underreprese...
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Geopolitics of cryptocurrency mining in Kazakhstan Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Hugo Estecahandy
In January 2022, a massive power blackout hit Central Asia, and especially the southern region of Kazakhstan after months of a huge rise in electricity consumption in the country and a few days aft...
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Internationalization of higher education in Central Asia: a systematic review Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Munyaradzi Hwami, Saule Yeszhanova, Moldir Amanzhol, Chinedu Elizabeth Okafor, Merey Tursynbayeva
Despite the growing literature on higher education internationalization in Central Asia, such literature remains unexamined for its criticality. Our systematic integrative literature review helps a...
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Responding to atheist state policy and practicing religion: the Ismailis of Soviet Badakhshan Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Sultonbek Aksakolov
This paper explores the implementation of Soviet religious policy among the Ismaili Muslim population of the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast (GBAO) of Soviet Tajikistan. By means of oral intervi...
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Introduction: LGBTQ+ visibilities in the Caucasus and Central Asia Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Cai Wilkinson, Jasmin Dall’Agnola
The idea for this collection of papers emerged from a desire to showcase queer scholarship in and on the region, following a panel discussion about the visibility of queer communities in the post-S...
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LGBTQ+ activism in Azerbaijan: shifting queer (in)visibility regime through power–knowledge technologies Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Khayyam Namazov
The queer (in)visibility regime in Azerbaijan has been historically structured through centralizing powers and the coloniality of knowledge(s) in their Russian/Soviet and contemporary Western manif...
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On language gifts: public discourses on Kazakh and Russian in Kazakhstan Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Alexander Ten
This article examines public discussions on Kazakh and Russian in post-Soviet Kazakhstan between 1989 and 2019 by using the Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse. It focuses on how conflicti...
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The grass is always greener? Unpacking Uzbek migration to Japan Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Yang Zhao
Published in Central Asian Survey (Vol. 43, No. 2, 2024)
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Uyat and the culture of shame in Central Asia Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Aizhamal Muratalieva
Published in Central Asian Survey (Vol. 43, No. 1, 2024)
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Tracing the atom: Nuclear legacies in Russia and Central Asia Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Nikolaos Olma
Published in Central Asian Survey (Vol. 43, No. 1, 2024)
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Framing the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict: an analysis of the narratives of the state leaders of Azerbaijan, Armenia and Turkey, 2002–2022 Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Naira E. Sahakyan
The modern phase of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan has lasted for over three decades. Since the independent republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan emerged in 1991, the st...
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Russian imperial borderlands, Georgian Jews, and the struggle for ‘justice’ and ‘legality’: blood libel in Kutaisi, 1878–80 Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Stefan B. Kirmse
This article analyses the Kutaisi Trial (1878–80), a little-known case of blood libel in the Caucasus, in which nine Jewish men stood accused of involvement in the killing of a Georgian girl. All d...
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Politicking of Islam and LGBTQ+ discourse in Uzbekistan Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Gena Cheburashka
While the rights of LGBTQ+ people are improving in many regions of the world, the protections and freedoms of the queer community in Uzbekistan are stagnating. In this research note, I share some o...
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The multiethnic Soviet Union and its demise Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Bendi Tso
Published in Central Asian Survey (Vol. 43, No. 1, 2024)
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Narrating the state in miniature: philatelic representations of Kazakhstan, 1992–2021 Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Kristopher D. White
Postage stamps, despite being somewhat cloaked over time by both obscurity and sheer ubiquity, are important official, primary source state documents. The iconography and visual data on the stamp h...
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Fieldwork within queer communities in Central Asia: a research note Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Ainagul Aitbayeva
Researchers researching and belonging to a marginalized community often must take additional measures to protect their research participants and themselves from verbal and physical harm. These are ...
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Methods of studying LGBT experiences in the situation of invisibility: from African countries to Uzbekistan Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Alexander Sasha Kondakov
This article explores contexts where homosexuality is criminalized and looks at the methods which scholars use to study LGBT+ experiences there. It is based on an extensive literature review which ...
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Afghan Napoleon: The life of Ahmad Shah Massoud Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 A. Javeed Ahwar
Published in Central Asian Survey (Vol. 43, No. 1, 2024)
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Author reply: Engaging with non-political lifeworlds, dialogical research and decolonial horizons through Post-Liberal Statebuilding in Central Asia Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Philipp Lottholz
Published in Central Asian Survey (Vol. 42, No. 4, 2023)
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Dekolonizatsiia Kazahstana Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Rustem Zholdybalin
Published in Central Asian Survey (Vol. 42, No. 4, 2023)
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Diversifying/revitalizing the study of Central Asia and the Caucasus Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Rico Isaacs, Jasmin Dall’Agnola
Published in Central Asian Survey (Vol. 42, No. 4, 2023)
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Let’s talk about researchers’ mental well-being Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Jasmin Dall’Agnola
Although mental health concerns among university populations are on the rise, discussions of academia-related trauma rarely occur in published outlets. They are usually limited to informal talks an...
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Introducing the symposium on Philipp Lottholz’s Post-Liberal Statebuilding in Central Asia: Imaginaries, Discourses and Practices of Social Ordering Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Liam Devereux
Published in Central Asian Survey (Vol. 42, No. 4, 2023)
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A practitioner's perspective from Kyrgyzstan: Post-Liberal Statebuilding in Central Asia Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Arzuu Sheranova
Published in Central Asian Survey (Vol. 42, No. 4, 2023)
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A reading from Kazakhstan with a focus on decolonization: Post-Liberal Statebuilding in Central Asia Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Galym Zhussipbek
Published in Central Asian Survey (Vol. 42, No. 4, 2023)
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Taking account of authoritarian peacebuilding in Post-Liberal Statebuilding in Central Asia Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Nick Megoran
Published in Central Asian Survey (Vol. 42, No. 4, 2023)
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Scrutinizing ethnographic depth and civil society impacts in Post-Liberal Statebuilding in Central Asia Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Noor O’Neill Borbieva
Published in Central Asian Survey (Vol. 42, No. 4, 2023)
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Transgender activism in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Yana Kirey-Sitnikova
Although the lives of LGBT people in Central Asia have recently received scholarly attention, authors do not pay due attention to transgender (trans) issues. This paper explores living conditions o...
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‘Listening State?’: exploring citizens’ perceptions of Open Government in Tokayev’s Kazakhstan Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Bakhytzhan Kurmanov, Urazgali Selteyev, Anuar Almaganbetov
The Open Government reform has been actively adopted across various non-democratic regimes, including post-Soviet Central Asia. The reform is supposed to bolster responsiveness and transparency thr...
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Inside Afghanistan: Political networks, informal order, and state disruption Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Sayed Ziafatullah Saeedi
Published in Central Asian Survey (Vol. 43, No. 1, 2024)
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‘What have you done, brother Putin?’: Everyday geopolitics and Central Asian labour migration to Russia Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-10-24 Sherzod Eraliev, Rustamjon Urinboyev
The geopolitical positioning of Central Asia as the centre of the ‘Eurasian Heartland’ has been the subject of extensive debates in academic and policy circles over the last three decades. However,...
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Working with the Taliban: from the first to the second Emirate Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-10-05 Astri Suhrke, Susanne Schmeidl
Nearly two years after the Taliban seized power in Kabul, in August 2021, the international aid community continued to search for workable approaches to deal with the new situation. Afghanistan’s d...
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Gorno-Badakhshan and Karakalpakstan since 1991: understanding territorial autonomy in Central Asia Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-10-05 Ivan Ulises Kłyszcz
The two Central Asian autonomies of Gorno-Badakhshan and Karakalpakstan have functionally the same competencies as other regions in their respective countries. And yet their autonomous status has p...
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Was the prehistoric man an Azeri nationalist?: Mobilized prehistory and nation-building in Azerbaijan Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Uri Rosenberg
Gobustan, a prehistoric site 60 km south of Baku, has an impressive collection of rock carvings from different prehistoric eras. Near the site, a national museum presents the prehistoric findings i...
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Civil society, social capital and development in Central Asia Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Kemel Toktomushev
There is a paradox of social capital in Central Asia. Despite the efforts of the international community to promote civil society in the region, Central Asia has one of the most restrictive environ...
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Digital media consumption and voting among Central Asian youth: why democratic context matters Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-08-15 Amanzhol Bekmagambetov, Jason Gainous, Kevin M. Wagner, Zhaxylyk Sabitov, Adil Rodionov, Bryce Kleinsteuber
A wealth of research examines the relationship between digital media consumption and political participation. Research typically defines participation broadly and focuses on Western contexts. We se...
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‘Why wave the flag?’: (in)visible queer activism in authoritarian Kazakhstan and Russia Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-08-14 Mariya Levitanus, Polina Kislitsyna
Western queer politics aspires to increase the visibility of queer subjects who have been highly regulated in Kazakhstan and Russia. Drawing on three interview studies conducted in 2017 and 2018 in...
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Private supplementary tutoring and educational inequality in secondary education in Kazakhstan Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-08-14 Anas Hajar, Mehmet Karakus
This mixed-methods study is the first to explore the association between fee-charging private supplementary tutoring (PT) participation and access to higher education in Kazakhstan from the perspec...
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Economic development without rural–urban migration in Georgia Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-07-20 Michael Beenstock
Against the prediction of developmental orthodoxy that urbanization is a necessary condition for economic development, since the mid-1990s Georgia and Armenia achieved sustained economic developmen...
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Andreas Wilde (1976–2022) Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-06-22 James Pickett
Published in Central Asian Survey (Vol. 42, No. 2, 2023)
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International investment law and investor–state disputes in Central Asia: Emerging issues Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-06-22 James R. Baugh
Published in Central Asian Survey (Vol. 42, No. 3, 2023)