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October 2024, Volume 43, Issue 4
- 449-467 Ambivalent heritage: tourism, weddings and pilgrimage in Hisor, Tajikistan
by Benjamin Gatling - 468-486 The emotional sight of neoliberalized port infrastructure in the city of Poti, Georgia
by Boris Komakhidze - 487-503 Navigating tradition: agency of young urban women in Kyrgyzstan during wedding negotiations and early marriage
by Iuliia Iui-ki & Elena Kosterina - 504-522 The impact of China’s high-tech repression on Uyghurs: a case study of Uyghur diaspora in Turkiye
by Lacin Idil Oztig & Abdurresit Celil Karluk - 523-541 Experiences of female early-career professionals in male-dominated STEM companies in Kazakhstan
by Aliya Kuzhabekova & Dinara Mukhamejanova & Ainur Almukhambetova - 542-550 Imperskost’ from Central (Eur)Asian ethnography to the self
by SvetLana Peshkova - 551-559 Subverting oppressive structures: on kelinhood, solidarity and feminist research in the bazaars
by Binazirbonu Yusupova - 560-562 Political Islam and democracy in Central Asia: the Islamic revival party of Tajikistan
by Ahmet Furkan Özyakar - 562-563 Law, society and corruption lessons from the Central Asian context
by Timur Dadabaev - 564-565 The hidden caliphate: Sufi saints beyond the Oxus and Indus
by Murid Shah Nadiri - 566-567 Soft power in Central Asia: the politics of influence and seduction
by Aigerim Bakhtiyarova - 568-570 Kratkaia istoriia kazakhov. Ot pervykh kochevnikov do nashikh dnei
by Zhaxylyk Sabitov
July 2024, Volume 43, Issue 3
- 307-326 Central Asian studies in the People’s Republic of China: a structural topic model
by Frank Maracchione & Bradley Jardine - 327-345 Geopolitics of cryptocurrency mining in Kazakhstan
by Hugo Estecahandy - 346-365 On language gifts: public discourses on Kazakh and Russian in Kazakhstan
by Alexander Ten - 366-382 Responding to atheist state policy and practicing religion: the Ismailis of Soviet Badakhshan
by Sultonbek Aksakolov - 383-399 Framing the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict: an analysis of the narratives of the state leaders of Azerbaijan, Armenia and Turkey, 2002–2022
by Naira E. Sahakyan - 400-419 Internationalization of higher education in Central Asia: a systematic review
by Munyaradzi Hwami & Saule Yeszhanova & Moldir Amanzhol & Chinedu Elizabeth Okafor & Merey Tursynbayeva - 420-428 Between ‘info-killers’ and ‘spies’: three strategies for interviewing government officials across Central Asia
by Bakhytzhan Kurmanov - 429-436 Strengthening academia: embracing an open dialogue on fieldwork in the authoritarian states of Central Asia
by Anna Jordanova - 437-438 Foreign fighters and international peace: joining global jihad and marching back home
by Edward Lemon - 438-440 Nation-branding in practice: the politics of promoting sports, cities and universities in Kazakhstan and Qatar
by Halil Kürşad Aslan - 441-443 Slow anti-Americanism: social movements and symbolic politics in Central Asia
by Raushan Zhandayeva - 443-445 Women’s dance traditions of Uzbekistan: legacy of the silk road
by Leora Eisenberg - 445-447 Eurasian crossroads: a history of Xinjiang
by Vijaya Chamundeswari
April 2024, Volume 43, Issue 2
- 171-195 Russian imperial borderlands, Georgian Jews, and the struggle for ‘justice’ and ‘legality’: blood libel in Kutaisi, 1878–80
by Stefan B. Kirmse - 196-214 Was the prehistoric man an Azeri nationalist?: Mobilized prehistory and nation-building in Azerbaijan
by Uri Rosenberg - 215-234 ‘What have you done, brother Putin?’: Everyday geopolitics and Central Asian labour migration to Russia
by Sherzod Eraliev & Rustamjon Urinboyev - 235-256 ‘Listening State?’: exploring citizens’ perceptions of Open Government in Tokayev’s Kazakhstan
by Bakhytzhan Kurmanov & Urazgali Selteyev & Anuar Almaganbetov - 257-277 Narrating the state in miniature: philatelic representations of Kazakhstan, 1992–2021
by Kristopher D. White - 278-285 ‘As long as you’re not an asshole’: insider-outsider dynamics in queer research
by Elliot Napier - 286-294 Navigating complex narratives: understanding challenges of Russian-related research in Kazakhstan
by Sanat Kushkumbayev & Aigerim Bakhtiyarova - 295-297 The grass is always greener? Unpacking Uzbek migration to Japan
by Yang Zhao - 297-299 Migration from Central Asia: stories and identity formation
by Mehmet Akif Okur - 299-301 The European Union, China and Central Asia: global and regional cooperation in a new era
by Ryan Hitch - 301-303 Istoriografiia Koreitsev Tsentral’noi Azii: osnovnye napravleniia i etapy razvitiia
by Mira Kuzhakhmetova - 304-306 Qazaqstan. Kazakhstan. قازقستان : labirinty sovremennogo postkolonialnogo diskursa [Qazaqstan, Kazakhstan, قازقستان : labyrinths of a modern post-colonial discourse]
by Kamila Kovyazina
January 2024, Volume 43, Issue 1
- 1-11 Introduction: LGBTQ+ visibilities in the Caucasus and Central Asia
by Cai Wilkinson & Jasmin Dall’Agnola - 12-32 ‘Why wave the flag?’: (in)visible queer activism in authoritarian Kazakhstan and Russia
by Mariya Levitanus & Polina Kislitsyna - 33-48 Transgender activism in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan
by Yana Kirey-Sitnikova - 49-64 Digital misrecognitions: the violence of visibility in postsocialist Kyrgyzstan
by Alexa Kurmanov & Sanjar Kurmanov - 65-82 LGBTQ+ activism in Azerbaijan: shifting queer (in)visibility regime through power–knowledge technologies
by Khayyam Namazov - 83-100 Methods of studying LGBT experiences in the situation of invisibility: from African countries to Uzbekistan
by Alexander Sasha Kondakov - 101-122 Persuasion or polarization? LGBTQ+ attitudes among young social media users in Kazakhstan
by Marika Olijar & Junda Li - 123-142 Smartphones and public support for LGBTQ+ in Central Asia
by Jasmin Dall’Agnola - 143-150 Fieldwork within queer communities in Central Asia: a research note
by Ainagul Aitbayeva - 151-157 Politicking of Islam and LGBTQ+ discourse in Uzbekistan
by Gena Cheburashka - 158-159 Inside Afghanistan: Political networks, informal order, and state disruption
by Sayed Ziafatullah Saeedi - 160-162 Afghan Napoleon: The life of Ahmad Shah Massoud
by A. Javeed Ahwar - 162-164 Tracing the atom: Nuclear legacies in Russia and Central Asia
by Nikolaos Olma - 164-167 Uyat and the culture of shame in Central Asia
by Aizhamal Muratalieva - 167-169 The multiethnic Soviet Union and its demise
by Bendi Tso
October 2023, Volume 42, Issue 4
- 639-640 Diversifying/revitalizing the study of Central Asia and the Caucasus
by Rico Isaacs & Jasmin Dall’Agnola - 641-648 Let’s talk about researchers’ mental well-being
by Jasmin Dall’Agnola - 649-673 The conceptual evolution of poverty alleviation through labour transfer in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
by Adrian Zenz - 674-693 Digital media consumption and voting among Central Asian youth: why democratic context matters
by Amanzhol Bekmagambetov & Jason Gainous & Kevin M. Wagner & Zhaxylyk Sabitov & Adil Rodionov & Bryce Kleinsteuber - 694-709 The ‘Pragmatic cooperation’ in the Belt and Road Initiative: the Sino-Turkmen natural gas engagement
by Qian Liu & Xiaoguang Wang & Xue Lv - 710-725 Civil society, social capital and development in Central Asia
by Kemel Toktomushev - 726-727 Introducing the symposium on Philipp Lottholz’s Post-Liberal Statebuilding in Central Asia: Imaginaries, Discourses and Practices of Social Ordering
by Liam Devereux - 727-729 A practitioner's perspective from Kyrgyzstan: Post-Liberal Statebuilding in Central Asia
by Arzuu Sheranova - 729-732 A reading from Kazakhstan with a focus on decolonization: Post-Liberal Statebuilding in Central Asia
by Galym Zhussipbek - 732-734 Taking account of authoritarian peacebuilding in Post-Liberal Statebuilding in Central Asia
by Nick Megoran - 734-736 Scrutinizing ethnographic depth and civil society impacts in Post-Liberal Statebuilding in Central Asia
by Noor O’Neill Borbieva - 736-739 Author reply: Engaging with non-political lifeworlds, dialogical research and decolonial horizons through Post-Liberal Statebuilding in Central Asia
by Philipp Lottholz - 740-742 Dekolonizatsiia Kazahstana
by Rustem Zholdybalin
July 2023, Volume 42, Issue 3
- 429-443 On the problem of Sāmānid origins
by Ali Anooshahr - 444-460 ‘The freedom of a fair word’: the roots of human rights discourse in Kazakh cultural heritage
by Beibit Yu. Shangirbayeva - 461-479 Vehicularizing the vernacular: using the periodical press to popularize vernacular languages in Soviet Turkic communities
by Michael J. Erdman - 480-499 In Soviet educational greenhouses: on the problem of language teaching to the Bukharan–Jewish children of Uzbekistan, 1917–47
by Albert Kaganovitch - 500-517 Gorno-Badakhshan and Karakalpakstan since 1991: understanding territorial autonomy in Central Asia
by Ivan Ulises Kłyszcz - 518-536 Working with the Taliban: from the first to the second Emirate
by Astri Suhrke & Susanne Schmeidl - 537-560 Economic development without rural–urban migration in Georgia
by Michael Beenstock - 561-576 The cat in Mongolian society: a good, bad and ugly animal
by Baasanjav Terbish - 577-596 Bridge or base? Chinese perceptions of Central Asia under Europeanisation
by Pengfei Hou - 597-616 The long-run analysis of the association between macroeconomic variables and suicide: the case of Turkic-speaking countries in Central Asia
by Yüksel Okşak & Cüneyt Koyuncu & Rasim Yilmaz - 617-636 Private supplementary tutoring and educational inequality in secondary education in Kazakhstan
by Anas Hajar & Mehmet Karakus - 637-638 International investment law and investor–state disputes in Central Asia: Emerging issues
by James R. Baugh
April 2023, Volume 42, Issue 2
- 219-237 We need to talk about political society: subaltern resistances beyond civil society in Eastern Europe and Eurasia
by Lela Rekhviashvili - 238-253 A narrative analysis: tragic images of the Aral Sea in the Russophone ecopoems
by Zarkamol Munisov (Camille) & Iris Borowy - 254-273 Factors inhibiting institutional responses to domestic violence in Kyrgyzstan
by Saltanat Childress & Nibedita Shrestha & Kendall Anekwe & Mitchell D. Wong & Rebecca N. Dudovitz - 274-292 The tragedy of irregular migration: the case of Afghans in Turkey
by Abdullah Yarash Jurat - 293-318 Exploring civil society perspectives on the situation of human rights defenders in the Commonwealth of Independent States
by Paul Chaney - 319-340 Yearning for a homogeneous Chinese nation: digital propaganda campaigns after the 2020 protest in Inner Mongolia
by Gegentuul Baioud & Cholmon Khuanuud - 341-358 The Tajik Civil War and Russia’s Islamist moment
by Vassily Klimentov - 359-382 Post-Soviet settlement of the Sino-Soviet border: a failed attempt at a three-level game, 1991–2012
by Alsu Tagirova - 383-401 Representation of the Kazakhstani famine (1931–33) in secondary school history textbooks, 1992–2021
by Berikbol Dukeyev - 402-420 Employment of master’s degree graduates in Kazakhstan: navigating an uncertain labour market
by Dilrabo Jonbekova & Gulfiya Kuchumova & Bridget Goodman & Jason Sparks & Sulushash Kerimkulova - 421-423 Rentier capitalism and its discontents: Power, morality and resistance in Central Asia
by Galym Zhussipbek - 423-425 Parliamentary representation in Central Asia: MPs between representing their voters and serving an authoritarian regime
by Rico Isaacs - 426-427 Andreas Wilde (1976–2022)
by James Pickett
January 2023, Volume 42, Issue 1
- 1-1 Correction
by The Editors - 1-20 A void in Central Asia research: climate change
by Roman Vakulchuk & Anne Sophie Daloz & Indra Overland & Haakon Fossum Sagbakken & Karina Standal - 21-40 Rivers between nature, infrastructure, and religion
by Ketevan Gurchiani - 41-60 ‘Birds without legs’: legal integration as potentiality for women of an Afghan-Turkmen family in Istanbul
by Diana Ibañez-Tirado & Rabia Latif Khan - 61-88 Place-name wars in Karabakh: Russian Imperial maps and political legitimacy in the Caucasus
by Arsène Saparov - 89-108 Corruption, public procurement and political instability in Kazakhstan
by Zhaslan Khamitov & Colin Knox & Gulsara Junusbekova - 109-126 ‘Two parts – one whole’? Kazakh–Kyrgyz relations in the making of Soviet Kyrgyzstan, 1917–24
by Mirlan Bektursunov - 127-148 Changes in the flock: sheep-keeping as a symbol of the transformation of the Kazakh traditional economy
by Aibubi Duisebayeva & Ian W. Campbell - 149-170 Informality versus shadow economy: reflecting on the first results of a manager’s survey in Kyrgyzstan
by Abel Polese & Gian Marco Moisé & Talshyn Tokyzhanova & Tommaso Aguzzi & Tanel Kerikmäe & Ainoura Sagynbaeva & Arnis Sauka & Oleksandra Seliverstova - 171-190 Turkmenistan in Eurasian railway geopolitics
by Slavomír Horák - 191-210 Demographic effects of deportation: seeking the causes of high fertility rates in the North Caucasus, Russia
by Ilya Ermolin & Pavel Suvorkov & Mariia Fedorova - 211-213 Qarakhanid roads to China: A history of Sino-Turkic relations
by Dilrabo Tosheva - 213-214 Intermarriage and the friendship of the peoples: Ethnic mixing in Soviet Central Asia
by Shoshana Keller - 214-217 Soviet policy in Xinjiang: Stalin and the national movement in Eastern Turkistan
by Ablet Kamalov
October 2022, Volume 41, Issue 4
- 617-638 EU–Central Asian interactions: perceptions, interests and practices
by Rick Fawn & Karolina Kluczewska & Oleg Korneev - 639-653 The EU’s Central Asia policy: no chance for change?
by Shairbek Dzhuraev - 654-674 Learning in, about and from the field? Symbolic functions of EU knowledge production on Central Asia
by Oleg Korneev & Karolina Kluczewska - 675-698 ‘Not here for geopolitical interests or games’: the EU’s 2019 strategy and the regional and inter-regional competition for Central Asia
by Rick Fawn - 699-714 The interplay of narratives on regionness, regionhood and regionality: European Union and Central Asia
by Selbi Hanova - 715-733 The EU and China: how do they fit in Central Asia?
by Svetlana Krivokhizh & Elena Soboleva - 734-751 Opportunity and threat perceptions of the EU in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan
by Zhanibek Arynov - 752-769 European Union, civil society and local ownership in Kyrgyzstan: analysing patterns of adaptation, reinterpretation and contestation in the prevention of violent extremism (PVE)
by Chiara Pierobon - 770-787 The EU and European transnational companies in Central Asia: relocating agency in the energy sector
by Gian Marco Moisé & Paolo Sorbello - 788-807 Communal self-governance as an alternative to neoliberal governance: proposing a post-development approach to EU resilience-building in Central Asia
by Fabienne Bossuyt & Nazima Davletova - 808-811 Maya Karin Peterson (1980–2021)
by Anna Whittington - 812-815 Talas Omarbekov (1948–2021)
by Sarah Cameron - 816-818 Emigrants/Muhacir from Xinjiang to Middle East during 1940–60s
by Ablet Kamalov - 818-819 Islam in China
by Amit Kumar & Veena Ramachandran - 820-821 Surviving Everyday Life: The Securityscapes of Threatened People in Kyrgyzstan
by Karolina Kluczewska - 822-823 Go East!: A history of Hungarian Turanism
by Tristan Kenderdine - 823-825 The history and culture of Iran and Central Asia: From the pre-Islamic to the Islamic period
by Fereshte Azarkhordad & Maryam Ghasemnejad - 825-827 The Qirghiz Baatir and the Russian Empire: A portrait of a local intermediary in Russian Central Asia
by Alexander Morrison
July 2022, Volume 41, Issue 3
- 385-401 Labour transfers as a means of ‘civilizing’ and forcibly assimilating ethnic minorities in western China
by Jan Svec - 402-418 Balancing between majorities: the negotiable identity of Osh Dungans
by Zulfiya Imyarova - 419-435 Ismaili Muslims in Moscow: community, identity and integration
by Zuzanna Błajet - 436-455 Leveraging low state capacity for economic development: a case study of Tajik–Afghan cross-border markets
by Oliver McPherson-Smith - 456-476 Grassroots struggles against domestic violence in Uzbekistan: strategies of exit and voice
by Sara Hassani & Tanzilya Saleemjan Oren - 477-497 Informal civil society initiatives in non-Western societies: mahallas in Uzbekistan
by Rustamjon Urinboyev & Sherzod Eraliev - 498-515 Agency and resistance amongst queer people in Kazakhstan
by Mariya Levitanus - 516-532 Of squirrels and men: being Soviet in Frunze’s green spaces
by Louis-Philippe Campeau - 533-552 Strategic alignments and balancing of threats: military and political alliances in the South Caucasus (1991–2021)
by Elnur Ismayil & Suhnaz Yilmaz - 553-570 Non-aligned good power? Status enhancement of early post-independence Kazakhstan
by Martina Varkočková - 571-595 The contributions of new media to young people’s political participation in Russia and Kazakhstan
by Yerkebulan Sairambay - 596-609 New regime, new policies: research ethics development – a case study of Uzbekistan
by Neil Collins & Gulzhanat Gafu & Aipara Berekeyeva & Zakir Jumakulov - 610-611 Musique contemporaine en Ouzbékistan: Politique, identités et globalisation
by Ariane Zevaco - 612-614 ‘Khatakskaia khronika’: korpus i funktsii teksta
by Sergei Andreyev - 614-616 Polymaths of Islam: Power and networks of knowledge in Central Asia
by Daniel Beben
April 2022, Volume 41, Issue 2
- 211-222 Technology, temporality, and the study of Central Asia: an introduction
by Jonas van der Straeten & Julia Obertreis - 223-243 The hidden integration of Central Asia: the making of a region through technical infrastructures
by Per Högselius - 244-259 ‘To firmly establish our border at the foot of The Hindu Kush’: road construction as a means of legitimizing the rule of the Russian Empire in the Pamir
by Oybek Makhmudov - 260-276 Welcome and unwelcome connections: travelling post-Soviet roads in Kyrgyzstan
by Zarina Urmanbetova & Agnieszka Joniak-Lüthi - 277-296 From anatomic analogies to arrhythmic timescapes: roads and development in northern Mongolia
by Björn Reichhardt - 297-321 The Soviet city as a landscape in the making: planning, building and appropriating Samarkand, c.1960s–80s
by Jonas van der Straeten & Mariya Petrova - 322-346 The seismic colony: earthquakes, empire and technology in Russian-ruled Turkestan, 1887–1911
by Taylor C. Zajicek - 347-367 Outer space technopolitics and postcolonial modernity in Kazakhstan
by Nelly Bekus - 368-384 Mosques as religious infrastructure: Muslim selfhood, moral imaginaries and everyday sociality
by Yanti M. Hoelzchen
January 2022, Volume 41, Issue 1
- 1-21 ‘I dress in silk and velvet’: women, textiles and the textile-text in 1930s Uzbekistan
by Claire Roosien - 22-40 From 'Mercy' to 'Banner of Labour': the Bukharan Jewish press in late Tsarist and early Soviet Central Asia
by Thomas Loy & Zeev Levin - 41-57 Mongolian Buddhism, science and healing: a modernist legacy
by Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko - 58-78 Songs of war and despair: two Afghan/Uzbek women’s life history and lament
by Wolayat Tabasum Niroo - 79-99 Women herders: women’s role and bargaining power in Mongolian herding households
by Mieke Meurs & Amarjargal Amartuvshin & Otgontugs Banzragch & Myagmasuren Boldbaatar & Georgia Poyatzis - 100-117 The Mongolian semi-presidential constitution and its democratic performance
by Mina Sumaadii & Yu-Shan Wu - 118-137 The neo-liberal conception of empowerment and its limits: micro-credit experiences of self-employed women in the bazaars of Bishkek
by Gözde Yazıcı Cörüt & İlker Cörüt - 138-160 The politics of budgetary capture in rentier states: who gets what, when and how in Afghanistan
by Mohammad Qadam Shah - 161-179 Factors motivating the transfer of university students in Kazakhstan
by Rita Kasa & Ali Ait Si Mhamed & Alima Ibrasheva & Dana Mambetalina & Serik Ivatov - 180-203 Roundtable studying the Anthropocene in Central Asia: the challenge of sources and scales in human–environment relations
by Jeanne Féaux de la Croix & Irina Arzhantseva & Jeanine Dağyeli & Eva-Marie Dubuisson & Heinrich Härke & Beatrice Penati & Akira Ueda & Amanda Wooden - 204-205 Hunza matters: Bordering and ordering between ancient and new Silk Roads
by Till Mostowlansky - 206-208 The Bukharan crisis: A connected history of 18th century Central Asia
by Uli Schamiloglu - 208-209 The Silk Roads: A new history of the world
by Michael J. Bechtel
October 2021, Volume 40, Issue 4
- 477-482 Introduction: 30 years of Central Asian studies – the best is yet to come
by Erica Marat - 483-503 On writing Soviet History of Central Asia: frameworks, challenges, prospects
by Botakoz Kassymbekova & Aminat Chokobaeva - 504-522 Central Asia: from dark matter to a dark curtain?
by Assel Tutumlu - 523-538 Writing about peoples: an American’s reflections on 30 years of Central Asian studies
by Russell Zanca - 539-554 Islam in Central Asia 30 years after independence: debates, controversies and the critique of a critique
by Adeeb Khalid - 555-575 On the brink and at the world’s edge: Western approaches to Central Asia’s international politics, 1991–2021
by Alexander Cooley - 576-591 Studying states and regimes in Central Asia: contributions to comparative politics and future challenges
by Lawrence P. Markowitz & Scott Radnitz - 592-610 Academic freedom in Tajikistan: how the suppression, acquiescence and incorporation of intellectuals strengthens the state and affects knowledge production
by Oleg Antonov & Edward Lemon & Parviz Mullojonov
July 2021, Volume 40, Issue 3
- 291-312 ‘End the dominance of the Uyghur ethnic group’: an analysis of Beijing’s population optimization strategy in southern Xinjiang
by Adrian Zenz - 313-329 The Sart Kalmaks in Kyrgyzstan: people in transition
by Baasanjav Terbish - 330-350 The elite-level demonstration effect of the Arab Spring in Kazakhstan
by Sarah Dorr - 351-367 Towards building a culturally informed consent process in Central Asia
by Christopher M. Whitsel & Martha C. Merrill - 368-381 Religious, national or cultural? A case study of frameworks for Jewish education in post-Soviet Central Asia
by Zeev Levin - 382-399 Student online protests in Uzbekistan: democratization of higher education as concomitant to the COVID-19 crisis?
by Dilnoza Ubaydullaeva - 400-419 The Kazakhstani Soviet not? Reading Nazarbayev’s Kazakhstani-ness through Brezhnev’s Soviet people
by Assel Tutumlu & Zulfiya Imyarova - 420-437 Community perceptions of co-managing Tajik National Park
by Qobiljon Shokirov & Norman Backhaus & Jennifer Bartmess - 438-466 A guest for a day? An analysis of Uzbek ‘language migration’ into the Japanese educational and labour markets
by Timur Dadabaev & Shigeto Sonoda & Jasur Soipov - 467-469 The lawful empire: Legal change and cultural diversity in late Tsarist Russia
by Charles Steinwedel - 469-471 The war on the Uyghurs: China’s internal campaign against a Muslim minority
by Adeeb Khalid - 471-473 Negotiating inseparability in China: The Xinjiang Class and the dynamics of Uyghur identity
by Ablet Kamalov - 474-476 Irina Viktorovna Erofeeva (1953–2020)
by Alexander Morrison
April 2021, Volume 40, Issue 2
- 143-158 Monotonous motorscapes: Uzbekistan’s car industry and the consolidation of a post-socialist shortage economy
by Nikolaos Olma - 159-178 Exploiting norms: gender, local elites and farm individualization in Tajikistan
by Brent Hierman & Navruz Nekbakhtshoev - 179-196 After Karimov and Nazarbayev: change in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan?
by Pamela Blackmon - 197-221 The evolution of religious regulation in Central Asia, 1991–2018
by Dustin Gamza & Pauline Jones - 222-241 Human rights of daughters-in-law (kelins) in Central Asia: harmful traditional practices and structural oppression
by Galym Zhussipbek & Zhanar Nagayeva - 242-256 Neighbouring an insurgency: the case of radicalization in Georgia
by Elena Pokalova & Tinatin Karosanidze - 257-281 Conceiving homogenous state-space for the nation: the nationalist discourse on autochthony and the politics of place-naming in Armenia
by Husik Ghulyan - 282-284 Visions of development in Central Asia: Revitalizing the culture concept
by Aksana Ismailbekova - 284-286 The Hungry Steppe: Famine, violence, and the making of Soviet Kazakhstan
by Botakoz Kassymbekova - 287-288 The steppe and the sea: pearls in the Mongol Empire
by Michael J. Bechtel - 288-290 Medieval monuments of Central Asia: Qarakhanid architecture of the 11th and 12th centuries
by Dilrabo Tosheva
January 2021, Volume 40, Issue 1
- 1-8 Introduction: Art and culture – actors or representatives?
by Aliya de Tiesenhausen - 9-33 Nation, religion and social heat: heritaging Uyghur mäshräp in Kazakhstan
by Rachel Harris & Ablet Kamalov - 34-56 The art of the Sixtiers in Soviet Kazakhstan, or how to make a portrait from a skull
by Christianna Bonin - 57-75 Soviet architecture, Kazakh nationalist sentiments and the making of Soviet Kazakhstan, 1925–33: the cases of Kyzylorda and the House of Government of the Kazakh ASSR in Almaty
by Basan Kuberlinov - 76-96 From Sufism to communism: incarnations of the Uyghur song ‘Imam Hüsäynim’
by Mu Qian - 97-112 Contesting convention: agency in Dushanbe’s contemporary art scene
by Kasia Ploskonka - 113-131 Queer identity in the contemporary art of Kazakhstan
by Saltanat Shoshanova - 132-134 Toward nationalizing regimes: conceptualizing power and identity in the post-Soviet realm
by Berikbol Dukeyev