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Internationalization of higher education in Central Asia: a systematic review Central Asian Survey (IF 1.81) 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 1.81) 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 1.81) 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 1.81) 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 1.81) 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 1.81) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Yang Zhao
Published in Central Asian Survey (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Uyat and the culture of shame in Central Asia Central Asian Survey (IF 1.81) 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 1.81) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Nikolaos Olma
Published in Central Asian Survey (Vol. 43, No. 1, 2024)
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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 1.81) 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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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 1.81) 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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Politicking of Islam and LGBTQ+ discourse in Uzbekistan Central Asian Survey (IF 1.81) 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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Narrating the state in miniature: philatelic representations of Kazakhstan, 1992–2021 Central Asian Survey (IF 1.81) 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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The multiethnic Soviet Union and its demise Central Asian Survey (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Bendi Tso
Published in Central Asian Survey (Vol. 43, No. 1, 2024)
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Fieldwork within queer communities in Central Asia: a research note Central Asian Survey (IF 1.81) 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 1.81) 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 1.81) 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 1.81) 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 1.81) 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 1.81) 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 1.81) 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 1.81) 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 1.81) 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 1.81) 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 1.81) 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 1.81) 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 1.81) 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 1.81) 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 1.81) 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 1.81) 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 1.81) 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 1.81) 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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Civil society, social capital and development in Central Asia Central Asian Survey (IF 1.81) 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 1.81) 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 1.81) 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 1.81) 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 1.81) 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 1.81) 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 1.81) Pub Date : 2023-06-22 James R. Baugh
Published in Central Asian Survey (Vol. 42, No. 3, 2023)
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The cat in Mongolian society: a good, bad and ugly animal Central Asian Survey (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Baasanjav Terbish
In Mongolia the cat is viewed ambiguously. It is seen either as a good, a bad or an ugly creature, or as a mix of all these. This ambiguity stems from the cat’s function as a mirror of Mongolian so...
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Persuasion or polarization? LGBTQ+ attitudes among young social media users in Kazakhstan Central Asian Survey (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2023-04-17 Marika Olijar, Junda Li
Does social media exposure contribute to progressive or polarized views among youth? With a large and young population online, Kazakhstan offers a polarized authoritarian context in which to study ...
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‘The freedom of a fair word’: the roots of human rights discourse in Kazakh cultural heritage Central Asian Survey (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2023-04-17 Beibit Yu. Shangirbayeva
This article examines the roots of freedom of expression and opinion, of the right to a fair trial, and of the freedom to enjoy cultural rights in Kazakh nomadic customary traditions that underlie ...
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In Soviet educational greenhouses: on the problem of language teaching to the Bukharan–Jewish children of Uzbekistan, 1917–47 Central Asian Survey (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Albert Kaganovitch
In this article we will consider the language policy the Soviet authorities directed toward the Bukharan Jews in Uzbekistan. These reforms were carried out in several stages. Initially, traditional...
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Smartphones and public support for LGBTQ+ in Central Asia Central Asian Survey (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Jasmin Dall’Agnola
The persistent accusations about the Internet’s role in spreading pro-gay attitudes, the prevalence of media censorship across Central Asia and activists’ frequent use of the Internet all raise imp...
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EU–Central Asian interactions: perceptions, interests and practices Central Asian Survey (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Rick Fawn, Karolina Kluczewska, Oleg Korneev
ABSTRACT By shifting the study of European Union (EU)–Central Asian relations from its fixed category of black-boxing both the EU and Central Asia, this article advances the case for the approach of examining multi-level and multi-actor interactions that identify the dynamic processes of reciprocal action and meaning-making that characterize the mutual cooperation. It distinguishes perceptions, interests
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The long-run analysis of the association between macroeconomic variables and suicide: the case of Turkic-speaking countries in Central Asia Central Asian Survey (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2023-02-02 Yüksel Okşak, Cüneyt Koyuncu, Rasim Yilmaz
Using an unbalanced data set covering the years from 1990 to 2017, this study examines the long-run relationship between three selected macroeconomic variables (unemployment, per capita gross domes...
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Vehicularizing the vernacular: using the periodical press to popularize vernacular languages in Soviet Turkic communities Central Asian Survey (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2023-01-17 Michael J. Erdman
The study of language and script change among the Turkic communities of the Soviet Union often focuses on the switch from Arabic to Latin scripts. Less attention is paid to adaptations of the Arabi...
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On the problem of Sāmānid origins Central Asian Survey (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2023-01-11 Ali Anooshahr
The Sāmānid dynasty of Transoxiana is perhaps best known today for its foundational contributions to the formation of Persianate culture in the ninth and tenth centuries. The problems of the origin...
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A narrative analysis: tragic images of the Aral Sea in the Russophone ecopoems Central Asian Survey (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2023-01-11 Zarkamol Munisov (Camille), Iris Borowy
ABSTRACT This study examines contemporary poems on the Aral Sea crisis. Labelling them Russophone, the authors argue that the Russian language holds its status of lingua franca for the poets concerned about the environmental disaster in Central Asia. In these poems, the Aral Sea has become a central metaphor for the catastrophe that transcends the original case. The depiction of the diverse environmental
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Representation of the Kazakhstani famine (1931–33) in secondary school history textbooks, 1992–2021 Central Asian Survey (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2023-01-11 Berikbol Dukeyev
ABSTRACT This paper studies the role of textbook authors when portraying the Kazakhstani famine of 1931–33 in textbooks printed between 1992 and 2021 for the secondary school subject ‘The History of Kazakhstan’. Drawing on a multilayered and inter-discursive analysis of seven of these textbooks, and after 10 interviews with curriculum developers and textbook authors, this paper argues that authorship
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Factors inhibiting institutional responses to domestic violence in Kyrgyzstan Central Asian Survey (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2023-01-05 Saltanat Childress, Nibedita Shrestha, Kendall Anekwe, Mitchell D. Wong, Rebecca N. Dudovitz
ABSTRACT The study identifies factors that limit effective institutional responses to domestic violence (DV) in Kyrgyzstan, in the context of recent legislative actions aimed at reducing DV through improvements in law enforcement, judicial processes and provision of social services. The study uses qualitative, grounded theory methods to analyse interviews and focus groups with 83 professionals working
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The tragedy of irregular migration: the case of Afghans in Turkey Central Asian Survey (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2022-12-05 Abdullah Yarash Jurat
ABSTRACT This paper analyses irregular Afghan migrants in Turkey based on a qualitative field research study conducted in the cities of Ankara, Bursa, Malatya, Kayseri and Istanbul (see Note 1 on use of the term ‘Afghan’). It focuses on their migration journey, the factors driving migration and post-migration challenges. This research seeks to answer why Afghan irregular migrants are mainly male adults
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Employment of master’s degree graduates in Kazakhstan: navigating an uncertain labour market Central Asian Survey (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2022-11-24 Dilrabo Jonbekova, Gulfiya Kuchumova, Bridget Goodman, Jason Sparks, Sulushash Kerimkulova
ABSTRACT This article explores the employment experiences of government scholarship graduates from one master’s degree programme at a flagship university in Kazakhstan. Analysis of interviews with graduates of a master’s degree programme designed in response to a national policy agenda shows that graduates encountered numerous challenges transitioning from university to work despite obtaining a degree
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Rentier capitalism and its discontents: Power, morality and resistance in Central Asia Central Asian Survey (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2022-11-16 Galym Zhussipbek
Published in Central Asian Survey (Vol. 42, No. 2, 2023)
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Parliamentary representation in Central Asia: MPs between representing their voters and serving an authoritarian regime Central Asian Survey (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2022-11-01 Rico Isaacs
Published in Central Asian Survey (Vol. 42, No. 2, 2023)
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The interplay of narratives on regionness, regionhood and regionality: European Union and Central Asia Central Asian Survey (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2022-09-22 Selbi Hanova
ABSTRACT This paper identifies the interplay between narratives on Central Asia as a region. It compares European Union (EU) narratives with those of the five post-Soviet states of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. By doing so, it investigates the manifestations of narratives, stories and narrators who continue to construct and convey certain discourses about the region
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Exploring civil society perspectives on the situation of human rights defenders in the Commonwealth of Independent States Central Asian Survey (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2022-09-14 Paul Chaney
ABSTRACT This first pan-regional analysis of civil society organizations’ perspectives on the contemporary situation of human rights defenders (HRDs) in the Commonwealth of Independent States uses United Nations’ Universal Periodic Review (UPR) data and reveals a shrinking civil space as HRDs face a raft of rights pathologies, including threats, violence and murder. Their work is curtailed by increasing
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Correction Central Asian Survey (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2022-09-07
Published in Central Asian Survey (Vol. 42, No. 1, 2023)
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We need to talk about political society: subaltern resistances beyond civil society in Eastern Europe and Eurasia Central Asian Survey (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2022-09-07 Lela Rekhviashvili
ABSTRACT This article points out the need to talk about the political society, or the politics and resistances, of subaltern groups in Eastern Europe and Eurasia. Existing literature frames diversity marginalized struggles as civil society struggles or decries the weakness of donor-driven, disembedded civil societies, reproducing the understanding of political life in the region in terms of absences
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Learning in, about and from the field? Symbolic functions of EU knowledge production on Central Asia Central Asian Survey (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2022-09-05 Oleg Korneev, Karolina Kluczewska
ABSTRACT Examining the European Union’s (EU) engagement with Central Asia since the early 1990s, we see an increased commitment to context sensitivity. Arguably, in order to design ‘better’ interventions, the EU needs to know more about this region. This article explores three means of EU learning: in the field – through EU officials’ first-hand experience of working at EU Delegations in Central Asia;
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Intermarriage and the friendship of the peoples: Ethnic mixing in Soviet Central Asia Central Asian Survey (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2022-09-01 Shoshana Keller
Published in Central Asian Survey (Vol. 42, No. 1, 2023)