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EU–Central Asian Interactions Perceptions, Interests and Practices

EU–Central Asian Interactions: Perceptions, Interests and Practices

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Rick Fawn, Karolina Kluczewska, Oleg Korneev
July 12, 2024

From limited interactions in the early 1990s, the EU and Central Asia now consider each other to be increasingly important. This book includes 12 chapters written by seasoned and policy-engaged researchers from across Eurasia and the wider world that analyse multiple levels of mutual interactions, ...

Internet and Gender in Kazakhstan A Decolonial Feminist Perspective on Women’s Roles in the Digital Age

Internet and Gender in Kazakhstan: A Decolonial Feminist Perspective on Women’s Roles in the Digital Age

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Jasmin Dall’Agnola
June 14, 2024

Internet and Gender in Kazakhstan offers an empirically rich and theoretically compelling analysis of how the Internet is influencing societal attitudes towards women’s roles and agency in Kazakhstan.  Equipped with intimate perspectives from the wider public in five different regions of Kazakhstan...

A Critical Reader in Central Asian Studies 40 Years of Central Asian Survey

A Critical Reader in Central Asian Studies: 40 Years of Central Asian Survey

1st Edition

Edited By Rico Isaacs
January 29, 2024

Central Asian Survey has remained as the premier world-leading peer-reviewed journal for Central Asian studies for four decades. To mark the 40th anniversary of the journal, this volume is intended to be a reader of selected essays from the journal over the last four decades. This book is not just...

Informal Markets and Trade in Central Asia and the Caucasus

Informal Markets and Trade in Central Asia and the Caucasus

1st Edition

Edited By Susanne Fehlings, Hasan H. Karrar
January 29, 2024

This edited book introduces new research on informal markets and trade in Central Asia and the Caucasus. The research presented in this volume is based on recent field research in Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, as well as Beijing, Guangzhou, Yiwu and the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous ...

The Social Role of Art and Culture in Central Asia

The Social Role of Art and Culture in Central Asia

1st Edition

Edited By Aliya de Tiesenhausen
January 29, 2024

This collection of multi-disciplinary essays offers a fresh, perspective on Central Asian art and culture as it gains increased attention on both the local and international stage. Influenced by the golden ages of its history – from the ancient Scythians, through the glory of the Persians and Turks...

Migration from Central Asia Stories and Identity Formation

Migration from Central Asia: Stories and Identity Formation

1st Edition

By Çağla Gül Yesevi
December 19, 2023

Migration from Central Asia analyzes migration from Turkestan to Türkiye, Saudi Arabia, and the United States and the identity formation of these people living in different countries. It also deals with younger generations and their views about homeland, sense of belonging, and identity. Using oral...

Socialist and Post–Socialist Mongolia Nation, Identity, and Culture

Socialist and Post–Socialist Mongolia: Nation, Identity, and Culture

1st Edition

Edited By Simon Wickhamsmith, Phillip P. Marzluf
September 26, 2022

This book re-examines the origins of modern Mongolian nationalism, discussing nation building as sponsored by the socialist Mongolian People’s Revolutionary Party and the Soviet Union and emphasizing in particular the role of the arts and the humanities. It considers the politics and society of the...

Parliamentary Representation in Central Asia MPs Between Representing Their Voters and Serving an Authoritarian Regime

Parliamentary Representation in Central Asia: MPs Between Representing Their Voters and Serving an Authoritarian Regime

1st Edition

By Esther Somfalvy
May 06, 2022

This book explores the nature of parliamentary representation within the autocratic regimes of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. It argues that although many parliaments are elected under flawed or non-competitive elections, autocratic governments are nevertheless aware of the need to appear ...

Uzbekistan’s International Relations

Uzbekistan’s International Relations

1st Edition

By Oybek Madiyev
April 29, 2022

This book examines the development of Uzbekistan’s international relations since the collapse of the Soviet Union....

Critical Approaches to Security in Central Asia

Critical Approaches to Security in Central Asia

1st Edition

Edited By Edward Lemon
December 03, 2018

Central Asia remains on the periphery, both spatially and in people’s imaginations. When the region does attract international attention, it is often related to security issues, including terrorism, ethnic conflict and drug trafficking. This book brings together leading specialists from a range of ...

Practices of Traditionalization in Central Asia

Practices of Traditionalization in Central Asia

1st Edition

Edited By Judith Beyer, Peter Finke
February 13, 2020

Practices of Traditionalization in Central Asia focuses on how tradition is ‘everyday-ified’ in contemporary Central Asia, including Tatarstan and Tibet, and what people seek to achieve in its name. The case studies range from political demonstrations and industrial workers’ gatherings to ...

Russian Practices of Governance in Eurasia Frontier Power Dynamics, Sixteenth Century to Nineteenth Century

Russian Practices of Governance in Eurasia: Frontier Power Dynamics, Sixteenth Century to Nineteenth Century

1st Edition

By Gulnar T. Kendirbai
February 25, 2020

This book analyses the role of the mobility factor in the spread of Russian rule in Eurasia in the formative period of the rise of the Russian Empire and offers an examination of the interaction of Russian authorities with their nomadic partners. Demonstrating that the mobility factor strongly ...

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