Central Asian Survey

Papers
(The median citation count of Central Asian Survey is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
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The agency of object: the doppa as a narrator for a dynamic Uyghur identity20
Gendered mobilities of Central Asian women in Germany through the perspective of public transport17
Semiotic analysis of ‘kalyng’ ritual in Manas: framework for cultural knowledge14
‘Listening State?’ : exploring citizens’ perceptions of Open Government in Tokayev’s Kazakhstan12
Geopolitics of cryptocurrency mining in Kazakhstan12
Analysing Kazakhstan’s Foreign Policy Regime Neo-Eurasianism in The Nazarbayev Era11
Central Asian studies in the People’s Republic of China: a structural topic model11
Collectivization generation: oral histories of a social revolution in Uzbekistan10
After the resurgence of Talibanism theocracy: non-lethal intervention and the politics of non-neutrality in Afghanistan10
New Uzbekistan: the third renaissance10
Backlash: China’s struggle for influence in Central Asia10
Methods of studying LGBT experiences in the situation of invisibility: from African countries to Uzbekistan10
Introduction: LGBTQ +  visibilities in the Caucasus and Central Asia9
Internationalization of higher education in Central Asia: a systematic review9
Reclaiming self-esteem: Mongols’ responses to the early COVID-19 pandemic in Inner Mongolia, China8
The mobilization of ‘capabilities’ as an idea and practice in today’s China: From appropriation to exclusion of Uyghur identities8
‘Abduct her before another man does’: evolving consensual bride abduction patterns in Kazakhstan’s Jetisu province7
The EU and European transnational companies in Central Asia: relocating agency in the energy sector7
In Soviet educational greenhouses: on the problem of language teaching to the Bukharan–Jewish children of Uzbekistan, 1917–477
Extraordinary Estonians, disappearing Duha: tourism imaginaries and imperial identity economies of Northern Mongolia7
Georgian Jews and Georgian non-Jews: Soviet experience through the prism of nostalgia7
‘The Book of My Mother’ as national allegory: subaltern nationalism and political unconscious in early twentieth century Azerbaijani fiction6
‘And there will be “kan (blood)” … ’: ‘voices’ of participants and eyewitnesses of the 1916 uprising in Semirech’e in interrogation protocols6
Pioneering new migration routes: central Asian truck drivers’ experiences in the EU5
Between autonomy and dependency: comparing hedging strategies of Central Asian states towards China5
LGBTQ+ activism in Azerbaijan: shifting queer (in)visibility regime through power–knowledge technologies5
Deciphering dictators’ discourse on Indigenous democracy: a case of Karimov’s Uzbekistan5
Inter-regionalism and strategic adaptation in Central Asia: economic development and geopolitical resilience in a multipolar order5
Dekolonizatsiia Kazahstana5
Rivers between nature, infrastructure, and religion5
Paradoxes of migration in Tajikistan: locating the good life,4
New media and political participation in Russia and Kazakhstan. Exploring the lived experiences of young people in Eurasia4
The Tajik Civil War and Russia’s Islamist moment4
Afghan Napoleon: The life of Ahmad Shah Massoud4
Soft power in Central Asia: the politics of influence and seduction4
Fieldwork within queer communities in Central Asia: a research note4
The EU and China: how do they fit in Central Asia?4
Contextualizing data collection in Central Asia: insights from local researchers’ experiences4
The role of geopolitics in Turkey’s diplomatic approach to the Second East Turkestan Republic (1939–1949)4
Vehicularizing the vernacular: using the periodical press to popularize vernacular languages in Soviet Turkic communities4
Factors inhibiting institutional responses to domestic violence in Kyrgyzstan4
The political economy of non-Western migration regimes: Central Asian migrant workers in Russia and Turkey3
A narrative analysis: tragic images of the Aral Sea in the Russophone ecopoems3
Chet ellarda o'qigan Turkistonlik yoshlar (Young People from Turkistan Who Studied Abroad)3
From friendship to friction: the evolution of China’s economic and technical assistance to Mongolia (1949–1985)3
Uyghur identity and culture: a global diaspora in a time of crisis3
Iranian, Afghan or Central Asian? Patterns of mobility among Persianate Jews in the 19th and early 20th centuries3
The hidden caliphate: Sufi saints beyond the Oxus and Indus3
Universities branching out: towards a typology of transnational education partnerships in Central Asia3
Navigating tradition: agency of young urban women in Kyrgyzstan during wedding negotiations and early marriage3
Smartphones and public support for LGBTQ+ in Central Asia3
Intersecting legacies: gender, ethnicity and displacement in the aftermath of the first Nagorno-Karabakh War for internally displaced and refugee women3
Experiences of female early-career professionals in male-dominated STEM companies in Kazakhstan3
Law, society and corruption lessons from the Central Asian context3
Helping a f(r)iend in need? Rethinking the role of linkages in authoritarian covert repression2
China, Russia and Central Asian infrastructure: fragmenting or reformatting the region?2
Kratkaia istoriia kazakhov. Ot pervykh kochevnikov do nashikh dnei2
Balancing tradition and reform: tensions in university mathematics curriculum and assessment in Uzbekistan2
Native, but unique: Jews of Georgia, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan and their neighbours revealed through their twentieth century demographic profiles2
Representation of the Kazakhstani famine (1931–33) in secondary school history textbooks, 1992–20212
‘Why should we have theirs if we have our own?’ On decolonizing social science research ethics in Central Asia2
Taking account of authoritarian peacebuilding in Post-Liberal Statebuilding in Central Asia2
Maya Karin Peterson (1980–2021)2
Islam and ethnic tolerance: assessing Kyrgyz’ Muslim religiosity and acceptance of Uzbeks in Kyrgyzstan2
Traditional medicine, legitimacy and nationalist doxa in pandemic-era Mongolia2
Two decades of women’s underrepresentation in public service leadership: the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan2
Institutional entrepreneurship under hierarchy: why Kazakhstan founds regional organizations but loses agenda control2
‘We’re all like brothers’: religion’s role in Afghan Uzbek identity formation2
Decolonizing Uyghur visual art: Uyghur diasporic responses to China’s cultural engineering2
In the corridors of officialdom: how patience and flexibility unlock elite interviews in Uzbekistan2
Post-Soviet settlement of the Sino-Soviet border: a failed attempt at a three-level game, 1991–20122
Navigating complex narratives: understanding challenges of Russian-related research in Kazakhstan2
Framing the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict: an analysis of the narratives of the state leaders of Azerbaijan, Armenia and Turkey, 2002–20221
Uncovering the potential of equity as a transformative force in higher education reform in post-Nazarbayev Kazakhstan1
Was the prehistoric man an Azeri nationalist?: Mobilized prehistory and nation-building in Azerbaijan1
Education outmigration from Central Asia to Turkey: Central Asian students in Turkey’s universities1
‘I became an Uzbek’: Jewish-Uzbek encounters in World War Two evacuation1
Qarakhanid roads to China: A history of Sino-Turkic relations1
Employment of master’s degree graduates in Kazakhstan: navigating an uncertain labour market1
The creation of Kazakh national identity: the relationship with Russia, 1900–20151
Positionality in ethnographic fieldwork: a male, ‘native’ researcher among migrant men1
A reading from Kazakhstan with a focus on decolonization: Post-Liberal Statebuilding in Central Asia1
Exploring civil society perspectives on the situation of human rights defenders in the Commonwealth of Independent States1
Climate change in Central Asia decarbonization, energy transition and climate policy1
Politicking of Islam and LGBTQ+ discourse in Uzbekistan1
‘Two parts – one whole’? Kazakh–Kyrgyz relations in the making of Soviet Kyrgyzstan, 1917–241
Rentier capitalism and its discontents: Power, morality and resistance in Central Asia1
Learning in, about and from the field? Symbolic functions of EU knowledge production on Central Asia1
Between ‘info-killers’ and ‘spies’: three strategies for interviewing government officials across Central Asia1
The impact of China’s high-tech repression on Uyghurs: a case study of Uyghur diaspora in Turkiye1
Diversifying/revitalizing the study of Central Asia and the Caucasus1
Scripts without screens: ‘ordinary racism’ and suppressed projects in wartime Kazakh cinema1
Manifestations of Georgian Muslim counterpublics1
Russia as a higher education provider for Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 20221
Framing Bloody January: a comparative analysis of state and independent media narratives in Kazakhstan1
Uyat and the culture of shame in Central Asia1
Politics of regionalism in Central Asia: multilateralism, institutions, and local perception1
Knowledge on fire: the impact of conflict and violence on education in Afghanistan1
A practitioner's perspective from Kyrgyzstan: Post-Liberal Statebuilding in Central Asia1
Corruption, public procurement and political instability in Kazakhstan1
Narrating the state in miniature: philatelic representations of Kazakhstan, 1992–20211
Migration from Central Asia: stories and identity formation1
From colonial to national narrative: Alikhan Bokeikhan’s views on the Kazakh past and present (1889–1910)1
The relationship between elite structure, privatization and regime type in Central Asia: varieties and degrees of authoritarianism in Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Tajikistan1
The language of access: determinants of distributive efficacy in Georgia’s multiethnic Kvemo Kartli region1
Feminization of labour migration from Uzbekistan to Turkey: the role of neoliberal policies, patriarchy and social networks1
Marriage and margins: gendered belonging in Chala-Jewish Muslim lives1
Nationalist imaginaries and the COVID pandemic in inner Asia: notes towards an analytic methodology1
The European Union, China and Central Asia: global and regional cooperation in a new era1
We want to be heard: a victim empowerment approach to interviewing survivors of torture1
The Armenians and the fall of the Ottoman Empire: after genocide, 1918–19231
Portraying China in Uzbekistan: a comparative analysis of state and private online news (2023–2024)0
The emotional sight of neoliberalized port infrastructure in the city of Poti, Georgia0
‘Abyroy’ from status to contract: social honour in Kazakh culture0
‘Linguistic compatriots’: on the relationship between Tajik and Judeo-Tajik language and literature0
Working with the Taliban: from the first to the second Emirate0
War, opium and economic growth in Afghanistan0
So long, and thanks for all the research (with apologies to Douglas Adams)0
Writing travel and the genealogical imagination: Afghan Kyrgyz migrations in contemporary perspective0
A climate for the Khans: reinterpreting the economic history of the Khivan Khanate with paleoenvironmental evidence0
Cause without rebels? Rise and fall of the Talish-Mughan Autonomous Republic in Azerbaijan0
The digital history landscape in Central Asia: reflections on institutional asymmetries, transregional connectivity, and digital colonialism0
The interplay of narratives on regionness, regionhood and regionality: European Union and Central Asia0
The ‘Great Steppe’ narrative: origins, politics and aspirations of Eternal Kazakhstan0
Forgotten project of a private agricultural plantation in the Khanate of Khiva, Uzbekistan0
Refocusing education: understanding higher education institutions’ needs for human resource development in Azerbaijan0
From geopolitical pendulum to regional player: Uzbekistan’s regional foreign policy following the leadership change in 20160
Eurasian crossroads: a history of Xinjiang0
Kazakhstan reimagined: insights into Kazakhstan's image among Chinese internet users0
Jews and their neighbours in Central Asia and Caucasus in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries0
Private supplementary tutoring and educational inequality in secondary education in Kazakhstan0
Backward and deficient: exploring Soviet imaginations and the modernization of Svaneti, 1920s–1930s0
Vospominaniia S Kommentariiami I Illiustrat͡Siiami0
The June 2010 interethnic conflict in southern Kyrgyzstan: causes, circumstances, chronology, consequences, measures taken and lessons0
The ‘Pragmatic cooperation’ in the Belt and Road Initiative: the Sino-Turkmen natural gas engagement0
Monotown futures: toxic waste, civic protest and governance struggles in Stepnogorsk, Kazakhstan0
Internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Azerbaijan: from protracted displacement to ‘Great Return’0
Intermarriage and the friendship of the peoples: Ethnic mixing in Soviet Central Asia0
Kazakh Muslim poetry as inspiration for anti-Soviet dissidence: Shortanbay Aqïn and Kämel Zhu̇nīstegī0
Decolonizing Central Asian international relations: beyond empires0
Digital misrecognitions: the violence of visibility in postsocialist Kyrgyzstan0
Infrastructures of belonging: cultural sustainability in the post-exile context of the Ahıska Turks0
Chetyre tetradi0
Central Asia and the Covid-19 pandemic0
International investment law and investor–state disputes in Central Asia: Emerging issues International investment law and investor–state disputes in Central Asia: Emerging issues 0
‘Why wave the flag?’: (in)visible queer activism in authoritarian Kazakhstan and Russia0
Ambivalent heritage: tourism, weddings and pilgrimage in Hisor, Tajikistan0
Istoriografiia Koreitsev Tsentral’noi Azii: osnovnye napravleniia i etapy razvitiia Istoriografiia Koreitsev Tsentral’noi Azii: osnovnye napravleniia i etapy razvitiia [0
Slow anti-Americanism: social movements and symbolic politics in Central Asia0
Strengthening academia: embracing an open dialogue on fieldwork in the authoritarian states of Central Asia0
Turkmenistan in Eurasian railway geopolitics0
Soviet policy in Xinjiang: Stalin and the national movement in Eastern Turkistan0
The history and culture of Iran and Central Asia: From the pre-Islamic to the Islamic period0
The enemy of my friend becomes my friend: navigating Mongolia’s relationship dynamics on the Korean Peninsula0
Islamic culture and pre-Islamic beliefs in Central Asia0
Politicizing water development and protection in Georgia0
Browsing and believing: divergent effects of internet use on government trust in Central Asia0
On the frontline towards resource independence: agronomical knowledge and farming experiments with the fibre plant kendyr ’ in Soviet Central Asia0
The decline and fall of Republican Afghanistan0
The crisis-events and reassembled ethnolinguistic-cum-environmentalist subjects in Inner Mongolia0
‘You are a different kind of Chinese person’: doing fieldwork as a Chinese researcher amidst the rise of Sinophobia in Central Asia0
Iterations from the past: a no-nonsense approach to the importers of the virus during the COVID-19 pandemic in Mongolia0
We need to talk about political society: subaltern resistances beyond civil society in Eastern Europe and Eurasia0
The role of language and age in ethnic Qazaq attitudes toward Ukraine, Russia and the Russo-Ukrainian War0
Social media and spoken language in youth civic engagement in Kazakhstan0
The grass is always greener? Unpacking Uzbek migration to Japan0
Tracing the atom: Nuclear legacies in Russia and Central Asia0
The Power of Siberia 2 pipeline and political cynicism in Russian–Mongolian relations0
Social media and religious engagement among Muslim youth in Kyrgyzstan0
An intellectual challenge and an invitation0
Four voices, one region: local and Western media coverage of regional relations in Central Asia0
The concept of Muridism in studies of Caucasian history0
Girls’ education and success in Azerbaijan: comparative document analysis0
The Afghan women’s movement and gender apartheid: shifting the trajectory of international human rights law0
Responding to atheist state policy and practicing religion: the Ismailis of Soviet Badakhshan0
Place-name wars in Karabakh: Russian Imperial maps and political legitimacy in the Caucasus0
Kinship imaginaries of similarity and difference: gifts from Inner Mongols to Mongolia during the COVID-19 pandemic0
Reading across borders: Afghans, Iranians, and literary nationalism0
Parliamentary representation in Central Asia: MPs between representing their voters and serving an authoritarian regime0
Imperskost’ from Central (Eur)Asian ethnography to the self0
The Hazara peoples’ struggle for social and political rights in Afghanistan: the case of the enlightenment movement0
Political Islam and democracy in Central Asia: the Islamic revival party of Tajikistan0
The Mongolian state and the coronavirus pandemic: policy, messaging and the nationalist imaginary0
EU–Central Asian interactions: perceptions, interests and practices0
On language gifts: public discourses on Kazakh and Russian in Kazakhstan0
Russian imperial borderlands, Georgian Jews, and the struggle for ‘justice’ and ‘legality’: blood libel in Kutaisi, 1878–800
The EU as an actor in Central Asia: external impacts, regional responses0
Qazaqstan. Kazakhstan. قازقستان : labirinty sovremennogo postkolonialnogo diskursa [ Qazaqstan, Kazakhstan , قازقستان : labyrinths of a modern post-co0
Subverting oppressive structures: on kelinhood , solidarity and feminist research in the bazaars0
The conceptual evolution of poverty alleviation through labour transfer in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region0
Scrutinizing ethnographic depth and civil society impacts in Post-Liberal Statebuilding in Central Asia0
Voices of resistance: Afghan women’s lived experiences under the Taliban’s ban on education0
Power and positionality: researching state crime and reputation laundering in Uzbekistan0
The tragedy of irregular migration: the case of Afghans in Turkey0
Transgender activism in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan0
Nation-branding in practice: the politics of promoting sports, cities and universities in Kazakhstan and Qatar0
Bridge or base? Chinese perceptions of Central Asia under Europeanisation0
Persuasion or polarization? LGBTQ+ attitudes among young social media users in Kazakhstan0
Inside Afghanistan: Political networks, informal order, and state disruption0
Kazakh nomads, social class transformations and Soviet power during the period of collectivization0
‘The freedom of a fair word’: the roots of human rights discourse in Kazakh cultural heritage0
The social costs of gambling in Central Asia: insights from Kazakhstan’s addiction crisis0
The Qirghiz Baatir and the Russian Empire: A portrait of a local intermediary in Russian Central Asia0
Foreign agents law in Georgia: policy transfer from Russia or the West?0
Mystical forest: collected poems and short stories of Dungan ethnographer Ali Dzhon0
Environmental humanities in Central Asia: relations between extraction and interdependence0
The cat in Mongolian society: a good, bad and ugly animal0
Thieves, opportunists and autocrats: building regulatory states in Russia and Kazakhstan0
Introducing the symposium on Philipp Lottholz’s Post-Liberal Statebuilding in Central Asia: Imaginaries, Discourses and Practices of Social Ordering0
‘Birds without legs’: legal integration as potentiality for women of an Afghan-Turkmen family in Istanbul0
Moscow’s heavy shadow: the violent collapse of the USSR0
Atomic steppe: how Kazakhstan gave up the bomb0
Reputation as a weapon: digital violence against women activists in Kazakhstan0
“Nomadity of being” in Central Asia narratives of Kyrgyzstani women’s rights activists0
The multiethnic Soviet Union and its demise0
Local identity and intergroup relations: Jews and Muslims in Ferghana Valley in late Soviet Era0
Gorno-Badakhshan and Karakalpakstan since 1991: understanding territorial autonomy in Central Asia0
Reimagining sovereignty: contemporary resemiotisation of Kazakh opposition leaders online in the shadow of Russian expansionism0
Digital media consumption and voting among Central Asian youth: why democratic context matters0
How to dodge EU compliance while pledging commitment – Georgia’s pseudo-hedging between 2022 and 20240
Examining the forced migration of Turkestanians: reasons and stories0
Author reply: Engaging with non-political lifeworlds, dialogical research and decolonial horizons through Post-Liberal Statebuilding in Central Asia0
Let’s talk about researchers’ mental well-being0
Socio-Political Turbulence and Ethno-Regional Migration Dynamics in Kyrgyzstan0
Economic development without rural–urban migration in Georgia0
Re-defining Kazakh national identity: interplay of Islam and ethnonationalism in post-Soviet nation-building in Kazakhstan0
Women’s dance traditions of Uzbekistan: legacy of the silk road0
On the problem of Sāmānid origins0
Civil society, social capital and development in Central Asia0
Interethnic relations in the Nazi-occupied North Caucasus: a case study of the Mountain Jewish communities in Bogdanovka and Nalchik0
Regional leadership in post-Soviet Eurasia: The strategies of Russia, China, and the European Union0
The Russia-Ukraine War and its implications on Central Asia0
‘What have you done, brother Putin?’: Everyday geopolitics and Central Asian labour migration to Russia0
Informality versus shadow economy: reflecting on the first results of a manager’s survey in Kyrgyzstan0
‘As long as you’re not an asshole’: insider-outsider dynamics in queer research0
Talas Omarbekov (1948–2021)0
Foreign fighters and international peace: joining global jihad and marching back home0
Qonaevstalgia: various images of Dinmukhammed Qonaev in post-Nazarbayev Kazakhstan0
Yearning for a homogeneous Chinese nation: digital propaganda campaigns after the 2020 protest in Inner Mongolia0
Visual propaganda in northwest China: exploring cultural representations0
Political stability in authoritarian regimes: the case of Central Asia0
A slow reckoning: the USSR, the Afghan communists, and Islam0
Performing faith and capital at the same time: Islamic finance as cultural artefact in Central Asia0
Crisis and legitimacy: measuring the rally effect after Bloody January in authoritarian Kazakhstan0
Widening the scope: how middle powers are changing liberal institutionalism0
Andreas Wilde (1976–2022)0
The long-run analysis of the association between macroeconomic variables and suicide: the case of Turkic-speaking countries in Central Asia0
Competitive institutionalized cooperation in Central Asia and externally guided regionalism0
The varying levels of contrasting adaptation in Central Asia’s climate change politics0
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