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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
A void in Central Asia research: climate change24
‘Not here for geopolitical interests or games’: the EU’s 2019 strategy and the regional and inter-regional competition for Central Asia15
‘End the dominance of the Uyghur ethnic group’: an analysis of Beijing’s population optimization strategy in southern Xinjiang13
On writing Soviet History of Central Asia: frameworks, challenges, prospects12
Human rights of daughters-in-law (kelins) in Central Asia: harmful traditional practices and structural oppression12
Opportunity and threat perceptions of the EU in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan11
Agency and resistance amongst queer people in Kazakhstan11
Smartphones and public support for LGBTQ+ in Central Asia10
Academic freedom in Tajikistan: how the suppression, acquiescence and incorporation of intellectuals strengthens the state and affects knowledge production9
Informal civil society initiatives in non-Western societies: mahallas in Uzbekistan9
The hidden integration of Central Asia: the making of a region through technical infrastructures8
The EU’s Central Asia policy: no chance for change?8
The contributions of new media to young people’s political participation in Russia and Kazakhstan8
European Union, civil society and local ownership in Kyrgyzstan: analysing patterns of adaptation, reinterpretation and contestation in the prevention of violent extremism (PVE)8
Towards building a culturally informed consent process in Central Asia7
On the brink and at the world’s edge: Western approaches to Central Asia’s international politics, 1991–20216
Mosques as religious infrastructure: Muslim selfhood, moral imaginaries and everyday sociality6
Queer identity in the contemporary art of Kazakhstan6
Learning in, about and from the field? Symbolic functions of EU knowledge production on Central Asia6
Islam in Central Asia 30 years after independence: debates, controversies and the critique of a critique6
The tragedy of irregular migration: the case of Afghans in Turkey6
The EU and China: how do they fit in Central Asia?5
Place-name wars in Karabakh: Russian Imperial maps and political legitimacy in the Caucasus5
Corruption, public procurement and political instability in Kazakhstan5
Communal self-governance as an alternative to neoliberal governance: proposing a post-development approach to EU resilience-building in Central Asia5
A guest for a day? An analysis of Uzbek ‘language migration’ into the Japanese educational and labour markets5
After Karimov and Nazarbayev: change in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan?5
Monotonous motorscapes: Uzbekistan’s car industry and the consolidation of a post-socialist shortage economy4
Representation of the Kazakhstani famine (1931–33) in secondary school history textbooks, 1992–20214
The evolution of religious regulation in Central Asia, 1991–20184
Studying states and regimes in Central Asia: contributions to comparative politics and future challenges4
The seismic colony: earthquakes, empire and technology in Russian-ruled Turkestan, 1887–19114
Welcome and unwelcome connections: travelling post-Soviet roads in Kyrgyzstan4
The EU and European transnational companies in Central Asia: relocating agency in the energy sector4
Fieldwork within queer communities in Central Asia: a research note4
Outer space technopolitics and postcolonial modernity in Kazakhstan4
The interplay of narratives on regionness, regionhood and regionality: European Union and Central Asia4
Turkmenistan in Eurasian railway geopolitics4
Introduction: Art and culture – actors or representatives?4
Introduction: 30 years of Central Asian studies – the best is yet to come4
Digital media consumption and voting among Central Asian youth: why democratic context matters4
We need to talk about political society: subaltern resistances beyond civil society in Eastern Europe and Eurasia3
Conceiving homogenous state-space for the nation: the nationalist discourse on autochthony and the politics of place-naming in Armenia3
Private supplementary tutoring and educational inequality in secondary education in Kazakhstan3
Central Asia: from dark matter to a dark curtain?3
Transgender activism in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan3
Nation, religion and social heat: heritaging Uyghur mäshräp in Kazakhstan3
The Kazakhstani Soviet not? Reading Nazarbayev’s Kazakhstani-ness through Brezhnev’s Soviet people3
Student online protests in Uzbekistan: democratization of higher education as concomitant to the COVID-19 crisis?3
Balancing between majorities: the negotiable identity of Osh Dungans3
Informality versus shadow economy: reflecting on the first results of a manager’s survey in Kyrgyzstan3
Technology, temporality, and the study of Central Asia: an introduction3
‘Listening State?’ : exploring citizens’ perceptions of Open Government in Tokayev’s Kazakhstan3
Employment of master’s degree graduates in Kazakhstan: navigating an uncertain labour market2
Yearning for a homogeneous Chinese nation: digital propaganda campaigns after the 2020 protest in Inner Mongolia2
LGBTQ+ activism in Azerbaijan: shifting queer (in)visibility regime through power–knowledge technologies2
From 'Mercy' to 'Banner of Labour': the Bukharan Jewish press in late Tsarist and early Soviet Central Asia2
EU–Central Asian interactions: perceptions, interests and practices2
Let’s talk about researchers’ mental well-being2
Civil society, social capital and development in Central Asia2
Persuasion or polarization? LGBTQ+ attitudes among young social media users in Kazakhstan2
The neo-liberal conception of empowerment and its limits: micro-credit experiences of self-employed women in the bazaars of Bishkek2
Introduction: LGBTQ +  visibilities in the Caucasus and Central Asia2
From anatomic analogies to arrhythmic timescapes: roads and development in northern Mongolia2
Strategic alignments and balancing of threats: military and political alliances in the South Caucasus (1991–2021)2
New regime, new policies: research ethics development – a case study of Uzbekistan2
The long-run analysis of the association between macroeconomic variables and suicide: the case of Turkic-speaking countries in Central Asia2
The Soviet city as a landscape in the making: planning, building and appropriating Samarkand,c.1960s–80s2
‘Khatakskaia khronika’: korpus i funktsii teksta1
‘Two parts – one whole’? Kazakh–Kyrgyz relations in the making of Soviet Kyrgyzstan, 1917–241
The conceptual evolution of poverty alleviation through labour transfer in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region1
Grassroots struggles against domestic violence in Uzbekistan: strategies of exit and voice1
Digital misrecognitions: the violence of visibility in postsocialist Kyrgyzstan1
The elite-level demonstration effect of the Arab Spring in Kazakhstan1
Songs of war and despair: two Afghan/Uzbek women’s life history and lament1
Politicking of Islam and LGBTQ+ discourse in Uzbekistan1
Geopolitics of cryptocurrency mining in Kazakhstan1
Roundtable studying the Anthropocene in Central Asia: the challenge of sources and scales in human–environment relations1
Writing about peoples: an American’s reflections on 30 years of Central Asian studies1
Non-aligned good power? Status enhancement of early post-independence Kazakhstan1
The politics of budgetary capture in rentier states: who gets what, when and how in Afghanistan1
‘I dress in silk and velvet’: women, textiles and the textile-text in 1930s Uzbekistan1
Women herders: women’s role and bargaining power in Mongolian herding households1
Leveraging low state capacity for economic development: a case study of Tajik–Afghan cross-border markets1
Methods of studying LGBT experiences in the situation of invisibility: from African countries to Uzbekistan1
Diversifying/revitalizing the study of Central Asia and the Caucasus1
‘Why wave the flag?’: (in)visible queer activism in authoritarian Kazakhstan and Russia1
Changes in the flock: sheep-keeping as a symbol of the transformation of the Kazakh traditional economy1
‘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 Pamir1
Factors inhibiting institutional responses to domestic violence in Kyrgyzstan1
Exploring civil society perspectives on the situation of human rights defenders in the Commonwealth of Independent States1
Rivers between nature, infrastructure, and religion1
In Soviet educational greenhouses: on the problem of language teaching to the Bukharan–Jewish children of Uzbekistan, 1917–471
Community perceptions of co-managing Tajik National Park1
Qarakhanid roads to China: A history of Sino-Turkic relations1
Central Asia and the Silk Road: economic rise and decline over several millennia1
‘Birds without legs’: legal integration as potentiality for women of an Afghan-Turkmen family in Istanbul1
Exploiting norms: gender, local elites and farm individualization in Tajikistan1
Forgotten project of a private agricultural plantation in the Khanate of Khiva, Uzbekistan0
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 Almaty0
Toward nationalizing regimes: conceptualizing power and identity in the post-Soviet realm,0
The European Union, China and Central Asia: global and regional cooperation in a new era0
Taking account of authoritarian peacebuilding in Post-Liberal Statebuilding in Central Asia0
Law, society and corruption lessons from the Central Asian context0
The Hungry Steppe: Famine, violence, and the making of Soviet Kazakhstan0
Contesting convention: agency in Dushanbe’s contemporary art scene0
Girls’ education and success in Azerbaijan: comparative document analysis0
Deciphering dictators’ discourse on Indigenous democracy: a case of Karimov’s Uzbekistan0
The war on the Uyghurs: China’s internal campaign against a Muslim minority0
Foreign fighters and international peace: joining global jihad and marching back home0
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
A reading from Kazakhstan with a focus on decolonization: Post-Liberal Statebuilding in Central Asia0
The art of the Sixtiers in Soviet Kazakhstan, or how to make a portrait from a skull0
The multiethnic Soviet Union and its demise0
Knowledge on fire: the impact of conflict and violence on education in Afghanistan0
Istoriografiia Koreitsev Tsentral’noi Azii: osnovnye napravleniia i etapy razvitiia Istoriografiia Koreitsev Tsentral’noi Azii: osnovnye napravleniia i etapy razvitiia [0
Political stability in authoritarian regimes: the case of Central Asia0
Migration from Central Asia: stories and identity formation0
The Tajik Civil War and Russia’s Islamist moment0
Bridge or base? Chinese perceptions of Central Asia under Europeanisation0
‘Linguistic compatriots’: on the relationship between Tajik and Judeo-Tajik language and literature0
Was the prehistoric man an Azeri nationalist?: Mobilized prehistory and nation-building in Azerbaijan0
The Silk Roads: A new history of the world0
Scrutinizing ethnographic depth and civil society impacts in Post-Liberal Statebuilding in Central Asia0
Maya Karin Peterson (1980–2021)0
Internationalization of higher education in Central Asia: a systematic review0
Polymaths of Islam: Power and networks of knowledge in Central Asia0
Tracing the atom: Nuclear legacies in Russia and Central Asia0
The Qirghiz Baatir and the Russian Empire: A portrait of a local intermediary in Russian Central Asia0
Andreas Wilde (1976–2022)0
Author reply: Engaging with non-political lifeworlds, dialogical research and decolonial horizons through Post-Liberal Statebuilding in Central Asia0
Negotiating inseparability in China: The Xinjiang Class and the dynamics of Uyghur identity0
Imperskost’ from Central (Eur)Asian ethnography to the self0
Navigating tradition: agency of young urban women in Kyrgyzstan during wedding negotiations and early marriage0
The steppe and the sea: pearls in the Mongol Empire0
Nation-branding in practice: the politics of promoting sports, cities and universities in Kazakhstan and Qatar0
Surviving Everyday Life: The Securityscapes of Threatened People in Kyrgyzstan0
Factors motivating the transfer of university students in Kazakhstan0
Qazaqstan. Kazakhstan. قازقستان : labirinty sovremennogo postkolonialnogo diskursa [ Qazaqstan, Kazakhstan , قازقستان : labyrinths of a modern post-co0
Irina Viktorovna Erofeeva (1953–2020)0
The impact of China’s high-tech repression on Uyghurs: a case study of Uyghur diaspora in Turkiye0
The Bukharan crisis: A connected history of 18th century Central Asia0
Visions of development in Central Asia: Revitalizing the culture concept0
Emigrants/Muhacir from Xinjiang to Middle East during 1940–60s0
Talas Omarbekov (1948–2021)0
Feminization of labour migration from Uzbekistan to Turkey: the role of neoliberal policies, patriarchy and social networks0
Responding to atheist state policy and practicing religion: the Ismailis of Soviet Badakhshan0
The lawful empire: Legal change and cultural diversity in late Tsarist Russia0
Iranian, Afghan or Central Asian? Patterns of mobility among Persianate Jews in the 19th and early 20th centuries0
Books received0
Introducing the symposium on Philipp Lottholz’s Post-Liberal Statebuilding in Central Asia: Imaginaries, Discourses and Practices of Social Ordering Post-Liberal Stat0
Eurasian crossroads: a history of Xinjiang0
Russian imperial borderlands, Georgian Jews, and the struggle for ‘justice’ and ‘legality’: blood libel in Kutaisi, 1878–800
The hidden caliphate: Sufi saints beyond the Oxus and Indus0
Working with the Taliban: from the first to the second Emirate0
Gorno-Badakhshan and Karakalpakstan since 1991: understanding territorial autonomy in Central Asia0
Two decades of women’s underrepresentation in public service leadership: the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan0
‘What have you done, brother Putin?’: Everyday geopolitics and Central Asian labour migration to Russia0
Rentier capitalism and its discontents: Power, morality and resistance in Central Asia0
Soft power in Central Asia: the politics of influence and seduction0
Post-Soviet settlement of the Sino-Soviet border: a failed attempt at a three-level game, 1991–20120
Between ‘info-killers’ and ‘spies’: three strategies for interviewing government officials across Central Asia0
Hunza matters: Bordering and ordering between ancient and new Silk Roads0
Framing the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict: an analysis of the narratives of the state leaders of Azerbaijan, Armenia and Turkey, 2002–20220
Browsing and believing: divergent effects of internet use on government trust in Central Asia0
From Sufism to communism: incarnations of the Uyghur song ‘Imam Hüsäynim’0
Experiences of female early-career professionals in male-dominated STEM companies in Kazakhstan0
Musique contemporaine en Ouzbékistan: Politique, identités et globalisation0
The role of geopolitics in Turkey’s diplomatic approach to the Second East Turkestan Republic (1939–1949)0
The ‘Pragmatic cooperation’ in the Belt and Road Initiative: the Sino-Turkmen natural gas engagement0
Navigating complex narratives: understanding challenges of Russian-related research in Kazakhstan0
Ismaili Muslims in Moscow: community, identity and integration0
Intermarriage and the friendship of the peoples: Ethnic mixing in Soviet Central Asia0
‘We’re all like brothers’: religion’s role in Afghan Uzbek identity formation0
Labour transfers as a means of ‘civilizing’ and forcibly assimilating ethnic minorities in western China0
Economic development without rural–urban migration in Georgia0
Slow anti-Americanism: social movements and symbolic politics in Central Asia0
Islam in China0
Mongolian Buddhism, science and healing: a modernist legacy0
Medieval monuments of Central Asia: Qarakhanid architecture of the 11th and 12th centuries0
A narrative analysis: tragic images of the Aral Sea in the Russophone ecopoems0
Pipe dreams: Water and empire in Central Asia’s Aral Sea basin0
Soviet policy in Xinjiang: Stalin and the national movement in Eastern Turkistan0
The grass is always greener? Unpacking Uzbek migration to Japan0
Afghan Napoleon: The life of Ahmad Shah Massoud0
Go East!: A history of Hungarian Turanism0
Refocusing education: understanding higher education institutions’ needs for human resource development in Azerbaijan0
Women’s dance traditions of Uzbekistan: legacy of the silk road0
The cat in Mongolian society: a good, bad and ugly animal0
The varying levels of contrasting adaptation in Central Asia’s climate change politics0
Inside Afghanistan: Political networks, informal order, and state disruption0
A practitioner's perspective from Kyrgyzstan: Post-Liberal Statebuilding in Central Asia0
Strengthening academia: embracing an open dialogue on fieldwork in the authoritarian states of Central Asia0
Dekolonizatsiia Kazahstana0
Religious, national or cultural? A case study of frameworks for Jewish education in post-Soviet Central Asia0
Vehicularizing the vernacular: using the periodical press to popularize vernacular languages in Soviet Turkic communities0
On the problem of Sāmānid origins0
Ambivalent heritage: tourism, weddings and pilgrimage in Hisor, Tajikistan0
Narrating the state in miniature: philatelic representations of Kazakhstan, 1992–20210
Demographic effects of deportation: seeking the causes of high fertility rates in the North Caucasus, Russia0
Political Islam and democracy in Central Asia: the Islamic revival party of Tajikistan Political Islam and democracy in Central Asia: the Islamic revival party of Tajikistan 0
The emotional sight of neoliberalized port infrastructure in the city of Poti, Georgia0
Central Asian studies in the People’s Republic of China: a structural topic model0
Correction0
Uyat and the culture of shame in Central Asia0
The history and culture of Iran and Central Asia: From the pre-Islamic to the Islamic period0
Islam and ethnic tolerance: assessing Kyrgyz’ Muslim religiosity and acceptance of Uzbeks in Kyrgyzstan0
The Sart Kalmaks in Kyrgyzstan: people in transition0
‘I became an Uzbek’: Jewish-Uzbek encounters in World War Two evacuation0
The Mongolian semi-presidential constitution and its democratic performance0
On language gifts: public discourses on Kazakh and Russian in Kazakhstan0
‘The freedom of a fair word’: the roots of human rights discourse in Kazakh cultural heritage0
Parliamentary representation in Central Asia: MPs between representing their voters and serving an authoritarian regime0
‘As long as you’re not an asshole’: insider-outsider dynamics in queer research0
Of squirrels and men: being Soviet in Frunze’s green spaces0
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