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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Central Asia: from dark matter to a dark curtain?36
The Silk Roads: A new history of the world17
Demographic effects of deportation: seeking the causes of high fertility rates in the North Caucasus, Russia15
Correction14
The agency of object: the doppa as a narrator for a dynamic Uyghur identity13
Geopolitics of cryptocurrency mining in Kazakhstan13
Changes in the flock: sheep-keeping as a symbol of the transformation of the Kazakh traditional economy11
‘Listening State?’ : exploring citizens’ perceptions of Open Government in Tokayev’s Kazakhstan11
Agency and resistance amongst queer people in Kazakhstan10
Analysing Kazakhstan’s Foreign Policy Regime Neo-Eurasianism in The Nazarbayev Era10
Islam in China10
Internationalization of higher education in Central Asia: a systematic review9
Songs of war and despair: two Afghan/Uzbek women’s life history and lament9
Introduction: LGBTQ +  visibilities in the Caucasus and Central Asia8
Methods of studying LGBT experiences in the situation of invisibility: from African countries to Uzbekistan8
‘The Book of My Mother’ as national allegory: subaltern nationalism and political unconscious in early twentieth century Azerbaijani fiction8
Central Asian studies in the People’s Republic of China: a structural topic model8
A void in Central Asia research: climate change7
In Soviet educational greenhouses: on the problem of language teaching to the Bukharan–Jewish children of Uzbekistan, 1917–477
Leveraging low state capacity for economic development: a case study of Tajik–Afghan cross-border markets6
Georgian Jews and Georgian non-Jews: Soviet experience through the prism of nostalgia6
The EU and European transnational companies in Central Asia: relocating agency in the energy sector6
Opportunity and threat perceptions of the EU in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan6
Dekolonizatsiia Kazahstana5
Pioneering new migration routes: central Asian truck drivers’ experiences in the EU5
Rivers between nature, infrastructure, and religion5
LGBTQ+ activism in Azerbaijan: shifting queer (in)visibility regime through power–knowledge technologies5
Islam in Central Asia 30 years after independence: debates, controversies and the critique of a critique5
Afghan Napoleon: The life of Ahmad Shah Massoud4
Technology, temporality, and the study of Central Asia: an introduction4
Studying states and regimes in Central Asia: contributions to comparative politics and future challenges4
Soft power in Central Asia: the politics of influence and seduction4
Deciphering dictators’ discourse on Indigenous democracy: a case of Karimov’s Uzbekistan4
Emigrants/Muhacir from Xinjiang to Middle East during 1940–60s4
Factors inhibiting institutional responses to domestic violence in Kyrgyzstan4
Vehicularizing the vernacular: using the periodical press to popularize vernacular languages in Soviet Turkic communities3
The role of geopolitics in Turkey’s diplomatic approach to the Second East Turkestan Republic (1939–1949)3
A narrative analysis: tragic images of the Aral Sea in the Russophone ecopoems3
The hidden caliphate: Sufi saints beyond the Oxus and Indus3
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
Writing about peoples: an American’s reflections on 30 years of Central Asian studies3
Fieldwork within queer communities in Central Asia: a research note3
Navigating tradition: agency of young urban women in Kyrgyzstan during wedding negotiations and early marriage3
Smartphones and public support for LGBTQ+ in Central Asia3
The EU and China: how do they fit in Central Asia?3
The Tajik Civil War and Russia’s Islamist moment3
Iranian, Afghan or Central Asian? Patterns of mobility among Persianate Jews in the 19th and early 20th centuries3
Law, society and corruption lessons from the Central Asian context3
Surviving Everyday Life: The Securityscapes of Threatened People in Kyrgyzstan3
Representation of the Kazakhstani famine (1931–33) in secondary school history textbooks, 1992–20212
Grassroots struggles against domestic violence in Uzbekistan: strategies of exit and voice2
Kratkaia istoriia kazakhov. Ot pervykh kochevnikov do nashikh dnei2
Women herders: women’s role and bargaining power in Mongolian herding households2
The war on the Uyghurs: China’s internal campaign against a Muslim minority2
‘Why should we have theirs if we have our own?’ On decolonizing social science research ethics in Central Asia2
Navigating complex narratives: understanding challenges of Russian-related research in Kazakhstan2
Islam and ethnic tolerance: assessing Kyrgyz’ Muslim religiosity and acceptance of Uzbeks in Kyrgyzstan2
‘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 Pamir2
Experiences of female early-career professionals in male-dominated STEM companies in Kazakhstan2
Taking account of authoritarian peacebuilding in Post-Liberal Statebuilding in Central Asia2
Helping a f(r)iend in need? Rethinking the role of linkages in authoritarian covert repression2
Post-Soviet settlement of the Sino-Soviet border: a failed attempt at a three-level game, 1991–20122
Two decades of women’s underrepresentation in public service leadership: the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan2
Exploring civil society perspectives on the situation of human rights defenders in the Commonwealth of Independent States2
The Soviet city as a landscape in the making: planning, building and appropriating Samarkand,c.1960s–80s2
‘We’re all like brothers’: religion’s role in Afghan Uzbek identity formation2
Maya Karin Peterson (1980–2021)2
Roundtable studying the Anthropocene in Central Asia: the challenge of sources and scales in human–environment relations1
Academic freedom in Tajikistan: how the suppression, acquiescence and incorporation of intellectuals strengthens the state and affects knowledge production1
Corruption, public procurement and political instability in Kazakhstan1
Knowledge on fire: the impact of conflict and violence on education in Afghanistan1
The ‘Great Steppe’ narrative: origins, politics and aspirations of Eternal Kazakhstan1
Learning in, about and from the field? Symbolic functions of EU knowledge production on Central Asia1
Employment of master’s degree graduates in Kazakhstan: navigating an uncertain labour market1
A guest for a day? An analysis of Uzbek ‘language migration’ into the Japanese educational and labour markets1
The language of access: determinants of distributive efficacy in Georgia’s multiethnic Kvemo Kartli region1
‘Two parts – one whole’? Kazakh–Kyrgyz relations in the making of Soviet Kyrgyzstan, 1917–241
Politicking of Islam and LGBTQ+ discourse in Uzbekistan1
Introduction: 30 years of Central Asian studies – the best is yet to come1
A reading from Kazakhstan with a focus on decolonization: Post-Liberal Statebuilding in Central Asia1
Hunza matters: Bordering and ordering between ancient and new Silk Roads1
Informal civil society initiatives in non-Western societies: mahallas in Uzbekistan1
The impact of China’s high-tech repression on Uyghurs: a case study of Uyghur diaspora in Turkiye1
The European Union, China and Central Asia: global and regional cooperation in a new era1
The hidden integration of Central Asia: the making of a region through technical infrastructures1
Uyat and the culture of shame in Central Asia1
‘I became an Uzbek’: Jewish-Uzbek encounters in World War Two evacuation1
Irina Viktorovna Erofeeva (1953–2020)1
Feminization of labour migration from Uzbekistan to Turkey: the role of neoliberal policies, patriarchy and social networks1
Rentier capitalism and its discontents: Power, morality and resistance in Central Asia1
A practitioner's perspective from Kyrgyzstan: Post-Liberal Statebuilding in Central Asia1
Framing the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict: an analysis of the narratives of the state leaders of Azerbaijan, Armenia and Turkey, 2002–20221
‘Khatakskaia khronika’: korpus i funktsii teksta1
Ambivalent heritage: tourism, weddings and pilgrimage in Hisor, Tajikistan0
Tracing the atom: Nuclear legacies in Russia and Central Asia0
Transgender activism in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan0
Qazaqstan. Kazakhstan. قازقستان : labirinty sovremennogo postkolonialnogo diskursa [ Qazaqstan, Kazakhstan , قازقستان : labyrinths of a modern post-co0
Narrating the state in miniature: philatelic representations of Kazakhstan, 1992–20210
The crisis-events and reassembled ethnolinguistic-cum-environmentalist subjects in Inner Mongolia0
‘Linguistic compatriots’: on the relationship between Tajik and Judeo-Tajik language and literature0
Russian imperial borderlands, Georgian Jews, and the struggle for ‘justice’ and ‘legality’: blood libel in Kutaisi, 1878–800
Backward and deficient: exploring Soviet imaginations and the modernization of Svaneti, 1920s–1930s0
Diversifying/revitalizing the study of Central Asia and the Caucasus0
The emotional sight of neoliberalized port infrastructure in the city of Poti, Georgia0
Gorno-Badakhshan and Karakalpakstan since 1991: understanding territorial autonomy in Central Asia0
The conceptual evolution of poverty alleviation through labour transfer in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region0
Writing travel and the genealogical imagination: Afghan Kyrgyz migrations in contemporary perspective0
‘I dress in silk and velvet’: women, textiles and the textile-text in 1930s Uzbekistan0
Strengthening academia: embracing an open dialogue on fieldwork in the authoritarian states of Central Asia0
The ‘Pragmatic cooperation’ in the Belt and Road Initiative: the Sino-Turkmen natural gas engagement0
The EU’s Central Asia policy: no chance for change?0
Negotiating inseparability in China: The Xinjiang Class and the dynamics of Uyghur identity0
Examining the forced migration of Turkestanians: reasons and stories0
Political Islam and democracy in Central Asia: the Islamic revival party of Tajikistan0
Of squirrels and men: being Soviet in Frunze’s green spaces0
Istoriografiia Koreitsev Tsentral’noi Azii: osnovnye napravleniia i etapy razvitiia Istoriografiia Koreitsev Tsentral’noi Azii: osnovnye napravleniia i etapy razvitiia [0
We need to talk about political society: subaltern resistances beyond civil society in Eastern Europe and Eurasia0
Forgotten project of a private agricultural plantation in the Khanate of Khiva, Uzbekistan0
The neo-liberal conception of empowerment and its limits: micro-credit experiences of self-employed women in the bazaars of Bishkek0
Eurasian crossroads: a history of Xinjiang0
Balancing between majorities: the negotiable identity of Osh Dungans0
Moscow’s heavy shadow: the violent collapse of the USSR0
On the brink and at the world’s edge: Western approaches to Central Asia’s international politics, 1991–20210
Bridge or base? Chinese perceptions of Central Asia under Europeanisation0
On the problem of Sāmānid origins0
Yearning for a homogeneous Chinese nation: digital propaganda campaigns after the 2020 protest in Inner Mongolia0
Visual propaganda in northwest China: exploring cultural representations0
Non-aligned good power? Status enhancement of early post-independence Kazakhstan0
Andreas Wilde (1976–2022)0
The contributions of new media to young people’s political participation in Russia and Kazakhstan0
Girls’ education and success in Azerbaijan: comparative document analysis0
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
The tragedy of irregular migration: the case of Afghans in Turkey0
Subverting oppressive structures: on kelinhood , solidarity and feminist research in the bazaars0
Digital misrecognitions: the violence of visibility in postsocialist Kyrgyzstan0
‘Not here for geopolitical interests or games’: the EU’s 2019 strategy and the regional and inter-regional competition for Central Asia0
Author reply: Engaging with non-political lifeworlds, dialogical research and decolonial horizons through Post-Liberal Statebuilding in Central Asia0
Qarakhanid roads to China: A history of Sino-Turkic relations0
EU–Central Asian interactions: perceptions, interests and practices0
Was the prehistoric man an Azeri nationalist?: Mobilized prehistory and nation-building in Azerbaijan0
The cat in Mongolian society: a good, bad and ugly animal0
Competitive institutionalized cooperation in Central Asia and externally guided regionalism0
Civil society, social capital and development in Central Asia0
Foreign fighters and international peace: joining global jihad and marching back home0
The creation of Kazakh national identity: the relationship with Russia, 1900–20150
Turkmenistan in Eurasian railway geopolitics0
The multiethnic Soviet Union and its demise0
The Mongolian semi-presidential constitution and its democratic performance0
Working with the Taliban: from the first to the second Emirate0
The history and culture of Iran and Central Asia: From the pre-Islamic to the Islamic period0
Women’s dance traditions of Uzbekistan: legacy of the silk road0
Place-name wars in Karabakh: Russian Imperial maps and political legitimacy in the Caucasus0
The grass is always greener? Unpacking Uzbek migration to Japan0
The seismic colony: earthquakes, empire and technology in Russian-ruled Turkestan, 1887–19110
A climate for the Khans: reinterpreting the economic history of the Khivan Khanate with paleoenvironmental evidence0
Digital media consumption and voting among Central Asian youth: why democratic context matters0
‘The freedom of a fair word’: the roots of human rights discourse in Kazakh cultural heritage0
Informality versus shadow economy: reflecting on the first results of a manager’s survey in Kyrgyzstan0
Dungan ethnicity in transformation: from totalitarianism to contemporary adaptation0
Ismaili Muslims in Moscow: community, identity and integration0
Nation-branding in practice: the politics of promoting sports, cities and universities in Kazakhstan and Qatar0
Responding to atheist state policy and practicing religion: the Ismailis of Soviet Badakhshan0
Factors motivating the transfer of university students in Kazakhstan0
‘Abyroy’ from status to contract: social honour in Kazakh culture0
Youth civic engagement in Almaty: unpacking motivations, concerns and perceived trade-offs0
Thieves, opportunists and autocrats: building regulatory states in Russia and Kazakhstan0
Intermarriage and the friendship of the peoples: Ethnic mixing in Soviet Central Asia0
Persuasion or polarization? LGBTQ+ attitudes among young social media users in Kazakhstan0
Widening the scope: how middle powers are changing liberal institutionalism0
Let’s talk about researchers’ mental well-being0
‘End the dominance of the Uyghur ethnic group’: an analysis of Beijing’s population optimization strategy in southern Xinjiang0
Inside Afghanistan: Political networks, informal order, and state disruption0
Refocusing education: understanding higher education institutions’ needs for human resource development in Azerbaijan0
Internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Azerbaijan: from protracted displacement to ‘Great Return’0
Soviet policy in Xinjiang: Stalin and the national movement in Eastern Turkistan0
Parliamentary representation in Central Asia: MPs between representing their voters and serving an authoritarian regime0
From 'Mercy' to 'Banner of Labour': the Bukharan Jewish press in late Tsarist and early Soviet Central Asia0
‘Why wave the flag?’: (in)visible queer activism in authoritarian Kazakhstan and Russia0
Migration from Central Asia: stories and identity formation0
Regional leadership in post-Soviet Eurasia: The strategies of Russia, China, and the European Union0
‘What have you done, brother Putin?’: Everyday geopolitics and Central Asian labour migration to Russia0
Between ‘info-killers’ and ‘spies’: three strategies for interviewing government officials across Central Asia0
Political stability in authoritarian regimes: the case of Central Asia0
New regime, new policies: research ethics development – a case study of Uzbekistan0
Welcome and unwelcome connections: travelling post-Soviet roads in Kyrgyzstan0
The varying levels of contrasting adaptation in Central Asia’s climate change politics0
Community perceptions of co-managing Tajik National Park0
Decolonizing Central Asian international relations: beyond empires0
The interplay of narratives on regionness, regionhood and regionality: European Union and Central Asia0
The long-run analysis of the association between macroeconomic variables and suicide: the case of Turkic-speaking countries in Central Asia0
Introducing the symposium on Philipp Lottholz’s Post-Liberal Statebuilding in Central Asia: Imaginaries, Discourses and Practices of Social Ordering Post-Liberal Stat0
The Qirghiz Baatir and the Russian Empire: A portrait of a local intermediary in Russian Central Asia0
On writing Soviet History of Central Asia: frameworks, challenges, prospects0
Browsing and believing: divergent effects of internet use on government trust in Central Asia0
Mosques as religious infrastructure: Muslim selfhood, moral imaginaries and everyday sociality0
Scrutinizing ethnographic depth and civil society impacts in Post-Liberal Statebuilding in Central Asia0
From geopolitical pendulum to regional player: Uzbekistan’s regional foreign policy following the leadership change in 20160
Mongolian Buddhism, science and healing: a modernist legacy0
Economic development without rural–urban migration in Georgia0
Strategic alignments and balancing of threats: military and political alliances in the South Caucasus (1991–2021)0
‘Birds without legs’: legal integration as potentiality for women of an Afghan-Turkmen family in Istanbul0
Communal self-governance as an alternative to neoliberal governance: proposing a post-development approach to EU resilience-building in Central Asia0
Slow anti-Americanism: social movements and symbolic politics in Central Asia0
Interethnic relations in the Nazi-occupied North Caucasus: a case study of the Mountain Jewish communities in Bogdanovka and Nalchik0
Local identity and intergroup relations: Jews and Muslims in Ferghana Valley in late Soviet Era0
Private supplementary tutoring and educational inequality in secondary education in Kazakhstan0
On language gifts: public discourses on Kazakh and Russian in Kazakhstan0
Talas Omarbekov (1948–2021)0
The politics of budgetary capture in rentier states: who gets what, when and how in Afghanistan0
Polymaths of Islam: Power and networks of knowledge in Central Asia0
Labour transfers as a means of ‘civilizing’ and forcibly assimilating ethnic minorities in western China0
From anatomic analogies to arrhythmic timescapes: roads and development in northern Mongolia0
Imperskost’ from Central (Eur)Asian ethnography to the self0
Kazakh nomads, social class transformations and Soviet power during the period of collectivization0
‘As long as you’re not an asshole’: insider-outsider dynamics in queer research0
Go East!: A history of Hungarian Turanism0
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