Central Asian Survey

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Correction	63
Gendered mobilities of Central Asian women in Germany through the perspective of public transport	21
Geopolitics of cryptocurrency mining in Kazakhstan	17
Semiotic analysis of ‘kalyng’ ritual in Manas: framework for cultural knowledge	16
Changes in the flock: sheep-keeping as a symbol of the transformation of the Kazakh traditional economy	14
The agency of object: the doppa as a narrator for a dynamic Uyghur identity	12
‘Listening State?’ : exploring citizens’ perceptions of Open Government in Tokayev’s Kazakhstan	12
Analysing Kazakhstan’s Foreign Policy Regime Neo-Eurasianism in The Nazarbayev Era	11
Central Asian studies in the People’s Republic of China: a structural topic model	10
Internationalization of higher education in Central Asia: a systematic review	10
Introduction: LGBTQ +  visibilities in the Caucasus and Central Asia	10
Methods of studying LGBT experiences in the situation of invisibility: from African countries to Uzbekistan	10
After the resurgence of Talibanism theocracy: non-lethal intervention and the politics of non-neutrality in Afghanistan	10
Backlash: China’s struggle for influence in Central Asia	9
Collectivization generation: oral histories of a social revolution in Uzbekistan	9
The EU and European transnational companies in Central Asia: relocating agency in the energy sector	8
Reclaiming self-esteem: Mongols’ responses to the early COVID-19 pandemic in Inner Mongolia, China	8
The mobilization of ‘capabilities’ as an idea and practice in today’s China: From appropriation to exclusion of Uyghur identities	8
‘Abduct her before another man does’: evolving consensual bride abduction patterns in Kazakhstan’s Jetisu province	7
In Soviet educational greenhouses: on the problem of language teaching to the Bukharan–Jewish children of Uzbekistan, 1917–47	7
Extraordinary Estonians, disappearing Duha: tourism imaginaries and imperial identity economies of Northern Mongolia	7
Georgian Jews and Georgian non-Jews: Soviet experience through the prism of nostalgia	7
‘And there will be “kan (blood)” … ’: ‘voices’ of participants and eyewitnesses of the 1916 uprising in Semirech’e in interrogation protocols	6
Dekolonizatsiia Kazahstana	5
‘The Book of My Mother’ as national allegory: subaltern nationalism and political unconscious in early twentieth century Azerbaijani fiction	5

Rivers between nature, infrastructure, and religion	5
A void in Central Asia research: climate change	5
Pioneering new migration routes: central Asian truck drivers’ experiences in the EU	5
LGBTQ+ activism in Azerbaijan: shifting queer (in)visibility regime through power–knowledge technologies	5
Inter-regionalism and strategic adaptation in Central Asia: economic development and geopolitical resilience in a multipolar order	5
Afghan Napoleon: The life of Ahmad Shah Massoud	4
Paradoxes of migration in Tajikistan: locating the good life,	4
The political economy of non-Western migration regimes: Central Asian migrant workers in Russia and Turkey	4
Deciphering dictators’ discourse on Indigenous democracy: a case of Karimov’s Uzbekistan	4
Contextualizing data collection in Central Asia: insights from local researchers’ experiences	4
The role of geopolitics in Turkey’s diplomatic approach to the Second East Turkestan Republic (1939–1949)	4
Fieldwork within queer communities in Central Asia: a research note	4
Factors inhibiting institutional responses to domestic violence in Kyrgyzstan	4
Soft power in Central Asia: the politics of influence and seduction	4
New media and political participation in Russia and Kazakhstan. Exploring the lived experiences of young people in Eurasia	4
The EU and China: how do they fit in Central Asia?	4
The Tajik Civil War and Russia’s Islamist moment	3
Iranian, Afghan or Central Asian? Patterns of mobility among Persianate Jews in the 19th and early 20th centuries	3
Experiences of female early-career professionals in male-dominated STEM companies in Kazakhstan	3
Law, society and corruption lessons from the Central Asian context	3
Uyghur identity and culture: a global diaspora in a time of crisis	3
Intersecting legacies: gender, ethnicity and displacement in the aftermath of the first Nagorno-Karabakh War for internally displaced and refugee women	3
A narrative analysis: tragic images of the Aral Sea in the Russophone ecopoems	3
Chet ellarda o'qigan Turkistonlik yoshlar (Young People from Turkistan Who Studied Abroad)	3
Taking account of authoritarian peacebuilding in Post-Liberal Statebuilding in Central Asia	3
Vehicularizing the vernacular: using the periodical press to popularize vernacular languages in Soviet Turkic communities	3
Smartphones and public support for LGBTQ+ in Central Asia	3
The hidden caliphate: Sufi saints beyond the Oxus and Indus	3
Universities branching out: towards a typology of transnational education partnerships in Central Asia	3
Navigating tradition: agency of young urban women in Kyrgyzstan during wedding negotiations and early marriage	3
‘Why should we have theirs if we have our own?’ On decolonizing social science research ethics in Central Asia	2
‘We’re all like brothers’: religion’s role in Afghan Uzbek identity formation	2
Post-Soviet settlement of the Sino-Soviet border: a failed attempt at a three-level game, 1991–2012	2
Two decades of women’s underrepresentation in public service leadership: the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan	2
Traditional medicine, legitimacy and nationalist doxa in pandemic-era Mongolia	2
Native, but unique: Jews of Georgia, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan and their neighbours revealed through their twentieth century demographic profiles	2
Kratkaia istoriia kazakhov. Ot pervykh kochevnikov do nashikh dnei	2
China, Russia and Central Asian infrastructure: fragmenting or reformatting the region?	2
Balancing tradition and reform: tensions in university mathematics curriculum and assessment in Uzbekistan	2
Representation of the Kazakhstani famine (1931–33) in secondary school history textbooks, 1992–2021	2
Navigating complex narratives: understanding challenges of Russian-related research in Kazakhstan	2
‘Two parts – one whole’? Kazakh–Kyrgyz relations in the making of Soviet Kyrgyzstan, 1917–24	2
Maya Karin Peterson (1980–2021)	2
Decolonizing Uyghur visual art: Uyghur diasporic responses to China’s cultural engineering	2
Helping a f(r)iend in need? Rethinking the role of linkages in authoritarian covert repression	2
Islam and ethnic tolerance: assessing Kyrgyz’ Muslim religiosity and acceptance of Uzbeks in Kyrgyzstan	2
Scripts without screens: ‘ordinary racism’ and suppressed projects in wartime Kazakh cinema	2
We want to be heard: a victim empowerment approach to interviewing survivors of torture	2
In the corridors of officialdom: how patience and flexibility unlock elite interviews in Uzbekistan	2
The impact of China’s high-tech repression on Uyghurs: a case study of Uyghur diaspora in Turkiye	1

Russia as a higher education provider for Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022	1
From colonial to national narrative: Alikhan Bokeikhan’s views on the Kazakh past and present (1889–1910)	1
The creation of Kazakh national identity: the relationship with Russia, 1900–2015	1
The language of access: determinants of distributive efficacy in Georgia’s multiethnic Kvemo Kartli region	1
Between ‘info-killers’ and ‘spies’: three strategies for interviewing government officials across Central Asia	1
The European Union, China and Central Asia: global and regional cooperation in a new era	1
Was the prehistoric man an Azeri nationalist?: Mobilized prehistory and nation-building in Azerbaijan	1
Exploring civil society perspectives on the situation of human rights defenders in the Commonwealth of Independent States	1
A practitioner's perspective from Kyrgyzstan: Post-Liberal Statebuilding in Central Asia	1
Feminization of labour migration from Uzbekistan to Turkey: the role of neoliberal policies, patriarchy and social networks	1
Education outmigration from Central Asia to Turkey: Central Asian students in Turkey’s universities	1
Learning in, about and from the field? Symbolic functions of EU knowledge production on Central Asia	1
Politicking of Islam and LGBTQ+ discourse in Uzbekistan	1
Corruption, public procurement and political instability in Kazakhstan	1
‘I became an Uzbek’: Jewish-Uzbek encounters in World War Two evacuation	1
Qarakhanid roads to China: A history of Sino-Turkic relations	1
Marriage and margins: gendered belonging in Chala-Jewish Muslim lives	1
The relationship between elite structure, privatization and regime type in Central Asia: varieties and degrees of authoritarianism in Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Tajikistan	1
Politics of regionalism in Central Asia: multilateralism, institutions, and local perception	1
Framing the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict: an analysis of the narratives of the state leaders of Azerbaijan, Armenia and Turkey, 2002–2022	1
Manifestations of Georgian Muslim counterpublics	1
Framing Bloody January: a comparative analysis of state and independent media narratives in Kazakhstan	1
A reading from Kazakhstan with a focus on decolonization: Post-Liberal Statebuilding in Central Asia	1
War, opium and economic growth in Afghanistan	1
Narrating the state in miniature: philatelic representations of Kazakhstan, 1992–2021	1
Rentier capitalism and its discontents: Power, morality and resistance in Central Asia	1
Employment of master’s degree graduates in Kazakhstan: navigating an uncertain labour market	1
Positionality in ethnographic fieldwork: a male, ‘native’ researcher among migrant men	1
Diversifying/revitalizing the study of Central Asia and the Caucasus	1
Uyat and the culture of shame in Central Asia	1
Migration from Central Asia: stories and identity formation	1
Uncovering the potential of equity as a transformative force in higher education reform in post-Nazarbayev Kazakhstan	1
Climate change in Central Asia decarbonization, energy transition and climate policy	1
Knowledge on fire: the impact of conflict and violence on education in Afghanistan	1
Nationalist imaginaries and the COVID pandemic in inner Asia: notes towards an analytic methodology	1
The Armenians and the fall of the Ottoman Empire: after genocide, 1918–1923	1
Cause without rebels? Rise and fall of the Talish-Mughan Autonomous Republic in Azerbaijan	0
Girls’ education and success in Azerbaijan: comparative document analysis	0
Portraying China in Uzbekistan: a comparative analysis of state and private online news (2023–2024)	0
Decolonizing Central Asian international relations: beyond empires	0
Social media and religious engagement among Muslim youth in Kyrgyzstan	0
Private supplementary tutoring and educational inequality in secondary education in Kazakhstan	0
Economic development without rural–urban migration in Georgia	0
‘You are a different kind of Chinese person’: doing fieldwork as a Chinese researcher amidst the rise of Sinophobia in Central Asia	0
State land governmentality versus farmers: insights from land reallocation in Uzbekistan	0
‘Linguistic compatriots’: on the relationship between Tajik and Judeo-Tajik language and literature	0
Foreign fighters and international peace: joining global jihad and marching back home	0
Kazakhstan reimagined: insights into Kazakhstan's image among Chinese internet users	0
‘Why wave the flag?’: (in)visible queer activism in authoritarian Kazakhstan and Russia	0
Nation-branding in practice: the politics of promoting sports, cities and universities in Kazakhstan and Qatar	0
Strengthening academia: embracing an open dialogue on fieldwork in the authoritarian states of Central Asia	0
Power and positionality: researching state crime and reputation laundering in Uzbekistan	0
The conceptual evolution of poverty alleviation through labour transfer in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region	0
The history and culture of Iran and Central Asia: From the pre-Islamic to the Islamic period	0
Vospominaniia S Kommentariiami I Illiustrat͡Siiami	0
Persuasion or polarization? LGBTQ+ attitudes among young social media users in Kazakhstan	0
Browsing and believing: divergent effects of internet use on government trust in Central Asia	0
Mystical forest: collected poems and short stories of Dungan ethnographer Ali Dzhon	0
‘The freedom of a fair word’: the roots of human rights discourse in Kazakh cultural heritage	0
Qazaqstan. Kazakhstan. قازقستان : labirinty sovremennogo postkolonialnogo diskursa [ Qazaqstan, Kazakhstan , قازقستان : labyrinths of a modern post-co	0
Politicizing water development and protection in Georgia	0
Ambivalent heritage: tourism, weddings and pilgrimage in Hisor, Tajikistan	0
Introducing the symposium on Philipp Lottholz’s Post-Liberal Statebuilding in Central Asia: Imaginaries, Discourses and Practices of Social Ordering	0
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 cat in Mongolian society: a good, bad and ugly animal	0
Soviet policy in Xinjiang: Stalin and the national movement in Eastern Turkistan	0
Writing travel and the genealogical imagination: Afghan Kyrgyz migrations in contemporary perspective	0
The Afghan women’s movement and gender apartheid: shifting the trajectory of international human rights law	0
“Nomadity of being” in Central Asia narratives of Kyrgyzstani women’s rights activists	0
Chetyre tetradi	0
The Russia-Ukraine War and its implications on Central Asia	0
Interethnic relations in the Nazi-occupied North Caucasus: a case study of the Mountain Jewish communities in Bogdanovka and Nalchik	0
The ‘Pragmatic cooperation’ in the Belt and Road Initiative: the Sino-Turkmen natural gas engagement	0
Intermarriage and the friendship of the peoples: Ethnic mixing in Soviet Central Asia	0
Gorno-Badakhshan and Karakalpakstan since 1991: understanding territorial autonomy in Central Asia	0
So long, and thanks for all the research (with apologies to Douglas Adams)	0
The June 2010 interethnic conflict in southern Kyrgyzstan: causes, circumstances, chronology, consequences, measures taken and lessons	0
Tracing the atom: Nuclear legacies in Russia and Central Asia	0
Scrutinizing ethnographic depth and civil society impacts in Post-Liberal Statebuilding in Central Asia	0
Moscow’s heavy shadow: the violent collapse of the USSR	0

Jews and their neighbours in Central Asia and Caucasus in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries	0
Dungan ethnicity in transformation: from totalitarianism to contemporary adaptation	0
The EU as an actor in Central Asia: external impacts, regional responses	0
Re-defining Kazakh national identity: interplay of Islam and ethnonationalism in post-Soviet nation-building in Kazakhstan	0
Refocusing education: understanding higher education institutions’ needs for human resource development in Azerbaijan	0
Widening the scope: how middle powers are changing liberal institutionalism	0
Monotown futures: toxic waste, civic protest and governance struggles in Stepnogorsk, Kazakhstan	0
We need to talk about political society: subaltern resistances beyond civil society in Eastern Europe and Eurasia	0
On language gifts: public discourses on Kazakh and Russian in Kazakhstan	0
Imperskost’ from Central (Eur)Asian ethnography to the self	0
Parliamentary representation in Central Asia: MPs between representing their voters and serving an authoritarian regime	0
Place-name wars in Karabakh: Russian Imperial maps and political legitimacy in the Caucasus	0
‘As long as you’re not an asshole’: insider-outsider dynamics in queer research	0
Competitive institutionalized cooperation in Central Asia and externally guided regionalism	0
The Mongolian state and the coronavirus pandemic: policy, messaging and the nationalist imaginary	0
Political Islam and democracy in Central Asia: the Islamic revival party of Tajikistan	0
Responding to atheist state policy and practicing religion: the Ismailis of Soviet Badakhshan	0
The enemy of my friend becomes my friend: navigating Mongolia’s relationship dynamics on the Korean Peninsula	0
Internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Azerbaijan: from protracted displacement to ‘Great Return’	0
Political stability in authoritarian regimes: the case of Central Asia	0
Russian imperial borderlands, Georgian Jews, and the struggle for ‘justice’ and ‘legality’: blood libel in Kutaisi, 1878–80	0
Inside Afghanistan: Political networks, informal order, and state disruption	0
Digital misrecognitions: the violence of visibility in postsocialist Kyrgyzstan	0
Andreas Wilde (1976–2022)	0
Civil society, social capital and development in Central Asia	0
Environmental humanities in Central Asia: relations between extraction and interdependence	0
Talas Omarbekov (1948–2021)	0
Four voices, one region: local and Western media coverage of regional relations in Central Asia	0
The tragedy of irregular migration: the case of Afghans in Turkey	0
The varying levels of contrasting adaptation in Central Asia’s climate change politics	0
A climate for the Khans: reinterpreting the economic history of the Khivan Khanate with paleoenvironmental evidence	0
The role of language and age in ethnic Qazaq attitudes toward Ukraine, Russia and the Russo-Ukrainian War	0
Kazakh nomads, social class transformations and Soviet power during the period of collectivization	0
The decline and fall of Republican Afghanistan	0
The emotional sight of neoliberalized port infrastructure in the city of Poti, Georgia	0
Foreign agents law in Georgia: policy transfer from Russia or the West?	0
Kinship imaginaries of similarity and difference: gifts from Inner Mongols to Mongolia during the COVID-19 pandemic	0
From geopolitical pendulum to regional player: Uzbekistan’s regional foreign policy following the leadership change in 2016	0
Socio-Political Turbulence and Ethno-Regional Migration Dynamics in Kyrgyzstan	0
On the problem of Sāmānid origins	0
The interplay of narratives on regionness, regionhood and regionality: European Union and Central Asia	0
Istoriografiia Koreitsev Tsentral’noi Azii: osnovnye napravleniia i etapy razvitiia Istoriografiia Koreitsev Tsentral’noi Azii: osnovnye napravleniia i etapy razvitiia [	0
‘Abyroy’ from status to contract: social honour in Kazakh culture	0
Infrastructures of belonging: cultural sustainability in the post-exile context of the Ahıska Turks	0
‘Birds without legs’: legal integration as potentiality for women of an Afghan-Turkmen family in Istanbul	0
Central Asia and the Covid-19 pandemic	0
Social media and spoken language in youth civic engagement in Kazakhstan	0
How to dodge EU compliance while pledging commitment – Georgia’s pseudo-hedging between 2022 and 2024	0
Islamic culture and pre-Islamic beliefs in Central Asia	0
Transgender activism in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan	0
Forgotten project of a private agricultural plantation in the Khanate of Khiva, Uzbekistan	0
Local identity and intergroup relations: Jews and Muslims in Ferghana Valley in late Soviet Era	0
Bridge or base? Chinese perceptions of Central Asia under Europeanisation	0
Author reply: Engaging with non-political lifeworlds, dialogical research and decolonial horizons through Post-Liberal Statebuilding in Central Asia	0
Youth civic engagement in Almaty: unpacking motivations, concerns and perceived trade-offs	0
On the frontline towards resource independence: agronomical knowledge and farming experiments with the fibre plant kendyr ’ in Soviet Central Asia	0
Subverting oppressive structures: on kelinhood , solidarity and feminist research in the bazaars	0
Visual propaganda in northwest China: exploring cultural representations	0
Backward and deficient: exploring Soviet imaginations and the modernization of Svaneti, 1920s–1930s	0
The Power of Siberia 2 pipeline and political cynicism in Russian–Mongolian relations	0
Slow anti-Americanism: social movements and symbolic politics in Central Asia	0
Voices of resistance: Afghan women’s lived experiences under the Taliban’s ban on education	0
The Qirghiz Baatir and the Russian Empire: A portrait of a local intermediary in Russian Central Asia	0
Kazakh Muslim poetry as inspiration for anti-Soviet dissidence: Shortanbay Aqïn and Kämel Zhu̇nīstegī	0
Performing faith and capital at the same time: Islamic finance as cultural artefact in Central Asia	0
Atomic steppe: how Kazakhstan gave up the bomb	0
EU–Central Asian interactions: perceptions, interests and practices	0
Turkmenistan in Eurasian railway geopolitics	0
‘What have you done, brother Putin?’: Everyday geopolitics and Central Asian labour migration to Russia	0
Women’s dance traditions of Uzbekistan: legacy of the silk road	0
Regional leadership in post-Soviet Eurasia: The strategies of Russia, China, and the European Union	0
Eurasian crossroads: a history of Xinjiang	0
Qonaevstalgia: various images of Dinmukhammed Qonaev in post-Nazarbayev Kazakhstan	0
Iterations from the past: a no-nonsense approach to the importers of the virus during the COVID-19 pandemic in Mongolia	0
Reading across borders: Afghans, Iranians, and literary nationalism	0
The crisis-events and reassembled ethnolinguistic-cum-environmentalist subjects in Inner Mongolia	0
A slow reckoning: the USSR, the Afghan communists, and Islam	0
The grass is always greener? Unpacking Uzbek migration to Japan	0
An intellectual challenge and an invitation	0
The ‘Great Steppe’ narrative: origins, politics and aspirations of Eternal Kazakhstan	0
The long-run analysis of the association between macroeconomic variables and suicide: the case of Turkic-speaking countries in Central Asia	0
Working with the Taliban: from the first to the second Emirate	0
Reimagining sovereignty: contemporary resemiotisation of Kazakh opposition leaders online in the shadow of Russian expansionism	0
Digital media consumption and voting among Central Asian youth: why democratic context matters	0
The digital history landscape in Central Asia: reflections on institutional asymmetries, transregional connectivity, and digital colonialism	0
Examining the forced migration of Turkestanians: reasons and stories	0
Thieves, opportunists and autocrats: building regulatory states in Russia and Kazakhstan	0
The Hazara peoples’ struggle for social and political rights in Afghanistan: the case of the enlightenment movement	0
Reputation as a weapon: digital violence against women activists in Kazakhstan	0
Yearning for a homogeneous Chinese nation: digital propaganda campaigns after the 2020 protest in Inner Mongolia	0
The multiethnic Soviet Union and its demise	0
Let’s talk about researchers’ mental well-being	0
The social costs of gambling in Central Asia: insights from Kazakhstan’s addiction crisis	0
Informality versus shadow economy: reflecting on the first results of a manager’s survey in Kyrgyzstan	0