Central Asia Research Forum
About the Book Series
Central Asia Research Forum is a series designed to present cutting-edge research on the Central Asia region spanning the whole of the social sciences.
Founding editor: Shirin Akiner, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK.
Social and Cultural Change in Central Asia: The Soviet Legacy
1st Edition
Edited
By Sevket Akyildiz, Richard Carlson
October 12, 2017
Focusing on Soviet culture and its social ramifications both during the Soviet period and in the post-Soviet era, this book addresses important themes associated with Sovietisation and socialisation in the Central Asian states of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. ...
Conflict and Peace in Eurasia
1st Edition
Edited
By Debidatta Mahapatra
May 31, 2017
Focusing on a range of Eurasian conflicts, including Nagorno-Karabakh, South Ossetia and Abkhazia, this book offers contemporary perspectives on the ongoing conflicts in the Eurasia, with an emphasis on the attempts towards peace. The book brings into focus how various factors such as ethnicity, ...
National Identities in Soviet Historiography: The Rise of Nations under Stalin
1st Edition
By Harun Yilmaz
May 25, 2017
Under Stalin’s totalitarian leadership of the USSR, Soviet national identities with historical narratives were constructed. These constructions envisaged how nationalities should see their imaginary common past, and millions of people defined themselves according to them. This book explains how and...
Prospects for Pastoralism in Kazakstan and Turkmenistan: From State Farms to Private Flocks
1st Edition
Edited
By Dr Carol Kerven, Carol Kerven
February 15, 2017
This collection traces how pastoralists have coped with the challenges of change in a part of the world with a long-tradition of livestock keeping. Their precarious position - balanced between a market system where only the fittest may survive, and their attempt to remain a human resource for the ...
Tajikistan: The Trials of Independence
1st Edition
By Shirin Akiner, Mohammad-Reza Djalili, Frederic Grare
July 08, 2016
Since its independence in 1991 Tajikistan has suffered a painful series of political crises followed by a civil war, still continuing, whose repercussions extend far beyond its borders. This work examines the causes of the turmoil, and analyses, through the case of Tajikistan, social and political ...
Qaidu and the Rise of the Independent Mongol State In Central Asia
1st Edition
By Michal Biran
February 29, 2016
Qaidu (1236-1301), one of the great rebels in the history of the Mongol Empire, was the grandson of Ogedei, the son Genghis Khan had chosen to be his heir. This boof recounts the dynastic convolutions and power struggle leading up to his rebellion and subsequent events....
Turkmenistan’s Foreign Policy: Positive Neutrality and the consolidation of the Turkmen Regime
1st Edition
By Luca Anceschi
December 18, 2015
Turkmenistan, an independent nation since 1991, is a strategically important Central Asian state. This book covers the most significant period of the establishment of the Turkmen political regime. At the core of this book is the Doctrine of Positive Neutrality, which, from 1995 onwards, constituted...
Tradition and Society in Turkmenistan: Gender, Oral Culture and Song
1st Edition
By Carole Blackwell
December 11, 2015
This unique study of Turkmen women and their folk songs looks at religion, ritual and family as seen through the eyes of the women and their songs....
Azeri Women in Transition: Women in Soviet and Post-Soviet Azerbaijan
1st Edition
By Dr Farideh Heyat
February 27, 2015
This study of women and gender in a Muslim society draws on archival and literary sources as well as the life stories of women of different generations to offer a unique ethnographic and historical account of the lives of urban women in contemporary Azerbaijan. Focussing on a group of professional ...
The Life of Alimqul: A Native Chronicle of Nineteenth Century Central Asia
1st Edition
By Timur Beisembiev
February 27, 2015
This work studies a narrative devoted to the history of the Kokand Khanate, a state that played a great role in Central Asian history in the 18th and 19th centuries, controlling territory equal to continental western Europe, until it was conquered by the Russian Empire in 1876. This unique ...
Religion and Security in South and Central Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By K. Warikoo
March 07, 2014
Religion and security play an important role in traditional societies. In South and Central Asia, traditional and moderate Islamic beliefs and practices with strong indigenous and Sufi content are diametrically opposed to radical Wahabi and Taliban brands of Islam intolerant of other cultures and ...
The Political Economy of Reform in Central Asia: Uzbekistan under Authoritarianism
1st Edition
By Martin C. Spechler
April 30, 2012
This book examines the economic reforms and material progress made since the Central Asian republics became independent from the Soviet Union in 1991. Without some of the neo-liberal reforms recommended by the "Washington Consensus" and with an authoritarian presidency, Uzbekistan, the largest of ...