Central Asian Studies
EU–Central Asian Interactions: Perceptions, Interests and Practices
1st Edition
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By Rick Fawn, Karolina Kluczewska, Oleg Korneev
December 26, 2025
From limited interactions in the early 1990s, the EU and Central Asia now consider each other to be increasingly important. This book includes 12 chapters written by seasoned and policy-engaged researchers from across Eurasia and the wider world that analyse multiple levels of mutual interactions, ...
Internet and Gender in Kazakhstan: A Decolonial Feminist Perspective on Women’s Roles in the Digital Age
1st Edition
By Jasmin Dall’Agnola
November 28, 2025
Internet and Gender in Kazakhstan offers an empirically rich and theoretically compelling analysis of how the Internet is influencing societal attitudes towards women’s roles and agency in Kazakhstan. Equipped with intimate perspectives from the wider public in five different regions of Kazakhstan,...
Shared Spaces: Jews and Interethnic Encounters in Central Asia and the Caucasus, 19th–20th Centuries
1st Edition
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By Zeev Levin
October 27, 2025
This book explores a little-known but richly layered history of Jewish communities in one of the world's most diverse and dynamic regions. Spanning over a millennium, the Jewish presence in Central Asia and the Caucasus has often been overshadowed by broader imperial, colonial, and Soviet ...
Migration from Central Asia: Stories and Identity Formation
1st Edition
By Çağla Gül Yesevi
May 06, 2025
Migration from Central Asia analyzes migration from Turkestan to Türkiye, Saudi Arabia, and the United States and the identity formation of these people living in different countries. It also deals with younger generations and their views about homeland, sense of belonging, and identity. Using oral...
LGBTQ+ Visibilities in the Caucasus and Central Asia
1st Edition
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By Jasmin Dall’Agnola, Cai Wilkinson
March 19, 2025
This book discusses the ongoing challenges of queer visibilities, activism, and knowledge production and demonstrates that there are lessons to be learned from the experiences of queer people in the Caucasus and Central Asia.The idea for this book emerged from a desire to showcase queer scholarship...
Practices of Traditionalization in Central Asia
1st Edition
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By Judith Beyer, Peter Finke
June 24, 2024
Practices of Traditionalization in Central Asia focuses on how tradition is ‘everyday-ified’ in contemporary Central Asia, including Tatarstan and Tibet, and what people seek to achieve in its name. The case studies range from political demonstrations and industrial workers’ gatherings to ...
A Critical Reader in Central Asian Studies: 40 Years of Central Asian Survey
1st Edition
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By Rico Isaacs
January 29, 2024
Central Asian Survey has remained as the premier world-leading peer-reviewed journal for Central Asian studies for four decades. To mark the 40th anniversary of the journal, this volume is intended to be a reader of selected essays from the journal over the last four decades. This book is not just...
Informal Markets and Trade in Central Asia and the Caucasus
1st Edition
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By Susanne Fehlings, Hasan H. Karrar
January 29, 2024
This edited book introduces new research on informal markets and trade in Central Asia and the Caucasus. The research presented in this volume is based on recent field research in Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, as well as Beijing, Guangzhou, Yiwu and the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous ...
The Social Role of Art and Culture in Central Asia
1st Edition
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By Aliya de Tiesenhausen
January 29, 2024
This collection of multi-disciplinary essays offers a fresh, perspective on Central Asian art and culture as it gains increased attention on both the local and international stage. Influenced by the golden ages of its history – from the ancient Scythians, through the glory of the Persians and Turks...
Socialist and Post–Socialist Mongolia: Nation, Identity, and Culture
1st Edition
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By Simon Wickhamsmith, Phillip P. Marzluf
September 26, 2022
This book re-examines the origins of modern Mongolian nationalism, discussing nation building as sponsored by the socialist Mongolian People’s Revolutionary Party and the Soviet Union and emphasizing in particular the role of the arts and the humanities. It considers the politics and society of the...
Russian Practices of Governance in Eurasia: Frontier Power Dynamics, Sixteenth Century to Nineteenth Century
1st Edition
By Gulnar T. Kendirbai
August 29, 2022
This book analyses the role of the mobility factor in the spread of Russian rule in Eurasia in the formative period of the rise of the Russian Empire and offers an examination of the interaction of Russian authorities with their nomadic partners.Demonstrating that the mobility factor strongly ...
Parliamentary Representation in Central Asia: MPs Between Representing Their Voters and Serving an Authoritarian Regime
1st Edition
By Esther Somfalvy
May 06, 2022
This book explores the nature of parliamentary representation within the autocratic regimes of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. It argues that although many parliaments are elected under flawed or non-competitive elections, autocratic governments are nevertheless aware of the need to appear ...