Central Asian Survey

1998 - 2025

Current editor(s): Raphael Jacquet

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Volume 40, issue 4, 2021

Introduction: 30 years of Central Asian studies – the best is yet to come pp. 477-482

Erica Marat

On writing Soviet History of Central Asia: frameworks, challenges, prospects pp. 483-503

Botakoz Kassymbekova and Aminat Chokobaeva

Central Asia: from dark matter to a dark curtain? pp. 504-522

Assel Tutumlu

Writing about peoples: an American’s reflections on 30 years of Central Asian studies pp. 523-538

Russell Zanca

Islam in Central Asia 30 years after independence: debates, controversies and the critique of a critique pp. 539-554

Adeeb Khalid

On the brink and at the world’s edge: Western approaches to Central Asia’s international politics, 1991–2021 pp. 555-575

Alexander Cooley

Studying states and regimes in Central Asia: contributions to comparative politics and future challenges pp. 576-591

Lawrence P. Markowitz and Scott Radnitz

Academic freedom in Tajikistan: how the suppression, acquiescence and incorporation of intellectuals strengthens the state and affects knowledge production pp. 592-610

Oleg Antonov, Edward Lemon and Parviz Mullojonov

Volume 40, issue 3, 2021

‘End the dominance of the Uyghur ethnic group’: an analysis of Beijing’s population optimization strategy in southern Xinjiang pp. 291-312

Adrian Zenz

The Sart Kalmaks in Kyrgyzstan: people in transition pp. 313-329

Baasanjav Terbish

The elite-level demonstration effect of the Arab Spring in Kazakhstan pp. 330-350

Sarah Dorr

Towards building a culturally informed consent process in Central Asia pp. 351-367

Christopher M. Whitsel and Martha C. Merrill

Religious, national or cultural? A case study of frameworks for Jewish education in post-Soviet Central Asia pp. 368-381

Zeev Levin

Student online protests in Uzbekistan: democratization of higher education as concomitant to the COVID-19 crisis? pp. 382-399

Dilnoza Ubaydullaeva

The Kazakhstani Soviet not? Reading Nazarbayev’s Kazakhstani-ness through Brezhnev’s Soviet people pp. 400-419

Assel Tutumlu and Zulfiya Imyarova

Community perceptions of co-managing Tajik National Park pp. 420-437

Qobiljon Shokirov, Norman Backhaus and Jennifer Bartmess

A guest for a day? An analysis of Uzbek ‘language migration’ into the Japanese educational and labour markets pp. 438-466

Timur Dadabaev, Shigeto Sonoda and Jasur Soipov

The lawful empire: Legal change and cultural diversity in late Tsarist Russia pp. 467-469

Charles Steinwedel

The war on the Uyghurs: China’s internal campaign against a Muslim minority pp. 469-471

Adeeb Khalid

Negotiating inseparability in China: The Xinjiang Class and the dynamics of Uyghur identity pp. 471-473

Ablet Kamalov

Irina Viktorovna Erofeeva (1953–2020) pp. 474-476

Alexander Morrison

Volume 40, issue 2, 2021

Monotonous motorscapes: Uzbekistan’s car industry and the consolidation of a post-socialist shortage economy pp. 143-158

Nikolaos Olma

Exploiting norms: gender, local elites and farm individualization in Tajikistan pp. 159-178

Brent Hierman and Navruz Nekbakhtshoev

After Karimov and Nazarbayev: change in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan? pp. 179-196

Pamela Blackmon

The evolution of religious regulation in Central Asia, 1991–2018 pp. 197-221

Dustin Gamza and Pauline Jones

Human rights of daughters-in-law (kelins) in Central Asia: harmful traditional practices and structural oppression pp. 222-241

Galym Zhussipbek and Zhanar Nagayeva

Neighbouring an insurgency: the case of radicalization in Georgia pp. 242-256

Elena Pokalova and Tinatin Karosanidze

Conceiving homogenous state-space for the nation: the nationalist discourse on autochthony and the politics of place-naming in Armenia pp. 257-281

Husik Ghulyan

Visions of development in Central Asia: Revitalizing the culture concept pp. 282-284

Aksana Ismailbekova

The Hungry Steppe: Famine, violence, and the making of Soviet Kazakhstan pp. 284-286

Botakoz Kassymbekova

The steppe and the sea: pearls in the Mongol Empire pp. 287-288

Michael J. Bechtel

Medieval monuments of Central Asia: Qarakhanid architecture of the 11th and 12th centuries pp. 288-290

Dilrabo Tosheva

Volume 40, issue 1, 2021

Introduction: Art and culture – actors or representatives? pp. 1-8

Aliya de Tiesenhausen

Nation, religion and social heat: heritaging Uyghur mäshräp in Kazakhstan pp. 9-33

Rachel Harris and Ablet Kamalov

The art of the Sixtiers in Soviet Kazakhstan, or how to make a portrait from a skull pp. 34-56

Christianna Bonin

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 Almaty pp. 57-75

Basan Kuberlinov

From Sufism to communism: incarnations of the Uyghur song ‘Imam Hüsäynim’ pp. 76-96

Mu Qian

Contesting convention: agency in Dushanbe’s contemporary art scene pp. 97-112

Kasia Ploskonka

Queer identity in the contemporary art of Kazakhstan pp. 113-131

Saltanat Shoshanova

Toward nationalizing regimes: conceptualizing power and identity in the post-Soviet realm pp. 132-134

Berikbol Dukeyev

Central Asia and the Silk Road: economic rise and decline over several millennia pp. 134-136

Paul Georg Geiss

Pipe dreams: Water and empire in Central Asia’s Aral Sea basin pp. 136-138

Sarah Cameron

The Central Asian revolt of 1916: a collapsing empire in the age of war and revolution pp. 138-140

James Pickett

Books received pp. 141-141

The Editors

Volume 39, issue 4, 2020

Recasting the nation: transforming heroes of the Soviet Union into symbols of Kazakhstani patriotism pp. 445-462

Kristoffer Michael Rees

What is democracy and who supports it? Findings from a university survey in Kazakhstan pp. 463-479

Christopher B. Primiano and Alma Kudebayeva

Circling the barrels: Kazakhstan’s regime stability in the wake of the 2014 oil bust pp. 480-499

Morena Skalamera Groce

The reality of environmental cooperation and the Convention on the Legal Status of the Caspian Sea pp. 500-519

Agha Bayramov

Women’s bargaining power and contraception use in post-Soviet Tajikistan pp. 520-539

Zarrina H. Juraqulova and Ellison B. Henry

Transformation of musical performances at wedding ceremonies in the post-socialist period: the Kazakh tamada in Bayan-Ölgii Province, Mongolia pp. 540-555

Fuki Yagi

Buying into capitalism: Mongolians’ changing perceptions of capitalism in the transition years pp. 556-577

Paula L. W. Sabloff

Divorce settlement among the Uyghurs during the Republican era in Xinjiang pp. 578-595

Aysima Mirsultan

Afghanistan: a history from 1260 to the present pp. 596-599

M. Nazif Shahrani

Kazakhstan and the Soviet legacy: between continuity and rupture pp. 599-601

Cristina Palmer

Volume 39, issue 3, 2020

The Irene Hilgers Memorial Prize 2020 pp. ii-ii

The Editors

Correction pp. ci-ci

The Editors

The five shades of grey: party systems and authoritarian institutions in post-Soviet Central Asian states pp. 285-302

Grigorii V. Golosov

Dispossession and displacement of migrant workers: the impact of state terror and economic development on Uyghurs in urban Xinjiang pp. 303-323

Sarah Tynen

Claiming heritage: the Manas epic between China and Kyrgyzstan pp. 324-339

Svetlana Jacquesson

‘Don’t become a lost specimen!’: polygyny and motivational interconnectivity in Kyrgyzstan pp. 340-360

Michele E. Commercio

Nomadic by nature? Contradictions and precarious work in Mongolian tourism pp. 361-377

Jesse E. Shircliff

State-run media outlets in Central Asia: external regime legitimation through regional conflict and cooperation framing pp. 378-397

Mariya Pak, Filippo Menga, Daniel Feuer and Austen Dowell

Silent partners: archaeological insights on mobility, interaction and civilization in Central Asia’s past pp. 398-419

Lynne M. Rouse

Governance and order-making in Central Asia: from illiberalism to post-liberalism? pp. 420-437

Philipp Lottholz, John Heathershaw, Aksana Ismailbekova, Janyl Moldalieva, Eric McGlinchey and Catherine Owen

On the threshold of Eurasia: revolutionary poetics in the Caucasus pp. 438-439

Adeeb Khalid

Azan on the moon: entangling modernity along Tajikistan’s Pamir Highway pp. 439-441

Dinara Abildenova

Russia and Central Asia: coexistence, conquest and convergence pp. 441-443

Alisher Khaliyarov

Volume 39, issue 2, 2020

‘They do not help, only demoralize’: peasant nachalniks and the last imperial Russian reform on the Kazakh Steppe, 1902–1917 pp. 167-184

Gulmira Sultangalieva and John B. Seitz

Sharaf Rashidov and the international dimensions of Soviet Uzbekistan pp. 185-201

Riccardo Mario Cucciolla

Gender and ethnicity in the Soviet Muslim peripheries: a feminist postcolonial geography of women’s work in the Tajik SSR (1950–1991) pp. 202-219

Negar Elodie Behzadi and Lucia Direnberger

Educational infrastructure created in conditions of social exclusion: ‘Kyrgyz clubs’ for migrant children in Moscow pp. 220-235

Ekaterina Demintseva

From mice-eaten passports to fingerprint scanning: fluctuating state presence and ‘entangled documents’ along the Kyrgyz–Uzbek border pp. 236-254

Elina Troscenko

Legal reform or erasure of history? The politics of moral crimes in Afghanistan pp. 255-271

Aziz Hakimi and Masooma Sa’adat

Lev Gumilev’s Eurasianism and ethnonationalist misappropriation of historical geography pp. 272-276

Tristan Kenderdine and Aidana Aidarkhan

Webs of corruption: trafficking and terrorism in Central Asia pp. 277-278

Edward Lemon

Sustainable land management in Greater Central Asia: an integrated and regional perspective pp. 279-281

Michael Zukosky

A history of the Tajiks: Iranians of the East pp. 281-283

Daniel Beben

Volume 39, issue 1, 2020

Negotiating state and society: the normative informal economies of Central Asia and the Caucasus pp. 1-10

Susanne Fehlings and Hasan H. Karrar

Trading in Dordoi and Lilo bazaars: frontiers of formality, entrepreneurship and globalization pp. 11-32

Philippe Rudaz

The traders of Central Bazaar, Astana: motivation and networks pp. 33-45

Meiirzhan Baitas

The formal side of informality: non-state trading practices and local Uyghur ethnography pp. 46-62

Rune Steenberg

Markets at sacred sites: the globalized mobility and informality of the Armenian religious fairs pp. 63-79

Yulia Antonyan

The bazaar in ruins: rent and fire in Barakholka, Almaty pp. 80-94

Hasan H. Karrar

Doing business in Yabaolu Market, Beijing: (inter-)ethnic entrepreneurship, trust and friendship between Caucasian and Chinese traders pp. 95-115

Susanne Fehlings

Business 2.0: Kyrgyz middlemen in Guangzhou pp. 116-134

Philipp Schröder

Trade ‘outside the law’: Uzbek and Afghan transnational merchants between Yiwu and South-Central Asia pp. 135-154

Diana Ibañez-Tirado and Magnus Marsden

Islam with a female face: how women are changing the religious landscape in Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan pp. 155-156

Shahnoza Nozimova

The vanishing generation: faith and uprising in modern Uzbekistan pp. 157-159

Joanna Lillis

Cinema, Nation, and Empire in Uzbekistan (1919–1937) pp. 159-161

August Samie

Imperial desert dreams: cotton growing and irrigation in Central Asia, 1860–1991 pp. 161-163

Beatrice Penati

Books received pp. 164-165

The Editors