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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Demographic effects of deportation: seeking the causes of high fertility rates in the North Caucasus, Russia47
Changes in the flock: sheep-keeping as a symbol of the transformation of the Kazakh traditional economy18
Correction16
The agency of object: the doppa as a narrator for a dynamic Uyghur identity15
Geopolitics of cryptocurrency mining in Kazakhstan13
‘Listening State?’ : exploring citizens’ perceptions of Open Government in Tokayev’s Kazakhstan12
After the resurgence of Talibanism theocracy: non-lethal intervention and the politics of non-neutrality in Afghanistan11
Analysing Kazakhstan’s Foreign Policy Regime Neo-Eurasianism in The Nazarbayev Era11
Introduction: LGBTQ +  visibilities in the Caucasus and Central Asia10
Islam in China10
Central Asian studies in the People’s Republic of China: a structural topic model9
Methods of studying LGBT experiences in the situation of invisibility: from African countries to Uzbekistan9
Georgian Jews and Georgian non-Jews: Soviet experience through the prism of nostalgia8
Internationalization of higher education in Central Asia: a systematic review8
The mobilization of ‘capabilities’ as an idea and practice in today’s China: From appropriation to exclusion of Uyghur identities8
Agency and resistance amongst queer people in Kazakhstan8
‘The Book of My Mother’ as national allegory: subaltern nationalism and political unconscious in early twentieth century Azerbaijani fiction8
The EU and European transnational companies in Central Asia: relocating agency in the energy sector7
In Soviet educational greenhouses: on the problem of language teaching to the Bukharan–Jewish children of Uzbekistan, 1917–477
Reclaiming self-esteem: Mongols’ responses to the early COVID-19 pandemic in Inner Mongolia, China6
A void in Central Asia research: climate change6
‘Abduct her before another man does’: evolving consensual bride abduction patterns in Kazakhstan’s Jetisu province6
Pioneering new migration routes: central Asian truck drivers’ experiences in the EU6
Soft power in Central Asia: the politics of influence and seduction5
Deciphering dictators’ discourse on Indigenous democracy: a case of Karimov’s Uzbekistan5
Dekolonizatsiia Kazahstana5
Contextualizing data collection in Central Asia: insights from local researchers’ experiences5
Factors inhibiting institutional responses to domestic violence in Kyrgyzstan5
Rivers between nature, infrastructure, and religion5
Afghan Napoleon: The life of Ahmad Shah Massoud5
LGBTQ+ activism in Azerbaijan: shifting queer (in)visibility regime through power–knowledge technologies5
The role of geopolitics in Turkey’s diplomatic approach to the Second East Turkestan Republic (1939–1949)4
Vehicularizing the vernacular: using the periodical press to popularize vernacular languages in Soviet Turkic communities4
Technology, temporality, and the study of Central Asia: an introduction4
Fieldwork within queer communities in Central Asia: a research note4
The Tajik Civil War and Russia’s Islamist moment4
Emigrants/Muhacir from Xinjiang to Middle East during 1940–60s4
The EU and China: how do they fit in Central Asia?4
Iranian, Afghan or Central Asian? Patterns of mobility among Persianate Jews in the 19th and early 20th centuries4
The hidden caliphate: Sufi saints beyond the Oxus and Indus3
A narrative analysis: tragic images of the Aral Sea in the Russophone ecopoems3
Uyghur identity and culture: a global diaspora in a time of crisis3
Taking account of authoritarian peacebuilding in Post-Liberal Statebuilding in Central Asia3
Universities branching out: towards a typology of transnational education partnerships in Central Asia3
Smartphones and public support for LGBTQ+ in Central Asia3
Navigating tradition: agency of young urban women in Kyrgyzstan during wedding negotiations and early marriage3
Law, society and corruption lessons from the Central Asian context3
The Soviet city as a landscape in the making: planning, building and appropriating Samarkand,c.1960s–80s3
Experiences of female early-career professionals in male-dominated STEM companies in Kazakhstan3
Surviving Everyday Life: The Securityscapes of Threatened People in Kyrgyzstan3
Chet ellarda o'qigan Turkistonlik yoshlar (Young People from Turkistan Who Studied Abroad)3
Helping a f(r)iend in need? Rethinking the role of linkages in authoritarian covert repression3
‘We’re all like brothers’: religion’s role in Afghan Uzbek identity formation3
‘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
China, Russia and Central Asian infrastructure: fragmenting or reformatting the region?2
Islam and ethnic tolerance: assessing Kyrgyz’ Muslim religiosity and acceptance of Uzbeks in Kyrgyzstan2
Grassroots struggles against domestic violence in Uzbekistan: strategies of exit and voice2
Traditional medicine, legitimacy and nationalist doxa in pandemic-era Mongolia2
Navigating complex narratives: understanding challenges of Russian-related research in Kazakhstan2
In the corridors of officialdom: how patience and flexibility unlock elite interviews in Uzbekistan2
Maya Karin Peterson (1980–2021)2
Two decades of women’s underrepresentation in public service leadership: the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan2
Native, but unique: Jews of Georgia, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan and their neighbours revealed through their twentieth century demographic profiles2
‘Two parts – one whole’? Kazakh–Kyrgyz relations in the making of Soviet Kyrgyzstan, 1917–242
‘Why should we have theirs if we have our own?’ On decolonizing social science research ethics in Central Asia2
Kratkaia istoriia kazakhov. Ot pervykh kochevnikov do nashikh dnei2
Post-Soviet settlement of the Sino-Soviet border: a failed attempt at a three-level game, 1991–20122
Representation of the Kazakhstani famine (1931–33) in secondary school history textbooks, 1992–20212
Exploring civil society perspectives on the situation of human rights defenders in the Commonwealth of Independent States1
Politicking of Islam and LGBTQ+ discourse in Uzbekistan1
Corruption, public procurement and political instability in Kazakhstan1
The European Union, China and Central Asia: global and regional cooperation in a new era1
The cat in Mongolian society: a good, bad and ugly animal1
Marriage and margins: gendered belonging in Chala-Jewish Muslim lives1
The creation of Kazakh national identity: the relationship with Russia, 1900–20151
Between ‘info-killers’ and ‘spies’: three strategies for interviewing government officials across Central Asia1
Narrating the state in miniature: philatelic representations of Kazakhstan, 1992–20211
Diversifying/revitalizing the study of Central Asia and the Caucasus1
Employment of master’s degree graduates in Kazakhstan: navigating an uncertain labour market1
Framing the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict: an analysis of the narratives of the state leaders of Azerbaijan, Armenia and Turkey, 2002–20221
Positionality in ethnographic fieldwork: a male, ‘native’ researcher among migrant men1
Feminization of labour migration from Uzbekistan to Turkey: the role of neoliberal policies, patriarchy and social networks1
‘I became an Uzbek’: Jewish-Uzbek encounters in World War Two evacuation1
The crisis-events and reassembled ethnolinguistic-cum-environmentalist subjects in Inner Mongolia1
Politics of regionalism in Central Asia: multilateralism, institutions, and local perception1
Migration from Central Asia: stories and identity formation1
The relationship between elite structure, privatization and regime type in Central Asia: varieties and degrees of authoritarianism in Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Tajikistan1
The ‘Great Steppe’ narrative: origins, politics and aspirations of Eternal Kazakhstan1
A reading from Kazakhstan with a focus on decolonization: Post-Liberal Statebuilding in Central Asia1
A practitioner's perspective from Kyrgyzstan: Post-Liberal Statebuilding in Central Asia1
Learning in, about and from the field? Symbolic functions of EU knowledge production on Central Asia1
The impact of China’s high-tech repression on Uyghurs: a case study of Uyghur diaspora in Turkiye1
Rentier capitalism and its discontents: Power, morality and resistance in Central Asia1
Informal civil society initiatives in non-Western societies: mahallas in Uzbekistan1
Was the prehistoric man an Azeri nationalist?: Mobilized prehistory and nation-building in Azerbaijan1
The language of access: determinants of distributive efficacy in Georgia’s multiethnic Kvemo Kartli region1
Qarakhanid roads to China: A history of Sino-Turkic relations1
War, opium and economic growth in Afghanistan1
Knowledge on fire: the impact of conflict and violence on education in Afghanistan1
Uyat and the culture of shame in Central Asia1
Internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Azerbaijan: from protracted displacement to ‘Great Return’0
Yearning for a homogeneous Chinese nation: digital propaganda campaigns after the 2020 protest in Inner Mongolia0
The Russia-Ukraine War and its implications on Central Asia0
Inside Afghanistan: Political networks, informal order, and state disruption0
On the problem of Sāmānid origins0
Soviet policy in Xinjiang: Stalin and the national movement in Eastern Turkistan0
Qazaqstan. Kazakhstan. قازقستان : labirinty sovremennogo postkolonialnogo diskursa [ Qazaqstan, Kazakhstan , قازقستان : labyrinths of a modern post-co0
The June 2010 interethnic conflict in southern Kyrgyzstan: causes, circumstances, chronology, consequences, measures taken and lessons0
Ambivalent heritage: tourism, weddings and pilgrimage in Hisor, Tajikistan0
Digital misrecognitions: the violence of visibility in postsocialist Kyrgyzstan0
Girls’ education and success in Azerbaijan: comparative document analysis0
Private supplementary tutoring and educational inequality in secondary education in Kazakhstan0
Voices of resistance: Afghan women’s lived experiences under the Taliban’s ban on education0
Kinship imaginaries of similarity and difference: gifts from Inner Mongols to Mongolia during the COVID-19 pandemic0
The ‘Pragmatic cooperation’ in the Belt and Road Initiative: the Sino-Turkmen natural gas engagement0
New regime, new policies: research ethics development – a case study of Uzbekistan0
Monotown futures: toxic waste, civic protest and governance struggles in Stepnogorsk, Kazakhstan0
Digital media consumption and voting among Central Asian youth: why democratic context matters0
Mosques as religious infrastructure: Muslim selfhood, moral imaginaries and everyday sociality0
The grass is always greener? Unpacking Uzbek migration to Japan0
Bridge or base? Chinese perceptions of Central Asia under Europeanisation0
The emotional sight of neoliberalized port infrastructure in the city of Poti, Georgia0
‘What have you done, brother Putin?’: Everyday geopolitics and Central Asian labour migration to Russia0
The varying levels of contrasting adaptation in Central Asia’s climate change politics0
Gorno-Badakhshan and Karakalpakstan since 1991: understanding territorial autonomy in Central Asia0
Persuasion or polarization? LGBTQ+ attitudes among young social media users in Kazakhstan0
Visual propaganda in northwest China: exploring cultural representations0
Transgender activism in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan0
‘The freedom of a fair word’: the roots of human rights discourse in Kazakh cultural heritage0
From geopolitical pendulum to regional player: Uzbekistan’s regional foreign policy following the leadership change in 20160
The history and culture of Iran and Central Asia: From the pre-Islamic to the Islamic period0
Communal self-governance as an alternative to neoliberal governance: proposing a post-development approach to EU resilience-building in Central Asia0
Strategic alignments and balancing of threats: military and political alliances in the South Caucasus (1991–2021)0
Slow anti-Americanism: social movements and symbolic politics in Central Asia0
Balancing between majorities: the negotiable identity of Osh Dungans0
Forgotten project of a private agricultural plantation in the Khanate of Khiva, Uzbekistan0
Economic development without rural–urban migration in Georgia0
Strengthening academia: embracing an open dialogue on fieldwork in the authoritarian states of Central Asia0
Author reply: Engaging with non-political lifeworlds, dialogical research and decolonial horizons through Post-Liberal Statebuilding in Central Asia0
Foreign fighters and international peace: joining global jihad and marching back home0
The multiethnic Soviet Union and its demise0
Labour transfers as a means of ‘civilizing’ and forcibly assimilating ethnic minorities in western China0
On language gifts: public discourses on Kazakh and Russian in Kazakhstan0
Talas Omarbekov (1948–2021)0
The Hazara peoples’ struggle for social and political rights in Afghanistan: the case of the enlightenment movement0
A slow reckoning: the USSR, the Afghan communists, and Islam0
Imperskost’ from Central (Eur)Asian ethnography to the self0
Let’s talk about researchers’ mental well-being0
Qonaevstalgia: various images of Dinmukhammed Qonaev in post-Nazarbayev Kazakhstan0
Regional leadership in post-Soviet Eurasia: The strategies of Russia, China, and the European Union0
Subverting oppressive structures: on kelinhood , solidarity and feminist research in the bazaars0
Civil society, social capital and development in Central Asia0
Competitive institutionalized cooperation in Central Asia and externally guided regionalism0
Local identity and intergroup relations: Jews and Muslims in Ferghana Valley in late Soviet Era0
Political Islam and democracy in Central Asia: the Islamic revival party of Tajikistan0
We need to talk about political society: subaltern resistances beyond civil society in Eastern Europe and Eurasia0
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
Power and positionality: researching state crime and reputation laundering in Uzbekistan0
The conceptual evolution of poverty alleviation through labour transfer in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region0
Istoriografiia Koreitsev Tsentral’noi Azii: osnovnye napravleniia i etapy razvitiia Istoriografiia Koreitsev Tsentral’noi Azii: osnovnye napravleniia i etapy razvitiia [0
Iterations from the past: a no-nonsense approach to the importers of the virus during the COVID-19 pandemic in Mongolia0
The Afghan women’s movement and gender apartheid: shifting the trajectory of international human rights law0
Politicizing water development and protection in Georgia0
Browsing and believing: divergent effects of internet use on government trust in Central Asia0
The EU’s Central Asia policy: no chance for change?0
A climate for the Khans: reinterpreting the economic history of the Khivan Khanate with paleoenvironmental evidence0
Turkmenistan in Eurasian railway geopolitics0
Moscow’s heavy shadow: the violent collapse of the USSR0
Central Asia and the Covid-19 pandemic0
Youth civic engagement in Almaty: unpacking motivations, concerns and perceived trade-offs0
Dungan ethnicity in transformation: from totalitarianism to contemporary adaptation0
Eurasian crossroads: a history of Xinjiang0
Ismaili Muslims in Moscow: community, identity and integration0
Decolonizing Central Asian international relations: beyond empires0
‘As long as you’re not an asshole’: insider-outsider dynamics in queer research0
‘Birds without legs’: legal integration as potentiality for women of an Afghan-Turkmen family in Istanbul0
‘You are a different kind of Chinese person’: doing fieldwork as a Chinese researcher amidst the rise of Sinophobia in Central Asia0
Parliamentary representation in Central Asia: MPs between representing their voters and serving an authoritarian regime0
Socio-Political Turbulence and Ethno-Regional Migration Dynamics in Kyrgyzstan0
The Mongolian state and the coronavirus pandemic: policy, messaging and the nationalist imaginary0
Atomic steppe: how Kazakhstan gave up the bomb0
The Qirghiz Baatir and the Russian Empire: A portrait of a local intermediary in Russian Central Asia0
Intermarriage and the friendship of the peoples: Ethnic mixing in Soviet Central Asia0
Kazakh nomads, social class transformations and Soviet power during the period of collectivization0
Go East!: A history of Hungarian Turanism0
Non-aligned good power? Status enhancement of early post-independence Kazakhstan0
The tragedy of irregular migration: the case of Afghans in Turkey0
From 'Mercy' to 'Banner of Labour': the Bukharan Jewish press in late Tsarist and early Soviet Central Asia0
Jews and their neighbours in Central Asia and Caucasus in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries0
The long-run analysis of the association between macroeconomic variables and suicide: the case of Turkic-speaking countries in Central Asia0
EU–Central Asian interactions: perceptions, interests and practices0
Refocusing education: understanding higher education institutions’ needs for human resource development in Azerbaijan0
Russian imperial borderlands, Georgian Jews, and the struggle for ‘justice’ and ‘legality’: blood libel in Kutaisi, 1878–800
‘Linguistic compatriots’: on the relationship between Tajik and Judeo-Tajik language and literature0
Working with the Taliban: from the first to the second Emirate0
Chetyre tetradi0
Responding to atheist state policy and practicing religion: the Ismailis of Soviet Badakhshan0
Writing travel and the genealogical imagination: Afghan Kyrgyz migrations in contemporary perspective0
Women’s dance traditions of Uzbekistan: legacy of the silk road0
‘I dress in silk and velvet’: women, textiles and the textile-text in 1930s Uzbekistan0
Place-name wars in Karabakh: Russian Imperial maps and political legitimacy in the Caucasus0
Scrutinizing ethnographic depth and civil society impacts in Post-Liberal Statebuilding in Central Asia0
Introducing the symposium on Philipp Lottholz’s Post-Liberal Statebuilding in Central Asia: Imaginaries, Discourses and Practices of Social Ordering0
Examining the forced migration of Turkestanians: reasons and stories0
Andreas Wilde (1976–2022)0
Thieves, opportunists and autocrats: building regulatory states in Russia and Kazakhstan0
Of squirrels and men: being Soviet in Frunze’s green spaces0
The interplay of narratives on regionness, regionhood and regionality: European Union and Central Asia0
Political stability in authoritarian regimes: the case of Central Asia0
‘Abyroy’ from status to contract: social honour in Kazakh culture0
Informality versus shadow economy: reflecting on the first results of a manager’s survey in Kyrgyzstan0
Nation-branding in practice: the politics of promoting sports, cities and universities in Kazakhstan and Qatar0
Tracing the atom: Nuclear legacies in Russia and Central Asia0
Interethnic relations in the Nazi-occupied North Caucasus: a case study of the Mountain Jewish communities in Bogdanovka and Nalchik0
Mongolian Buddhism, science and healing: a modernist legacy0
‘Why wave the flag?’: (in)visible queer activism in authoritarian Kazakhstan and Russia0
Widening the scope: how middle powers are changing liberal institutionalism0
Backward and deficient: exploring Soviet imaginations and the modernization of Svaneti, 1920s–1930s0
The enemy of my friend becomes my friend: navigating Mongolia’s relationship dynamics on the Korean Peninsula0
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