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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Demographic effects of deportation: seeking the causes of high fertility rates in the North Caucasus, Russia42
Correction20
The agency of object: the doppa as a narrator for a dynamic Uyghur identity19
‘Listening State?’ : exploring citizens’ perceptions of Open Government in Tokayev’s Kazakhstan15
Geopolitics of cryptocurrency mining in Kazakhstan14
Changes in the flock: sheep-keeping as a symbol of the transformation of the Kazakh traditional economy14
Central Asia: from dark matter to a dark curtain?13
Methods of studying LGBT experiences in the situation of invisibility: from African countries to Uzbekistan12
Introduction: LGBTQ +  visibilities in the Caucasus and Central Asia11
Central Asian studies in the People’s Republic of China: a structural topic model11
Songs of war and despair: two Afghan/Uzbek women’s life history and lament11
Islam in China10
Analysing Kazakhstan’s Foreign Policy Regime Neo-Eurasianism in The Nazarbayev Era9
Internationalization of higher education in Central Asia: a systematic review9
Agency and resistance amongst queer people in Kazakhstan8
Leveraging low state capacity for economic development: a case study of Tajik–Afghan cross-border markets8
After the resurgence of Talibanism theocracy: non-lethal intervention and the politics of non-neutrality in Afghanistan8
‘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
‘Abduct her before another man does’: evolving consensual bride abduction patterns in Kazakhstan’s Jetisu province7
Georgian Jews and Georgian non-Jews: Soviet experience through the prism of nostalgia7
A void in Central Asia research: climate change6
The mobilization of ‘capabilities’ as an idea and practice in today’s China: From appropriation to exclusion of Uyghur identities6
Pioneering new migration routes: central Asian truck drivers’ experiences in the EU6
Dekolonizatsiia Kazahstana6
Deciphering dictators’ discourse on Indigenous democracy: a case of Karimov’s Uzbekistan5
LGBTQ+ activism in Azerbaijan: shifting queer (in)visibility regime through power–knowledge technologies5
Afghan Napoleon: The life of Ahmad Shah Massoud5
Factors inhibiting institutional responses to domestic violence in Kyrgyzstan5
Soft power in Central Asia: the politics of influence and seduction5
Rivers between nature, infrastructure, and religion5
The role of geopolitics in Turkey’s diplomatic approach to the Second East Turkestan Republic (1939–1949)4
Writing about peoples: an American’s reflections on 30 years of Central Asian studies4
Technology, temporality, and the study of Central Asia: an introduction4
The EU and China: how do they fit in Central Asia?4
Emigrants/Muhacir from Xinjiang to Middle East during 1940–60s4
The Tajik Civil War and Russia’s Islamist moment4
Law, society and corruption lessons from the Central Asian context3
Fieldwork within queer communities in Central Asia: a research note3
A narrative analysis: tragic images of the Aral Sea in the Russophone ecopoems3
Women herders: women’s role and bargaining power in Mongolian herding households3
China, Russia and Central Asian infrastructure: fragmenting or reformatting the region?3
Navigating tradition: agency of young urban women in Kyrgyzstan during wedding negotiations and early marriage3
Vehicularizing the vernacular: using the periodical press to popularize vernacular languages in Soviet Turkic communities3
The hidden caliphate: Sufi saints beyond the Oxus and Indus3
Experiences of female early-career professionals in male-dominated STEM companies in Kazakhstan3
Surviving Everyday Life: The Securityscapes of Threatened People in Kyrgyzstan3
The Soviet city as a landscape in the making: planning, building and appropriating Samarkand,c.1960s–80s3
‘Why should we have theirs if we have our own?’ On decolonizing social science research ethics in Central Asia3
Uyghur identity and culture: a global diaspora in a time of crisis3
Iranian, Afghan or Central Asian? Patterns of mobility among Persianate Jews in the 19th and early 20th centuries3
Smartphones and public support for LGBTQ+ in Central Asia3
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
Taking account of authoritarian peacebuilding in Post-Liberal Statebuilding in Central Asia3
Native, but unique: Jews of Georgia, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan and their neighbours revealed through their twentieth century demographic profiles2
Representation of the Kazakhstani famine (1931–33) in secondary school history textbooks, 1992–20212
Grassroots struggles against domestic violence in Uzbekistan: strategies of exit and voice2
In the corridors of officialdom: how patience and flexibility unlock elite interviews in Uzbekistan2
‘Khatakskaia khronika’: korpus i funktsii teksta2
The hidden integration of Central Asia: the making of a region through technical infrastructures2
The language of access: determinants of distributive efficacy in Georgia’s multiethnic Kvemo Kartli region2
Maya Karin Peterson (1980–2021)2
Two decades of women’s underrepresentation in public service leadership: the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan2
Post-Soviet settlement of the Sino-Soviet border: a failed attempt at a three-level game, 1991–20122
Exploring civil society perspectives on the situation of human rights defenders in the Commonwealth of Independent States2
Roundtable studying the Anthropocene in Central Asia: the challenge of sources and scales in human–environment relations2
Positionality in ethnographic fieldwork: a male, ‘native’ researcher among migrant men2
Kratkaia istoriia kazakhov. Ot pervykh kochevnikov do nashikh dnei2
Islam and ethnic tolerance: assessing Kyrgyz’ Muslim religiosity and acceptance of Uzbeks in Kyrgyzstan2
Navigating complex narratives: understanding challenges of Russian-related research in Kazakhstan2
‘Two parts – one whole’? Kazakh–Kyrgyz relations in the making of Soviet Kyrgyzstan, 1917–242
‘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
Andreas Wilde (1976–2022)1
The crisis-events and reassembled ethnolinguistic-cum-environmentalist subjects in Inner Mongolia1
Migration from Central Asia: stories and identity formation1
Diversifying/revitalizing the study of Central Asia and the Caucasus1
A reading from Kazakhstan with a focus on decolonization: Post-Liberal Statebuilding in Central Asia1
Rentier capitalism and its discontents: Power, morality and resistance in Central Asia1
Employment of master’s degree graduates in Kazakhstan: navigating an uncertain labour market1
Introduction: 30 years of Central Asian studies – the best is yet to come1
Framing the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict: an analysis of the narratives of the state leaders of Azerbaijan, Armenia and Turkey, 2002–20221
The ‘Great Steppe’ narrative: origins, politics and aspirations of Eternal Kazakhstan1
Narrating the state in miniature: philatelic representations of Kazakhstan, 1992–20211
Turkmenistan in Eurasian railway geopolitics1
‘I dress in silk and velvet’: women, textiles and the textile-text in 1930s Uzbekistan1
Political stability in authoritarian regimes: the case of Central Asia1
Qarakhanid roads to China: A history of Sino-Turkic relations1
Between ‘info-killers’ and ‘spies’: three strategies for interviewing government officials across Central Asia1
A practitioner's perspective from Kyrgyzstan: Post-Liberal Statebuilding in Central Asia1
Corruption, public procurement and political instability in Kazakhstan1
Uyat and the culture of shame in Central Asia1
Politicking of Islam and LGBTQ+ discourse in Uzbekistan1
Knowledge on fire: the impact of conflict and violence on education in Afghanistan1
Politics of regionalism in Central Asia: multilateralism, institutions, and local perception1
Persuasion or polarization? LGBTQ+ attitudes among young social media users in Kazakhstan1
The emotional sight of neoliberalized port infrastructure in the city of Poti, Georgia1
War, opium and economic growth in Afghanistan1
The creation of Kazakh national identity: the relationship with Russia, 1900–20151
Informal civil society initiatives in non-Western societies: mahallas in Uzbekistan1
The cat in Mongolian society: a good, bad and ugly animal1
Feminization of labour migration from Uzbekistan to Turkey: the role of neoliberal policies, patriarchy and social networks1
Learning in, about and from the field? Symbolic functions of EU knowledge production on Central Asia1
‘I became an Uzbek’: Jewish-Uzbek encounters in World War Two evacuation1
The European Union, China and Central Asia: global and regional cooperation in a new era1
The impact of China’s high-tech repression on Uyghurs: a case study of Uyghur diaspora in Turkiye1
Was the prehistoric man an Azeri nationalist?: Mobilized prehistory and nation-building in Azerbaijan1
Ismaili Muslims in Moscow: community, identity and integration0
Bridge or base? Chinese perceptions of Central Asia under Europeanisation0
Subverting oppressive structures: on kelinhood , solidarity and feminist research in the bazaars0
‘What have you done, brother Putin?’: Everyday geopolitics and Central Asian labour migration to Russia0
Women’s dance traditions of Uzbekistan: legacy of the silk road0
Widening the scope: how middle powers are changing liberal institutionalism0
From geopolitical pendulum to regional player: Uzbekistan’s regional foreign policy following the leadership change in 20160
The contributions of new media to young people’s political participation in Russia and Kazakhstan0
Private supplementary tutoring and educational inequality in secondary education in Kazakhstan0
Parliamentary representation in Central Asia: MPs between representing their voters and serving an authoritarian regime0
Dungan ethnicity in transformation: from totalitarianism to contemporary adaptation0
Let’s talk about researchers’ mental well-being0
Moscow’s heavy shadow: the violent collapse of the USSR0
The grass is always greener? Unpacking Uzbek migration to Japan0
Tracing the atom: Nuclear legacies in Russia and Central Asia0
Of squirrels and men: being Soviet in Frunze’s green spaces0
Foreign fighters and international peace: joining global jihad and marching back home0
Examining the forced migration of Turkestanians: reasons and stories0
Informality versus shadow economy: reflecting on the first results of a manager’s survey in Kyrgyzstan0
The varying levels of contrasting adaptation in Central Asia’s climate change politics0
Youth civic engagement in Almaty: unpacking motivations, concerns and perceived trade-offs0
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
Transgender activism in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan0
The history and culture of Iran and Central Asia: From the pre-Islamic to the Islamic period0
On language gifts: public discourses on Kazakh and Russian in Kazakhstan0
Civil society, social capital and development in Central Asia0
Interethnic relations in the Nazi-occupied North Caucasus: a case study of the Mountain Jewish communities in Bogdanovka and Nalchik0
The politics of budgetary capture in rentier states: who gets what, when and how in Afghanistan0
Browsing and believing: divergent effects of internet use on government trust in Central Asia0
‘The freedom of a fair word’: the roots of human rights discourse in Kazakh cultural heritage0
Imperskost’ from Central (Eur)Asian ethnography to the self0
From anatomic analogies to arrhythmic timescapes: roads and development in northern Mongolia0
Digital media consumption and voting among Central Asian youth: why democratic context matters0
EU–Central Asian interactions: perceptions, interests and practices0
‘You are a different kind of Chinese person’: doing fieldwork as a Chinese researcher amidst the rise of Sinophobia in Central Asia0
‘Linguistic compatriots’: on the relationship between Tajik and Judeo-Tajik language and literature0
Girls’ education and success in Azerbaijan: comparative document analysis0
The multiethnic Soviet Union and its demise0
Strengthening academia: embracing an open dialogue on fieldwork in the authoritarian states of Central Asia0
Polymaths of Islam: Power and networks of knowledge in Central Asia0
Thieves, opportunists and autocrats: building regulatory states in Russia and Kazakhstan0
A climate for the Khans: reinterpreting the economic history of the Khivan Khanate with paleoenvironmental evidence0
Labour transfers as a means of ‘civilizing’ and forcibly assimilating ethnic minorities in western China0
Backward and deficient: exploring Soviet imaginations and the modernization of Svaneti, 1920s–1930s0
The Afghan women’s movement and gender apartheid: shifting the trajectory of international human rights law0
Kazakh nomads, social class transformations and Soviet power during the period of collectivization0
Communal self-governance as an alternative to neoliberal governance: proposing a post-development approach to EU resilience-building in Central Asia0
Author reply: Engaging with non-political lifeworlds, dialogical research and decolonial horizons through Post-Liberal Statebuilding in Central Asia0
‘Birds without legs’: legal integration as potentiality for women of an Afghan-Turkmen family in Istanbul0
The tragedy of irregular migration: the case of Afghans in Turkey0
Mongolian Buddhism, science and healing: a modernist legacy0
Mosques as religious infrastructure: Muslim selfhood, moral imaginaries and everyday sociality0
We need to talk about political society: subaltern resistances beyond civil society in Eastern Europe and Eurasia0
The Qirghiz Baatir and the Russian Empire: A portrait of a local intermediary in Russian Central Asia0
The EU’s Central Asia policy: no chance for change?0
Balancing between majorities: the negotiable identity of Osh Dungans0
From 'Mercy' to 'Banner of Labour': the Bukharan Jewish press in late Tsarist and early Soviet Central Asia0
Eurasian crossroads: a history of Xinjiang0
‘Why wave the flag?’: (in)visible queer activism in authoritarian Kazakhstan and Russia0
Slow anti-Americanism: social movements and symbolic politics in Central Asia0
‘Not here for geopolitical interests or games’: the EU’s 2019 strategy and the regional and inter-regional competition for Central Asia0
Yearning for a homogeneous Chinese nation: digital propaganda campaigns after the 2020 protest in Inner Mongolia0
Russian imperial borderlands, Georgian Jews, and the struggle for ‘justice’ and ‘legality’: blood libel in Kutaisi, 1878–800
Atomic steppe: how Kazakhstan gave up the bomb0
The long-run analysis of the association between macroeconomic variables and suicide: the case of Turkic-speaking countries in Central Asia0
Responding to atheist state policy and practicing religion: the Ismailis of Soviet Badakhshan0
Non-aligned good power? Status enhancement of early post-independence Kazakhstan0
Political Islam and democracy in Central Asia: the Islamic revival party of Tajikistan0
Regional leadership in post-Soviet Eurasia: The strategies of Russia, China, and the European Union0
Nation-branding in practice: the politics of promoting sports, cities and universities in Kazakhstan and Qatar0
The Mongolian semi-presidential constitution and its democratic performance0
Internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Azerbaijan: from protracted displacement to ‘Great Return’0
Qonaevstalgia: various images of Dinmukhammed Qonaev in post-Nazarbayev Kazakhstan0
The interplay of narratives on regionness, regionhood and regionality: European Union and Central Asia0
Local identity and intergroup relations: Jews and Muslims in Ferghana Valley in late Soviet Era0
Forgotten project of a private agricultural plantation in the Khanate of Khiva, Uzbekistan0
Go East!: A history of Hungarian Turanism0
Refocusing education: understanding higher education institutions’ needs for human resource development in Azerbaijan0
Gorno-Badakhshan and Karakalpakstan since 1991: understanding territorial autonomy in Central Asia0
Inside Afghanistan: Political networks, informal order, and state disruption0
Visual propaganda in northwest China: exploring cultural representations0
Economic development without rural–urban migration in Georgia0
On writing Soviet History of Central Asia: frameworks, challenges, prospects0
Soviet policy in Xinjiang: Stalin and the national movement in Eastern Turkistan0
‘Abyroy’ from status to contract: social honour in Kazakh culture0
Writing travel and the genealogical imagination: Afghan Kyrgyz migrations in contemporary perspective0
Factors motivating the transfer of university students in Kazakhstan0
‘As long as you’re not an asshole’: insider-outsider dynamics in queer research0
Working with the Taliban: from the first to the second Emirate0
Ambivalent heritage: tourism, weddings and pilgrimage in Hisor, Tajikistan0
Istoriografiia Koreitsev Tsentral’noi Azii: osnovnye napravleniia i etapy razvitiia Istoriografiia Koreitsev Tsentral’noi Azii: osnovnye napravleniia i etapy razvitiia [0
Introducing the symposium on Philipp Lottholz’s Post-Liberal Statebuilding in Central Asia: Imaginaries, Discourses and Practices of Social Ordering0
On the brink and at the world’s edge: Western approaches to Central Asia’s international politics, 1991–20210
Competitive institutionalized cooperation in Central Asia and externally guided regionalism0
Scrutinizing ethnographic depth and civil society impacts in Post-Liberal Statebuilding in Central Asia0
Welcome and unwelcome connections: travelling post-Soviet roads in Kyrgyzstan0
The neo-liberal conception of empowerment and its limits: micro-credit experiences of self-employed women in the bazaars of Bishkek0
The conceptual evolution of poverty alleviation through labour transfer in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region0
Strategic alignments and balancing of threats: military and political alliances in the South Caucasus (1991–2021)0
Qazaqstan. Kazakhstan. قازقستان : labirinty sovremennogo postkolonialnogo diskursa [ Qazaqstan, Kazakhstan , قازقستان : labyrinths of a modern post-co0
Intermarriage and the friendship of the peoples: Ethnic mixing in Soviet Central Asia0
Talas Omarbekov (1948–2021)0
Decolonizing Central Asian international relations: beyond empires0
On the problem of Sāmānid origins0
The ‘Pragmatic cooperation’ in the Belt and Road Initiative: the Sino-Turkmen natural gas engagement0
Digital misrecognitions: the violence of visibility in postsocialist Kyrgyzstan0
Place-name wars in Karabakh: Russian Imperial maps and political legitimacy in the Caucasus0
New regime, new policies: research ethics development – a case study of Uzbekistan0
Jews and their neighbours in Central Asia and Caucasus in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries0
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