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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
The varying levels of contrasting adaptation in Central Asia’s climate change politics27
Moscow’s heavy shadow: the violent collapse of the USSR17
Girls’ education and success in Azerbaijan: comparative document analysis14
Local identity and intergroup relations: Jews and Muslims in Ferghana Valley in late Soviet Era13
The EU’s Central Asia policy: no chance for change?12
A practitioner's perspective from Kyrgyzstan: Post-Liberal Statebuilding in Central Asia11
Writing travel and the genealogical imagination: Afghan Kyrgyz migrations in contemporary perspective11
Writing about peoples: an American’s reflections on 30 years of Central Asian studies11
Introducing the symposium on Philipp Lottholz’s Post-Liberal Statebuilding in Central Asia: Imaginaries, Discourses and Practices of Social Ordering Post-Liberal Stat10
‘End the dominance of the Uyghur ethnic group’: an analysis of Beijing’s population optimization strategy in southern Xinjiang10
A reading from Kazakhstan with a focus on decolonization: Post-Liberal Statebuilding in Central Asia10
Polymaths of Islam: Power and networks of knowledge in Central Asia9
Musique contemporaine en Ouzbékistan: Politique, identités et globalisation9
Hunza matters: Bordering and ordering between ancient and new Silk Roads8
Rentier capitalism and its discontents: Power, morality and resistance in Central Asia8
The Silk Roads: A new history of the world8
Working with the Taliban: from the first to the second Emirate6
Smartphones and public support for LGBTQ+ in Central Asia6
Fieldwork within queer communities in Central Asia: a research note6
Vehicularizing the vernacular: using the periodical press to popularize vernacular languages in Soviet Turkic communities6
Student online protests in Uzbekistan: democratization of higher education as concomitant to the COVID-19 crisis?6
‘Abyroy’ from status to contract: social honour in Kazakh culture5
Central Asia: from dark matter to a dark curtain?5
Learning in, about and from the field? Symbolic functions of EU knowledge production on Central Asia5
Changes in the flock: sheep-keeping as a symbol of the transformation of the Kazakh traditional economy5
Subverting oppressive structures: on kelinhood , solidarity and feminist research in the bazaars4
Demographic effects of deportation: seeking the causes of high fertility rates in the North Caucasus, Russia4
Foreign fighters and international peace: joining global jihad and marching back home4
‘Listening State?’ : exploring citizens’ perceptions of Open Government in Tokayev’s Kazakhstan4
Iranian, Afghan or Central Asian? Patterns of mobility among Persianate Jews in the 19th and early 20th centuries4
Mosques as religious infrastructure: Muslim selfhood, moral imaginaries and everyday sociality4
The Tajik Civil War and Russia’s Islamist moment4
European Union, civil society and local ownership in Kyrgyzstan: analysing patterns of adaptation, reinterpretation and contestation in the prevention of violent extremism (PVE)4
Communal self-governance as an alternative to neoliberal governance: proposing a post-development approach to EU resilience-building in Central Asia4
Migration from Central Asia: stories and identity formation3
Geopolitics of cryptocurrency mining in Kazakhstan3
Feminization of labour migration from Uzbekistan to Turkey: the role of neoliberal policies, patriarchy and social networks3
Narrating the state in miniature: philatelic representations of Kazakhstan, 1992–20213
Thieves, opportunists and autocrats: building regulatory states in Russia and Kazakhstan3
The agency of object: the doppa as a narrator for a dynamic Uyghur identity3
The grass is always greener? Unpacking Uzbek migration to Japan3
Visual propaganda in northwest China: exploring cultural representations3
Widening the scope: how middle powers are changing liberal institutionalism3
Correction3
Refocusing education: understanding higher education institutions’ needs for human resource development in Azerbaijan3
Knowledge on fire: the impact of conflict and violence on education in Afghanistan3
Religious, national or cultural? A case study of frameworks for Jewish education in post-Soviet Central Asia3
Islam in China2
Experiences of female early-career professionals in male-dominated STEM companies in Kazakhstan2
Of squirrels and men: being Soviet in Frunze’s green spaces2
The Kazakhstani Soviet not? Reading Nazarbayev’s Kazakhstani-ness through Brezhnev’s Soviet people2
Qarakhanid roads to China: A history of Sino-Turkic relations2
Inside Afghanistan: Political networks, informal order, and state disruption2
Diversifying/revitalizing the study of Central Asia and the Caucasus2
A narrative analysis: tragic images of the Aral Sea in the Russophone ecopoems2
Surviving Everyday Life: The Securityscapes of Threatened People in Kyrgyzstan2
Navigating tradition: agency of young urban women in Kyrgyzstan during wedding negotiations and early marriage2
Labour transfers as a means of ‘civilizing’ and forcibly assimilating ethnic minorities in western China2
Songs of war and despair: two Afghan/Uzbek women’s life history and lament2
Methods of studying LGBT experiences in the situation of invisibility: from African countries to Uzbekistan2
The multiethnic Soviet Union and its demise2
Agency and resistance amongst queer people in Kazakhstan2
Irina Viktorovna Erofeeva (1953–2020)2
Law, society and corruption lessons from the Central Asian context2
The hidden caliphate: Sufi saints beyond the Oxus and Indus2
The contributions of new media to young people’s political participation in Russia and Kazakhstan2
Between ‘info-killers’ and ‘spies’: three strategies for interviewing government officials across Central Asia2
Introduction: LGBTQ +  visibilities in the Caucasus and Central Asia2
Private supplementary tutoring and educational inequality in secondary education in Kazakhstan2
International investment law and investor–state disputes in Central Asia: Emerging issues International investment law and investor–state disputes in Central Asia: Emerging issues 1
Central Asian studies in the People’s Republic of China: a structural topic model1
EU–Central Asian interactions: perceptions, interests and practices1
Internationalization of higher education in Central Asia: a systematic review1
Digital misrecognitions: the violence of visibility in postsocialist Kyrgyzstan1
‘We’re all like brothers’: religion’s role in Afghan Uzbek identity formation1
Taking account of authoritarian peacebuilding in Post-Liberal Statebuilding in Central Asia1
The war on the Uyghurs: China’s internal campaign against a Muslim minority1
‘The freedom of a fair word’: the roots of human rights discourse in Kazakh cultural heritage1
Was the prehistoric man an Azeri nationalist?: Mobilized prehistory and nation-building in Azerbaijan1
‘What have you done, brother Putin?’: Everyday geopolitics and Central Asian labour migration to Russia1
Soviet policy in Xinjiang: Stalin and the national movement in Eastern Turkistan1
Qazaqstan. Kazakhstan. قازقستان : labirinty sovremennogo postkolonialnogo diskursa [ Qazaqstan, Kazakhstan , قازقستان : labyrinths of a modern post-co1
Talas Omarbekov (1948–2021)1
The Soviet city as a landscape in the making: planning, building and appropriating Samarkand,c.1960s–80s1
The cat in Mongolian society: a good, bad and ugly animal1
Kazakh nomads, social class transformations and Soviet power during the period of collectivization1
The ‘Great Steppe’ narrative: origins, politics and aspirations of Eternal Kazakhstan1
Go East!: A history of Hungarian Turanism1
The EU and European transnational companies in Central Asia: relocating agency in the energy sector1
The tragedy of irregular migration: the case of Afghans in Turkey1
Imperskost’ from Central (Eur)Asian ethnography to the self1
A void in Central Asia research: climate change1
Islam in Central Asia 30 years after independence: debates, controversies and the critique of a critique0
From anatomic analogies to arrhythmic timescapes: roads and development in northern Mongolia0
Persuasion or polarization? LGBTQ+ attitudes among young social media users in Kazakhstan0
Bridge or base? Chinese perceptions of Central Asia under Europeanisation0
Competitive institutionalized cooperation in Central Asia and externally guided regionalism0
Decolonizing Central Asian international relations: beyond empires0
Russian imperial borderlands, Georgian Jews, and the struggle for ‘justice’ and ‘legality’: blood libel in Kutaisi, 1878–800
Soft power in Central Asia: the politics of influence and seduction0
Islam and ethnic tolerance: assessing Kyrgyz’ Muslim religiosity and acceptance of Uzbeks in Kyrgyzstan0
‘Why wave the flag?’: (in)visible queer activism in authoritarian Kazakhstan and Russia0
Turkmenistan in Eurasian railway geopolitics0
Emigrants/Muhacir from Xinjiang to Middle East during 1940–60s0
The neo-liberal conception of empowerment and its limits: micro-credit experiences of self-employed women in the bazaars of Bishkek0
Economic development without rural–urban migration in Georgia0
Civil society, social capital and development in Central Asia0
The history and culture of Iran and Central Asia: From the pre-Islamic to the Islamic period0
Browsing and believing: divergent effects of internet use on government trust in Central Asia0
Negotiating inseparability in China: The Xinjiang Class and the dynamics of Uyghur identity0
Istoriografiia Koreitsev Tsentral’noi Azii: osnovnye napravleniia i etapy razvitiia Istoriografiia Koreitsev Tsentral’noi Azii: osnovnye napravleniia i etapy razvitiia [0
Place-name wars in Karabakh: Russian Imperial maps and political legitimacy in the Caucasus0
Politicking of Islam and LGBTQ+ discourse in Uzbekistan0
Roundtable studying the Anthropocene in Central Asia: the challenge of sources and scales in human–environment relations0
‘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 Pamir0
We need to talk about political society: subaltern resistances beyond civil society in Eastern Europe and Eurasia0
Mongolian Buddhism, science and healing: a modernist legacy0
Eurasian crossroads: a history of Xinjiang0
‘As long as you’re not an asshole’: insider-outsider dynamics in queer research0
Framing the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict: an analysis of the narratives of the state leaders of Azerbaijan, Armenia and Turkey, 2002–20220
Factors inhibiting institutional responses to domestic violence in Kyrgyzstan0
Dekolonizatsiia Kazahstana0
Community perceptions of co-managing Tajik National Park0
The role of geopolitics in Turkey’s diplomatic approach to the Second East Turkestan Republic (1939–1949)0
Nation-branding in practice: the politics of promoting sports, cities and universities in Kazakhstan and Qatar0
On language gifts: public discourses on Kazakh and Russian in Kazakhstan0
Balancing between majorities: the negotiable identity of Osh Dungans0
Ambivalent heritage: tourism, weddings and pilgrimage in Hisor, Tajikistan0
Deciphering dictators’ discourse on Indigenous democracy: a case of Karimov’s Uzbekistan0
Women herders: women’s role and bargaining power in Mongolian herding households0
The long-run analysis of the association between macroeconomic variables and suicide: the case of Turkic-speaking countries in Central Asia0
A guest for a day? An analysis of Uzbek ‘language migration’ into the Japanese educational and labour markets0
Political stability in authoritarian regimes: the case of Central Asia0
Informality versus shadow economy: reflecting on the first results of a manager’s survey in Kyrgyzstan0
Opportunity and threat perceptions of the EU in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan0
Ismaili Muslims in Moscow: community, identity and integration0
LGBTQ+ activism in Azerbaijan: shifting queer (in)visibility regime through power–knowledge technologies0
Transgender activism in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan0
‘Linguistic compatriots’: on the relationship between Tajik and Judeo-Tajik language and literature0
The EU and China: how do they fit in Central Asia?0
Grassroots struggles against domestic violence in Uzbekistan: strategies of exit and voice0
Political Islam and democracy in Central Asia: the Islamic revival party of Tajikistan0
Two decades of women’s underrepresentation in public service leadership: the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan0
The Qirghiz Baatir and the Russian Empire: A portrait of a local intermediary in Russian Central Asia0
Rivers between nature, infrastructure, and religion0
The seismic colony: earthquakes, empire and technology in Russian-ruled Turkestan, 1887–19110
Author reply: Engaging with non-political lifeworlds, dialogical research and decolonial horizons through Post-Liberal Statebuilding in Central Asia0
The politics of budgetary capture in rentier states: who gets what, when and how in Afghanistan0
Tracing the atom: Nuclear legacies in Russia and Central Asia0
Examining the forced migration of Turkestanians: reasons and stories0
Technology, temporality, and the study of Central Asia: an introduction0
On the problem of Sāmānid origins0
Non-aligned good power? Status enhancement of early post-independence Kazakhstan0
The European Union, China and Central Asia: global and regional cooperation in a new era0
On writing Soviet History of Central Asia: frameworks, challenges, prospects0
Strengthening academia: embracing an open dialogue on fieldwork in the authoritarian states of Central Asia0
‘Why should we have theirs if we have our own?’ On decolonizing social science research ethics in Central Asia0
Introduction: 30 years of Central Asian studies – the best is yet to come0
Strategic alignments and balancing of threats: military and political alliances in the South Caucasus (1991–2021)0
Welcome and unwelcome connections: travelling post-Soviet roads in Kyrgyzstan0
The elite-level demonstration effect of the Arab Spring in Kazakhstan0
Studying states and regimes in Central Asia: contributions to comparative politics and future challenges0
Digital media consumption and voting among Central Asian youth: why democratic context matters0
Representation of the Kazakhstani famine (1931–33) in secondary school history textbooks, 1992–20210
Regional leadership in post-Soviet Eurasia: The strategies of Russia, China, and the European Union0
Let’s talk about researchers’ mental well-being0
On the brink and at the world’s edge: Western approaches to Central Asia’s international politics, 1991–20210
In Soviet educational greenhouses: on the problem of language teaching to the Bukharan–Jewish children of Uzbekistan, 1917–470
‘Birds without legs’: legal integration as potentiality for women of an Afghan-Turkmen family in Istanbul0
Kratkaia istoriia kazakhov. Ot pervykh kochevnikov do nashikh dnei0
Exploring civil society perspectives on the situation of human rights defenders in the Commonwealth of Independent States0
Navigating complex narratives: understanding challenges of Russian-related research in Kazakhstan0
Factors motivating the transfer of university students in Kazakhstan0
Andreas Wilde (1976–2022)0
The interplay of narratives on regionness, regionhood and regionality: European Union and Central Asia0
‘I dress in silk and velvet’: women, textiles and the textile-text in 1930s Uzbekistan0
Forgotten project of a private agricultural plantation in the Khanate of Khiva, Uzbekistan0
The emotional sight of neoliberalized port infrastructure in the city of Poti, Georgia0
Interethnic relations in the Nazi-occupied North Caucasus: a case study of the Mountain Jewish communities in Bogdanovka and Nalchik0
Maya Karin Peterson (1980–2021)0
The language of access: determinants of distributive efficacy in Georgia’s multiethnic Kvemo Kartli region0
New regime, new policies: research ethics development – a case study of Uzbekistan0
The ‘Pragmatic cooperation’ in the Belt and Road Initiative: the Sino-Turkmen natural gas engagement0
Post-Soviet settlement of the Sino-Soviet border: a failed attempt at a three-level game, 1991–20120
Informal civil society initiatives in non-Western societies: mahallas in Uzbekistan0
The conceptual evolution of poverty alleviation through labour transfer in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region0
From 'Mercy' to 'Banner of Labour': the Bukharan Jewish press in late Tsarist and early Soviet Central Asia0
Academic freedom in Tajikistan: how the suppression, acquiescence and incorporation of intellectuals strengthens the state and affects knowledge production0
Intermarriage and the friendship of the peoples: Ethnic mixing in Soviet Central Asia0
Scrutinizing ethnographic depth and civil society impacts in Post-Liberal Statebuilding in Central Asia0
The Mongolian semi-presidential constitution and its democratic performance0
Uyat and the culture of shame in Central Asia0
Gorno-Badakhshan and Karakalpakstan since 1991: understanding territorial autonomy in Central Asia0
‘Khatakskaia khronika’: korpus i funktsii teksta0
Employment of master’s degree graduates in Kazakhstan: navigating an uncertain labour market0
Afghan Napoleon: The life of Ahmad Shah Massoud0
Women’s dance traditions of Uzbekistan: legacy of the silk road0
Helping a f(r)iend in need? Rethinking the role of linkages in authoritarian covert repression0
‘I became an Uzbek’: Jewish-Uzbek encounters in World War Two evacuation0
Yearning for a homogeneous Chinese nation: digital propaganda campaigns after the 2020 protest in Inner Mongolia0
Responding to atheist state policy and practicing religion: the Ismailis of Soviet Badakhshan0
Leveraging low state capacity for economic development: a case study of Tajik–Afghan cross-border markets0
Dungan ethnicity in transformation: from totalitarianism to contemporary adaptation0
The hidden integration of Central Asia: the making of a region through technical infrastructures0
Slow anti-Americanism: social movements and symbolic politics in Central Asia0
Georgian Jews and Georgian non-Jews: Soviet experience through the prism of nostalgia0
Parliamentary representation in Central Asia: MPs between representing their voters and serving an authoritarian regime0
Corruption, public procurement and political instability in Kazakhstan0
‘The Book of My Mother’ as national allegory: subaltern nationalism and political unconscious in early twentieth century Azerbaijani fiction0
Internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Azerbaijan: from protracted displacement to ‘Great Return’0
The impact of China’s high-tech repression on Uyghurs: a case study of Uyghur diaspora in Turkiye0
‘Not here for geopolitical interests or games’: the EU’s 2019 strategy and the regional and inter-regional competition for Central Asia0
‘Two parts – one whole’? Kazakh–Kyrgyz relations in the making of Soviet Kyrgyzstan, 1917–240
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