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Book Launch: March 15 – Pipe Dreams: Water and Empire in Central Asia’s Aral Sea Basin
Pipe Dreams explores the ways in which both the tsarist and Soviet regimes used fantasies of bringing the deserts to life as a means of claiming legitimacy in Central Asia, a process that ultimately led to the drying up of Central Asia’s Aral Sea. Maya Peterson argues that the disappearance of the Aral Sea, considered… Continue reading Book Launch: March 15 – Pipe Dreams: Water and Empire in Central Asia’s Aral Sea Basin
The Other Side of Oil
George Washington University’s Central Asia Program and Crude Accountability present, “The Other Side of Oil,” a documentary film, which raises important issues of environmental degradation, social justice, and poverty. Through striking images of the landscape of Kazakhstan and depictions of the lives of ordinary villagers, the film includes extensive interviews with people who live in… Continue reading The Other Side of Oil
