Central Peripheries: Nationhood in Central Asia (Open Access) Central Peripheries Nationhood in Central Asia explores post-Soviet Central Asia through the prism of nation-building. Although relative latecomers on the international scene,… Continue reading Central Peripheries: Nationhood in Central Asia (Open Access)
Tag: Post-Soviet
Bottom-up Secularism in the Top-down States of Eurasia
with John Schoeberlein, Nazarbayev University The resurgence of religion in the post-Soviet space has been accompanied by heightened appeals to secularism as a social and political order. Most research on secularism in Eurasian… Continue reading Bottom-up Secularism in the Top-down States of Eurasia
Deciphering Eurasianism in Hungary: Narratives, Networks, and Lifestyles
with Umut Korkut, Glasgow Caledonia University Since the outbreak of the global financial crisis, the Hungarian right engaged in a collective soul searching on what formulates Hungarian identity. Dr. Korkut’s paper… Continue reading Deciphering Eurasianism in Hungary: Narratives, Networks, and Lifestyles
From Empires of Faith to Nationalizations of Islam & the Globalization of Jihad in Central Asia
with Nazif Shahrani, Indiana University This seminar will discuss the versatility, uses and abuses of Islam as religion by the faithful and its various deployments by the political elites for… Continue reading From Empires of Faith to Nationalizations of Islam & the Globalization of Jihad in Central Asia
The Curious Rise and Development of Central Asian Nationalisms
with Dr. Russell Zanca, Northeastern Illinois University This presentation examines scholarly notions about post-Soviet Central Asia’s future close to the the time of the Soviet dissolution. Given the rather different… Continue reading The Curious Rise and Development of Central Asian Nationalisms
Re-imagining “post-Soviet” Central Asia: The role of the GCC and articulating geopolitical identities through capital cities.
With Natalie Koch,Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University In the newly independent states of Central Asia, geopolitical practices and affinities cannot be understood in isolation from their Soviet… Continue reading Re-imagining “post-Soviet” Central Asia: The role of the GCC and articulating geopolitical identities through capital cities.
The Roots Of Uzbekistan: Nation Making In The Early Soviet Union
By Adeeb Khalid
Organized Criminal Groups in Kyrgyzstan and the Role of Law Enforcement
By Chyngyz Kambarov
Navro’z and the Renewal of Uzbek National Culture
Uzbekistan Initiative Papers No. 4, February 2014 By Laura L. Adams Navro’z is an important holiday in contemporary Uzbekistan not just because of its profound popularity, but also as an exemplary case of a broader… Continue reading Navro’z and the Renewal of Uzbek National Culture
