Ethnologie

Ausgewählte Publikationen

Co-authored with Jeanne Féaux de la Croix, “Building Big Dams in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan: state-citizen relations through large hydrological infrastructure projects”, in special issue of Cahiers d’Asie Centrale on Water Resources in Central Asia, edited by Alain Cariou, forthcoming.

“Fashioning the nation: gender regimes and politics of dress in contemporary Kyrgyzstan” in special issue of Nationalities Papers “Gender and nationalism in post-Soviet Central Asia: from national narratives to women’s practices” edited by Juliette Cleuziou, Lucia Direnberger, and Iman Karzabi, forthcoming.

2015

Научно-технический утопизм в городском пространстве Бишкека”, Бишкек Утопический. Сборник текстов/ сост. и ред. Г. Мамедов, О. Шаталова. Бишкек: Школа теории и активизма, 2015.

2014

“Between national idea and international conflict: The Roghun HPP as an anti-colonial endeavor, body of the nation, and national wealth”, Water History Iss. 6, No. 4, 2014, pp. 367-383.

2012

“Statehood as Dialogue: Conflict Historical Narratives of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan”, in Heathershaw, John and Edmund Herzig, eds. The Transformation of Tajikistan: Sources of Statehood, Routledge, 2012.

2011

“Reluctant Sovereigns? Meanings of Paths to Sovereignty in Central Asia” in Cummings, Sally N. and Raymond Hinnebusch, eds. Sovereignty after Empire: Comparing Legacies in the Middle East and Central Asia, Edinburgh University Press, 2011.

2010

Book review, John Heathershaw, Post-Conflict Tajikistan: The Politics of Peacebuilding and the Emergence of Legitimate Order. Central Asian Series, London and New York: Routledge, 2009, Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 62, No. 2, March 2010, pp. 367-368.

2008

Review article, “Nationalisms in Central Asia” (Natsionalizmi v Srednei Azii: v poiskah identichnosti [Nationalisms in Middle Asia: in search of identity] by Sergei Abashin, Sankt-Peterburg, Aleteia, 2007 and Rethinking Kazakh and Central Asian nationhood: a challenge to prevailing Western views by R. Charles Weller, Los Angeles, Asia Research Associates, 2006), Central Asian Survey, Vol. 27, Issue 3 & 4, September 2008, pp. 395-399.

Conference Papers

August 4-7, 2013

Nazarbayev University

Astana, Kazakhstan

The Steppe and the Sown, Biennial Conference of the European Society for Central Asian Studies

Sovereignty Contested: the Roghun Controversy

August 7-9, 2013

Nazarbayev University

Astana, Kazakhstan

Secular Sensibilities’ Workshop

Where did atheism go?

June 1-2, 2012

Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, Germany

Big Dams: Investigating their temporal and special politics in Africa, the Middle East and Asia

The Roghun Controversy: between national idea and international conflict

June 4, 2012

Paris, France

Gender in Central Asia: Contemporary Issues in Nation-Building of Former Soviet States

Power, Glamour and Discourse of Dress in Central Asia

March 7-8, 2012

CASI, AUCA

Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

Interpreting the Soviet Cultural Legacy in Central Asia

Where did all the atheists go? The godless of post-Soviet Central Asia

Dec 8, 2011

Central European University, Budapest, Hungary

Methods, fieldwork, and the (lack of) data deluge: a travelogue of Central Asian scholarship

Doing fieldwork at ‘home’: an autoethnography of research in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan

8 June 2009

University of Leeds

Leeds, UK

Postgraduate symposium at the Leeds Humanities Research Institute: “Central Asian Visions of the Other: Views from Inside & Out”

Ontological security, Biographical Narratives and Discursive Encounters: History Writing in post-independence Tajikistan and Uzbekistan

28 March, 2009

The Harriman Institute

Columbia University

New York, USA

The Second Annual OASIES Graduate Student Conference: "Inner Eurasia: Crossing Boundaries"

Historiography Wars in Central Asia: Clashing History Narratives and Post-Independence Statehood of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan

10-12 April, 2008

Columbia University

New York, USA

Thirteenth Annual World Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN)

States of Statelessness in Central Asia

22-23 March, 2008

Indiana University

Bloomington, USA

Fifteenth Annual Association of Central Eurasian Students Conference

Sovereignty and Citizenship in Central Asia: cases of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan

22-24 February. 2008

University of Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh, USA

GOSECA/REES Fifth Annual Graduate Student Conference “Generations Removed? Assessing Nostalgia, Memory and Legacy in Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia”

Uzbekistan’s Ideology of National Independence: A Soviet Legacy?

28-30 March, 2006

London School of Economics and Political Science

UK

The Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN) 16th Annual Conference “Nations and their Pasts: Representing the Past, Building the Future”

New States, New Heroes? Conflicting Historiographies in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan