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 |