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Turkey, the Karabakh Conflict and the Legacy of the Eastern Question (2023)
Journal Article
Yemelianova, G. (2024). Turkey, the Karabakh Conflict and the Legacy of the Eastern Question. Caucasus survey, 12(1), 73-102. https://doi.org/10.30965/23761202-bja10020

The article addresses the discursive, political and geopolitical evolution of the so-called Eastern Question by focusing on its Armenian dimension from the nineteenth century until the present. It examines major stages of the Question’s historical re... Read More about Turkey, the Karabakh Conflict and the Legacy of the Eastern Question.

House of the people? Afghanistan’s parliament in 2015 (2016)
Journal Article
Larson, A. (in press). House of the people? Afghanistan’s parliament in 2015. Conflict, Security & Development, 16(6), 595-612. https://doi.org/10.1080/14678802.2016.1248408

Afghanistan’s parliamentary elections in September 2005 marked the re-establishment of the legislature after a 30-year hiatus. Instead of connecting constituents to central government, however, it is argued here the Wolesi Jirga (lower house or WJ) h... Read More about House of the people? Afghanistan’s parliament in 2015.

Sufism and Liberation across the Indo-Afghan Border: 1880-1928 (2016)
Journal Article
Caron, J. Sufism and Liberation across the Indo-Afghan Border: 1880-1928. South Asian History and Culture, 7(2), 135-154. https://doi.org/10.1080/19472498.2016.1143667

How do we understand links between sufism and pro-egalitarian revolutionary activism in the early twentieth century; and how did upland compositions of self and community help constitute revolutionary activism in South Asia more broadly? Using Pashto... Read More about Sufism and Liberation across the Indo-Afghan Border: 1880-1928.

Popular Culture, Radical Egalitarianism, and Formations of Muslim Selfhood in South Asia (2016)
Journal Article
Caron, J., & Dasgupta, A. Popular Culture, Radical Egalitarianism, and Formations of Muslim Selfhood in South Asia. South Asian History and Culture, 7(2), 107-116. https://doi.org/10.1080/19472498.2016.1143666

In early twentieth century leftist politics on the geographical fringes of South Asia, Islam played a major role. Were activists in these movements leftist despite their understandings of Islam, or because of them? This essay introduces the project r... Read More about Popular Culture, Radical Egalitarianism, and Formations of Muslim Selfhood in South Asia.

Activism, knowledge and publishing: some views from Pakistan and Afghanistan (2015)
Journal Article
Caron, J., & Ahmad, M. (in press). Activism, knowledge and publishing: some views from Pakistan and Afghanistan. South Asian History and Culture, 7(1), 30-36. https://doi.org/10.1080/19472498.2015.1109305

How can academic publishers support the study of regions and fields that receive comparatively little attention within South Asia-related humanities and social scuiiences? Approaching this question with regard to Pakistan and Afghanistan opens a seri... Read More about Activism, knowledge and publishing: some views from Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Everyday disasters, stagnation and the normalcy of non-development: Roghun Dam, a flood, and campaigns of forced taxation in southern Tajikistan (2015)
Journal Article
Ibanez-Tirado, D. (2015). Everyday disasters, stagnation and the normalcy of non-development: Roghun Dam, a flood, and campaigns of forced taxation in southern Tajikistan. Central Asian Survey, 34(4), 549-563. https://doi.org/10.1080/02634937.2015.1091600

This article conducts a comparative analysis of a catastrophic flood that hit the Kulob region of southern Tajikistan in 2010, and the government of Tajikistan's campaign to gather money to build the Roghun dam and hydropower station. It advances the... Read More about Everyday disasters, stagnation and the normalcy of non-development: Roghun Dam, a flood, and campaigns of forced taxation in southern Tajikistan.

Refugee Status as a Productive Tension (2015)
Journal Article
Novak, P. Refugee Status as a Productive Tension. Transnational Legal Theory, 6(2), 287-311. https://doi.org/10.1080/20414005.2015.1086198

Who is an Afghan refugee in Pakistan? The paper delves into this question through a detailed discussion of the concrete mechanisms that contextually define who an Afghan refugee in Pakistan is. Drawing on an understanding of law as generatively irres... Read More about Refugee Status as a Productive Tension.

Repertoires of Family Life and the Anchoring of Afghan Trading Networks in Ukraine (2015)
Journal Article
Marsden, M., & Ibanez-Tirado, D. (2015). Repertoires of Family Life and the Anchoring of Afghan Trading Networks in Ukraine. History and Anthropology, 26(2), 145-164. https://doi.org/10.1080/02757206.2014.1002375

This article examines the “repertories” of family life of men of Afghan background in Odessa, Ukraine. It focuses on these men's intimate relationships with “local women” and challenges the notion that such unions merely offer a form of emotional esc... Read More about Repertoires of Family Life and the Anchoring of Afghan Trading Networks in Ukraine.

‘How can I be post-Soviet if I was never Soviet?’ Rethinking categories of time and social change – a perspective from Kulob, southern Tajikistan (2015)
Journal Article
Ibanez-Tirado, D. (2015). ‘How can I be post-Soviet if I was never Soviet?’ Rethinking categories of time and social change – a perspective from Kulob, southern Tajikistan. Central Asian Survey, 34(2), 190-203. https://doi.org/10.1080/02634937.2014.983705

Based on anthropological fieldwork conducted in the Kulob region of southern Tajikistan, this paper examines the extent to which the existing periodization ‘Soviet/post-Soviet’ is still valid to frame scholarly works concerning Central Asia. It does... Read More about ‘How can I be post-Soviet if I was never Soviet?’ Rethinking categories of time and social change – a perspective from Kulob, southern Tajikistan.

Tracing connections and its politics (2014)
Book Chapter
Novak, P. (2014). Tracing connections and its politics. In H. Alff, & A. Benz (Eds.), Tracing Connections: Explorations of Spaces and Places in Asian Contexts. VWB

The chapter argues that studying places and identities as a tension yields useful research insights, because it forces us to do three things. First, it forces us to think about places and identities as processes – as continuously configured and re-co... Read More about Tracing connections and its politics.

Derailing Democracy in Afghanistan : Elections in an Unstable Political Landscape (2013)
Book
Larson, A., & Coburn, N. (2013). Derailing Democracy in Afghanistan : Elections in an Unstable Political Landscape. Columbia University Press. https://doi.org/10.7312/cobu16620

Based on fieldwork in provinces across the country and interviews with more than seven hundred candidates, officials, community leaders, and voters, this book builds an in-depth portrait of Afghanistan’s recent elections as experienced by individuals... Read More about Derailing Democracy in Afghanistan : Elections in an Unstable Political Landscape.

Lost in transition? The introduction of water users associations in Uzbekistan. (2013)
Journal Article
Veldwisch, G. J. A., & Mollinga, P. (2013). Lost in transition? The introduction of water users associations in Uzbekistan. Water International, 38(6), 758-773. https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2013.833432

A “policy as process” perspective is adopted to analyze the early period of water users associations (WUAs) in Uzbekistan (2000–2006). The article is based on extensive
fieldwork (in 2005–2006) and analysis of policy and other relevant documents. It... Read More about Lost in transition? The introduction of water users associations in Uzbekistan..