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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.