Do Kazakhstanis care about their kin in Xinjiang?
Author/editor: Dukeyev, B.
Year published: 2021
Publication type: Media
The potential threat of ‘Chinese expansion’ has mobilised Kazakhstanis at home, yet the plight of ethnic Kazakhs in Xinjiang has not.
Exploring the Russian Refugee Diaspora in Iran, 1930-1955
Author/editor: James, M
Year published: 2021
Political Liberalization and Emerging Civil Society in Uzbekistan: The Cases of Public Reaction to Demolition Program and the Use of Forced Labor
Author/editor: Ubaydullaeva, D.
Year published: 2021
Conventional wisdom highlights civil society as an integral component of a democratic society. Due to the dominance of the state in all aspects of life, civil society was largely absent in Uzbekistan until the change of government in 2016. The new President Mirziyoyev’s liberalization policy…
Securitization of Higher Education Expansion in Authoritarian States: Uzbekistan’s Seemingly “Elite” Tertiary System
Author/editor: Ubaydullaeva, D.
Year published: 2021
Publication type: Journal
While many states move from elite to mass higher education (HE) systems, little is known as to why some authoritarian developing states resist this transition. In post-Soviet Uzbekistan the tertiary system was consciously restricted to cover roughly 10% of the population; a situation that continued…
Student online protests in Uzbekistan: democratization of higher education as concomitant to the COVID-19 crisis?
Author/editor: Ubaydullaeva, D.
Year published: 2021
Publication type: Journal
The democratization of higher education (HE) has been interpreted from various perspectives in many country-specific case studies. Yet, it has been overlooked that in authoritarian regimes the democratization of HE may involve the development of freedom of expression, an element taken for granted…
Kazakhstan in Sino-Russian Relations: Cooperation and Competition between the EEU and BRI
Author/editor: Rice, D. & Clarke, M.
Year published: 2020
Kazakhstan finds itself simultaneously identified as a central partner for both China’s BRI and Russia’s Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU). The question remains however as to how Kazakhstan fits into the bigger picture of Sino-Russian relations.
'Re-conceptualizing civil society in rentier states'
Author/editor: Moritz, J.
Year published: 2020
Publication type: Journal
Civil society is typically understood as weak or irrelevant in Gulf rentier states, the assumption being that rent-derived wealth allows the state to co-opt or repress associational life. However, for all these claims about the relationship between rents and civil society, rentier state theory…
COVID-19 in the Middle East: A perfect storm
Author/editor: Parmeter, I.
Year published: 2020
Publication type: Journal
Kazakhstan in World War II. Mobilisation and Ethnicity in the Soviet Empire
Author/editor: Dukeyev, B.
Year published: 2020
The Feminist Film: An Analysis of the Feminist Narrative Form in the Films of Rakshane Bani-Etemad, Pouran Derakshande, and Manijeh Hekmat
Author/editor: Malekpour, M.
Year published: 2020
Purpose: In this paper, the aim is to examine film form and narrative in relation to gender identity and the politics of representation. Drawing distinctions between these methods make it possible to identify how feminist frameworks are used to examine identity, aesthetics, and ideology through…