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Uzbekistan – A Region of World Society (?) Variants of Differentiation in Agricultural Resources Governance
(2015-04)
This article studies the layered coexistence and mutual shaping of three forms of differentiation (functional, segmentary, hierarchical) in rural Uzbekistan, a region of world society that, since 1991, is undergoing ...
Not Quite Home or Alone: A Conversation on Belonging in a Digital Age
(2016-02)
This paper is the product of conversations we have had over a significant period of time about the meaning of belonging in a digital age. It began as a series of personal answers to the question: “Where would you consider ...
‘Functional’ governance as an alternative to ‘territorial’ governance? The case of the Kyrgyz irrigation sector and the implementation of Water User Associations (WUAs)
(2015-08)
International development organizations regard the concept of Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) as the universal model for participatory water governance and thereby globally promote the installation of so called ...
Embracing Chinese modernity? Articulation and positioning in China-Kazakhstan trade and exchange processes
(2014-07)
While much has been written recently about the increasing geo-political and economic impact of Chinese ‘soft power’ on neighbouring countries to the West, relatively few studies explore local people’s reflections of China’s ...
Crossroads Studies: From Spatial Containers to Interactions in Differentiated Spatialities
(2014-01)
This paper, a little less than three years after indulging into this process, aims to facilitate the process of discussion in the network and shall be read as a thought-piece based on the joint reflections of members of ...
Spatialities of Knowledge in the Neoliberal World Academy: Theory, Practice and 21st Century Legacies of Area Studies
(2015-04)
In order to develop adequate understandings and theories of global modernity it is essential to overcome the intellectual hindrances of Euro-Amerocentrism, which is both an intellectual legacy of imperialism and a very ...
Boundaries and Identities: The Case of Gilgit-Baltistan
(2016-06)
The main argument of the paper is that the absence of Gilgit-Baltistan in the power dispensation and state structure of Pakistan has created a power vacuum in the society, which is gradually filled by sectarian forces, ...
Vartan bhanji-exchange practices and social (im-)mobility: Exploring the coping strategies of low-income households of different biraderis in rural Punjab
(2015-07)
This paper assesses whether vartan bhanji exchange practices are a boon or a burden, an enabling or disabling factor, a pass or an impasse for social mobility of the poor households of biraderis living in rural areas of ...
From Uyghurs to Kashgaris (and back?): Migration and Cross-Border Interactions Between Xinjiang and Pakistan
(2014-10)
China and Pakistan share a common border, formally established in 1963, and a close friendship which, to a certain extent, is a direct consequence of that agreement. Somewhat surprisingly the two countries managed to ...