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The Ontological Sources of Political Stability and Economy: Mahalla Mediation in the Rural Communities of Southern Tajikistan
(2013-09)
For the sake of a modest contribution to Crossroads Studies, this article argues that state and society in Tajikistan is embedded into personal (kinship, patron-client, etc.) networks of people. These networks structure ...
Hidden mobilities in post-Soviet Spaces: Boundaries, scales, identities and informal routes to livelihood
(2014-06)
We analyze the hidden mobilities, in physio-spatial, epistemic and social terms that are part and parcel of livelihood strategies in places dominated by informal institutions and authoritarian governance regimes. Soviet ...
Strategic Positioning and the Reproduction of Inequality: The case of the Johari Shauka of the Kumaon Himalaya, India
(2014-11)
This paper is concerned with socio-economic inequalities and their (re-)production, empirically inquired for the particular case of the upper Gori valley in the Kumaon Himalaya of India. The strand of so-called reproduction ...
Social Media as a Tool for Transparency and Good Governance in the Government of Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
(2014-10)
This article focuses on a social media initiative of the Chief Secretary of Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) using the popular social network platform Facebook as a tool to enhance E-Government services in Gilgit-Baltistan (GB), a ...
Investment and Translocality: Recontextualizing the Baloch in Islamic and Global History
(2013-12)
The Baloch are one of the best documented ethnic communities in the modern Islamic world. But the information comes from non-Baloch, who saw them as a tribal population, with their own history and culture, separate from ...
Off the Grid: Environmental Degradation and Citizenship at the Margins
(2015-05)
In this paper I have presented some preliminary thoughts on political repercussions of environmental degradations on the margins. In order to do that I have embraced two approaches derived from political theory. First, I ...
The localisation of the transnational Tablighi Jama’at in Kyrgyzstan: structures, concepts, practices and metaphors
(2014-03)
The transnational Tablighi Jama’at (TJ), which emerged and expanded outward from India and Pakistan in the early and mid-twentieth century, started to extend its missionary activities into Central Asia in the course of the ...
Mobility and Urban Conflict: A Study of Lyari, Karachi
(2015-06)
This paper […] focuses more closely on the transregional impacts of conflicts on local residents, most of whom are not themselves personally involved in these conflicts. For young Baloch men struggling to survive within ...
Migration and patrilineal descent: the effects of spatial male mobility on social female mobility in rural Kyrgyzstan
(2013-08)
Migration processes in Kyrgyzstan have given rise to fundamental social and demographic changes with the result that many villages and town quarters are nowadays inhabited solely by women, children and the elderly, whereas ...