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Migration and patrilineal descent: the effects of spatial male mobility on social female mobility in rural Kyrgyzstan
Ismailbekova, Aksana (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 ... -
Mobile Life on the Frontiers of Crossroads Asia
Marsden, Magnus (2011-04-27)In what ways do Chitralis and the wider region’s inhabitants themselves perceive, act within and seek to understand this geo-politically divided and culturally discontinuous space? I want to explore these questions ... -
Mobility and Urban Conflict: A Study of Lyari, Karachi
Kirmani, Nida (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 ... -
Network or Community? Two tropes for analysing social relations among Uyghur traders in Kyrgyzstan
Steenberg, Rune (2014-03)This article focuses on Uyghur traders from rural Atush trading in southern Kyrgyzstan, more precisely in Kadamjay in Batken. People from Atush are known to be especially gifted in trade across all of Xinjiang and Central ... -
Not Quite Home or Alone: A Conversation on Belonging in a Digital Age
Bier, Mareike; Amoo-Adare, Epifania (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 ... -
Off the Grid: Environmental Degradation and Citizenship at the Margins
Harms, Arne (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 ... -
Reflections on Migration Dynamics in Northern Ghana from the ‘Crossroads Perspective’
Adaawen, Stephen (2016-02)The paper analyses mobility patterns in Northern Ghana while reflecting also on my ‘positionality’ as researcher from the area thus critically analysing mobility patterns and processes of negotiating social boundaries and ... -
Shift and Drift in Hazara Ethnic Consciousness: The Impact of Conflict and Migration
Ibrahimi, Niamatullah (2012-09-27)The paper argues that ethnicity and ethnic consciousness among the Hazaras is inexorably linked with the emergence of the Afghan state in the end of the nineteenth century and the crisis and instability that it has gone ... -
Social Media as a Tool for Transparency and Good Governance in the Government of Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
Hussain, Yasir (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 ... -
Spatialities of Knowledge in the Neoliberal World Academy: Theory, Practice and 21st Century Legacies of Area Studies
Jackson, Peter A. (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 ... -
Strategic Positioning and the Reproduction of Inequality: The case of the Johari Shauka of the Kumaon Himalaya, India
Benz, Andreas (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 ... -
Territory, border, infrastructure: Imagining and crafting national borderlands in twentieth century China
Kinzley, Judd; Joniak-Lüthi, Agnieszka (2016-12) -
The Anxiety of Development: Megaprojects and the Politics of Place in Gwadar, Pakistan
Jamali, Hafeez A. (2013-01)This working paper explores the social geography of anticipation, desire, exclusion, and control that has emerged as a result of Baloch fishermen’s entanglement with the Pakistani government’s plans to develop a large ... -
The localisation of the transnational Tablighi Jama’at in Kyrgyzstan: structures, concepts, practices and metaphors
Toktogulova, Mukaram (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 ... -
The Ontological Sources of Political Stability and Economy: Mahalla Mediation in the Rural Communities of Southern Tajikistan
Boboyorov, Hafiz (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 ... -
The Significance of Geopolitical Issues for Internal Development and Intervention in Mountainous Areas of Crossroads Asia
Kreutzmann, Hermann (2013-01)This working paper illustrates the process of territorial transformation in time and space. From the period of Silk Road networks to imperial designs for spatial control in Crossroads Asia, external interests for local and ... -
Translocal Lives: Patterns of Migration in Afghanistan
Schetter, Conrad (2012-01-03)We generally associate civil wars with flows of refugees. We tend to give much less consideration to the way in which patterns of migration that arise as a result of violent conflicts, especially long-lasting ones, take ... -
Uzbekistan – A Region of World Society (?) Variants of Differentiation in Agricultural Resources Governance
Hornidge, Anna-Katharina; Van Assche, Kristof; Shtaltovna, Anastasiya (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 ... -
Vartan bhanji-exchange practices and social (im-)mobility: Exploring the coping strategies of low-income households of different biraderis in rural Punjab
Nasir, Aftab; Mielke, Katja (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 ...