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Embracing Chinese modernity? Articulation and positioning in China-Kazakhstan trade and exchange processes
Alff, Henryk (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 ... -
„Der Entwicklungsprozess des Islams in Tadschikistan nach dem Zerfall der Sowjetunion“ als Figuration nach Norbert Elias?: Eine erste Annäherung
Tiller, Petra; Herbers, Hiltrud (2013-07)In 70 Jahren sowjetischer Herrschaft waren die Muslime Zentralasiens fast vollständig von ihren Glaubensbrüdern abgeschnitten. Durch die atheistisch-ideologischen Repressionen waren die Menschen gezwungen, ihren Glauben ... -
From Uyghurs to Kashgaris (and back?): Migration and Cross-Border Interactions Between Xinjiang and Pakistan
Rippa, Alessandro (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 ... -
‘Functional’ governance as an alternative to ‘territorial’ governance? The case of the Kyrgyz irrigation sector and the implementation of Water User Associations (WUAs)
Schmitt, Florian (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 ... -
Gendered realms: Species of spaces in the city of Mazār-i Šarīf, Northern Afghanistan
Durdu, Ayfer (2014-04)This paper is an attempt at an inventory — alas, certainly not as poetic as Perec's. A number of distinctive spaces in urban Mazār-i Šarīf are described, each of which is deeply affected by gender divides. The inquiry ... -
Hidden mobilities in post-Soviet Spaces: Boundaries, scales, identities and informal routes to livelihood
Van Assche, Kristof; Hornidge, Anna-Katharina (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 ... -
How migrants made their way: The role of pioneering migrants and solidarity networks of the Wakhi of Gojal (Northern Pakistan) in shaping the dynamics of rural-urban migration
Benz, Andreas (2013-07)In this working paper, I investigate the role which solidarity networks based on different types of shared identities, perceived relatedness and kinship affiliations played for enabling, shaping, facilitating and intensifying ... -
Investment and Translocality: Recontextualizing the Baloch in Islamic and Global History
Spooner, Brian (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 ... -
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 ...