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A Woman, an Actress, a Jadid? Reflecting on a Recent Exhibition in London

  • December 16, 2022
Last month, an exciting photographic exhibition on Central Asia, entitled “Bound for Life and Education”: Sara Eshonturaeva and the Jadid Movement in Soviet Uzbekistan, was shown at Asia House in…
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Music and Women in Afghanistan and Central Asia: An Interview with Razia Sultanova

  • November 14, 2022
Music occupies an enormous place in Central Asia, and in particular in Afghanistan. Dr. Razia Sultanova, a musicologist and cultural anthropologist, has studied the music of the Uzbeks and other…
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Early Soviet Modernization in the Lives of Kazakh Women

  • October 19, 2022
In her book entitled Modernization of the Early Soviet Era in the Fate of Women of Kazakhstan, 1920–1930: Monograph (Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, 2017), Janat Kundakbayeva, Doctor of Historical Sciences…
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Falling Off the Pedestal: Victim-blaming and Nationalism in Kazakhstan

  • August 2, 2022
Over the past few years, there has been a marked increase in the volume of content on the topic of how to be a “true Kazakh woman.” Among the most…
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Women, Kinship, and Property in Central Asia

  • June 16, 2022
Author Aksana Ismailbekova Aksana Ismailbekova is a research fellow at Leibniz-Zentrum-Moderner Orient (ZMO). Ismailbekova completed her PhD dissertation at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology and Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg in…
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