Globalization has added to the growth of labor migration as a source of income for wives and families left behind in developing countries. The impact on wives left behind by working husbands requires further investigation in order to produce the best practices to combat the soci…
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The promotion of language is considered to be the one of the ways to increase the state's soft power. Taking this into account, Soviet leaders used the Russian language as a tool to create a new identity to consolidate the Soviet republics. After the collapse of the Union of Sov…
This dissertation focuses on the visual representation of generational politics as it changed during Imperial, Soviet and Post Soviet periods. It argues that the most important shift in visual representation of power relations between generations in Central Asia took place in th…
Intimate partner violence (IPV) violates human rights, specifically, the right to life and bodily integrity. Although considerable knowledge about the prevalence of and risk factors for IPV in developing countries has been amassed, little attention has been paid to the attitudes…
Due to the pressures of increasing population and economic development in Central Asia, water resources management faces many challenges. This dissertation addresses several of these challenges in five chapters. The first chapter motivates the dissertation by presenting the back…
The study opens with a discussion of texts by “outsiders” who positioned Turkmenia as a space worthy of exploration between 1921 and 1927. Chapter One examines two essay collections by the Eurasianists— Iskhod k vostoku. Predchuvstviia i sversheniia. Utverzhdenie evraziitsev( Ex…
This dissertation explores the causes and consequences of authoritarian elections. When holding an election, the authoritarian leader faces a dilemma: In order to maintain his rule, he needs to win big in elections. Yet, the manipulation of election results risks losing some of …
In this dissertation I argue that political institutions in a plural society, through their ability to induce and constrain a wide range of interactions, can facilitate (or hinder) the prospects for cross-ethnic trust generation, and by extension cross-ethnic cooperation. More s…
At least since the Mongol conquests, the main cultural and political centers of the Muslim world in the Nile-to-Oxus region were linked by rich and multifarious commercial and cultural networks to the eastern and western extremities of the Afro-Eurasian oikumene, including China…
Why do market-oriented economic reforms in developing countries succeed or fail? Of the three sets of factors that affect the outcome of the reforms - economic policies, formal and informal institutions, and leadership - the role of political leaders and reform teams in initiati…
Repression, used by dictators as a tool to control the populous of a nation, is a defining feature of authoritarian regimes. Often the most concerning response, the use of coercion is centrally important to a greater understanding of how dictators maintain stability. Emerging th…
Alexander Volkov (1886-1957), an Uzbek artist identified by his expressive style, vibrant palette, and devotion to folk subjects, was a leading figure in the movement known as the Uzbek avant-garde. Volkov's influence is still at work among artists in Uzbekistan, though his lega…
The collapse of the Soviet Union left countries of Central Asia to experience political confrontations over territory and water rights. Additionally, independence of Central Asian countries resulted in the change of control systems, including transboundary rivers of the region. …
The countries of post-Soviet Central Asia share remarkable similarities: they came into existence at the same time, have since undergone similar processes and challenges in establishing statehood, are culturally related to each other, share similar historical paths, and have nea…
As the birthplace of the Naqshbandiyya, Yasaviyya, and Kubrawiyya, Central Asia has received a significant amount of scholarly attention in the field of Sufi Studies, though the study of the nineteenth century is relatively underdeveloped. While scholars have done much to demons…
This dissertation examines supra-ethnic nation-building in Kazakhstan, particularly focusing on policy outcomes since the republic became independent from the Soviet Union in 1991. The population of Kazakhstan is distinctive among countries of the post-Soviet space in terms of i…
This thesis is an ethnography of how places like mountain pastures (jailoos), hydro-electric dams and holy sites (mazars) matter in striving for a good life. Based on eighteen months of fieldwork in the Toktogul valley of Kyrgyzstan, this study contributes to theoretical questio…
Despite its distinct place as one of the world's great religious traditions, the religion propagated by the Iranian prophet Mani deliberately and vigorously adapted a variety of concepts from competing faiths to meet its own ends. Mani did not view himself as merely one prophet …
This study investigates differences in the public discourse regarding national identity and language policy issues in the Kazakh-language and Russian-language realms, by analyzing newspaper coverage of these issues. I illustrate how the usage of two languages in the country's me…