Central Asian Survey

Blood ties and the native son: Poetics of patronage in Kyrgyzstan

What Explains the Rise of Ethnic Minority Tensions in China

Old ‘counter-revolution’, new ‘terrorism’: historicizing the framing of violence in Xinjiang by the Chinese state

The Wang Lixiong prophecy: ‘Palestinization’ in Xinjiang and the consequences of Chinese state securitization of religion

Environmental migrations in Central Asia: a multifaceted approach to the issue

Colonization with Chinese characteristics: politics of (in)security in Xinjiang and Tibet

Kazakhstani public opinion of the United States and Russia: testing variables of (un)favourability

Sufism: a new history of Islamic mysticism

Women of protest, men of applause: political activism, gender and tradition in Kyrgyzstan

Islam by smartphone: reading the Uyghur Islamic revival on WeChat

What explains the rise of majority–minority tensions and conflict in Xinjiang?

Silk, slaves, and stupas: material culture of the Silk Road

Discourses of Russian-speaking youth in Nazarbayev’s Kazakhstan: Soviet legacies and responses to nation-building

Traditionalization, or the making of a reputation: women, weddings and expenditure in Tajikistan

The role of the ortoq in the Mongol Empire in forming business partnerships

Can smartphones empower labour migrants? The case of Kyrgyzstani migrants in Russia

Russian–Turkmen encounters: The Caspian frontier before the Great Game

Appropriating and contesting ‘traditional Islam’: Central Asian students at the Russian Islamic University in Tatarstan

Soviet boarding schools as a forge of national professionals and intellectuals in Soviet Tajikistan in the 1950s and 1960s

The body global and the body traditional: a digital ethnography of Instagram and nationalism in Kazakhstan and Russia

The Sinicized self: prejudice, epistemology and Uyghur perceptions of their bodies

The capacity to aspire: young persons and gender–age relations in southern Tajikistan and North India

‘City of the future’: built space, modernity and urban change in Astana

The demographic and agricultural development of the Kokand oasis during the Russian Imperial era: nomad immigration and cotton monoculture

Emptying lakes, filling up seas: hydroelectric dams and the ambivalences of development in late Soviet Central Asia

Power, politics, and tradition in the Mongol Empire and the Īlkhānate of Iran

Transitions from dirty to clean energy in low-income countries: insights from Kyrgyzstan

The veterans’ gala: the use of tradition in an industrial labour conflict in contemporary Kazakhstan

Visions of justice: Shari’a and cultural change in Russian Central Asia

Textiles as national heritage: Identities, politics and material culture

Books received

Traditionalization as a response to state-induced development in rural Tibetan areas of Qinghai, PRC

Mobile phones and self-determination among Muslim youth in Uzbekistan

Reflections on the prehistory of the Abdālī Afghans