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Inner and Central Asian Studies

Inner/Central Asia

Sufism in Post-Soviet Tajikistan

A review of Post-Soviet Sufism: Texts and the Performance of Tradition in Tajikistan, by Benjamin Clark Gatling. Perhaps few topics in the recent hist...
Asian Archaeology

Pastoralism in the Bronze & Iron Age

A review of Botanical Resource Use in the Bronze and Iron Age of the Central Eurasian Mountain/Steppe Interface: Decision Making in Multiresource Past...
Inner/Central Asia

Place & Well-Being in Central Asia

A review of Moral Geographies in Kyrgyzstan: How Pastures, Dams and Holy Sites Matter in Striving for a Good Life, by Jeanne Féaux de la...
Inner/Central Asia

Banditry, Terrorism & Revolution in Late Imperial Russia

A review of Bandits, Terrorists, and Revolutionaries: The Breakdown of Civil Authority in the Imperial Fergana Valley, 1905-1914, by Yulia Uryadova. I...
China

The Qing Invention of Nature

A review of: The Qing Invention of Nature: Environment, Identity in Northeast China and Mongolia, 1750-1850 by Jonathan Schlesinger. For Western trave...
China

Oil, Ore & State-building in Xinjiang 1893-1964

A review of Staking Claims to China’s Borderland: Oil, Ores, and State-building in Xinjiang Province, 1893-1964, by Judd Creighton Kinzley. Staking Cl...
Inner/Central Asia

Reading Mitchell’s Carbon Democracy in the USSR

Carbon Socialism? A view from the “Second World” of Timothy Mitchell’s Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil (Verso, 2011)  Timothy Mitc...
Fresh from the Archives

Central State Archive of the Republic of Kazakhstan

A review of the Central State Archive of the Republic of Kazakhstan (Центральный государственный архив Республики Казахстан / Қазақстан Республикасы О...
Inner/Central Asia

Inner/Central Asia + Tibetan/Himalayan

In the 2013-2014 academic year, Dissertation Reviews will continue to post reviews of recently filed dissertations, up-to-date reports from various ar...
Inner/Central Asia

Rangeland Ecosystem & Pastoralism in Tibet

A review of From “Retire Livestock, Restore Rangeland” to the Compensation for Ecological Services: State Interventions into Rangeland Ecosystem and P...
Inner/Central Asia

Inner Asia Goes Central

We’re very excited to announce that “Inner Asia Dissertation Reviews” will be expanding to include Central Asia Studies in the 2013-...
China

Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier

A review of The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier: State Building, National Integration and Socialist Transformation, Zeku (Tsékhok) County, ...
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