International Political Economy |GVC|industrial pol.|Central Asia&Global|Social Reproduction| SL in Political Economy @SOAS | Fellow in Economics @OpenUniversity | My views
Almaty-based journalist reporting on Central Asia, author of Dark Shadows: Inside the Secret World of Kazakhstan (2019) and Silk Mirage: Through the Looking Glass in Uzbekistan (out in November 2025)
Political analyst
Academic tamada
Research: political populism, foreign policy analysis, political risk analysis, occasionally sustainable energy
Regional Representative in Central Asia at the Norwegian Helsinki Committee
Central Asian editor at OCCRP, founder of Kazakh media Vlast
Lecturer in IR/Politics (Trinity College Dublin)
DPhil International Relations (Oxford)
Former Fulbright Scholar at Columbia University
Former Researcher at Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict (Oxford)
Associate Professor of Eurasian Studies at University of Staffordshire. Interested in Central Asia and Russia. Chair of Staffs UCU branch.
Central Asian(ist). PhDing in memory studies. Researcher and writer. Sometimes a journalist. (Gender issues, Islam, memory and identity). My pronouns are u/uning
researcher, Central Asian,
currently working on successions, regimes, and foreign policy of CA
Rural Central Asia | Tajikistan | Global China | Critical agrarian studies | Everyday geopolitics | Ethnography | Labour | Cotton | Running |
@unileiden.bsky.social https://www.geog.ox.ac.uk/staff/ihofman.html
Fellow at @carnegieendowment.org I write about Central Asia for @ceip-politika.bsky.social
https://carnegieendowment.org/people/temur-umarov?lang=en¢er=russia-eurasia
ASIAC is an academic association based in Italy that promotes knowledge exchange on Central Asia and the Caucasus. (RT/likes are not endorsements). Website and newsletter: https://www.asiac.net/
Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program Joint Center. Research on Central Asia, Caucasus, and Turkey (AFPC and ISDP Sweden).
https://www.silkroadstudies.org/
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Senior Central Asia Researcher / Human Rights Watch
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Political Sociologist, Decolonial Writer, Central Asian to the core.
Lecturing at @UCLSSEES.
Most of the times you can find me writing or rummaging around the steppe, deserts and valleys.
Fellow at Homerton College, previously at Cambridge Sociology
UK NGO supporting vulnerable groups in Eastern Europe, Central Asia & the Caucasus. We share know-how with grassroots NGOs in health & social welfare.
Postdoc University of Kent - Global Political Economy, South-South development, China, Central Asia, Uzbekistan. With SPERI - Sheffield Pol Economy Inst and Oxus Society for Central Asian Affairs. (he/him)
