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3. Researching Central Asia : Navigating Positionality in the Field

Author

Jasmin Dall'Agnola, Aijan Sharshenova, Jasmin Dall'Agnola, and Aijan Sharshenova

Subjects
Political science, Sociology—Methodology, Ethnology, Asia—Politics and government
Abstract

This open access book explores some of the struggles and challenges that researchers and practitioners face when conducting research in the Central Asian research setting. Written for scholars still in the planning stages of their research, it addresses key questions, including: How shall we problematize and reconceptualize the concept of positionality through lenses of local voices from the region? How does practitioners'and scholars'positionality contribute to their experiences of inclusion, exclusion, and access to the field? How do scholars navigate issues of personal safety and mental well-being in the more closely monitored societies of Central Asia? The book includes contributors from both Central Asia and Western countries, paying particular attention to the ways researchers'subjectivity shape how they are received in the region, which, in turn, influences how they write about and disseminate their research. In featuring an even greater variety of voices, this book fills an important gap in the literature on field research and knowledge production in and on Central Asia.

Published
2024

4. Undermining Western democracy promotion in Central Asia: China’s countervailing influences, powers and impact

Author

Aijan Sharshenova and Gordon Crawford

Subjects
05 social sciences, Geography, Planning and Development, Central asia, Development, 050601 international relations, 0506 political science, Development economics, 050602 political science & public administration, Asian country, Economics, media_common.cataloged_instance, European union, Democracy promotion, China, Earth-Surface Processes, media_common
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This article examines whether and to what extent China’s involvement in Central Asian countries undermines the democracy promotion efforts of the European Union and the United States. Findings conf...

Published
2017
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5. Kyrgyzstan beyond ‘Democracy Island’ and ‘Failing State’. Social and Political Changes in a Post-Soviet Society

Author

Aijan Sharshenova

Subjects
Economics and Econometrics, History, Sociology and Political Science, media_common.quotation_subject, Geography, Planning and Development, Central asia, Subject (philosophy), Democracy, Politics, State (polity), Political economy, Political science, Development economics, medicine, medicine.symptom, Soviet union, Collapse (medical), media_common
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Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Kyrgyzstan has been the subject of much scholarly attention as the result of being the most open country in Central Asia and having an eventful post-Soviet d...

Published
2017
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7. State Erosion: Unlootable Resources and Unruly Elites in Central Asia

Author

Aijan Sharshenova

Subjects
History, State (polity), media_common.quotation_subject, Political economy, Political science, Political Science and International Relations, Central asia, Erosion, Soviet union, media_common
Abstract

Despite entering the international scene as independent actors in the early 1990s, the Central Asian Republics of the former Soviet Union remain an under-researched geographical area, which still n...

Published
2016
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9. Globalizing Central Asia. Geopolitics and the Challenges of Economic Development

Author

Aijan Sharshenova

Subjects
Economics and Econometrics, History, Economic growth, Sociology and Political Science, Work (electrical), media_common.quotation_subject, Political science, Geography, Planning and Development, Central asia, Geopolitics, Pleasure, media_common
Abstract

As someone who is both a researcher and a native of Central Asia, I closely follow publications on the region, and note with pleasure that recent work is increasingly more analytical, better inform...

Published
2014
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11. The European Union’s Democracy Promotion in Central Asia

Author

Aijan Sharshenova, Andreas Umland Gordon Crawford, Aijan Sharshenova, Aijan Sharshenova, Andreas Umland Gordon Crawford, and Aijan Sharshenova

Abstract

Brussels made democracy, human rights, the rule of law, and good governance its top co-operation priorities in the EU Strategy Framework towards Central Asia for 2007–2013. This book examines two interrelated questions: To what extent has EU democracy promotion in Central Asia been successful? And, to the extent that it was successful, why was it so? The book presents a comprehensive analytical framework for the evaluation of democracy promotion, including factors which may facilitate or hinder democratic development in Central Asia. It demonstrates the validity of a holistic approach to analyzing impediments of democracy promotion meaning that external pro-democratic support is affected by a variety of diverse factors whose impact can vary as international, regional, and domestic conditions change. The stable and rich authoritarian state of Kazakhstan is different from the much poorer Kyrgyzstan—a state prone to political instability, but also to democratic openings. By contrasting the success of democracy promotion in these two countries which have different strategic importance for the EU, this study provides valuable insights into how non-normative interests interfere with normatively driven policies.

12. The European Union’s Democracy Promotion in Central Asia

Author

Aijan Sharshenova, Andreas Umland Gordon Crawford, Aijan Sharshenova, Aijan Sharshenova, Andreas Umland Gordon Crawford, and Aijan Sharshenova

Abstract

Brussels made democracy, human rights, the rule of law, and good governance its top co-operation priorities in the EU Strategy Framework towards Central Asia for 2007–2013. This book examines two interrelated questions: To what extent has EU democracy promotion in Central Asia been successful? And, to the extent that it was successful, why was it so? The book presents a comprehensive analytical framework for the evaluation of democracy promotion, including factors which may facilitate or hinder democratic development in Central Asia. It demonstrates the validity of a holistic approach to analyzing impediments of democracy promotion meaning that external pro-democratic support is affected by a variety of diverse factors whose impact can vary as international, regional, and domestic conditions change. The stable and rich authoritarian state of Kazakhstan is different from the much poorer Kyrgyzstan—a state prone to political instability, but also to democratic openings. By contrasting the success of democracy promotion in these two countries which have different strategic importance for the EU, this study provides valuable insights into how non-normative interests interfere with normatively driven policies.

13. The European Union’s Democracy Promotion in Central Asia

Author

Aijan Sharshenova, Andreas Umland Gordon Crawford, Aijan Sharshenova, Aijan Sharshenova, Andreas Umland Gordon Crawford, and Aijan Sharshenova

Abstract

Brussels made democracy, human rights, the rule of law, and good governance its top co-operation priorities in the EU Strategy Framework towards Central Asia for 2007–2013. This book examines two interrelated questions: To what extent has EU democracy promotion in Central Asia been successful? And, to the extent that it was successful, why was it so? The book presents a comprehensive analytical framework for the evaluation of democracy promotion, including factors which may facilitate or hinder democratic development in Central Asia. It demonstrates the validity of a holistic approach to analyzing impediments of democracy promotion meaning that external pro-democratic support is affected by a variety of diverse factors whose impact can vary as international, regional, and domestic conditions change. The stable and rich authoritarian state of Kazakhstan is different from the much poorer Kyrgyzstan—a state prone to political instability, but also to democratic openings. By contrasting the success of democracy promotion in these two countries which have different strategic importance for the EU, this study provides valuable insights into how non-normative interests interfere with normatively driven policies.

14. The European Union’s Democracy Promotion in Central Asia

Author

Aijan Sharshenova, Andreas Umland Gordon Crawford, Aijan Sharshenova, Aijan Sharshenova, Andreas Umland Gordon Crawford, and Aijan Sharshenova

Abstract

Brussels made democracy, human rights, the rule of law, and good governance its top co-operation priorities in the EU Strategy Framework towards Central Asia for 2007–2013. This book examines two interrelated questions: To what extent has EU democracy promotion in Central Asia been successful? And, to the extent that it was successful, why was it so? The book presents a comprehensive analytical framework for the evaluation of democracy promotion, including factors which may facilitate or hinder democratic development in Central Asia. It demonstrates the validity of a holistic approach to analyzing impediments of democracy promotion meaning that external pro-democratic support is affected by a variety of diverse factors whose impact can vary as international, regional, and domestic conditions change. The stable and rich authoritarian state of Kazakhstan is different from the much poorer Kyrgyzstan—a state prone to political instability, but also to democratic openings. By contrasting the success of democracy promotion in these two countries which have different strategic importance for the EU, this study provides valuable insights into how non-normative interests interfere with normatively driven policies.

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