Publications

Monograph

2010
Land and Power in Khorezm. Farmers, Communities and the State in Uzbekistan’s Decollectivisation, Halle Studies in the Anthropology of Eurasia 23, Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2010.

Edited volume

2007
Patterns of Transformation In and Around Uzbekistan, edited by Paolo Sartori and Tommaso Trevisani, Reggio Emilia: Diabasis, 2007.

Chapters in edited volumes

2013
“The Reshaping of Cities and Citizens in Uzbekistan: The Case of Namangan’s ‘New Uzbeks’” in: Ethnographies of the State in Central Asia: Performing Politics, edited by Madeleine Reeves, Johan Rasanayagam, and Judith Beyer, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, December 2013.

2013
“Des sociétés agricoles: les milieux paysans face aux réformes” in: Éclats d'empires; Asie centrale, Caucase, Afghanistan, edited by Marlene Laruelle and Sebastien Peyrouse, Paris: Fayard, 2013, 201-208.

2009
“The Reshaping of Inequality in Uzbekistan: Reforms, Land, and Rural Incomes” in: Land Reform in Transition Economies: Contested Land in the ‘East’, edited by Max Spoor, Routledge ISS Studies in Rural Livelihoods, London: Routledge, 2009, 123-137.

2007
“Introduction” (together with Paolo Sartori), in: Patterns of Transformation In and Around Uzbekistan, edited by Paolo Sartori and Tommaso Trevisani, Reggio Emilia: Diabasis, 2007, 7-14.

2007
“Rural Communities in Transformation: Fermers, Dehqons, and the State in Khorezm” in: Patterns of Transformation In and Around Uzbekistan, edited by Paolo Sartori and Tommaso Trevisani, Reggio Emilia: Diabasis, 2007, 185-215.

2007
“The Emerging Actor of Decollectivization in Uzbekistan: Private Farming between Newly Defined Political Constraints and Opportunities” in: The Cotton Sector in Central Asia: Economic Policy and Development Challenges, edited by Deniz Kandiyoti, London, School of Oriental and African Studies, 2007, 151-174.

2003
“The Uzbek Mahalla: between state and society” (together with Elise Massicard), in: Central Asia. Aspects of Transition, edited by Tom Everett-Heath, London and New York: Routledge/Curzon, 2003, 205-219.

Journal articles

2008
“After the Kolkhoz: rural elites in competition”, Central Asian Survey, 26/1, 2007, 85-104.

2006
“Kolkhozes, Sovkhozes, and Shirkats of Yangibozor (1960-2002): Note on an archival investigation into four decades of agricultural development of a district in Khorezm” in: L’Islamisme en Asie Centrale, edited by Habiba Fathi, Cahiers d’Asie Centrale, 15/16, Tashkent – Aix-en-Provence, 2006, 352-361.

2006
“Confronto con l’alterità culturale: prospettive antropologiche tra relativismo e universalismo” in: Processi Storici e Politiche di Pace / Historical Processes and Peace Politics, 1/2006, 105-120.

2000
“Die Usbekische Mahalla zwischen Staat und Gesellschaft” (together with Elise Massicard), in: Anthropos, 95/2000, 206-218.

1996
“Klientelismus und Klientelismuskritik”, in: Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Soziologie, Vol.22 (2), 1996, 415-431.

Working papers and policy papers

2011
Neuanfang im Schatten der Krise. Kirgistan nach dem Regimewechsel, together with Andrea Schmitz, SWP-Studie, June 2011.

2002
“Zwischen Studium und Beruf: Der berufliche Verbleib der Absolventen des IfE der FU-Berlin (Jahrgänge 1989-1998)” (together with Clemens Grün), Sozialanthropologisches Arbeitspapier Nr. 93, Berlin: Das Arabische Buch Verlag, 2002.

1999
“Die Usbekische Mahalla zwischen Staat und Gesellschaft” (together with Elise Massicard), Sozialanthropologisches Arbeitspapier Nr. 73, Berlin: Das Arabische Buch Verlag, 1999.