The Development of Central Asia after the Fall of the Soviet Union

Workshop – Ideas and Practices: exploring economic and social transformation in Central Asia
On 11–13 October a workshop entitled “Ideas and Practices: exploring economic and social transformation in Central Asia” took place at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. Participants presented the results of their research on the far-reaching processes of transformation that have taken place in the Central Asian states since the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991. The workshop was organized by the Centre for Anthropological Studies on Central Asia (CASCA), a cooperation between the Department ‘Integration and Conflict’ at the MPI and the Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies (ISEK) at the University of Zurich.
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Günther Schlee (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, Germany) welcomes the participants of the workshop „Ideas and Practices: exploring economic and social transformation in Central Asia“ ■ Photo: © Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

Indira Alibayeva (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, Germany) introduces the workshop ■ Photo: © Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

Dinara Abildenova (University of Zurich, Switzerland) ■ Photo: © Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

Agnieszka Joniak-Lüthi (University of Zurich, Switzerland) ■ Photo: © Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

Cynthia Werner (Texas A&M University, U.S.A.) ■ Photo: © Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

Russell Zanca (Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, U.S.A.) ■ Photo: © Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

Didar Kassymova (Kazakhstan Institute of Management, Economics and Strategic Research (KIMEP), Almaty ■ Title of her talk: Differences in Sociocultural Adaptation of Oralmans in Kazakhstan: the role of place for coping strategies (comparative perspective of aul, provincial town and megapolis) ■ Photo: © Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

Zarina Mukanova (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, Germany) ■ Title of her talk: Different Statuses of Kazakh Women of the South East Kazakhstan ■ Photo: © Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

Gabriel McGuire (Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan) ■ Title of his talk: Of Roads and Routes: small holder mobile pastoral practices in contemporary Kazakhstan ■ Photo: © Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

Wolfgang Holzwarth (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, Germany) ■ Title of his talk: Animal Husbandry and Pastoral Land Use in Post-Soviet Tajikistan ■ Photo: © Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

Swetlana Torno (Heidelberg University, Germany) ■ Title of her talk: Growing up and getting old: the role of care in shaping women’s life courses in Tajikistan ■ Photo: © Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

Nodira Kholmatova (European University Institute, Florence, Italy) ■ Title of her talk: Return Migration and Reintegration of Female Labor Migrants in Tajikistan ■ Photo: © Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

Tommaso Trevisani (University of Naples L’Orientale, Italy) ■ Title of his talk: Where the Steel Workers Used to Live: memories of labour, housing and migration in a changing urban landscape in industrial Kazakhstan ■ Photo: © Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

Rune Steenberg (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) ■ Title of his talk: The Uyghur Discourse on “Good” and “Bad” Customs. An integration attempt on local terms 1980–2018 ■ Photo: © Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

Munkh-Erdene Lkhamsuren (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, Germany) ■ Chair in Section 6 ■ Photo: © Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

Aksana Ismailbekova (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, Germany) ■ Title of her talk: “Golden Fish”: micro-level security practices of Uzbek businessmen in Southern Kyrgyzstan

Louise Bechtold (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, Germany) ■ Title of her talk: Changing Commemoration Feasts: debts, kinship, and the state in a Kyrgyz village ■ Photo: © Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

Aida Alymbaeva (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, Germany) ■ Title of her talk: Passport and Identity in Chelpek ■ Photo: © Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

Gulniza Taalaibekova (Frobenius Institute for Research in Cultural Anthropology, Frankfurt am Main, Germany) ■ Photo: © Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

Participants of the workshop „Ideas and Practices: exploring economic and social transformation in Central Asia“ 11–13 October 2018 at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle (Saale): Second row from left: Dinara Saparova ■ Agnieszka Joniak-Lüthi ■ Louise Bechtold ■ Peter Finke ■ Aigerim Kaimanova ■ Gabriel McGuire ■ Verena La Mela ■ Günther Schlee ■ Russel Zanca ■ Cynthia Werner ■ Meltem Sancak ■ Dinara Abildenova ■ Wolfgang Holzwarth ■ Munkh Erdene Lkhamsuren ■ Martin Petrick ■ first row from left: Aida Alymbaeva ■ Swetlana Torno ■ Indira Alibayeva ■ Aikokul Arzieva ■ Misook Choi ■ Tabea Rohner ■ Gulniza Taalaibekova ■ Zarina Mukanova ■ Asel Myrzabekova ■ Aksana Ismailbekova ■ Ottavia Cima ■ Photo: © Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
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