This week I was interviewed for Власть on the latest developments on the construction of the CKU railways that will connect #China, #Kyrgyzstan & #Uzbekistan. I spoke about the problem of financing the project, and risk assessment in Chinese funding. vlast.kz/english/60686-…

BREAKING: The Lancet has just published this article "conservatively" estimating that the death toll in the Gaza genocide could be 186,000 people or more. That's 8% of the population, obliterated. These are apocalyptic figures. thelancet.com/journals/lance…

My analytical piece published by 🔴 Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung on how Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan have introduced workfare measures in their unemployment and poverty-reduction policies is out! rosalux.de/en/news/id/524…

Yesterday was a special day for me—it was my granny’s 73rd birthday.She’s a gifted storyteller who’s always told me the stories of the women in our family. Women’s voices have been & remain central to my life and work. Yesterday also marked the publication of my research note(1)

Binazir Yusuf 👏👏

"Based on #feminist ethnographic fieldwork, this research note reflects on my #positionality as an #Uzbek 'musofir kelin' conducting doctoral research on the lived experiences of #women in #Tashkent’s bazaars" New Research Note from Binazir Yusuf: doi.org/10.1080/026349…

Another great discussion: WHAT’S IN A JOB? RETHINKING INFORMAL, PRECARIOUS, AND MIGRANT LABOUR IN CENTRAL ASIA Presenting: Franco GALDINI, Eugenia PESCI,  Binazir YUSUPOVA,  Giulio BENEDETTI Chair: Frank MARACCHIONE Discussant: Luca ANCESCHI

This was one of the best panels I joined during #ASIAC2024, where I chaired a discussion on an edited volume on precarious labour in Central Asia with contributions from Franco Giulio Benedetti Eugenia Pesci Binazir Yusuf. And Luca Anceschi acted as a discussant!

At #ESCAS/#CESS in Lisbon Giulia Sciorati and I have co-convened the panel "Crossroads of influence: transnationality and contestation in Silk Road histories" a multidisciplinary panel with amazing historians of #China-#CentralAsia relations Dilnoza Duturaeva and @efimzyp.

There is a protest in Chiatura, a mining town in Georgia, it’s started a few days ago. These problems have been ongoing for ages, the demands are quite good though ambitious. Their demands are: 1. We demand a meeting with the government! 2. The investor should leave! The

Out today!

1/3 Super excited to share our research article with Karolina Kluczewska, now published in EJPG!🎉 doi.org/10.1332/251510… DM-me for a copy! We had shared some of our first findings on openDemocracy & Engenderings 👇 Ghent Institute for International&European Studies

Nice article on migrants, work and labour activism focusing on truckers in the EU from CA G Benedetti, et al.: Pioneering new migration routes: central Asian truck drivers’ experiences in the EU, Central Asian Survey, DOI: 10.1080/02634937.2025.2479099

Quite unsettling to share this as Israel wages war on Iran, just across the border from Syunik, where part of my fieldwork took place. Still, proud to see this published in JCMS alongside other critical contributions on the EU's global role. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author/F…