CHAIR
Feruza Aripova
(Northeastern U, US)
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PAPERS
Michelle Commercio
(U of Vermont, US)
michele.commercio@uvm.edu
Obstacles to Women’s Political Participation in Kyrgyzstan
Aksana Ismailbekova
(Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Germany)
aksana_ismailbekova@yahoo.co.uk
Umut Abazbek kyzy
(Independent Researcher, Kyrgyzstan)
Beyond Religious Retraditionalization:
Islamic Women’s Activism as an Element of Post-Socialist Civil Society in Kyrgyzstan
Alua Samat
(Columbia U, US)
Aesthetic Labor among Women in Modern Kazakhstan:
Navigating Ambivalence, Discipline, Gender Scripts and postcolonial Sentiments
Elena Kim
(Bard College, US)
The Local Effects of Global Human Rights to Health:
An Institutional Ethnography of an HIV/AIDS Project in Kyrgyzstan
Leyla Zuleikha Makhmudova
(Johns Hopkins U, US)
At the Borderlands of the Ferghana Valley:
The Role of Local Women Peacebuilders from NGOs
DISCUSSANT
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