Session 2
Wednesday (May 5):
10.00-11.30 AM EST
CHAIR
Hélène Thibault
(Nazarbayev U, Kazakhstan)
PAPERS
Jasmin Dall’Agnola
(Oxford Brookes U, UK)
The World Values Survey Findings Put to the Test of Qualitative Inquiry:
Information/Communication Technologies and Gender Roles in Kazakhstan
Aruzhan Sagadiyeva
(Nazarbayev U, Kazakhstan)
Policy-Making in the Authoritarian States:
The Case of Polygyny in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan
Shahnoza Nozimova
(George Mason U, US)
Imagined Women:
Bearing, Rearing and Wearing the Tajik Nation
Zulaikho Usmonova
(Institute of Philosophy, Tajikistan)
Gender Aspects of “Tanzeem” Cultural Politics in Tajikistan
DISCUSSANT
Michele Commercio
(U of Vermont, US)