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From state commodification to local reproduction of vulnerability: ethnographic insights from a Risk Zone Urban Renewal Project in Turkey. [PDF]

Disasters
Abstract This paper explores how vulnerability is not only defined by the state but also actively reshaped through policy implementation and lived experience. Drawing on ethnographic research in Eskişehir, Turkey, I propose an analytical distinction between the ‘commodification of vulnerability’—framing risk in technoscientific and moral terms to ...
Civelek C.
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Pre‐Manichaean Beliefs of the Uyghurs II: Other Religious Elements

Journal of Religious History, Volume 47, Issue 4, Page 586-603, December 2023., 2023
The original beliefs of the Uyghurs, which have been overshadowed by their conversion to Manichaeism and Buddhism, have not been thoroughly studied until recently. However, Uyghur inscriptions as well as Chinese and Islamic sources provide us with some information regarding their beliefs. In the first part of this article series, the Uyghurs' belief in
Hayrettin İhsan Erkoç
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The Many Nationalities of Tamara Khanum: Friendship of the Peoples at Home, Abroad, and Within

The Russian Review, Volume 82, Issue 3, Page 433-452, July 2023., 2023
Abstract Inspired by scholarship on empire and historical biography, this article examines the life of Soviet entertainer Tamara Khanum (1906–91) and her formation as a socialist intermediary. First, it considers how an ethnic Armenian born in the Uzbek SSR came to represent an image of liberated Eastern femininity to domestic audiences.
Charles D. Shaw
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Remmal Khoja. Chronicle «Tarikh-i Sahib Geray Khan» («History about Sahib Geray Khan»). Part 5. The end [PDF]

Крымское историческое обозрение, 2020
To the attention of the readers is offered the translation into Russian of the final fragments from the chronicle «Tarikh-i Sahib Geray Khan» (XVI c.).
Refat Abduzhemilev
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The “fascist” and the “potato beetle”

American Ethnologist, Volume 50, Issue 1, Page 30-42, February 2023., 2023
Abstract Human‐to‐insect comparisons turn the stomachs of scholars of language and discrimination, but do they incite violence? In the spring of 2014, some Ukrainians referred to people they suspected of separatist sympathies as kolorady, or Colorado potato beetles, a notorious invasive pest. But kolorad was also a response to a pro‐Russian epithet for
Deborah A. Jones
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Falshfasad

American Ethnologist, Volume 49, Issue 4, Page 461-477, November 2022., 2022
ABSTRACT Zaryadye Park is an extravagant landscaping project–cum–multimedia attraction that opened in 2017 adjacent to Moscow's Kremlin. This article opens with a short reflection on the portents of war legible, with the benefit of hindsight, in Zaryadye's design.
MICHAŁ MURAWSKI
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Abdullah ibn Rizvan-Pasha. The Chronicle “Tevarikh-i Desht-i Kiptchak”. Part 4 (end) [PDF]

Крымское историческое обозрение, 2022
he column presents one of the principal narrative sources reflecting the history of the Golden Horde and the Crimean Khanate – the work “Tevarikh-i Desht-i Kiptchak” (“The Chronicle of the Desht-i Kiptchak”, 1638) from under the pen of Abdullah ibn ...
Refat Abduzhemilev
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Abdullah ibn Rizvan-Pasha. The Chronicle «Tevarikh-i Desht-i Kiptchak». Part 3 [PDF]

Крымское историческое обозрение, 2021
The column presents one of the principal narrative sources reflecting the history of the Golden Horde and the Crimean Khanate – the work “Tevarikh-i Desht-i Kiptchak” (“The Chronicle of the Desht-i Kiptchak”, 1638) from under the pen of Abdullah ibn ...
Refat Abduzhemilev
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Abdullah ibn Rizvan-Pasha. The Chronicle «Tevarikh-i Desht-i Kiptchak». Part 2 [PDF]

Крымское историческое обозрение, 2021
The column presents one of the principal narrative sources reflecting the history of the Golden Horde and the Crimean Khanate – the work “Tevarikh-i Desht-i Kiptchak” (“The Chronicle of the Desht-i Kiptchak”, 1638) from under the pen of Abdullah ibn ...
Refat Abduzhemilev
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The Psychological Elements of Mehmet Nuzhet’s Written Creation [PDF]

Крымское историческое обозрение, 2019
The article deals with life and literary heritage of the prominent figure of the Crimean Tatar literature of the pre-war period, Memet Nuzhet. Particular attention is paid to his personal qualities, the depths of his philosophical thinking, his memories.
Tair Kirimov
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