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Deniz Kandiyoti

Deniz Kandiyoti is Reader in the Department of Development Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies and Chair of the Centre of Contemporary Central Asia and the Caucasus, University of London. She is the author of Concubines, Sisters and Citizens: Identities and Social Transformation (1997, in Turkish), and editor of several books and numerous articles on gender, Islam, development and state policies.

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Andijan: prelude to a massacre

The massacre in eastern Uzbekistan is rooted in the impact of the country’s post-Soviet economic collapse on its citizens. Deniz Kandiyoti, drawing on her Fergana valley fieldwork in the late 1990s, maps the road to tragedy.

Where is Islam going?: responses to Werner Schiffauer

Werner Schiffauer’s intimate study of the politics of a Turkish Islamic community in Germany was part of the Europe and Islam series of talks. At London’s Goethe Institute in July, Werner Schiffauer and Deniz Kandiyoti discussed with the audience the prospects for ‘reformation’ in Islam, the relation between citizenship and diaspora politics in Germany and Britain, and the consequences for democracy of educational and generational change in Muslim communities.