Dr Balihar Sanghera is Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Director of Graduate Studies (Taught) at the University of Kent
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Published in: oDR: OpinionRentier capitalism and class warfare in KazakhstanBlame ‘free’ market reforms that benefit the rich and powerful at the expense of the working class for the country’s...
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Published in: oDRGlobal capitalism in Central Asia and competing economic imaginariesFor the US, Russia and China, Central Asia is a space of competing economic influences.
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Published in: oDRUnmasking Central Asia's neoliberal judgesDespite claims of impartiality, judges in Central Asia often incorporate neoliberal economic and moral values into...
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Published in: oDREconomic dystopia in KyrgyzstanHailed as a success story for liberal market reforms, Kyrgyzstan in fact provides an example of how the rentier...
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Published in: oDRWanted: Economic Equality to Mend KyrgyzstanMedia reports of disturbances in Kyrgyzstan’s two main cities Bishkek and Osh focused on human rights and ethnicity....
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Published in: oDRWhy are Kyrgyzstan’s slum dwellers so angry?
If you want to understand what has motivated the uprising of Kyrgyzstan’s poor, you need look no further than the...