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Sairambay, Yerkebulan. 2026. “Reflections on Data Availability and Collection in Central Asia Under Conditions of Turbulence and Uncertainty.” Discuss Data Blog, September 8, 2026. https://discuss-data.net/cs/eescca/section/blog/data-collection-kazakhstan/.

SummaryThis blog entry discusses the collection and availability of research data in Kazakhstan and the broader Central Asian region within the current political context. Drawing on the author’s experience conducting master’s, doctoral, and postdoctoral research using mixed methods — including surveys, interviews, focus groups, content … more info
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Mate, Dezso. 2026. “Gypsy” Genesis: Reclaiming Romani Memories and Resilience. Interdisciplinary Studies in Antigypsyism 7. Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing. https://doi.org/10.17885/heiup.1720.

AbstractThis book aims to deconstruct the public perceptions of the “Gypsy” and reclaim Romani memories as European values, with a particular focus on Hungary. Taking an interdisciplinary approach that draws on history, memory studies, sociology, social psychology, anthropology, and ethnography, it critically scrutinizes intergenerational antigypsyist … more info
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Artemenko, Natalia. 2026. “Keeping History Open: Alexei Navalny and the Phenomenology of Witnessing.” Studies in East European Thought. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11212-026-09914-2.

AbstractThis article offers a phenomenological interpretation of Alexei Navalny’s political testimony through the concepts of futurity, active despair, skeptical epoche, and symbolic institution. Rather than approaching Navalny primarily as an opposition politician, it examines the existential and symbolic structures underlying his political practice. The argument … more info
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Mesbah, A. Basir, Sayeed Sulaiman Sadat, Sayed Mohammad Firozi, and Ali Juma Hamdard. 2026. “Children’s Rights Vis-à-Vis the Media: A Study of the Laws of the Republican Era in Afghanistan.” Journal of Multidisciplinary Law Studies 1 (2): 66–79. https://doi.org/10.60153/9nvmw833.

AbstractThe right of children to access information and media messages is considered one of the important manifestations of children’s rights, and alongside it, their protection and safeguarding against the media is of great importance. After the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the … more info
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Juma Hamdard, Ali, Sayed Mohammad Firozi, Sayeed Sulaiman Sadat, and Abdul Basir Mesbah. 2026. “Women’s Economic Participation in Bamyan: Trends and Challenges from 2010 to 2020.” Ciência & Trópico 50 (1): 17–37. https://doi.org/10.33148/ctrpico.v50i1.2818.

AbstractWith the increase in economic participation opportunities for women, the level of the society’s economy will develop and women will achieve an independent income. Therefore, efforts have been made to increase the presence of women in the labor market and to play an active role … more info
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Takhun, Richard, Frangis Dadfar Spanta, Mohammedwesam Amer, and Andrea Fleschenberg. 2025. “Reflections on Scholasticide and Epistemicide: Testimonies from Myanmar and Afghanistan to Palestine and Beyond.” Transcribed by Zuzana Vargova. International Quarterly for Asian Studies 56 (3): 231–65. https://doi.org/10.11588/iqas.2025.3.28979.

AbstractThe following Current Debate section brings together three testimonies by scholars working on or with connections to Myanmar, Afghanistan and Palestine, framed by an introductory reflection on the concepts of scholasticide and epistemicide. Drawing on personal experiences as researchers and academics affected by war, authoritarianism, … more info
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Artemenko, Natalia. 2026. “Husserl’s Transcendental Phenomenological Approach to Understanding History: The Problem of Generativity.” In Philosophy Through Its History: The Intellectual Legacy of Nelly V. Motroshilova, edited by Marina F. Bykova, 224–60. Contemporary Russian Philosophy 10. Leiden: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004760677-015.

AbstractThis chapter explores the essence of Edmund Husserl’s genetic phenomenology as a means of revealing how the historical dimension of consciousness manifests for transcendental phenomenology. Genetic analysis of consciousness leads, on one hand, to the interpretation of the world as a network of semantic references—a … more info
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Firozi, Sayed Mohammad. 2025. “A Reflection on the Failure of the First Renovation Process in Afghanistan (A Sociological Analysis of Shah Amanullah Khan’s Failed Modernization Efforts in Afghanistan).” SustainE 1 (2): 105–17.

Abstract Afghanistan has twice embarked on significant modernization efforts, both of which ended in failure and continue to shape the country’s ongoing crises. The first failure occurred during the Amani period, when clergy and religious groups rebelled against reforms, while the second failure emerged with … more info
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Bolat, Demet. 2026. “Deneyimin Peşinde, Deneyimin İçinde: Feminist Bir Deneyim Epistemolojisi için Arayışlar.” [Tracing Experience, Staying with Experience: Inquiries Toward a Feminist Epistemology of Experience]. Feminist Bilim Felsefesi: 319-356)

Abstract Pozitivist bilim idealine içkin nesnellik anlayışı göz önünde bulundurulduğunda feminist bilim kavramının oksimoron olduğu düşünülebilir. Nihayetinde bu ideal bilimsel bilginin konumsuz bilgi olduğu yönünde normatif bir önkabul üzerine kuruludur ve açıkça konumlanmış feminist bilgi iddialarının bilimselliği bu çerçeve içerisinde anlamlandırılamaz. Öte yandan feminist bilim … more info
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Shahabadi, Akbar Zare, Mohammad Bay Basharat Rahamani, and Sayed Mohammad Firozi. 2025. “A Critical Assessment of the Cultural Consequences of US Presence in Afghanistan (2001–2021).” Kardan Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities 8 (2): 115–35.

Abstract The primary objective of this study is to critically examine the cultural impacts of the U.S. and allied presence in Afghanistan from 2001 to 2021. Utilizing a critical paradigm and a qualitative research approach, this study explores the perspectives of Afghan cultural and social … more info