Publications
‘Re-imagining critique in cultural sociology’ (co-authored with N. Hanrahan) in Hall, J. Grindstaff, L. and Lo, M. (eds) Handbook of Cultural Sociology, Routledge, 2010.
‘Bringing hope “to crisis”: crisis thinking, ethical action and social change’ in Skrimshire, S. (ed.) Future Ethics: Climate Change and Political Action, Continuum, 2010.
Why Critical Pedagogy and Popular Education Matter Today, edited with Canaan, J., Cowden, S., Motta, S. & Singh, G., Centre for Sociology, Anthropology & Politics, 2010.
‘Education as critical practice’ in Why Critical Pedagogy and Popular Education Matter Today, Centre for Sociology, Anthropology and Politics, 2010.
‘Promising futures: “education” as a resource of hope in post-socialist society’, Europe-Asia Studies, special issue on ‘Polities of the Spectacular: Symbols, Rhetoric and Power in Central Asia’, 2009, 61 (7): 1189-1206.
‘Embracing the politics of ambiguity: towards a normative theory of “sustainability”’, Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, 2009, 20(2): 111-25.
‘Pedagogy against dis-utopia: from conscientization to the education of desire’, Current Perspectives in Social Theory, 2008, 25: 291-325.
‘Whither critical education in the neoliberal university? Two practitioners’ reflections on constraints and possibilities’ (co-authored with J. Canaan), Enhancing Learning in the Social Sciences, 2008, 1(1).
‘Hope’ & ‘Cultural Colonialism’, entries in The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2008.
‘Higher education reform in Kyrgyzstan: the politics of neoliberal agendas in theory and practice’ in Structure and Agency in the Neo-liberal University, Routledge, 2007.
The Politics of Knowledge in Central Asia: Social Science between Marx and the Market, Routledge, 2007.
‘Knowledge, freedom and post-soviet imperialism: the case of social science in Kyrgyzstan’ in Theorising Social Change in Post-Socialist Societies: critical perspectives, co-edited with B. Sanghera and T. Yarkova, Peter Lang, 2007.
‘From Truth in Strength to Strength in Truth: The Reconstitution of Power/Knowledge in Central Asian Sociology’ in After Communism: Critical Perspectives on Society and Sociology, edited by A. Salam, C. Harrington and T. Zurabishvili, Peter Lang, 2002.
Presentations
‘Crisis thinking, ethical action and social change’, invited paper for seminar on Affirmative Critique, Institute of Advanced Studies (Durham University) and the Social/Spatial Theory Research Cluster, Department of Geography, Durham University, 24 June 2009.
‘Ethnographies of critique: critical judgment as cultural practice’, conference on ‘The Future(s) of Critical Theory’, Frankfurt Am Main, 19-21 March 2009.
‘Educating the emotions: the new biopolitics of critical pedagogy’, invited paper for ESRC Seminar Series on ‘Changing the Human Subject: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Emotional Well-Being and Social Justice in Education Policy and Practice’, 3 February 2009.
‘Bringing hope to crisis: critical thinking, ethical action and social change’, ESRC Seminar on Future Ethics, University of Manchester, January 2009.
‘Rethinking the “crisis of hope” in critical theory’, Hope: Probing the Boundaries, Oxford University, 24-6 September 2008.
‘Recovering the sociological imagination: critique and judgment in cultural sociology’, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Critical Theory Section, Boston, 1-4 August 2008.
Communities without borders? Promises and challenges of social science networks', Academic Fellowship Program, Sociology discipline meeting, Alushta, Crimea, May 2008.
‘Education against disutopia: from “critical praxis” to the “education of desire”, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Critical Theory Section, New York, 11-14 August 2007.
‘Needing a crisis: the paradox of “sustainability” in critical social theory’, Social Sustainability Conference, Kingston University, 30 June 2007.
‘Towards a sociology of hope: critical research as praxis in higher education.’ Discourse, Power Resistance Conference, University of Manchester, 20-22 April 2006.
‘Social science in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan: colonial creation or indigenous institution?’ Post-colonialism & post-socialism: social anthropology workshop, Cambridge, June 2002.
‘Where shall we begin in our society? Superiority, inferiority, and intellectual colonization in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan’, CECOB Special Convention, Nationalities, Identities and Regional Cooperation: Compatibilities and Incompatibilities, Forlì, Italy, June 2002.
Reviews
Life at the Edge of the Empire: Oral Histories of Soviet Kyrgyzstan, Central Asian Survey, 2009, 28(4): 438-40.
Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism, The British Journal of Sociology, 2006, 57(3): 521-3.
Papers under consideration, in progress, and etc.
'Cultural transformation' as governance and critical politics
Ethnography and political struggle
Ethnographies of critique
From praxism to praxis in critical education
Parenting, playing and politicking: critical pedagogies for home and school
Revalorizing the critical attitude in education
