Svetlana Peshkova
Biographic Data
| ID | 6041979 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Svetlana Peshkova |
| GIVEN NAMES | Svetlana |
| FAMILY NAME | Peshkova |
| SIGNATURE | PESHKOVA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of New Hampshire |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0067-8829 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Prevrashenie (Transformation) of Bacha
Current attempts by local national/ist governments to impose a rigid binary gender order on local populations are as colonial as the Russian and Soviet colonial attempts to remake Central Asian communities; these efforts are deemed to fail. Bach[ch]a (adolescent feminine male performers), as a gender position and socio-cultural institution not reduced to sexuality, is but one example of such efforts’ futility. By adapting to a changing socio-poli…
Central Asian Women’s contextual politics
Practicing Islam
David W. Montgomery’s Practicing Islam offers an important venue for understanding Islam in this Central Asian country. Drawing on Barthian theory of knowledge (Barth 2002), the author argues that
Chaos, violence, and dynasty
Eric McGlinchey's book offers a novel approach to understanding Central Asian politics and regime change. In this comprehensive study, the author insists that patronage politics are the present and
Women, Islam, and Identity
This pioneering ethnographic work centers on the dynamics of female authority within the religious life of a conservative Muslim community in the Fergana Valley of Uzbekistan. Peshkova draws upon several years of field research to chronicle the daily lives of women religious leaders, known as otinchalar, and the ways in which they exert a powerful influence in the religious life of the community. In this gender-segregated society, the Muslim wome…
Teaching Islam at a home school
In this article I describe and analyse non-institutionalized religious education among local women in Uzbekistan. I argue that while exhibiting vestiges of ‘traditional’ objectives, methods of teaching, and models of knowledge transmission, and incorporating elements of educational reforms advocated by the Central Asian reformers in the early 1900s, and of Soviet pedagogy, the dynamics of such education foster students' critical thinking. By enab…
A Post-Soviet Subject in Uzbekistan
Bringing the mosque home and talking politics
A Post-Soviet Subject in Uzbekistan
Central Asian Women’s contextual politics
Bringing the mosque home and talking politics
Prevrashenie (Transformation) of Bacha
Current attempts by local national/ist governments to impose a rigid binary gender order on local populations are as colonial as the Russian and Soviet colonial attempts to remake Central Asian communities; these efforts are deemed to fail. Bach[ch]a (adolescent feminine male performers), as a gender position and socio-cultural institution not reduced to sexuality, is but one example of such efforts’ futility. By adapting to a changing socio-poli…
Teaching Islam at a home school
In this article I describe and analyse non-institutionalized religious education among local women in Uzbekistan. I argue that while exhibiting vestiges of ‘traditional’ objectives, methods of teaching, and models of knowledge transmission, and incorporating elements of educational reforms advocated by the Central Asian reformers in the early 1900s, and of Soviet pedagogy, the dynamics of such education foster students' critical thinking. By enab…
Bringing the mosque home and talking politics
A Post-Soviet Subject in Uzbekistan
Women, Islam, and Identity
This pioneering ethnographic work centers on the dynamics of female authority within the religious life of a conservative Muslim community in the Fergana Valley of Uzbekistan. Peshkova draws upon several years of field research to chronicle the daily lives of women religious leaders, known as otinchalar, and the ways in which they exert a powerful influence in the religious life of the community. In this gender-segregated society, the Muslim wome…
Teaching Islam at a home school
In this article I describe and analyse non-institutionalized religious education among local women in Uzbekistan. I argue that while exhibiting vestiges of ‘traditional’ objectives, methods of teaching, and models of knowledge transmission, and incorporating elements of educational reforms advocated by the Central Asian reformers in the early 1900s, and of Soviet pedagogy, the dynamics of such education foster students' critical thinking. By enab…
Chaos, violence, and dynasty
Eric McGlinchey's book offers a novel approach to understanding Central Asian politics and regime change. In this comprehensive study, the author insists that patronage politics are the present and
Practicing Islam
David W. Montgomery’s Practicing Islam offers an important venue for understanding Islam in this Central Asian country. Drawing on Barthian theory of knowledge (Barth 2002), the author argues that
Central Asian Women’s contextual politics
Prevrashenie (Transformation) of Bacha
Current attempts by local national/ist governments to impose a rigid binary gender order on local populations are as colonial as the Russian and Soviet colonial attempts to remake Central Asian communities; these efforts are deemed to fail. Bach[ch]a (adolescent feminine male performers), as a gender position and socio-cultural institution not reduced to sexuality, is but one example of such efforts’ futility. By adapting to a changing socio-poli…
Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · History (6 works) · History (6 works) · Islam (6 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Soviet and Russian History (6 works)