The Sociology of Central Asian Youth

Shifting attention away from youth studies' usual suspects of USA, Northern Europe and Australia, this book represents a much welcomed and important contribution to 'decolonising' knowledge. Bhat does an exceptional job of bringing the particularities of the post-Soviet Central Asian context to the fore, whilst authoritatively grounding these specifics in wider and, indeed, global ongoing debates about young people, social transformation and the continuance of social reproduction . -- Steven Roberts, Monash University, Australia. Bhat offers not only a new take on Uzbek youth from a South Asian perspective that reflects Central Asia's current global and regional entanglements, but also a much-needed bridge between Central Asian Studies and classical sociology . -- Stefan Kirmse, Humboldt University, Berlin - Germany. A very timely, engaging and scholarly text with an interpretative lens. Bhat provides a remarkably clear and lucid picture of the aspirations, anticipations and risks experienced by young people in post-Soviet Uzbekistan, and Central Asia at large, while at the same time locating it within the contemporary sociological debates and discourses very succinctly and in a concise manner . --Professor Ajay Patnaik, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi - India The Sociology of Central Asian Youth is an interesting and original study of the youth of Uzbekistan that will certainly initiate new dialogue about youth in all of Central Asia. -- Timothy May, Professor of Central Eurasian History in the College of Arts and Letters, University of North Georgia.