This open access book explores some of the struggles and challenges that researchers and
practitioners face when conducting research in the Central Asian research setting. Written for
scholars still in the planning stages of their research it addresses key questions including:
How shall we problematize and reconceptualize the concept of positionality through lenses of
local voices from the region? How does practitioners' and scholars' positionality contribute to
their experiences of inclusion exclusion and access to the field? How do scholars navigate
issues of personal safety and mental well-being in the more closely monitored societies of
Central Asia? The book includes contributors from both Central Asia and Western countries
paying particular attention to the ways researchers' subjectivity shape how they are received
in the region which in turn influences how they write about and disseminate their research.
In featuring an even greater variety of voices this book fills an important gap in the
literature on field research and knowledge production in and on Central Asia.
