Ass.-Prof. Dr. Jeanine Dagyeli

News: Announcement 19.11.2021: Classes will be held online starting from November 22, 2021.

Consultation hours: By appointment

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Dagyeli, J. (2023). Lasting Legacies in Central Asia’s Agro-Pastoralist Livelihoods. In J. Féaux de la Croix, & M. Reeves (Eds.), The Central Asian World (1 ed., pp. 39-54). Routledge, Taylor & Francis.

Dagyeli, J. (2023). Climate Disaster or Anticipated Crisis? Ways of Knowing the Environment in Pre-Soviet Central Asia. In J. Féaux de la Croix, & B. Penati (Eds.), Environmental Humanities in Central Asia : Relations Between Extraction and Interdependence (pp. 225-245). Routledge, Taylor & Francis.



Dagyeli, J. (2022). A Community of Order: Morale, Internal Discipline and Punishment in the Craft Milieu of Turkestan. In A. Mirsultan, E. Schluessel, & E. Sulaiman (Eds.), Community Still Matters: Uyghur Culture and Society in Central Asian Context (Vol. 77, pp. 234-249). NIAS Press.

Dagyeli, J., Herzig, E. (Ed.), Morrison, A. (Ed.), & Kassymbekova, B. (Ed.) (2022). Clay Whistle (Tajikistan and Uzbekistan). Web publication https://www.cabinet.ox.ac.uk/clay-whistle-tajikistan-and-uzbekistan-0

Féaux de la Croix, J., Arzhantsova, I., Dagyeli, J., Dubuisson, E.-M., Härke, H., Penati, B., Ueda, A., & Wooden, A. (2022). Roundtable Studying the Anthropocene in Central Asia: The Challenge of Sources and Scales in Human-Environment Relations. Central Asian Survey, 41(1), 180-203. https://doi.org/10.1080/02634937.2021.1960797

Dagyeli, J. (2022). The "Moral Background" of Work in Central Asia: The Sacred in the Mundane. In C. Formichi (Ed.), Routledge Handbook on Islam in Asia (1 ed.). Routledge, Taylor & Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429275364-24

Dagyeli, J., Freitag, U., & Ghrawi, C. (2021). Claiming and Making Muslim Worlds: Introduction. In J. Dagyeli, C. Ghrawi, & U. Freitag (Eds.), Claiming and Making Muslim Worlds: Religion and Society in the Context of the Global (pp. 1-28). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110726534/html

Dagyeli, J. (2021). Ramazon Aytib Keldik: Heischepraktiken zwischen Kanonisierung und Tradition. In The Written and the Spoken in Central Asia – Mündlichkeit und Schriftlichkeit in Zentralasien: Festschrift for Ingeborg Baldauf (pp. 462-483). Tethys.


Dagyeli, J. (2020). Why is Death Defiling? Considering Death-related Pollution and Cleaning in Central Asia. In I. Bredenbröker, C. Hanzen, & F. Kotzur (Eds.), Cleaning and Value: Interdisciplinary Investigations (pp. 155-166). Sidestone Press.

Dagyeli, J. (2018). Adab in the Workshop: Concepts of Fotovvat, Proper Conduct and Moral Economy in Central Asian Craftsmanship. In L. Ridgeon (Ed.), Javanmardi: The Ethics and Practice of Persianate Perfection (pp. 215-231). Gingko Library.


Dagyeli, J. (2017). Der erinnerte Aufstand: Der mehrfach gebrochene Blick auf ländlichen Widerstand in Zentralasien. In B. Christophe, C. Kohl, & H. Liebau (Eds.), Geschichte als Ressource: Politische Dimensionen historischer Authentizität (pp. 65-95). Klaus Schwarz Verlag.

Dagyeli, J. (2017). Tadschikistan seit der Unabhängigkeit. In L. Paul (Ed.), Handbuch der Iranistik (Vol. 2, pp. 199-207). Reichert Verlag.


Dagyeli, J. (2017). Whose Margins? Marginality, Poverty and the Moral Geography of Pre-Soviet Bukhara. In U. Freitag, N. Lafi, & A. Chappatte (Eds.), Understanding the City through its Margins: Pluridisciplinary Perspectives from Case Studies in Africa, Asia and the Middle East (pp. 63-76). Taylor & Francis.

Dagyeli, J. (2016). A "Deserted Site of Display": Performing the Crafts' risala in Pre-Socialist Central Asia. In I. Weinrich (Ed.), Performing Religion: Actors, Contexts and Texts: CaseStudies on Islam (Vol. 122, pp. 127-143). Orient-Institut Beirut; Ergon Verlag in Kommission.

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Colonial intervention through neobiotics: Improvement schemes and their legacies

Jeanine Dagyeli (Invited speaker)

5 Sept 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Global Karakul: Looking at Commodification and Hegemonies through a Central Asian Sheep Breed

Jeanine Dagyeli (Speaker)

18 Jul 202419 Jul 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Global Karakul: Connecting Peripheries through a Central Asian Commodity

Jeanine Dagyeli (Invited speaker)

14 Dec 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Cereal Assemblages: Crop Hierarchies and Heritage in Central Asia

Jeanine Dagyeli (Speaker)

22 Sept 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


From Performance to Writing and Back?: Central Asian "Small Genres" between the Oral-Written Continuum and Canonization

Jeanine Dagyeli (Speaker)

22 Sept 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Why species matter: How sheep, millet and cotton mark ecological change in Central Asia

Jeanine Dagyeli (Invited speaker)

21 Jun 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The Idleness of Virgin Lands: Disruptive Legacies of the 'Virgin and Idle Lands Campaign' in the Kazakh SSR

Jeanine Dagyeli (Invited speaker)

11 Nov 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


How to build an environment: Negotiating possible futures through infrastructures and cultural re-enactment

Jeanine Dagyeli (Speaker)

28 Sept 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


How to Speak about Land in a Colonial Context? The Semantics of Land Use in Central Asian Vernacular Publications

Jeanine Dagyeli (Speaker)

13 Sept 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Sweets, Skins and Bowels for the Global Market: Foreign Investment in the Emerging Capitalism of Colonial Central Asia

Jeanine Dagyeli (Speaker)

25 Jun 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


What is the Vernacular? Language Politics and the Breaking up of the Language Continuum in Central Asia

Jeanine Dagyeli (Invited speaker)

4 May 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Narrating through Animals: The Nonhuman as Ethical Agent in Contemporary Central Asian literature

Jeanine Dagyeli (Speaker)

15 Dec 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Between Place, Position and Tradition: Towards New Area Studies

Jeanine Dagyeli (Invited speaker)

26 Nov 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Creating a Corpus but no Canon: Towards a new Practice of Editing Translocal Popular Texts

Jeanine Dagyeli (Invited speaker)

19 Nov 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The Archive as Reverberation Chamber: Identity and Appropriations of Pre-Soviet Legal Documents

Jeanine Dagyeli (Speaker)

1 Apr 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Between Agriculture, Heritage and Ecology: Disruptive Legacies of the "Virgin and Idle Lands Campaign" in Contemporary Kazakhstan

Jeanine Dagyeli (Speaker)

13 Nov 2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Funerary Identity Politics between Tradition, Bureaucratisation and Globalised Islam

Jeanine Dagyeli (Speaker)

30 Sept 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Working at the Fringes: The Moral Economy of Land and Water in Bukhara’s Natural Border Zones

Jeanine Dagyeli (Speaker)

15 Aug 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Department of Near Eastern Studies

Spitalgasse 2, Hof 4 (Campus)
1090 Wien

jeanine.dagyeli@univie.ac.at