Dr Sally N. Cummings teaches in the School of International Relations, University of St Andrews, UK. Her research interests on Central Asia date from 1992, which has included several years of residence in the region. She researches topics related to political science, political communication, culture and identity. Her book publications include: Kazakhstan: Power and the Elite (IB Tauris 2005), Oil, Transition and Security in Central Asia (London and New York: Routledge, 2003), Power and Change in Central Asia (author and editor, London and New York: Routledge, 2002), Kosovo: Perceptions of War and its Aftermath (co-editor, London and New York: Continuum, 2001) and Kazakhstan: Centre-Periphery Relations (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution and London: Royal Institute of International Affairs, 2000).
What happens to a country’s visual culture when it moves from Soviet communism to post-Soviet liberalization? A pathbreaking exhibition in the former Soviet Central Asian republic of Kyrgyzstan, Epoxa (‘Epoch’) grapples with this question. It presents the republic’s initial independence years, 1991-2005, under the rule of the country’s first post-independence president, Askar Akaev. The Akaev [...]
Ships, a collection from Google Satellite by Jenny Odell
Photography by Oleg Dou, via El Dado del Arte
Generative art by Franz Thues and Dirk König, via Alex Wain
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