Research

Dr. Hafiz Boboyorov

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Affiliated Researcher

boboyorov(at)dubnow.de
Phone: +49 341 21735-755

Working at the Dubnow Institute as a Research Associate in the »Ignaz Goldziher Program« from 2022 to 2023. Since 2023 affiliated researcher.

Studied Tajik (Persian) philology at the National University of Tajikistan (Dushanbe) and philosophy and social sciences at the National Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan (Dushanbe). Doctoral Candidate and Junior Researcher at the Faculty of Philosophy and the Center for Development Research at the University of Bonn between 2006 and 2011; subject of PhD thesis: »Kinship and Islam: The Role of Collective Identities in Shaping Institutional Order of Patronage in Southern Tajikistan«. From 2011 to 2013 Postdoctoral Researcher of the Research Project »Epistemic Cultures and Local Governance of Agricultural Knowledge in Post-Soviet Tajikistan and Georgia,« Center for Development Research at the University of Bonn. From 2015 to 2016 Postdoctoral Researcher of the Research Project »Local Security-Making in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan: The Production of Securityscapes by Everyday Practices,« Bonn International Center for Conflict Studies (BICC). From 2019 to 2021 Postdoctoral Fellow of the Philipp Schwartz Initiative, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Bonn International Center for Conflict Studies (BICC) and Visiting Researcher at the University of Bonn. Research stays at Ohio State University in 2005 and at INTRAC (the International NGO Training and Research Centre), Oxford from 2002 to 2003. Director of the Summer School Program of Open Society Institute for Tajikistan from 2001 to 2002.

Research Project

Security practices of Bukharan Jews
Response to existential threats in historical and post-Soviet contexts

Research interests

Political role of collective identities (such as kinship, ethnicity and religion) in Central Asia and post-Soviet space
Central Asian ethnic, linguistic and religious minorities
Radicalization processes among Muslims and the related political discourses and practices of existential danger
Existential security and everyday practices of people (theoretical and methodological aspects)

 

Publications

Monographs

Methodology of Existential Security. Book I, Dushanbe: Donish 2015 (Taj.).

Collective Identities and Patronage Networks in Southern Tajikistan, Berlin: Lit Verlag 2013.

Editorships

The School of ‘Philosophy of Life’ in Tajikistan, Dushanbe: Donish 2015 (Taj.).

The Alternative Future Worldview and the Clash of Ideas, Dushanbe: Donish 2015 (Taj.).

Mirali Razoq, In Search for Eternity (Collection of Poems), Dushanbe: Andaleb-P 2015 (Taj.).

Essays and Articles

Symbolic Legitimacy of Social Ordering and Conflict Settlement Practices: The Role of Collective Identities in Local Politics of Tajikistan, in: Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding 14 (2020) nr. 4, 518–533.

Selective Memories, Identities and Places: Everyday Security Practices of Mughat Lyulis in Osh, in: M. Boemcken/N. Bagdasarova/A. Ismailbekova/C. Schetter (eds.), Surviving Everyday Life: The Securityscapes of Threatened People in Kyrgyzstan, Bristol  2020, 91–117 (together with Sh. Atakhanov).

‘If It Again Happens’: Everyday Responses of Ruszabon Minority Group to Existential Dangers in Dushanbe, in: International Quarterly for Asian Studies 49 (2018) nr. 1-2, 61–82.

Living Dangerously: Securityscapes of Lyuli and LGBT People in Urban Spaces of Kyrgyzstan, in: Central Asian Survey 37 (2018) H. 1, 68–84 (together with M. Boemcken and N. Bagdasarova).

Translocal Securityscapes of Tajik Labour Migrants and the Families and Communities They Leave Behind, in: Marlene Laruelle (ed.), Tajikistan on the Move: Statebuilding and Societal Transformations. Lanham 2018, 223–247.

Critical Engagement and Endangered Academic Freedom in Tajikistan, in: Open Democracy, 2018 (20 March).

Tajikistan: Between Security and Objectification of Female Body, in: New Eastern Europe 2017 (13 November)

Local Security-Making in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. The Production of Securityscapes by Everyday Practices, in: BICC Working Paper 5, Bonn 2016, 1–20 (together with M. Boemchen, C. Schetter, H. Boboyorov, N. Bagdasarova and J. Sulaimanov).

Philosophical Teachings of Sadiq Hedayat, in: Science and Society 3-4 (2016), nr. 1, 46–67 (Taj.).

Alternatives and Models of the Development of Human Society in the Mirror of Futurology, in: Science and Society 1-2 (2016) nr. 1, 35–55 (Taj.).

The Cult of Death: An Anthropological Enquiry into the Tragedy of the Afghan Woman Farkhunda, in: ImruzNews (27 July 2015), 4f. (Taj.).

The Failed Search for National Identity of Tajiks in the Era of Independence, in: Javononi Tojikiston 11 (11 March 2015) nr. 9385, 7 (Taj.).

Mirali Razoq. Existential Experience in the Literary Works of the Poet, in: Farazh 42-47 (14 October bis 18. November 2015) nr. 463-468, 14, 15, 15, 15, 15, 15 (Taj.).

The Theologization of Philosophical Sciences in Tajikistan, in: Sulton Nawruzov (ed.). Consumptionism, Dushanbe 2014, 222–227 (Taj.).

Instigation of Political Islam From Above, in: ImpruzNews 140‑141: 905‑906 (6‑7 August 2014) nr. 905‑906, 1, 4‑5, 1–5 (Taj.).

The Distorted Message of History: On the Technology of Inventing Our “Enemy” and “Infidel””, in: ImruzNews 139 (5 August 2014) nr. 904, 8 (Taj.).

On Gulen Movement, in: Farazh 35-38 (27 August 2014, 3-17 September 2014), nr. 404-407, 9, 13, 13, 13 (Taj.).

On Muhammad Iqbal (The Islamic Scholar), in: Samak 35-38 (2014) nr. 147-150, 12‑13, 15, 15, 15 (Taj.).

Cultural Estrangement, in: Tojikiston 47 (2014) nr. 1089, 15 (Taj.).

Aggression in Mass Media, in: ImruzNews 217 (2014) nr. 9825, 4 (Taj.).

Islamic Concept of Justice, in: Tojikiston 38 (2014) nr. 1080, 16 (Taj.).

Manqurtism: Islam and Historical Memory, in: ImruzNews 182 (2014) nr. 947, 1-2 (Taj.).

Religious Symbolism, in: ImruzNews 184-185 (2014) nr. 949-950, 1, 7 (Taj.).

Ontological Sources of Political Stability and Economy. Mahalla Mediation in the Rural Communities of Southern Tajikistan, in: Crossroad Asia Working Paper Series 13, Bonn, 2013, 1–33.

Trust Networks and Nation State Building, in: Introduction to the Theories of Nationalism. Dushanbe 2012, 151–164 (Taj.).

Nation State in the Era of Global Networks and Movements, in: Introduction to the Theories of Nationalism. Dushanbe 2012, 165–176 (Taj.).

Nawruz. A Mythological Interpretation of World in Tajik Culture, in: Nawruz: Yesterday. Today. Future, Dushanbe 2012, 6–55 (Taj.).

The Concept of Manqurt ['Blind Man'] in Writings of Chingiz Aytmatov, in: Jomea 4 (March 2010), nr. 96, 11 (Taj.).