معرفی
Dr. Gulzat Botoeva is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Swansea University's School of Social Sciences, within the Criminology, Sociology and Social Policy department. Her work focuses on illegal and informal economies in post-Soviet contexts, particularly in Kyrgyzstan, using qualitative methods like ethnography. She explores drug trafficking, small-scale gold mining, and hashish production, examining how these activities intersect with legality, morality, and neoliberal economic policies.
Teaching: She teaches modules on illegal economies, qualitative research methods, and the political economy of Global South crime. Her courses include ASC222 (Research Project Development), ASCM17 (Criminological Theory), and SPC300 (Illegal Economies).
Research Highlights: Her publications analyze Kyrgyzstan's artisanal gold mining conflicts, hashish harvesting's moral narratives, and Central Asian drug trafficking networks. Recent work critiques extraction projects' impacts on rural communities and neoliberal exploitation.
Grants: She led the 2021-2022 project 'Drug Trafficking, Violence, and Corruption in Central Asia' (£60,000).
Engagement: Public outreach includes articles on Kyrgyzstan's political transitions (FPC.org.uk) and roundtable discussions on post-2010 revolution legacies (Oxus Society).
