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Sevket Akyildiz

Sevket has published in

• Landscape & Arts Network (UK)
• Polyvocia: the SOAS Journal of Graduate Research (SOAS, University of London)
• Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (Wiley)
• Twentieth Century Communism–A Journal of International History (Lawrence and Wishart)
• Sports and Coaching: Pasts and Futures (Manchester Metropolitan University)
• Central Asian Scholars and Media Initiative (BBC, British Broadcasting Corporation, Uzbek and Kyrgyz)
• Proceedings of the XII Biennial Conference of the European Society for Central Asian Studies (Cambridge University)
• Journal of Muslims in Europe (Brill)
• Europe-Asia Journal (Taylor and Francis)
• Vakanuvis–International Journal of Historical Researches (Turkiye)
• History Studies–International Journal of History (Turkiye)
• Sport in History (Routledge)
• Routledge: Taylor & Francis: Co-editor of Social and Cultural Change in Central Asia: The Soviet Legacy, (London)
• Turkish Journal of Diaspora Studies (Turkiye)
• Cappadocia Journal of Area Studies (Turkiye)
• Journal of Cultural Studies (Turkiye)
• Sinop University Journal of Social Sciences (Turkiye)
• Cankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences (Turkiye)
• Faculti.net (United Kingdom)
• Institute of Historical Research (archives.history.ac.uk)

• BOOK:
• Sevket Akyildiz and Richard Carlson (editors) Social and Cultural Change in Central Asia: The Soviet Legacy, London: Routledge, 2014  Download PDF

• ARTICLES: Central Asia 1917 to 1991
• (11) “Physical Culture and Sport Will Become Part and Parcel of Everyday Life”: Khrushchev’s Communist Sports in Central Asia’s Uzbekistan, 1953 to 1964 Download PDF
• (10) Traditional Sports and Games among Central Asia’s Turkic Muslim Peoples, 1400 to 1850 AD: Training, Hunting, and Festivals Download PDF
• (9) Sport in Central Asia under Gorbachev: Uzbekistan, 1985 to 1991 Download PDF
• (8) Cultural Change in Central Asia: Brezhnev, Modern Sports, and Memories in Uzbekistan, 1964 to 1982 Download PDF
• (7) Modern and Folk Sports in Central Asia under Lenin and Stalin: Uzbekistan from 1925 to 1952 Download PDF
• (6) “Learn, learn, learn! Soviet-style in Uzbekistan: Education, Implementation and planning’, in Social and Cultural Change in Central Asia, Download PDF
• (5) ‘Sovietisation in Uzbekistan 1980-1991: A Success or Failure?’ Download PDF
• (4) Soviet Physical Culture in Uzbekistan 1924-1991: Implementation and Social Impact Download PDF
• (3) Olympic Culture in Soviet Uzbekistan 1951-1991: International Prestige and Local Heroes Download PDF
• (2) An Introductory History of Soviet Uzbek Academics 1924-1960 Download PDF
• (1) Sport has become the privilege of the millions: Physical culture in Uzbekistan 1924-1991 Download PDF

1. BOOK REVIEWS: General Non-Fiction
2. Sport in Soviet Society: Development of Sport and Physical Education In Russia and the USSR by James Riordan (1980) Download PDF
3. EUPHORIA AND EXHAUSTION: Modern Sport in Soviet Culture and Society by Katzer, Budy, Kohring, Zeller (eds) (2010) Download PDF
4. Gregory Claeys, Utopia: The History of an Idea (2011, 2021) Download PDF
5. Helen Fisher, Anatomy of Love: A Natural History of Mating, Marriage, and Why We Stray (1992) Download PDF
6. Jonathan Clements, A Brief History of Khubilai Khan: Lord of Xanadu: Emperor of China (2010, 2017) Download PDF
7. Margalit Fox, The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History (2022) Download PDF
8. Maxwell Maltz, Psycho-Cybernetics, (2023) Download PDF
9. Eugene Rogan, The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East, 1914-1920, (2015) Download PDF
10. Johny Pitts, Afropean: Notes from Black Europe (2019) Download PDF
11. Claudia Hammond, The Art Of Rest: How To Find Respite In The Modern Age, (2019) Download PDF
12. Gabor Mate, The Myth of Normal: Illness, Health, and Healing a Toxic Culture, (2022) Download PDF
13. Robert Tressell, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists: A Graphic Novel By Scarlett & Sophie Rickard (2020) Download PDF
14. Olivette Otele, African Europeans: An Untold History (2020) Download PDF
15. Ultra-Processed People: Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn’t Food…and Why Can’t We Stop? by Chris van Tulleken (2023) Download PDF
16. The Sultans, The Rise and Fall of the Ottoman Rulers and Their World: A 600-Year History by Jem Duducu (2018) Download PDF
17. A Short History of Slavery, James Walvin (2007) Download PDF
18. Surrounded By Narcissists: Or How To Stop Other People’s Egos Ruining Your Life by Thomas Erikson (2022) Download PDF
19. Janina Ramirez, Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It (2022) Download PDF
20. Emma Gannon, SABOTAGE: How To Silence Your Inner Critic And Get Out Of Your Own Way (2020) Download PDF
21. J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir Of A Family And Culture in Crisis (2017) Download PDF
22. Anita Moorjani, Dying To Be Me: My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing (2022) Download PDF
23. Tim Marshall, The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal The Future of Our World Download PDF
24. The Shortest History of the Soviet Union by Shelia Fitzpatrick (2022) Download PDF
25. Botanical Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland by Lisa Schneidau (2019) Download PDF
26. Leonelli, Lucy, A Year in The Life: Adventures in British Subcultures (2022) Download PDF
27. On Being An Introvert or Highly Sensitive Person: A Guide To Boundaries, Joy and Meaning by Ilse Sand (2018) Download Here
28. Chris Hemmings, BE A MAN: How Macho Culture Damages Us and How to Escape It (2017) Download PDF
29. Claire Hayes, Finding Hope in the Age of Anxiety: Recognise it, Acknowledge it and Take Your Power Back, 2017 Download PDF
30. Lee Brosan, An Introduction To Coping With Stress, 2018 Download PDF
31. David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future (2019) Download PDF
32. Guy Standing, Basic Income: And How We Can Make It Happen 2017 Download PDF
33. Shannah Kennedy, THE LIFE PLAN: Simple Strategies for a Meaningful Life (2015) Download PDF
34. Gul Berna Ozcan, BUILDING STATES AND MARKETS: Enterprise Developments In Central Asia, 2010 Download PDF
35. Jared Diamond, COLLAPSE: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive (2006) Download PDF
36. Michael Rywkin, Moscow’s Muslim Challenge: Soviet Central Asia (1990) Download PDF
37. Gideon Levy, The Punishment of Gaza, 2010 Download PDF
38. George Yancy, Until Our Lungs Give Out: Conversations on Race, Justice, and the Future, 2023 Download PDF
39. Zonn, I.S, (et al.) The Aral Sea Encyclopedia (2009) Download PDF
40. Tyson Fury, BEHIND THE MASK, 2019 Download PDF
41. Barnes, Rewild Yourself: 23 Spellbinding Ways to Make Nature More Visible (2020) Download PDF
42. Sheila Fitzpatrick, The Shortest History of the Soviet Union, 2022 Download PDF
43. Tim Marshall, The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World, 2021 Download PDF
44. Edward W. Said & Christopher Hitchens, Blaming the Victim: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question, 2001 Download PDF
45. Gul Berna Ozcan, BUILDING STATES AND MARKETS: Enterprise Developments In Central Asia, 2010 Download PDF
46. Cate Malek & Mateo Hoke, Palestine Speaks: Narratives of Life Under Occupation, 2015 Download PDF
47. Ilan Pappe, Ten Myths About Israel, 2017 Download PDF
48. Anne Helen Petersen, CAN’T EVEN: HOW MILLENNIALS BECAME THE BURNOUT GENERATION, 2021 Download PDF
49. E. Allworth THE TATARS OF CRIMEA: Return to the Homeland, 1998
50. Chris Gosden, THE HISTORY OF MAGIC: FROM ALCHEMY TO WITCHCRAFT, FROM THE ICE AGE TO THE PRESENT (2021)
51. Noel Malcolm BOSNIA: A Short History, 1996 Download PDF
52. Owen Jones, The Establishment: And How They Get AwayWith It, 2015 Download PDF
53. Paul Strathern Rise and Fall: A History of the World in Ten Empires, 2019 Download PDF
54. David Robson, The Expectation Effect, 2022 Download PDF
55. Damien Le Bas, The Stopping Places, 2018 Download PDF
56. Azeem Ibrahim, The Rohingyas: Inside Myanmar’s Genocide, 2018 Download PDF 
57. Peter Ross, A Tomb With A View: The Stories and Glories of Graveyards, 2020 Download PDF
58. Kerry Brown CHINA’S WORLD: WHAT DOES CHINA WANT, 2017 Download PDF
59. Ian Williams EVERY BREATH YOU TAKE CHINA’S NEW TYRANNY, 2021 Download PDF
60. Christina Lamb, Our Bodies Their Battlefield: What War Does to Women, 2020 Download PDF
61. Neil Ansell, The Circling Sky: On Nature and Belonging in an Ancient Forest, 2021 Download PDF
62. Bill Emmott, The Fate of the West: The Battle to Save the World’s Most Successful Political Idea, 2018 Download PDF
63. Peter Frankopan The New Silk Roads: The Present and the Future of the World, 2019 Download PDF
64. Carl Rommel. Egypt’s Football Revolution: Emotion, Masculinity, and Uneasy Politics, 2021 Download PDF
65. Suketu Mehta, This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant’s Manifesto, 2019 Download PDF
66. Van den Bosch, A, Fauve, De Cordier (eds) European Handbook of Central Asian Studies: History, Politics and Societies, 2021 Download PDF
67. Violet Moller, The Map of Knowledge: How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found: A History in Seven Cities, 2019 Download PDF
68. Elizabeth Dryson, The Moor’s Last Stand: How Seven Centuries of Muslim Rule came to an End, 2020 Download PDF
69. Jorg Matthias Determann, Islam, Science Fiction, and Extraterrestrial Life: The Culture of Astrobiology in the Muslim World, 2021 Download PDF
70. Jong Sung Lee, A history of football in North and South Korea c.1910–2002: development and diffusion 2016 Download PDF
71. Mohd, Aslam Bhat, The Sociology of Central Asian Youth. Choice, Constraint, 2018 Download PDF
72. Seth Bernstein, Raised Under Stalin. Young Communists and the Defence of Socialism, 2018 Download PDF
73. Brian Donahoe and Joachim Otto Habeck, Reconstructing the House of Culture: community, self, and the makings of culture in Russia and beyond, 2012 Download PDF

‘Seaside Town Muslims’ Research Essays:

• (1) The History of Eastbourne Mosque Community: East Sussex Muslims, 1995 to 2013. Download PDF: The History of Eastbourne Mosque Community – East Sussex Muslims
• (2) Brighton, East Sussex: Muslim and Western Cultures Meet in ‘London-on-Sea’ (2017) Download PDF
• (3) Hastings Mosque and Muslims in “1066 Country”: East Sussex Seaside Resort Muslims. Download PDF: Hastings Mosque and Muslims in “1066 Country”: East Sussex Seaside Resort Muslims
• (4) ‘Introducing Seaside Town Muslims: Eastbourne Mosque History & Politics‘, Download PDF: ‘Introducing Seaside Town Muslims: Eastbourne Mosque History & Politics’, Journal of Muslims in Europe, Vol.4 Issue 2, Sept 2015
• (5) Bexhill, Sussex, England — Seafront Architecture & Interculturality: Mixing British and Secular & Mughul Indian & Muslim North African Styles. Download PDF: Bexhill, Sussex, England — Seafront Architecture & Interculturality: Mixing British Secular & Mughal Indian & Muslim North African Styles
• (6) Bexhill Mosque Muslims. Download PDF: Bexhill Mosque and Muslims

General Essays:

• (1) Saracen Sussex: Sarsen Stones, Morris Dance, & Tipter Plays: Three English folk customs with links to the Saracens, Moors, & Seljuk Turks. Download PDF: Saracen Sussex: Sarsen Stones, Morris Dance, & Tipteer Plays: Three English folk customs with links to the Saracens, Moors, & Seljuk Turks
• (2) Ottoman Corsairs and English Renegades 1600 – 1700: Coastal Kent and Sussex and Pirates. Download PDF: Ottoman Corsairs and English Renegades 1600 – 1700: Coastal Kent and Sussex and Pirates
• (3) Lundy Island, England & Wales and Ottoman and Barbary Corsairs: A Temporary Base for a Couple of Weeks Each Year circa 1625 and 1635 CE. Download: PDF: Lundy Island, England & Wales and Ottoman and Barbary Corsairs: A Temporary Base for a Couple of Weeks Each Year circa 1625 and 1635 CE
• (4) Islam and Human Rights: the dispute about the Universality and Relativity of Rights. Download PDF: Islam and Human Rights: the dispute about the Universality and Relativity of Rights
• (5) Muslim Libraries, Academic Institutions, and Scientific Progress 750 to 1258 CE: Baghdad’s House of Wisdom, and Cairo’s House of Science. Download PDF: Muslim Libraries, Academic Institutions, and Scientific Progress 750 to 1258 CE: Baghdad’s House of Wisdom, and Cairo’s House of Science

Nature Essays:

• (1) The Rediscovery of a Freshwater Spring beside the Sea: A Local Holy Well? Download PDF: The Rediscovery of a Freshwater Spring beside the Sea: a Local Holy Well?
• (2) Wannock Glen, Eastbourne: Nature, Chalk Stream, Wild Garlic, & Tea Dance Pavilion Download Download PDF: Wannock Glen, Eastbourne: Nature, Chalk Stream, Wild Garlic, & Tea Dance Pavilion
• (3) Whitbread Hollow — Whitbread Hole, Eastbourne: Nature, Leisure and Relaxation, Army Camp, and an Apple Tree. Download PDF: Whitbread Hollow – Whitbread Hole, Eastbourne: Nature, Leisure and Relaxation, Army Camp, and an Apple Tree

Links to Sevket’s research findings:

• Academia.edu http://soas.academia.edu/SevketHyltonAkyildiz
• Google Scholar https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=NwYQGzgAAAAJ&hl=en
• Amazon books  http://www.amazon.co.uk/Books-Sevket-Akyildiz/s?ie=UTF8&page=1&rh=n%3A266239%2Cp_27%3ASevket%20Akyildiz
• ResearchGate.net https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sevket_Akyildiz
• Orcid https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9545-4432
• Scribd https://www.scribd.com/user/712793939/Sevket-Akyildiz
• Routledge https://www.routledge.com/authors/i8163-sevket-akyildiz
• X https://twitter.com/SevketAkyildiz
• Goodreads.com https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/85887755-sevket-akyildiz
• Zoreto.org
• Mendeley.com
• Google Books.co.uk https://www.google.co.uk/search?tbm=bks&hl=en&q=sevket+akyildiz
• DergiPark Akademik https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/@sevket_hylton_akyildiz (Turkiye)
• Humanities Commons https://hcommons.org/members/sevketakyildiz/
• LibraryThing.com https://www.librarything.com/profile/Sevket.Akyildiz