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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 &Wishart)
  
• Sports and Coaching: Pasts and Futures (Manchester Metropolitan University)
• Central Asian Scholars and Media Initiative (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)
• Co-editor of Social and Cultural Change in Central Asia: The Soviet Legacy, (London: Routledge, 2014)
• Turkish Journal of Diaspora Studies (Turkiye)
• Cappadocia Journal of Area Studies (Turkiye)
• Journal of Cultural Studies (Turkiye)
• Sinop University Journal of Social Sciences (Turkiye)

Central Asia publications:

• BOOK: S. Akyildiz & R. Carlson (2014) Social and Cultural Change in Central Asia: The Soviet Legacy, London: Routledge 
• ARTICLES
• Article: Traditional Sports and Games among Central Asia’s Turkic Muslim Peoples, 1400 to 1850 AD: Training, Hunting, and Festivals
• Article: Sport in Central Asia under Gorbachev: Uzbekistan (1985 to 1991)
• Article: Cultural Change in Central Asia: Brezhnev, Modern Sports, and Memories in Uzbekistan, 1964 to 1982
• Article: Modern and Folk Sports in Central Asia under Lenin and Stalin: Uzbekistan from 1925 to 1952
• Article: “Learn, learn, learn! Soviet style in Uzbekistan: Education, Implementation and planning’, in S. Akyildiz and R. Carlson (eds) Social and Cultural Change in Central Asia, London: Routledge, (2013)
• Article: ‘Sovietisation in Uzbekistan 1980-1991: A Success or Failure?’, Twentieth Century Communism-A Journal of International History: Local Communisms Issue 5, June 2013, Lawrence & Wishart
• Article: Soviet Physical Culture in Uzbekistan 1924-1991: Implementation and Social Impact
• Article: Olympic Culture in Soviet Uzbekistan 1951-1991: International Prestige and Local Heroes
• Article: An Introductory History of Soviet Uzbek Academics 1924-1960
• Article: Sport has become the privilege of the millions: Physical culture in Uzbekistan 1924-1991

• BOOK REVIEWS
• Book review Azeem Ibrahim, The Rohingyas: Inside Myanmar’s Genocide, 2018
• Book review Peter Ross, A Room With A View: The Stories and Glories of Graveyards, 2020
• Book review Christina Lamb, Our Bodies Their Battlefield: What War Does to Women, 2020
• Book review Neil Ansell, The Circling Sky: On Nature and Belonging in an Ancient Forest, 2021
• Book review Bill Emmott, The Fate of the West: The Battle to Save the World’s Most Successful Political Idea, 2018
• Book review Peter Frankopan The New Silk Roads: The Present and the Future of the World 2019
• Book review Carl Rommel. Egypt’s Football Revolution: Emotion, Masculinity, and Uneasy Politics, 2021
• Book review: Suketu Mehta, This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant’s Manifesto 2019
• Book review: Van den Bosch, A, Fauve, De Cordier (eds) European Handbook of Central Asian Studies: History, Politics and Societies, 2021
• Book review: Violet Moller, 2019, The Map of Knowledge: How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found: A History in Seven Cities, London: Picador 2019
• Book review: The Moor’s Last Stand: How Seven Centuries of Muslim Rule came to an End, by Elizabeth Dryson 2020
• Book review: Islam, Science Fiction, and Extraterrestrial Life: The Culture of Astrobiology in the Muslim World by Jorg Matthias Determann 2021
• Book review: A history of football in North and South Korea c.1910–2002: development and diffusion by Jong Sung Lee, Oxford, Peter Lang, 2016 2016
• Book review: The Sociology of Central Asian Youth. Choice, Constraint, Risk Mohd. Aslam Bhat. London & New York, NY: Routledge, 2018 2018
• Book review: Raised Under Stalin. Young Communists and the Defence of Socialism 2018
• Book review: Reconstructing the House of Culture: community, self, and the makings of culture in Russia and beyond, Wiley pub. 2012

‘Seaside Town Muslims’ essays:

• The History of Eastbourne Mosque Community – East Sussex Muslims
• Brighton: Muslim and Western Cultural Fusion in ‘london-on-sea’ (East Sussex)
• Hastings Mosque and Muslims in “1066 Country”: East Sussex Seaside Resort Muslims
• Article: ‘Introducing Seaside Town Muslims: Eastbourne Mosque History & Politics’, Journal of Muslims in Europe, Vol.4 Issue 2, Sept 2015, Brill
• Bexhill, Sussex, England — Seafront Architecture & Interculturality: Mixing British Secular & Mughal Indian & Muslim North African Styles
• Bexhill Mosque and Muslims

Essays:

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

Nature essays:

• The Rediscovery of a Freshwater Spring beside the Sea: a Local Holy Well?
• Wannock Glen, Eastbourne: Nature, Chalk Stream, Wild Garlic, & Tea Dance Pavilion

Other links associated with the author:

• 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