Hafiz Boboyorov

Biography

Hafiz Boboyorov completed his undergraduate studies in linguistics and literature and later qualified in social sciences during his postgraduate studies. He completed his PhD in 2011 at Bonn University. In 2014, he founded the Center for the Study of Contemporary Processes and Future Planning at the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan, Dushanbe, Tajikistan. He was director of the center until 2015. From 1998 until 2014, he was senior researcher at the Institute of Philosophical, Political and Legal Sciences at the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan. He is collaborating with BICC in the framework of the Volkswagen Foundation-funded research project.

Research Interest

collective identities, social networks and other local practices of people in shaping local, state and global politics, existential security and practices of people, interdisciplinary conceptualisation of existential security and social practices of people, Islamic politics in contemporary Tajikistan and other Central Asian societies.