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Women and Water: Gendered Geographies of Labor
In many Tajik villages, the sound of water is inseparable from women’s daily lives. At dawn, before the heat rises, women walk to canals, springs, or village taps with buckets and plastic containers, chatting softly as they queue. Later, they return to wash clothes at stream edges, irrigate kitchen gardens, or clean tools. These scenes…
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Remoteness & Connectivity: Mountains in Motion
In the Pamirs, remoteness is not absence- it is a state of motion. The roads twist through high passes, snow closes them in winter, avalanches block them in spring, and landslides rearrange them without warning. Villagers speak of when a fellow from Rushon returned after five years and gasped: “The road turned!” It seems hyperbole,…
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Hazards of Avalanches: Winter Geography of Risk
Snow piles deep in the high valleys. Ridges are capped in white. In winter, the silence presses on slopes until a crack, a slide, a roar breaks it. Avalanches are not myths here, but real events, part of the mountain’s language. In the Pamirs, winters carry risk- not just cold, but motion, ground collapse, snow…
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Roads and Passes: Tracing History Across Mountains
At sunrise, the road climbs in silence. Engine off, the only sounds are the hiss of a cooling radiator and a marmot’s whistle rolling across a high valley. Hairpin by hairpin, the Pamir Highway (M41) climbs from the dusty Kyzylsu basin toward the Ak-Baital Pass, the highest paved point in the former Soviet Union at…
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Safed Dara Reopens: Tourism Geography and Access
In January 2016, the snow lies thick across the Varzob Valley, a two-hour drive from Dushanbe. The mountains, usually admired from the capital as a hazy backdrop, are alive with noise: children shouting, skis scraping, music spilling from loudspeakers that echo off the slopes. After decades of silence, Safed Dara, once known as Takob, is…
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