Asel Doolotkeldieva is a political scientist and political sociologist. She studies populist mobilizations and revolutionary praxis in authoritarian neoliberal contexts in conversation with discourses and practices of democracy, equality and social justice. She recently published Das Volk und der starke Staat. Repolitisierung in Kirgistan in OSTEUROPA Journal, 2024 (The People and the Strong State. Repoliticization in Kyrgyzstan) and convened and guest-edited a special issue Politics of Popular Revolts in Kyrgyzstan, Central Asian Affairs, 2023. Presently, she is writing a book manuscript on popular uprisings and the social contract in Central Asia. She holds a PhD in politics from the University of Exeter (UK) and is a non-resident fellow of George Washington University, based in Almaty, Kazakhstan. She previously served as a senior lecturer at the OSCE Academy in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
