Natalie Koch

Overview

Best Publications

• Sport and soft authoritarian nation-building

  Natalie Koch

  157
  Citations

• Introduction – Field methods in ‘closed contexts’: undertaking research in authoritarian states and places

  Natalie Koch

  126
  Citations

• The monumental and the miniature: imagining ‘modernity’ in Astana

  Natalie Koch

  120
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• Everyday Inclusions: Rethinking Ethnocracy, Kafala, and Belonging in the Arabian Peninsula

  Neha Vora;Natalie Koch

  101
  Citations

• The shifting geopolitics of higher education: Inter/nationalizing elite universities in Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, and beyond

  Natalie Koch

  92
  Citations

• Interethnic Tensions in Kyrgyzstan: A Political Geographic Perspective

  Andrew R. Bond;Natalie R. Koch

  84
  Citations

• “Building glass refrigerators in the desert”: discourses of urban sustainability and nation building in Qatar

  Natalie Koch

  72
  Citations

• Urban boosterism in closed contexts: spectacular urbanization and second-tier mega-events in three Caspian capitals

  Natalie Koch;Anar Valiyev

  72
  Citations

• Bordering on the modern: power, practice and exclusion in Astana

  Natalie Koch

  67
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• Why Not a World City? Astana, Ankara, and Geopolitical Scripts in Urban Networks

  Natalie Koch

  61
  Citations

• The Geopolitics of Spectacle: Space, Synecdoche, and the New Capitals of Asia

  Natalie Koch

  60
  Citations

• Is nationalism just for nationals? Civic nationalism for noncitizens and celebrating National Day in Qatar and the UAE

  Natalie Koch

  52
  Citations

• The geopolitics of sport beyond soft power: event ethnography and the 2016 cycling world championships in qatar

  Natalie Koch

  34
  Citations

• Security and gendered national identity in Uzbekistan

  Natalie Koch

  32
  Citations

• Gulf Nationalism and the Geopolitics of Constructing Falconry as a ‘Heritage Sport’

  Natalie Koch

  30
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• "Spatial socialization": Understanding the state effect geographically

  Natalie Koch

  30
  Citations

• Technologising the opinion: focus groups, performance and free speech

  Natalie Koch

  30
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• Is a "critical" area studies possible?

  Natalie Koch

  30
  Citations

• Deep Listening: Practicing Intellectual Humility in Geographic Fieldwork

  Natalie Koch

  29
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• Green Laboratories: University Campuses as Sustainability “Exemplars” in the Arabian Peninsula

  Natalie Koch

  29
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• Urban ‘Utopias’: The Disney Stigma and Discourses of ‘False Modernity’

  Natalie Koch

  28
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• Banal Nationalism 20 years on: Re-thinking, re-formulating and re-contextualizing the concept

  Natalie Koch;Anssi Paasi

  28
  Citations

• We Entrepreneurial Academics: Governing Globalized Higher Education in ‘Illiberal’ States

  Natalie Koch

  27
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• Orientalizing authoritarianism: Narrating US exceptionalism in popular reactions to the Trump election and presidency

  Natalie Koch

  25
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• The ‘heart’ of Eurasia? Kazakhstan's centrally located capital city

  Natalie Koch

  25
  Citations

• Globalizing Central Asia: geopolitics and the challenges of economic development

  Natalie R. Koch

  7
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