This is the journal that publishes articles on Central Asia from Central Asia.

“Ketmen” means a hoe and one can think of various analogies. Ketmen will help till the soil of Central Asian academia and dig irrigation ditches for watering it and for connecting distant parts of the region with each other. It will help dig the foundations and mix the clay for raising the walls in the houses of local academic knowledge. Ketmen is about hard and honest labor, connection to the folk on the ground and non-elitist status of the journal and its contributors. 

We are open to a variety of academic genres beyond traditional academic papers and encourage authors to experiment and innovate with methodologies, analysis and interpretations of their research.