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Joseph Buckley is a social anthropologist whose research looks at everyday life in urban spaces. Following studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London) and the University of Oxford, Joseph completed his PhD at University College London in 2025. Joseph’s doctoral fieldwork took place in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, where he explored the everyday lives of young men in the city. His thesis considered how these men adapt to a rapidly liberalising economy and intensive urban transformation, their successes and failures in attempting to achieve a masculine ideal, and the ways in which their dreams and hopes for the future shape their everyday lives. Joseph is currently a post-doctoral researcher on the ERC-funded INFRAEMPIRE project at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, and a Visiting Researcher at BMU. In his current research, Joseph is exploring the everyday lived experience of urban transformation in Tashkent and how this is shaped by and in turn shapes understandings of temporality and the good life, with a particular focus on Turkey and narratives of Turkic kinship.