The Formation of Kazakh Identity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Formation of Kazakh Identity write by Shirin Akiner. This book was released on 1995. The Formation of Kazakh Identity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Qazaqlïq, or Ambitious Brigandage, and the Formation of the Qazaqs
Qazaqlïq, or Ambitious Brigandage, and the Formation of the Qazaqs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Qazaqlïq, or Ambitious Brigandage, and the Formation of the Qazaqs write by Joo-Yup Lee. This book was released on 2015-12-22. Qazaqlïq, or Ambitious Brigandage, and the Formation of the Qazaqs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Qazaqlïq, or Ambitious Brigandage, and the Formation of the Qazaqs Joo-Yup Lee examines the formation of new group identities, with a focus on the Qazaqs, in post-Mongol Central Eurasia within the context of qazaqlïq, or the qazaq way of life, a custom of political vagabondage widespread among the Turko-Mongolian peoples of Central Asia and the Qipchaq Steppe during the post-Mongol period. Utilizing a broad range of original sources, the book suggests that the Qazaqs, as well as the Shibanid Uzbeks and Ukrainian Cossacks, came into existence as a result of the qazaq, or “ambitious brigand,” activities of their founders, providing a new paradigm for understanding state formation and identity in post-Mongol Central Eurasia.
The Creation of Kazakh National Identity
The Creation of Kazakh National Identity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Creation of Kazakh National Identity write by Dmitry V. Shlapentokh. This book was released on 2023-10-24. The Creation of Kazakh National Identity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This monograph utilizes three theoretical models to explain Kazakhstan’s emergence as an independent state and its changing relationships with the broader world, particularly Russia, since the beginning of the twentieth century. The book first explores the construction of Kazakh national identity and the ways in which intellectuals appealed to history to substantiate their claims about Kazakhstan’s future. Secondly, the narrative demonstrates that not all segments of totalitarian machinery work in unison. While terror reached its peak in the 1930s, cultural and ideological control was not as rigid as it would become in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Most importantly, the work is grounded in the study of the social universe. The book introduces the notion of “cosmos,” the peculiar connections between social, economic, and political forces. While not necessarily directly dependent on each other, they nevertheless created a unique interplay among the segments of societal structures and the state’s relationship with the wider universe. Taking this framework as the point of departure, this research analyzes Kazakhstan’s “multi-vectorism” as uniquely fit to contemporary global arrangements, when no global power dominates, and the lines between friend and foe are blurred. This compelling approach to Kazakhstan’s history will appeal to postgraduate students and scholars in Russian history and world history.
Kazakhstan - Ethnicity, Language and Power
Kazakhstan - Ethnicity, Language and Power - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Kazakhstan - Ethnicity, Language and Power write by Bhavna Dave. This book was released on 2007-09-13. Kazakhstan - Ethnicity, Language and Power available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Kazakhstan is emerging as the most dynamic economic and political actor in Central Asia. It is the second largest country of the former Soviet Union, after the Russian Federation, and has rich natural resources, particularly oil, which is being exploited through massive US investment. Kazakhstan has an impressive record of economic growth under the leadership of President Nursultan Nazarbaev, and has ambitions to project itself as a modern, wealthy civic state, with a developed market economy. At the same time, Kazakhstan is one of the most ethnically diverse countries in the region, with very substantial non-Kazakh and non-Muslim minorities. Its political regime has used elements of political clientelism and neo-traditional practices to bolster its rule. Drawing from extensive ethnographic research, interviews, and archival materials this book traces the development of national identity and statehood in Kazakhstan, focusing in particular on the attempts to build a national state. It argues that Russification and Sovietization were not simply 'top-down' processes, that they provide considerable scope for local initiatives, and that Soviet ethnically-based affirmative action policies have had a lasting impact on ethnic élite formation and the rise of a distinct brand of national consciousness.
Staying at Home
Staying at Home - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Staying at Home write by Rita Sanders. This book was released on 2016-08-01. Staying at Home available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Despite economic growth in Kazakhstan, more than 80 per cent of Kazakhstan’s ethnic Germans have emigrated to Germany to date. Disappointing experiences of the migrants, along with other aspects of life in Germany, have been transmitted through transnational networks to ethnic Germans still living in Kazakhstan. Consequently, Germans in Kazakhstan today feel more alienated than ever from their ‘historic homeland’. This book explores the interplay of those memories, social networks and state policies, which play a role in the ‘construction’ of a Kazakhstani German identity.
