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KAZAKHSTAN IN THE MAKING
LEGITIMACY, SYMBOLS, AND SOCIAL CHANGES |
| By: |
Dr. Marlene Laruelle (Editor) |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£105.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1498525474 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781498525473 |
| Publisher: |
LEXINGTON BOOKS |
| Pub. date: |
21 November, 2016 |
| Series: |
Contemporary Central Asia: Societies, Politics, and Cultures |
| Pages: |
304 |
| Description: |
This collection is a multidisciplinary examination of modern-day Kazakhstan. It analyzes the country's fast-changing national identity, the current regime's ongoing quest for popular support, relations between the Kazakh majority and the Russian-speaking minorities, and various other issues. |
| Synopsis: |
Kazakhstan is one of the best-known success stories of Central Asia, perhaps even of the entire Eurasian space. It boasts a fast growing economy-at least until the 2014 crisis-a strategic location between Russia, China, and the rest of Central Asia, and a regime with far-reaching branding strategies. But the country also faces weak institutionalization, patronage, authoritarianism, and regional gaps in socioeconomic standards that challenge the stability and prosperity narrative advanced by the aging President Nursultan Nazarbayev. This policy-oriented analysis does not tell us a lot about the Kazakhstani society itself and its transformations. This edited volume returns Kazakhstan to the scholarly spotlight, offering new, multidisciplinary insights into the country's recent evolution, drawing from political science, anthropology, and sociology. It looks at the regime's sophisticated legitimacy mechanisms and ongoing quest for popular support. It analyzes the country's fast changing national identity and the delicate balance between the Kazakh majority and the Russian-speaking minorities.It explores how the society negotiates deep social transformations and generates new hybrid, local and global, cultural references. |
| Illustrations: |
3 black & white illustrations, 14 black & white halftones, 2 maps, 7 |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Lexington Books |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |