LEADER 04176nam 22006735 450 001 9910637707703321 005 20251009072050.0 010 $a9789811954467 010 $a9811954461 024 7 $a10.1007/978-981-19-5446-7 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7165857 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7165857 035 $a(CKB)25913876900041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-981-19-5446-7 035 $a(EXLCZ)9925913876900041 100 $a20221230d2023 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$a?Nomadity of Being? in Central Asia $eNarratives of Kyrgyzstani Women?s Rights Activists /$fby Syinat Sultanalieva 205 $a1st ed. 2023. 210 1$aSingapore :$cSpringer Nature Singapore :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2023. 215 $a1 online resource (176 pages) 225 1 $aPolitics and History in Central Asia,$x3005-009X 311 08$a9789811954450 311 08$a9811954453 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aChapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Western and Post-Soviet Feminisms: Main Topics and Debates -- Chapter 3. Theorizing Coloniality: History and Main Concepts -- Chapter 4. Contextualizing Kyrgyzstan Within the Debate -- Chapter 5. Characteristics of Women?s Rights Activism in Kyrgyzstan -- Chapter 6. Towards a Reframing of Non-Western Feminisms -- Chapter 7. Conclusion. 330 $aThis book offers a new framework for understanding feminism and political activiism in Kyrgyzstan, ?nomadity of being. ? Here, foreign information and requirements, even forced ones, are transformed into an amalgamation of the new and the old, alien and native?like kurak, a quilted patchwork blanket, made from scraps. Conceptualizing feminist narratives in Kyrgyzstan, while keeping in mind, the complex relationship between ideological borrowing, actualization, appropriation or self-colonization of ?feminist? concepts can expand both scholarly and activist understanding of specificities of post-Soviet feminisms from a historiographic point of view. Kurak-feminism is feminism that is half-donor-commissioned, half-learned through interactions (personal, media, academic, professional), unashamed of its borrowed nature and working toward its own purpose that is being developed as the blanket is being quilted. Weaving in elements from completely different and, to a Western eye, incompatible approaches nomadity of being might pave the way toward a Central Asian reframing of non-Western feminisms. This provocative text will interest scholars of European politics, the post-Soviet sphere, and feminists. Syinat Sultanalieva is a Ph.D. researcher at the University of Tsukuba, Japan. In her academic research, she focuses on studying feminist narratives and activism from a decolonial point of view. She is a recipient of the MEXT Japanese governmental scholarship, as well as the Fall 2020 CAAFP Fellowship at the George Washington University. Prior to academia, Syinat has been actively involved in LGBTQ and feminist activism in Kyrgyzstan and Central Asia. 410 0$aPolitics and History in Central Asia,$x3005-009X 606 $aFeminism 606 $aFeminist theory 606 $aRussia$xHistory 606 $aEurope, Eastern$xHistory 606 $aSoviet Union$xHistory 606 $aIdentity politics 606 $aFeminism and Feminist Theory 606 $aRussian, Soviet, and East European History 606 $aIdentity Politics 615 0$aFeminism. 615 0$aFeminist theory. 615 0$aRussia$xHistory. 615 0$aEurope, Eastern$xHistory. 615 0$aSoviet Union$xHistory. 615 0$aIdentity politics. 615 14$aFeminism and Feminist Theory. 615 24$aRussian, Soviet, and East European History. 615 24$aIdentity Politics. 676 $a305.4201 700 $aSultanalieva$b Syinat$01274324 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910637707703321 996 $aNomadity of Being in Central Asia$93003005 997 $aUNINA