LEADER 03177nam 2200433 450 001 9910828938703321 005 20181226132416.0 010 $a1-4985-2548-2 035 $a(CKB)3710000000933880 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4733182 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000933880 100 $a20161118h20162016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aKazakhstan in the making $elegitimacy, symbols, and social changes /$fMarlene Laruelle 210 1$aLanham, Maryland :$cLexington Books,$d2016. 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (305 pages) 225 1 $aContemporary Central Asia : Societies, Politics, and Cultures 311 $a1-4985-2549-0 311 $a1-4985-2547-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- The State: Ruling Mechanisms and Symbols-- The Rule by Law -- The Kazakh Neopatrimonial Regime -- Shrek Meets the President -- Shrines and Neopatrimonialism in Southern Kazakhstan -- The Nation: Conflicting Legitimacies and Repertoires -- Nationalizing Elites and Regimes -- Imagining Kazakhstani-stan -- Which Future for National-Patriots? -- The Landscape of Kazakh Nationalism -- Cowboys, Gangsters, and Rural Bumpkins -- The Society: Negotiating Cultural Changes -- Building a Muslim Nation? -- The Spirit of Tengri? -- Return Migration from the United States -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Editor and Contributors 330 $aKazakhstan is one of the best-known success stories of Central Asia, perhaps even of the entire Eurasian space. It boasts a fast growing economy?at least until the 2014 crisis?a strategic location between Russia, China, and the rest of Central Asia, and a regime with far-reaching branding strategies. But the country also faces weak institutionalization, patronage, authoritarianism, and regional gaps in socioeconomic standards that challenge the stability and prosperity narrative advanced by the aging President Nursultan Nazarbayev. This policy-oriented analysis does not tell us a lot about the Kazakhstani society itself and its transformations.This edited volume returns Kazakhstan to the scholarly spotlight, offering new, multidisciplinary insights into the country's recent evolution, drawing from political science, anthropology, and sociology. It looks at the regime's sophisticated legitimacy mechanisms and ongoing quest for popular support. It analyzes the country's fast changing national identity and the delicate balance between the Kazakh majority and the Russian-speaking minorities. It explores how the society negotiates deep social transformations and generates new hybrid, local and global, cultural references. 410 0$aContemporary Central Asia (Lanham, Md.) 607 $aKazakhstan$xPolitics and government 676 $a327.5845073 700 $aLaruelle$b Marle?ne$0782914 702 $aLaruelle$b Marle?ne 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910828938703321 996 $aKazakhstan in the making$93978692 997 $aUNINA