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Kazakhstan in the making : legitimacy, symbols, and social changes / / Marlene Laruelle



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Autore: Laruelle Marlène Visualizza persona
Titolo: Kazakhstan in the making : legitimacy, symbols, and social changes / / Marlene Laruelle Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2016
©2016
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (305 pages)
Disciplina: 327.5845073
Soggetto geografico: Kazakhstan Politics and government
Persona (resp. second.): LaruelleMarlène
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- 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
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Kazakhstan in the making  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-4985-2548-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910828938703321
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Serie: Contemporary Central Asia (Lanham, Md.)