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

• Autore: Laruelle Marlène
• 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
• ISBN: 1-4985-2548-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910828938703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Contemporary Central Asia (Lanham, Md.)