The Kazakhstani Soviet not? Reading Nazarbayev’s Kazakhstani-ness through Brezhnev’s Soviet people

Tutumlu, Assel; Imyarova, Zulfiya

doi:10.1080/02634937.2021.1926924

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“…The Kazakh language as a state language is an essential component of this new supranational identity, and the government is strengthening the state language through Kazakhization, renaming streets and cities into the Kazakh language, ethnic repatriation, establishing a requirement for Kazakh language proficiency for civil service and increasing the number of Kazakh-medium schools (Mkrtchyan, 2014;Zeveleva, 2014). The Kazakhstani supranational identity model is borrowed from the Soviet-style national identity model, which promoted the identity of the "Soviet people" in the USSR through the brotherhood of the Soviet Republics and the culture and language of the majority ethnic group (Tutumlu & Imyarova, 2021).…”

Section: Nation-building In Kazakhstanmentioning

confidence: 99%

Medium of Instruction, National Identity and Attitudes Towards Gender Roles in Kazakhstan

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2023

The Steppe and Beyond: Studies on Central Asia

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In Kazakhstan, most educational institutions provide instruction in Kazakh or Russian. This research uses the concepts of civic and ethnic nationalism (Smith, National Identity, University of Nevada Press, 1991) and gendered nationalism (Yuval-Davis and Anthias, Women-Nation-State, St. Martin’s Press, 1989) to look at the differences in national identity and attitudes toward gender roles between university students studying in Kazakh-medium and Russian-medium groups. Mixed-methods design of the study allowed the collection of complementary data on the topic. Around 102 ethnic Kazakh university students in Astana completed a survey (56 and 46 students from Kazakh-medium and Russian-medium groups, respectively). Twenty-four survey respondents were interviewed in-depth for complementary qualitative data on students’ experiences of encountering narratives of national identity and gender in school and university classrooms. The study found that students studying in the Kazakh language reported higher knowledge of the Kazakh language, a stronger sense of national identity, and more traditional attitudes towards gender roles than students studying in the Russian language. These findings were likewise reflected in students’ experiences of encountering narratives of national identity and gender in school and university classrooms, suggesting the pivotal role education plays in forming national identity and gender roles.

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Section: Nation-building In Kazakhstanmentioning

confidence: 99%

Medium of Instruction, National Identity and Attitudes Towards Gender Roles in Kazakhstan

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2023

The Steppe and Beyond: Studies on Central Asia

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Managing Ethnic Diversity in Post-Soviet Context: The Cases of Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan

Malakhov,

Osipov

2023

Problems of Post-Communism

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Economies of Conflict: Context and Root Causes of Intercommunal Conflicts in Kazakhstan

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Imyarova

2023

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Purpose of the research. This article aims to explore the validity of economic theories of conflict in explaining the root causes of intercommunal conflicts in Kazakhstan.Methodology. Such theoretical overview and qualitative methodological approach offer a more nuanced picture and constitutes an initial step in tailoring context-specific de-escalation strategies.Originality / value of the research. Through in-depth case study of Korday clashes in 2020, it challenges scholars who have attributed the roots of intercommunal conflict to lingering Soviet legacy and language politics. This literature takes communal grievances that attribute conflict to identity politics and/or rights for granted. They concentrate on discourse and take complaints at face value. Instead, this article explores applicability of the economic theories of «greed» and «relative deprivation» in conflict contexts.Findings. By using results of our fieldwork supported by research project of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan, we show that «greed» hypothesis explains the predatory context on the local level, while the relative deprivation theory explains the perceptions of local population. The combination of these two conditions provided fertile ground for the collective grievances and served as the primary causes of conflict.

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The Kazakhstani Soviet not? Reading Nazarbayev’s Kazakhstani-ness through Brezhnev’s Soviet people

Cited by 3 publications

References 40 publications

Medium of Instruction, National Identity and Attitudes Towards Gender Roles in Kazakhstan

Medium of Instruction, National Identity and Attitudes Towards Gender Roles in Kazakhstan

Managing Ethnic Diversity in Post-Soviet Context: The Cases of Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan

Economies of Conflict: Context and Root Causes of Intercommunal Conflicts in Kazakhstan

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