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Images of the Post-Soviet Kazakshtan - A Cosmopolitan Space with Borderland Anxieties (Hardcover)
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Images of the Post-Soviet Kazakshtan - A Cosmopolitan Space with Borderland Anxieties (Hardcover)
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The study revolves round the relationship between space and
transitional identity in Kazakhstan in the post-Soviet period.
Emergent discourses about cosmopolitanism suggest multiple
interactions in a transitional space. The cosmopolitanism of our
times implies the dynamic responses of communities in transition.
The diversities and heterogeneities instead of the specifics, the
encounters, the networks, the challenges, the ways of living, the
multitude of fates need to be considered. The picture is far bigger
as there are infinite ways of being and belonging. The images are
of the many, and as suggested here, relate to the Kazakh
conscience. The Kazakh conscience represents a repertoire of
diverse opinions regarding Eurasianism, intellectuals' reformist
agenda, zhuz legacy, people's histories. What stands out is the
wider milieu of a cosmopolitan Almaty which is the home of a
cultural elite or a citified Astana that has been showcased as the
"appropriate site" of the Kazakhs' steppe identity. The variety is
also seen in the case of Uyghur neighbourhoods of Almaty, in the
frontiers of Akmolinsk oblast reminiscent of Tsarist Russia's
Cossack military fortresses, in gulag memorials near Astana and in
the Caspian hub Atyrau that is iconised as the oil fountain of the
present century. Kazakh borderlands have a completely different
profile-that of shared spaces. The Kazakhs' attachment to their
homeland is a constant-but the question is whether that territorial
reality fits into other paradigms of identity and belonging. Such
questions arise in the case of Mongolian Kazakhs and Uyghurs of
Semirechie-in both cases the sentiment of place is strong compared
to the overwhelming global experiences of the mainland Kazakhs.
Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the
Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri
Lanka
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