The Nazarbayev Generation (eBook, PDF)

Youth in Kazakhstan
Redaktion: Laruelle, Marlene

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This social and cultural analysis provides a new understanding of Kazakhstan's younger generations that emerged during the rule of Nursultan Nazarbayev, who has been presiding over Kazakhstan for the thirty years since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Half of Kazakhstan's population was born after he took power and have no direct memory of the Soviet regime. Since the early 2000s, they have lived in a world of political stability and relative material affluence, and have developed a strong consumerist culture. Even with growing government restrictions on media, religion, and formal public expression, they have been raised in a comparatively free country. This book offers the first collective study of the "Nazarbayev Generation," illuminating the diversity of the country's younger generations and the transformations of social and cultural norms that have taken place over the course of three decades. The contributors to this collection move away from state-centric, top-down perspectives in favor of grassroots realities and bottom-up dynamics in order to better integrate sociological data.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 354
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978786493
• Artikelnr.: 74831810

Autorenporträt

Marlene Laruelle is research professor, director of the Central Asia Program, and associate director of the Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies (IERES) at the Elliott School of International Affairs of George Washington University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: "The Nazarbayev Generation: A Sociological Portrait," by
Marlene Laruelle
Part I: Kazakhstani Youth and National Identity
Chapter 1: "Are Youth Different? The Nazarbayev Generation and Public
Opinion," by Barbara Junisbai and Azamat Junisbai
Chapter 2: "Youth and National Identity: Then and Now," by Aziz Burkhanov
Chapter 3: "Youth and Civic National Identity," by Dina Sharipova
Chapter 4: "Mankurts, Kazakh 'Russians' and 'Shala' Kazakhs: Language,
National Identity, and Ethnicity Revisited," by Diana T. Kudaibergenova
Part II: Youth Voices on Moral Changes
Chapter 5: "'We Love Our Country in Our Own Way': Youth, Gender, and
Nationalism," by Ulan Bigozhin
Chapter 6: "'Cognitive Unconscious,' 'Modern Conservatism,' and 'Core
Liberal Values' in the Context of Chapter 7: "Youth's National Identity,"
by Galym Zhussipbek and Zhanar Nagayeva
Chapter 8: "Contours of Ethnonational Landscapes in Three Cities: Youths'
Perspectives on Ethnic and Social Integration," by Reuel R. Hanks
Part I