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This publication focuses on the power forms identified by Joseph Nye: hard, soft, and smart, and evaluates education as a resource of power. Education is a smart power resource since it has both hard and soft power characteristics. The study of Kazakhstan reveals international e…
Closed to foreigners under Romanov and Soviet rule, Kazakhstan has remained largely hidden from the world - a remarkable feat for a country the size of Western Europe. Few would guess that Kazakhstan - a blank in Westerners' collective geography - turns out to be diverse, tolera…
Travel writer Christopher Robbins enjoyed unprecedented access to the Kazakh president while crafting this travelogue, and he relates a story by turns hilarious and grim. He finds Eminem-worship by a shrinking Aral Sea, hears the Kazakh John Lennon play in a dusty desert town, j…
Travel writer Christopher Robbins relates a story by turns hilarious and grim as he finds Eminem-worship by a shrinking Aral Sea, hears the Kazakh John Lennon play in a dusty desert town, joins nomads hunting eagles, eats boiled sheep's head (a delicacy), and explores some of th…
Closed to foreigners under Tsar and Soviet rule, Kazakhstan has remained largely hidden from the world, a remarkable feat for a country the size of Western Europe. Few would guess that Kazakhstan -- a blank in Westerners' collective geography -- turns out to be diverse, tolerant…
This dissertation is focused on the revival of small-scale mobile pastoralism on the part of village households in rural south Kazakhstan. The research consisted of extended ethnographic fieldwork in a village near the southern city of Taraz, together with material gathered from…
Creating culture in (post) socialist Central Asia
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Creating culture in (post) socialist Central Asia
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This book brings together historical and ethnographic research from Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and Xinjiang, in order to explore how individuals and communities work to create and maintain forms of 'culture in contexts of ideological repression and erasure. Across Inner Central Asi…
This dissertation concerns the development and interaction of Kazakh and Russian identities in post-Soviet Kazakhstan. My research questions were: (1) what was the character of these identities in 2003/04 (the time of my research); (2) how have these identities interacted to for…
This book offers a cross-national comparison of open data policies in Estonia and Kazakhstan. By analyzing a broad range of open data-driven projects and startups in both countries, it reveals the potential that open data phenomena hold with regard to promoting public sector inn…
