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The Nazarbayev Generation
eBook - Youth in Kazakhstan, Contemporary Central Asia: Societies, Politics, and Cultures
ISBN/EAN: 9781793609144
Umbreit-Nr.: 9964425
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 342 S.
Format in cm:
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Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 30.08.2019
Auflage: 1/2019
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Format: EPUB
DRM: Adobe DRM
- Zusatztext
- <span>This social and cultural analysis provides a new understanding of Kazakhstans 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 Kazakhstans 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 countrys 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.</span>
- Kurztext
- <span>This collective study of the "Nazarbayev Generation" examines the diversity of Kazakhstan¿s younger generations. The contributors analyze the transformations of social and cultural norms since the collapse of the Soviet Union.</span>
- Autorenportrait
- <span>Marlene Laruelle</span><span>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.</span>