Post-Colonial Approaches in Kazakhstan and Beyond

Dina Sharipova is an Associate professor at the Graduate School of Public Policy at Nazarbayev University in Astana. Her research interests include nation and state-building, security issues, formal and informal institutions, civil society, and well-being in Central Asia. Dr. Sharipova is the author of the book “State-building in Kazakhstan: Continuity and Transformation of Informal Institutions”, Lexington Books, 2018. She has published in Europe-Asia Studies Journal, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Central Asian Survey, Nationalities Papers, and in other scholarly journals.Alima Bissenova is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Nazarbayev University. She specializes in urban anthropology, anthropology of Islam, postcolonial studies, and intellectual history. She has published her work in English and Russian in the journals Religion, State, and Society, Europe-Asia Studies, AB Imperio, Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie, Sotsiologiya Vlasti.Aziz Burkhanov is an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Public Policy at Nazarbayev University in Astana, Kazakhstan. His research interests include nationalism and identity theories, and national identity politics, policies, and practices, with a special focus on identity issues and their perceptions in the public narratives in the former Soviet area. Dr. Burkhanov has published his work in Cornell International Law Journal, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, and Ethnic and Racial Studies, among others.

• Chapter 1: Postcolonial Theory and Its Applications in Kazakhstan and Beyond.- Part I: Post-Coloniality and Memory Politics.- Chapter 2: Colonization and Control in the Making of a Eurasian Empire.- Chapter 3: Paradoxes of Soviet Coloniality: the Case of “Az I YA”.- Chapter 4: Public Commemoration and Nationalizing the Cult of World War II in Kazakhstan.- Chapter 5: Culture of Remembrance in Kazakhstan at the turn of the 20-21st centuries.- Part II: Post-coloniality and Current Debates in Societies.- Chapter 6: The New Subaltern and Forms of Resistance in Kazakhstan.- Chapter 7: Conspiracies and Cosmonauts: The Baikonur Cosmodrome and popular narratives of ecological disaster in contemporary Kazakhstan.- Chapter 8: Fitting into a Secular Society: Hybrid Practices of the Islamic Public and Islamic Businesses in Astana.