Post-Soviet chaos : violence and dispossession in Kazakhstan /
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| Author / Creator: | Nazpary, Joma. |
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| Imprint: | London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 2002. |
| Description: | ix, 217 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4596344 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Note on transliteration
- Glossary
- 1.. Introduction
- The Aims
- Chaos
- Chaotic mode of domination
- The dispossessed
- Structure of the book
- 2.. People and places
- Method
- Almaty
- Kazakhstan
- 3.. Bardak: Elements of chaos
- Accumulation of wealth in a few hands
- Violence
- Feelings of loss
- Conspiracy theory
- Conclusions
- 4.. Networking as a response to the chaos
- Definitions
- Reciprocity and networking as strategies of survival
- Networking
- The negative effects of change on networks
- Conclusions
- 5.. Women and sexualised strategies: Violence and stigma
- Finding a job
- Finding a sponsor
- Finding a husband
- Sex work
- Stigma and violence
- Conclusions
- 6.. Construction of the alien: Imagining a Soviet community
- The negative construction of the Soviet identity
- Consumerism and the dispossessed
- Wild capitalism as an element of the alien
- Conclusions
- 7.. Ethnic tension
- Kazakhification of the state
- The struggle for urban space and the fragmentation of Islamic identity
- Conclusions
- 8.. Conclusions in a comparative perspective: Whose transition?
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
