Post-soviet chaos : violence and dispossession in Kazakhstan /
Annotation.
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| Format: | Knjiga |
| Jezik: | English |
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London ; Sterling, Va. :
Pluto Press,
c2002.
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Kazalo:
- 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
- 4. Networking as a response to the chaos
- Definitions
- Reciprocity and networking as strategies of survival
- Networking
- The negative effects of change on networks
- 5. Women and sexualised strategies: Violence and stigma
- Finding a job
- Finding a sponsor
- Finding a husband
- Sex work
- Stigma and violence
- 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
- 7. Ethnic tension
- Kazakhification of the state
- The struggle for urban space and the fragmentation of Islamic identity.
- 8. Conclusions in a comparative perspective: Whose transition?