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As a result, the Kazakh historiography produced during the Soviet period was very limited and devoted exclusively to the Soviet period itself, further diminishing the quality and amount of scholarship on early Kazakh history and the origins of the Kazakh nation. (Masanov, Abylhozhin, & Erofeeva, 2007, p. 57)
The Origins of the Kazakh Nation
The challenge of addressing the origins of the Kazakh nation is exemplified by the etymological diversity of the root of the word “Kazakh” itself that became the name of an entire nation. Researchers today offer as many as 150 different explanations for the origins of the word Kazakh ranging from mythical and religious to ethnographical and anthropological. The range of alleged dates when the word came in use is equally impressive: 250BC to 1925. (Kaidar, 2008, p. 345) Furthermore, there is no consensus on the exact causes and the date of the origin of the Kazakh nation. Nevertheless, one particular account became an indispensable part in the modern nationalist Kazakh rhetoric. A person named Alash is believed to be the progenitor for all Kazakhs and even though there is no verifiable data available, Kazakh historians do find multiple references to this name in various ancient sources, which suggests that a person or a clan with such name may have existed in the past. Alash has captured the imagination of the Kazakhs when his name was adopted as the title for the first modern national independence movement in the early 20th century.5 As a matter of fact, the word Alash is increasingly
5 In its turn, the early 20th century Alash Orda has a profound effect on the post-independence Kazakh national identity politics
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| Title | Market reforms, foreign direct investment and national identity: Non-national identity of Kazakhstan |
| Author | Zhanalin, Azamat |
| Author email | janalin_a@yahoo.com; zhanalin@gmail.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | International Relations |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2011-03-22 |
| Date submitted | 2011 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2011-04-29 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | English, Robert |
| Advisor (committee member) |
James, Patrick Rorlich, Azade-Ayse |
| Abstract | The present study offers an analysis of the concept of non-national identity in application to the Republic of Kazakhstan as the most likely case. The primary hypothesis is that newly independent states, which are undergoing a rapid transition to market economy and actively pursue integration in the world economy and foreign direct investment, will experience fragmentation of their national identity, defined as non-national identity.; Three sites in Kazakhstan, Almaty, Astana and Aktau, were chosen for the study as representative of the market reforms in the republic as well as the best examples of the country’s pursuit of foreign direct investment and integration into the global economy. The data collected indicates that while Kazakhstan does demonstrate fragmentation of its national identity, it is not necessarily caused by the market reforms and the participation in the global trade. Alternative causal variables such as the Soviet and Russian colonial legacy, intra-ethnic cleavages among the Kazakhs and the prevalence of multi-vector foreign policy were found to contribute to the development of non-national identity of Kazakhstan. The study’s results also suggest that in the last few years, Kazakh identity is experiencing a rather strong revival as well, which may yet counteract the existing factors leading to the emergence of the non-national identity of Kazakhstan. |
| Keyword | identity; nationalism; Kazakhstan; market reforms; globalization; foreign direct investment; national identity; countries in transition; foreign policy; culture; former Soviet Union; Central Asia; patronage networks; energy; oil; post-colonial legacy; nation-state |
| Geographic subject (city or populated place) | Almaty; Astana; Aktau |
| Geographic subject (country) | Kazakhstan |
| Coverage date | 1970/2010 |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m3812 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Zhanalin, Azamat |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Filename | etd-Zhanalin-4506 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume51/etd-Zhanalin-4506.pdf |
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| Title | Page 10 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | 4 As a result, the Kazakh historiography produced during the Soviet period was very limited and devoted exclusively to the Soviet period itself, further diminishing the quality and amount of scholarship on early Kazakh history and the origins of the Kazakh nation. (Masanov, Abylhozhin, & Erofeeva, 2007, p. 57) The Origins of the Kazakh Nation The challenge of addressing the origins of the Kazakh nation is exemplified by the etymological diversity of the root of the word “Kazakh” itself that became the name of an entire nation. Researchers today offer as many as 150 different explanations for the origins of the word Kazakh ranging from mythical and religious to ethnographical and anthropological. The range of alleged dates when the word came in use is equally impressive: 250BC to 1925. (Kaidar, 2008, p. 345) Furthermore, there is no consensus on the exact causes and the date of the origin of the Kazakh nation. Nevertheless, one particular account became an indispensable part in the modern nationalist Kazakh rhetoric. A person named Alash is believed to be the progenitor for all Kazakhs and even though there is no verifiable data available, Kazakh historians do find multiple references to this name in various ancient sources, which suggests that a person or a clan with such name may have existed in the past. Alash has captured the imagination of the Kazakhs when his name was adopted as the title for the first modern national independence movement in the early 20th century.5 As a matter of fact, the word Alash is increasingly 5 In its turn, the early 20th century Alash Orda has a profound effect on the post-independence Kazakh national identity politics |
