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national, fragmented character of ethnicity, corporate culture supplanting traditions and sense of belonging.
For the purposes of this study, integration into global economy and establishment of market economy institutions are considered to be an independent variable affecting the formation of segregated, increasingly non-national and non-ethnic identity in Kazakhstan.68 Specifically, level of analysis is organizational: how do the market economy institutions such as private companies and regulatory bodies spread the free market economy ideology beyond the market itself. The dependent variable is the set of cultural values, traditions and perceptions of the world that become important markers of national identity in the country.
Kazakhstan is in a transitional period of nation-building inhibited by numerous obstacles preventing the formation of national unity: simultaneous advancement of conflicting ideals of civic and ethnic nationalism; weakened Kazakh ethnic identity due to the colonial legacy, and lingering Soviet heritage in the forms of coercive institutions that regulate ethnic relations by suppressing their autonomy. The stated hypothesis aims to determine whether this flux of identity in Kazakhstan is actually due to the process that casts ethnic and sub-ethnic relations in market terms rather than that of culture and traditions. It is a study of the process, rather the end result as such, and therefore does not claim to provide an ultimate truth but rather aims to illuminate the possible impact of global economic ideology on the formation of national identity in newly independent
68 This is a different approach from globalization literature that analyses the impact of global economy on national identity. Generally, such literature focuses on the effect of cultural globalization, that is, flow of foreign cultural values, rather than the spread of raw market economy ideas (Blum, 2007)
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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 65 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | 59 national, fragmented character of ethnicity, corporate culture supplanting traditions and sense of belonging. For the purposes of this study, integration into global economy and establishment of market economy institutions are considered to be an independent variable affecting the formation of segregated, increasingly non-national and non-ethnic identity in Kazakhstan.68 Specifically, level of analysis is organizational: how do the market economy institutions such as private companies and regulatory bodies spread the free market economy ideology beyond the market itself. The dependent variable is the set of cultural values, traditions and perceptions of the world that become important markers of national identity in the country. Kazakhstan is in a transitional period of nation-building inhibited by numerous obstacles preventing the formation of national unity: simultaneous advancement of conflicting ideals of civic and ethnic nationalism; weakened Kazakh ethnic identity due to the colonial legacy, and lingering Soviet heritage in the forms of coercive institutions that regulate ethnic relations by suppressing their autonomy. The stated hypothesis aims to determine whether this flux of identity in Kazakhstan is actually due to the process that casts ethnic and sub-ethnic relations in market terms rather than that of culture and traditions. It is a study of the process, rather the end result as such, and therefore does not claim to provide an ultimate truth but rather aims to illuminate the possible impact of global economic ideology on the formation of national identity in newly independent 68 This is a different approach from globalization literature that analyses the impact of global economy on national identity. Generally, such literature focuses on the effect of cultural globalization, that is, flow of foreign cultural values, rather than the spread of raw market economy ideas (Blum, 2007) |
