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on the minds of its residents while the city authorities attempt to recover the former glory of the green city. (Regiony Kazakhstana v 2009 godu, 2010, pp. 32-33)
Figure 12: Almaty as City-Garden
Source: (Zakharenko, 2008)
In some respects the issue regarding the age of Almaty or its name, or the trees and apples maybe trivial but as far as the identity of the people living in Almaty is concerned, they all have a significant impact on the collective consciousness of the city’s inhabitants. Just like Adai Kazakhs boast about their “museum under open sky”, the idea of a 1,000 year old Almaty appeals to its residents or indeed for all of Kazakhstan as a symbol of continuity of the nation.
Certainly, such idea goes against the common wisdom formed by the ideology and historiography of the Soviet Union, in particular against the pride of the Russians who still remain in Kazakhstan and many of whom still firmly believe that it was them and their ancestors who built Kazakhstan up from nothing. However, in a multi-ethnic city like Almaty, where Kazakhs are barely 53% of the inhabitants (Perepis' naseleniia Respubliki Kazakhstan 2009 goda. Kratkie itogi, 2010, p. 10), the one thousand year long
Object Description
| 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 138 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | 132 on the minds of its residents while the city authorities attempt to recover the former glory of the green city. (Regiony Kazakhstana v 2009 godu, 2010, pp. 32-33) Figure 12: Almaty as City-Garden Source: (Zakharenko, 2008) In some respects the issue regarding the age of Almaty or its name, or the trees and apples maybe trivial but as far as the identity of the people living in Almaty is concerned, they all have a significant impact on the collective consciousness of the city’s inhabitants. Just like Adai Kazakhs boast about their “museum under open sky”, the idea of a 1,000 year old Almaty appeals to its residents or indeed for all of Kazakhstan as a symbol of continuity of the nation. Certainly, such idea goes against the common wisdom formed by the ideology and historiography of the Soviet Union, in particular against the pride of the Russians who still remain in Kazakhstan and many of whom still firmly believe that it was them and their ancestors who built Kazakhstan up from nothing. However, in a multi-ethnic city like Almaty, where Kazakhs are barely 53% of the inhabitants (Perepis' naseleniia Respubliki Kazakhstan 2009 goda. Kratkie itogi, 2010, p. 10), the one thousand year long |
