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Figure 15: Attitude toward media role in the society
Source: Author’s 2009-2010 survey, question “What is your opinion about role of media in Kazakhstan?”
Almaty is also a prime entertainment and cultural center of the republic. For example, the city has 14 theaters (25% of all theaters in Kazakhstan) and in 2009 alone, they were visited by over half a million patrons, or about 25% of the total number theater visits in the country. 12 museums of Almaty hold more historical artifacts than any other region or Astana. 21 movie theaters (25.3% of the total in the republic) serviced about 3.3 million or 43.4% of all moviegoers in Kazakhstan in 2009. (Regiony Kazakhstana v 2009 godu, 2010, pp. 169, 171)
However, the statistics also show that large music festivals are moving toward Astana: in 2009, more people attended various musical events there than in Almaty owing to the fact that celebrations such as May parade, Day of the Capital, New Year, Nauryz192 and so on are now held in Astana as the capital of the country on a much more massive scale than anywhere else – Almaty included. So there is a certain degree of
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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 150 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | 144 Figure 15: Attitude toward media role in the society Source: Author’s 2009-2010 survey, question “What is your opinion about role of media in Kazakhstan?” Almaty is also a prime entertainment and cultural center of the republic. For example, the city has 14 theaters (25% of all theaters in Kazakhstan) and in 2009 alone, they were visited by over half a million patrons, or about 25% of the total number theater visits in the country. 12 museums of Almaty hold more historical artifacts than any other region or Astana. 21 movie theaters (25.3% of the total in the republic) serviced about 3.3 million or 43.4% of all moviegoers in Kazakhstan in 2009. (Regiony Kazakhstana v 2009 godu, 2010, pp. 169, 171) However, the statistics also show that large music festivals are moving toward Astana: in 2009, more people attended various musical events there than in Almaty owing to the fact that celebrations such as May parade, Day of the Capital, New Year, Nauryz192 and so on are now held in Astana as the capital of the country on a much more massive scale than anywhere else – Almaty included. So there is a certain degree of 192 Traditional Kazakh New Year 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% Negative Positive Neither negative or positive Concern with government control No response Almaty Astana Aktau |
