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balancing act on the part of the governing regime is to utilize the secular-ethnic meaning of the religious traditions and to avoid religious radicalization of the public.
Part of that strategy in Kazakhstan involves promoting what is termed as inter-confessional dialogue – a government doctrine that pursues legal and social equality of all religions in Kazakhstan. The purpose, as with civic identity, is to develop unity among the people of Kazakhstan by recognizing equality of religions. For example, two religious holidays from two different confessions, Kurban Ait (Muslim Eid Festival of Sacrifice) and Orthodox Christmas, became nationally celebrated holidays. (Vorotnoy, 2005) Moreover, since 2003 Nazarbayev is hosting a forum of world religions in Astana. (Congress of World and Traditional Religions, 2010) Its main purpose is to promote the worldwide freedom of confessions but domestically, this sends a strong signal supporting the idea of tolerance and civic nation, the equality of all confessions in the country. Such official recognition of various religious beliefs and their role in promoting the unity of the society of the republic is a prime example of the Kazakh Islamic secularism.
Figure 26 demonstrates that 78% of Astana’s non-Kazakh youth301 do not believe that religion has any role to play in the society of Kazakhstan302 compared to 52% of all ethnic non-Kazakh respondents in other sites. Kazakhs in Astana, on other hand, appear to share the same attitude toward Islam as elsewhere covered by the survey. Perhaps, there is a difference in how these two groups of Astana’s inhabitants perceive
301 Average age of survey respondents in Astana is 21
302 i.e. choose the option “Kazakhstan is a secular republic and no religion should be influencing the development of society” on the survey questionnaire
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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 214 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | 208 balancing act on the part of the governing regime is to utilize the secular-ethnic meaning of the religious traditions and to avoid religious radicalization of the public. Part of that strategy in Kazakhstan involves promoting what is termed as inter-confessional dialogue – a government doctrine that pursues legal and social equality of all religions in Kazakhstan. The purpose, as with civic identity, is to develop unity among the people of Kazakhstan by recognizing equality of religions. For example, two religious holidays from two different confessions, Kurban Ait (Muslim Eid Festival of Sacrifice) and Orthodox Christmas, became nationally celebrated holidays. (Vorotnoy, 2005) Moreover, since 2003 Nazarbayev is hosting a forum of world religions in Astana. (Congress of World and Traditional Religions, 2010) Its main purpose is to promote the worldwide freedom of confessions but domestically, this sends a strong signal supporting the idea of tolerance and civic nation, the equality of all confessions in the country. Such official recognition of various religious beliefs and their role in promoting the unity of the society of the republic is a prime example of the Kazakh Islamic secularism. Figure 26 demonstrates that 78% of Astana’s non-Kazakh youth301 do not believe that religion has any role to play in the society of Kazakhstan302 compared to 52% of all ethnic non-Kazakh respondents in other sites. Kazakhs in Astana, on other hand, appear to share the same attitude toward Islam as elsewhere covered by the survey. Perhaps, there is a difference in how these two groups of Astana’s inhabitants perceive 301 Average age of survey respondents in Astana is 21 302 i.e. choose the option “Kazakhstan is a secular republic and no religion should be influencing the development of society” on the survey questionnaire |
