Post-Soviet chaos : violence and dispossession in Kazakhstan / Joma Nazpary.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nazpary, Joma.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women.

Social conditions.

Capitalism.

Alienation (Social psychology).

Post-communism.

Kazakhstan--Social conditions--1991-.

Kazakhstan.

Post-communism--Kazakhstan.

Alienation (Social psychology)--Kazakhstan.

Capitalism--Kazakhstan.

Women--Kazakhstan--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

ix, 217 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 2002.

Summary:

The most significant aspect of change in the post-Soviet region is the way in which tiny elites of all post-Soviet countries have dispossessed the majority by implementing neoliberal reforms. This is the first book to examine in detail post-Soviet dispossession from the perspective of the dispossessed. Joma Nazpary argues that the main instrument of dispossession has been a chaotic mode of domination, marked by sudden and dramatic polarisation between wealth and poverty, general crisis and breakdown of the fabric of daily life, and the collapse of the economy and culture. Focusing on Kazakhstan and drawing on extensive fieldwork material, Nazpary provides a detailed analysis of the process of dispossession, the responses of the dispossessed and their strategies of survival.

Contents:

People and places

Bardak : elements of chaos

Networking as a response to the chaos

Women and sexualised strategies : violence and stigma

Construction of the alien : imagining a Soviet community

Ethnic tension

Conclusions in a comparative perspective : whose transition?.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-208) and index.

ISBN:

0745315038

0745315976

OCLC:

45757686