Nomads : in search of the lost path / Ainash Mustoyapova.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mustoyapova, Ainash, author.

Contributor:

ProQuest ebook central

Series:

Steppe and beyond 2524-8367

Steppe and beyond: studies on Central Asia, 2524-8367

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nomads--Kazakhstan--History.

Nomads.

Kazakhstan--History.

Kazakhstan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 326 pages).

Place of Publication:

Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, [2025]

Contents:

Chapter 1. Preface. Looking back in time: Chapter 2. Nomadic civilization: 2.1 In search of lost meanings: 2.2 Nomads and Civilizational Challenge: Another Projection: 2.3 One's own culture and another's way: 2.4 Nomads and sedentary: a long rapprochement: 2.5 Nation: construct vs natural process: 2.6 Imposed feudalism and inculcated neo-feudalism: 2.7 Nomads and the State: 2.8 The Revolution and the Kazakhs

Chapter 3. Modernity and Nomads: 3.1 The Age of Modernity and the "modernization" of nomads: 3.2 Catch up with modernization: 3.3 Concluding the Modern Era: 3.4 Western Democracy and Nomadic Democracy: the Introduced and the Historically Contingent: 3.5 Under the guise of liberalism: 3.6 From pseudo-paternalism to populism: 3.7 Other People's "Diseases" or Bureaucracy at the Service of the State: 3.8 System of power and freedom

Chapter 4. Nomads and the Information Age: 4.1 Reconstruction, or Return to Self: 4.2 The key to success, or Space and Time: 4.3 Mentality to help: 4.4 Armed with benefits: 4.5 The Phenomenon of Nomadism, or Ideas Rule the World: 4.6 Mental Burnout vs Return of Meanings: 4.7 Spiral, or Counterfactual History: 4.8 Returning to History

Chapter 5. Nomads in the postmodern era: 5.1. Kazakhstan in the postmodern period: 5.2 Postmodernism: Crisis of Ideologies and Authorities: 5.3 Kazakhstan: Power and Society in the Postmodern Era: 5.4 Education and knowledge in the postmodern era: 5.5 We Capitulated, or Information in the Postmodern Era: 5.6 Globalization and Nomadism in the Postmodern Era: Kazakhstan: 5.7 The space and future of the country: 5.8 Consumer society and credit bondage: Chapter 6. Nomads and the New Era: 6.1 Between modernity and postmodernity: 6.2 Entering a new era: metamodernity: 6.3 Metamodern, or the Age of Movement, Communication and Consensus: 6.4 Instead of the end of history and instead of the clash of civilizations: 6.5 Reclaiming a lost identity: 6.6 Identity for salvation: 6.7 Elite and pseudo-elite: 6.8 Threats to post-democracy

Chapter 7. Conclusion. The Turn of History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed October 20, 2025).

ISBN:

9789819518807

9819518806

Publisher Number:

90102928652

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