[Discussion] [Fwd: PUBL.- The Nationalities Question in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan]

[Gonul Pultar]

Natsuko Oka  <oka@ide.go.jp> wrote:

PUBL.- The Nationalities Question in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan
 
> Dear Colleagues:
> 
> I would like to bring your attention to our new publication entitled "The
> Nationalities Question in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan" (the Middle East Studies
> Series, No. 51), Chiba, Japan: Institute of Developing Economies, 2002: 159
> (see contents attached below).
> 
> Chapter one by Professor Nurbulat Masanov provides a conceptual,
> theoretical, and historical context for examining ethnic identity and
> ethno-politics in Kazakhstan.  His article also explores how a state
> ideology is formed under the current nationalizing regime.  In chapter two,
> Dr. Erlan Karin and Dr. Andrei Chebotarev examine the government policy of
> so-called "kazakhization," the policy to promote the Kazakh people in
> various spheres of life, among others, in state and government institutions.
> My paper presented as chapter three is based on interviews with
> Kazakhstan's political and cultural elites with regard to the government
> nationalities policy.
> 
> We would be happy to send it to you for free (this book is not for sale).
> If you are interested, please give me your mailing address.  And please feel
> free to forward this information to your colleagues (please note though that
> we have only a limited number of copies -- 200 -- and we may not be able to
> accept all requests).
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> Natsuko Oka
> Area Studies Department II
> Institute of Developing Economies
> 3-2-2, Wakaba, Mihama-ku, Chiba-shi,
> Chiba 261-8545
> Japan
> 
> Phone: +81(43)299-9646 (direct)
> Fax: +81(43)299-9731
> Email: oka@ide.go.jp
> 
> CONTENTS
> 
> Preface
> 
> Chapters
> 
> 1. Perceptions of Ethnic and All-National Identity in Kazakhstan
>     Nurbulat MASANOV
>   - Ethnicity
>   - Basic terms and concepts
>   - Problem and method
>   - Ethnodemographic situation in Kazakhstan
>   - Kazakhs
>   - Clans and zhuz
>   - Kazakh language
>   - Indigenous peoples, aborigines, and autochthones
>   - Diasporas
>   - Ethnic minorities in Kazakhstan
>   - Russians and the Russian language
>   - State policy
>   - Interethnic relations in contemporary Kazakhstan (in lieu of a conclusion)
> 
> 2. The Policy of Kazakhization in State and Government Institutions in
>     Kazakhstan
>     Erlan KARIN and Andrei CHEBOTAREV
>   - The government's deliberate insertion of ethnic Kazakh ways of thinking
>     into the republic's socio-cultural sphere
>   - Tribalism in the system of state governance and administration
>   - Language policy
>   - Migration policy
>   - Reasons behind kazakhization and the interested parties
>   - Consequences of kazakhization
> 
> 3. Nationalities Policy in Kazakhstan: Interviewing Political and Cultural
>     Elites
>     Natsuko OKA
>   - Background
>     Nation-building in independent Kazakhstan
>     About the survey
>   - Analysis of the survey
>     Kazakh nationalists
>     Russian nationalists
>     Kazakh intellectuals
>     Russian intellectuals
>     Intellectuals of ethnic minorities
>   - Conclusion
>     Differences among and within the groups
>     Possible area of compromise
>   - List of interviewees
>   - Sample of the questionnaire
>   - References