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Balancing between majorities: the negotiable identity of Osh Dungans / Imyarova, Zulfiya   Journal Article
Imyarova, Zulfiya Journal Article
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Summary/Abstract The article examines the small group of Dungan people in Osh, South Kyrgyzstan, who used their ethnic identity as a strategy to maximize their chances of survival by orienting themselves towards different available dominant groups (Uzbeks and Kyrgyz) at different points in time, in contrast to similar Dungan groups in other places. Unlike existing research that suggests that ethnic switching derives from an individual’s need, this study conceptualizes the notion of ethnicity as a collective choice through a conceptual framework combining the relational theory of ethnic identity based on a psychological approach and its key concepts such as accessibility, fit, variation and flexibility.
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Kazakhstani Soviet not? reading Nazarbayev’s Kazakhstani-ness through Brezhnev’s Soviet people / Tutumlu, Assel; Imyarova, Zulfiya   Journal Article
Tutumlu, Assel Journal Article
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Summary/Abstract Rather than interpreting President Nursultan Nazarbayev’s nation-building model of Kazakhstani-ness as a balance between civic and ethnic forms of nation-building, we show that Kazakhstani-ness was styled on Leonid Brezhnev’s supranational modern identity of the Soviet People. We explore three similarities by comparing rulers’ discursive aspirational statements (rather than historical policy trajectories) in a single case study of Kazakhstan. Both discursive models were based on teleological supranational state ideology, both were depicted as modern and advanced, and both modelled the new identity on the language and culture of ethnic majority. We used thematic discourse analysis in over 50 government documents and speeches of leaders to illustrate our argument. This case presents bigger lessons for regime’s power of defining the national membership in post-Soviet Kazakhstan and beyond.
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