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Post-Soviet Chaos
Joma Nazpary
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Description for Post-Soviet Chaos
Paperback. Essential reading for anyone who wants a deeper understanding of what capitalist globalization means for us. The grim social and political realities analysed in this book resonate far beyond the former USSR. Num Pages: 232 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FC; GTB; KCP; KCS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 135 x 16. Weight in Grams: 363.
In the 1990s, the former states of the Soviet Union underwent dramatic and revolutionary changes. As a result of enforced, neoliberal reforms the fledgling republics were exposed to the familiar effects of globalised capital. Focusing on Kazakhstan, where violence and corruption are now facts of everyday life, Joma Nazpary examines the impact of the new capitalism on the people of Central Asia.
Nazpary explores the responses of the dispossessed to their dispossession. He uncovers the construction of 'imagined communities', grounded in Soviet nostalgia, which serve to resist the economic order, as well as the more practical survival ... Read more
In the 1990s, the former states of the Soviet Union underwent dramatic and revolutionary changes. As a result of enforced, neoliberal reforms the fledgling republics were exposed to the familiar effects of globalised capital. Focusing on Kazakhstan, where violence and corruption are now facts of everyday life, Joma Nazpary examines the impact of the new capitalism on the people of Central Asia.
Nazpary explores the responses of the dispossessed to their dispossession. He uncovers the construction of 'imagined communities', grounded in Soviet nostalgia, which serve to resist the economic order, as well as the more practical survival ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Pluto Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745315973
SKU
V9780745315973
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About Joma Nazpary
Joma Nazpary is a Research Associate at the University of London.
Reviews for Post-Soviet Chaos
'Nazpary's brilliant analysis of post-Soviet Kazakhstan reflects the author's deep ethnographic immersion in the everyday life-worlds of those inhabitants of Almaty'
John Gledhill, Manchester University 'A wonderfully vivid account of the 'chaos' people see around them in post-Soviet Kazakhstan. An insightful exploration of the ways and means of the dispossessed in an unpredictable world'
Caroline Humphrey 'The most ... Read more
John Gledhill, Manchester University 'A wonderfully vivid account of the 'chaos' people see around them in post-Soviet Kazakhstan. An insightful exploration of the ways and means of the dispossessed in an unpredictable world'
Caroline Humphrey 'The most ... Read more