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Challenges in teaching and curriculum development for 'History of Kazakhstan' at Nazarbayev University
Alexander Stephen, Morrison
Central Asian Studies
Learning And Teaching In Higher Education
Central Asian History (Area Studies)
Central Asia
Teaching History
This is the text on which I based a talk in Russian given at the plenary session of a conference held at the Eurasian National University on the 22nd November 2014. It was published in the conference proceedings: E.B. Sydykov (ed.) 'Actual Problems of Research and Teaching of National History Nowadays' (Astana: ENU, 2014) pp.6-8.
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2014
Other
Morrison Alexander Stephen; 2014; Challenges in teaching and curriculum development for 'History of Kazakhstan' at Nazarbayev University
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Early Sources on the Qazaqs and their Khans
Alexander Stephen, Morrison
Eurasian Nomads
Central Asia (History)
History of Kazakhstan
History of Kazakh Khanate
This paper was the basis of the 5-minute lecture I gave at the plenary session of the recent 'Mengilik El' conference to celebrate the 550th anniversary of the founding of the Qazaq khanate, held at Nazarbayev University on the 11th September 2015. The 'conference' itself was much more of a political than a scholarly event, and largely a matter of theatre than discussion or intellectual exchange. The paper was designed with a very general audience in mind, and reflects the way in which I teach this period and these sources in 'History of Kazakhstan', rather than any real research of my own. I have also added a link to a short interview I gave to the e-history.kz website the year before, repeating many of the same things in broken Russian.
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2015-09-11
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Alexander Stephen Morrison; 2015; Early Sources on the Qazaqs and their Khans
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Teaching the Islamic History of the Qazaqs in Kazakhstan
Morrison, Alexander Stephen
Central Asian Studies
Islamic Studies
Islamic History
Learning And Teaching In Higher Education
Central Asian History (Area Studies)
This paper was the basis for a talk I gave in Russian at a conference for the jubilee of Ashirbek Muminov at the Eurasian National University on the 20th November 2014. It was published in the conference proceedings: Yu. V. Shapoval, A. S. Kabylova & N. Robinson (ed.) Islamovedenie v Kazakhstane: sostoyanie, problemy, perspektivy (Astana: ENU, 2014), pp.24-30.
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2014
Other
Alexander Stephen Morrison; 2014; Teaching the Islamic History of the Qazaqs in Kazakhstan
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Writing the Russian Conquest of Central Asia
Morrison, Alexander Stephen
Central Asian History (Area Studies)
Between 1839 and 1895, Imperial Russia annexed approximately 1,500,000 square miles of territory in Central Asia, an example of European expansion that in speed and scale is matched only by the 'Scramble for Africa' or the British annexation of India slightly earlier. Unlike the latter, however, it has generated a very meagre modern historiography, and the interaction of Russian motives, local dynamics and ideological and technological change which brought it about are still very imperfectly understood. In English-language historiography the dominant interpretation is that of the 'Great Game', asserting that it was designed to threaten the British in India, something which tells us much more about how the British perceived it than it does about either Russian motives or the Central Asian experience of Conquest. In Russian-language writing the emphasis is usually placed on the Moscow textile industry's need for a secure source of raw cotton and a captive market for Russian manufactured goods, crude economic determinism derived from the works of Lenin rather than from any actual evidence. The paucity of modern research is all the more surprising given the richness of the available sources – not only archival and published documents, but Islamic chronicles, officer memoirs, and military historiography which together represent an earlier, diverse and now largely ignored written legacy. This material is under-used and long overdue a reappraisal, but it has to be handled with caution. In the case of chronicles in Persian and Turkic this is because they are the product of an elite literary tradition more concerned with the internal politics of the Central Asian khanates than with the Russian advance itself. In the Russian case it can be deceptive in at least two respects – firstly because although it involved very small bodies of troops, this was one of the few unequivocally successful military campaigns for Russian arms in the nineteenth century. The weight of published campaign memoirs (almost exclusively by officers) is thus disproportionate both to the numbers who took part and to the purely military (as opposed to logistical) dangers and difficulties they encountered in what was for the most part a classic case of asymmetrical colonial warfare. The other reason is that well before the conquest came to an end it was being quite deliberately narrated and mythologised in official historical works, beginning perhaps with the ‘Historical Section’ of K. P. von Kaufman’s Turkestanskii Al’bom (1871-2) and the campaign histories of the Khiva Expedition of 1873. During his tenure as War Minister the Turkestanskii General Alexei Kuropatkin commissioned both M. A. Terent’ev’s Istoriya Zavoevaniya Srednei Azii (1906) and A. G. Serebrennikov’s vast publication of documents related to the conquest (1908 – 1915). This process reached its peak in 1915, with the memorialisation and commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the fall of Tashkent. The last major article published by Voennyi Sbornik, running for the whole of 1916, even as Central Asia was convulsed by revolt, and still unfinished when the February Revolution broke out, was on the lessons which the Central Asian conquest supposedly held for Russia’s immediate challenges on the Eastern Front. This paper will analyse both the process of composition and the purposes for which these works were used by the Russian military establishment, and attempt to establish what, if any, impact they had on educated society in Russia.
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2012
Presentation
Alexander Stephen Morrison; 2012; Writing the Russian Conquest of Central Asia
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A Plague on both your Houses
Morrison, Alexander Stephen
British Imperial and Colonial History (1600 - )
I wrote this article in response to a polemical debate between Niall Ferguson and Priyamvada Gopal in the pages of the Guardian in 2006. I had hoped that it might be published in the comment pages, but no such luck... It deals with the unjustified assumptions which parties on both sides of this debate make about the omnipotence of Imperial Rule.
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2016-04-18T08:46:02Z
2006
Working Paper
Alexander Stephen Morrison; 2006; A Plague on both your Houses Priya
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Amlākdārs, Khwājas and Mulk land in the Zarafshan Valley after the Russian Conquest
Morrison, Alexander Stephen
Taxation
Colonialism
Central Asia (History)
Real Estate/Land Taxation
Central Asia
This paper is a revision and correction of Chapter 3 of my 2008 monograph ('Russian Rule in Samarkand') in which I made a number of errors and misjudgements. The most glaring of these was to confuse a Bukharan tax official (the amlakdar) with the owner of 'mulk' (a category of landed property which usually carried some form of tax exemption). I have disentangled these, added some further evidence, and reconsidered the evidence which I put forward in my book. I argue that Russian attempts to implement at what is sometimes called 'land reform' in the Zarafshan Valley in the 1860s and 1870s are better understood as a fiscal measure, rather than anything to do with property rights. The Russians found the Bukharan land tax system impossible to understand, and so proceeded to dismantle it, abolishing the annual assessment of the quantity and value of the harvest (which had been the responsibility of the amlakdar) and also refusing to recognise claims made by religious elites in the region that they were entitled to tax breaks on their mulk property. However, the system the Russians put in place instead placed enormous power in the hands of village oligarchies, ensuring that at the lower levels the Russians had little control over how the tax burden was allocated, and almost certainly collected far less than their Bukharan predecessors. The Russians also failed in their attempt to have the region's land declared the patrimony of the state. The paradoxical result was that, at least in the Zarafshan Valley (and quite possibly in other sedentary regions of Central Asia) the advent of the colonial regime meant a reduced tax burden, less state oversight, and security of property at least equal to what had existed before.
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2013
Working Paper
Alexander Stephen Morrison; 2006; Amlākdārs, Khwājas and Mulk land in the Zarafshan Valley after the Russian Conquest
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Introduction: Killing the 'Cotton Canard' and getting rid of the 'Great Game'. Rewriting the Russian conquest of Central Asia, 1814 – 1895
Morrison, Alexander Stephen
Historiography
Colonialism
Central Asian History (Area Studies)
Central Asia
Imperialism
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2016-04-18T09:23:34Z
2014-05
Working Paper
Alexander Stephen Morrison; 2014; Introduction: Killing the 'Cotton Canard' and getting rid of the 'Great Game'. Rewriting the Russian conquest of Central Asia, 1814 – 1895
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The Pleasures and Pitfalls of Colonial Comparisons
Morrison, Alexander Stephen
Globalization
Colonialism (History)
Imperial History
Migration
South Asian History
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2016-04-18T10:14:54Z
2016-04-18T10:14:54Z
2012
Article
Alexander Stephen Morrison; 2012; The Pleasures and Pitfalls of Colonial Comparisons
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The Russian Empire and the Soviet Union: too soon to talk of Echoes?
Morrison, Alexander Stephen
Russian Studies
Soviet History
Central Asia (History)
History of the USSR
Central Eurasian Studies
This paper is a rather general 'thought piece' in which I have unwisely allowed myself to speculate on some of the contemporary resonances of the Russian Imperial and Soviet past. I have not updated it since 2012, and in the nature of these things parts of it already look dated. As Sir Walter Raleigh put it when justifying the decision to write his 'History of the World' only about Antiquity 'Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may haply strike out his teeth.' My father discovered this twenty-four years ago when writing a biography of Boris Yeltsin, and I owe the quotation to him. n.b. the published version of this paper also includes an egregious factual error on the second page - the Treaty of Nerchinsk between Russia and Qing China of course dates to 1689, not 1657.
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2016-04-18T10:33:15Z
2015
Article
Alexander Stephen Morrison; 2015; The Russian Empire and the Soviet Union: too soon to talk of Echoes?
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Российские укрепленные поселения Раим и Верный. Графическая реконструкция
Morrison (Моррисон), Alexander Stephen (А.С.)
Южный Казахстан
военное укрепление
форт Раим
форт Верный
графическая реконструкция
Группой дизайнеров под руководством авторов статьи была проведена графическая рекон-
струкция двух военных укреплений, возведенных в XIX в. российскими войсками на территории
Южного Казахстана – форта Раим и форта Верный. Данная реконструкция имеет предваритель-
ный характер и подводит некоторые промежуточные итоги исследования.
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2016-04-18T11:17:46Z
2015
Article
А.С. Моррисон; 2015; Российские укрепленные поселения Раим и Верный. Графическая реконструкция; Вестник ТюмГасу
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«Мы не англичане…»
Morrison (Моррисон), Alexander Stephen (А.С.)
Colonialism
Russian History
Orientalism
Imperialism
Russian Empire
Это своего рода записи "Франкенштейна", состоящие из трех моих предыдущих статей на английском языке, собранные мною и прекрасно переведенные Ольгой Берард. Это не является оригинальным изданием, но это попытка донести некоторые мои идеи до русскоговорящей аудитории. Я очень благодарен редактору журнала "Восток свыше" Евгению Абдуллаеву, за возможность их публикации.
This is a sort of 'Frankenstein' paper, made up of portions of three of my earlier articles in English, loosely stitched together by me and then beautifully translated by Olga Berard. It is not an original publication, but an attempt to communicate some of my ideas to a Russian-speaking audience. I am very grateful to the editor of 'Vostok
Svyshe', Evgenii Abdullaev, for the opportunity to publish it.
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2016-04-18T11:34:34Z
2016-04-18T11:34:34Z
2015
Article
Моррисон А.С.; 2015; «Мы не англичане…»; Восток Свыше
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‘Applied Orientalism’ in British India and Tsarist Turkestan
Morrison, Alexander Stephen
British India
Tsarist Turkestan
‘We cannot promise to those who may choose Oriental scholarship, that they shall find themselves abreast, in all the various high-roads of life which lead to profit and distinction, with the men who shall have devoted themselves to acquiring the knowledge which in these days is power, the intellectual treasures which make fifty years of Europe better than a cycle in Cathay, which are the sinews of peaceful empire as surely as money is the sinew of war.’
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2016-04-27T03:24:23Z
2016-04-27T03:24:23Z
2009-07
Article
Alexander Stephen Morrison; 2009; ‘Applied Orientalism’ in British India and Tsarist Turkestan; Comparative Studies in Society & History
http://nur.nu.edu.kz/handle/123456789/1441
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Camels and Colonial Armies. The Logistics of warfare in Central Asia in the early 19th century
Morrison, Alexander Stephen
Central Asia (History)
This article explores the use of camels for baggage transport by European colonial armies in the nineteenth century. It focuses in particular on two episodes: the Russian winter expedition to Khiva, and the march of the Army of the Indus into Afghanistan, both of which took place in 1839. However sophisticated their weapons and other technology,
until at least the 1880s European colonial armies were forced to rely exclusively on baggage animals if they wanted to move around: railways arrived very late in the history of European expansion. In Central Asia this meant rounding up, loading, managing and feeding tens of thousands of camels, which could only be furnished by the pastoral
groups who inhabited the region, who in some cases were also the objects of conquest. Camel transport placed certain structural constraints on European conquest in Central Asia: firstly it meant that the forces involved were almost always very small; secondly it prevented the launching of spontaneous or unauthorised campaigns by “men on the spot,” as every advance had to be preceded by the rounding up of the necessary baggage animals, and the creation of a budget to pay for then. Finally, the constraints imposed by camel transport ensured that British and Russian armies would never meet in Central Asia, and that a Russian invasion of India was a chimera.
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2016-04-27T03:37:49Z
2016-04-27T03:37:49Z
2014
Article
Alexander Stephen Morrison; 2014; Camels and Colonial Armies. The Logistics of warfare in Central Asia in the early 19th century; Journal of the Economic & Social History of the Orient
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‘Nechto Eroticheskoe’, 'Courir après l'ombre'? – logistical imperatives and the fall of Tashkent, 1859 – 1865
Morrison, Alexander Stephen
Central Asian History (Area Studies)
This article explores the debates that preceded the Russian conquest of Tashkent in 1865. It argues that none of the explanations usually given for this – the ‘men on the spot’, ‘cotton hunger’, or the Great Game with Britain – is satisfactory. Instead, it shows that the War Ministry and the governors of Orenburg had advocated the capture of Tashkent from the late 1850s, and that General Cherniaev's assault in 1865 was at least tacitly authorized. The motives for the Russian advance combined the need for better supply chains to the steppe fortresses, a desire to ‘anchor’ their new frontier in a region with a sedentary population, and concern for security from attacks by the Khoqand Khanate. Economic considerations and rivalry with Britain played very minor roles.
2016-04-27T03:58:28Z
2016-04-27T03:58:28Z
2016-04-27T03:58:28Z
2014-05
Article
Alexander Stephen Morrison; 2014; ‘Nechto Eroticheskoe’, 'Courir après l'ombre'? – logistical imperatives and the fall of Tashkent, 1859 – 1865; Central Asian Survey
http://nur.nu.edu.kz/handle/123456789/1443
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Oriel and the wider world
Morrison, Alexander Stephen
History of Education
British Imperial and Colonial History (1600 - )
2016-04-27T04:12:58Z
2016-04-27T04:12:58Z
2016-04-27T04:12:58Z
2013-11
Article
Alexander Stephen Morrison; 2013; Oriel and the wider world; Oxford University Press
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Oxford University Press
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Peasant settlers and the ‘civilizing mission’ in Russian Turkestan, 1865-1917
Morrison, Alexander Stephen
Central Asian Studies
White Settler Soceties
This article provides an introduction to one of the lesser-known examples of European settler colonialism, the settlement of European (mainly Russian and Ukrainian) peasants in Southern Central Asia (Turkestan) in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It establishes the legal background and demographic impact of peasant settlement, and the role played by the state in organising and encouraging it. It explores official attitudes towards the settlers (which were often very negative), and their relations with the local Kazakh and Kyrgyz population. The article adopts a comparative framework, looking at Turkestan alongside Algeria and Southern Africa, and seeking to establish whether paradigms developed in the study of other settler societies (such as the ‘poor white’) are of any relevance in understanding Slavic peasant settlement in Turkestan. It concludes that there are many close parallels with European settlement in other regions with large indigenous populations, but that racial ideology played a much less important role in the Russian case compared to religious divisions and fears of cultural backsliding. This did not prevent relations between settlers and the ‘native’ population deteriorating markedly in the years before the First World War, resulting in large-scale rebellion in 1916.
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2016-04-27T04:19:57Z
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2015
Article
Alexander Stephen Morrison; 2015; Peasant settlers and the ‘civilizing mission’ in Russian Turkestan, 1865-1917; Journal of Imperial & Commonwealth History
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Twin Imperial Disasters. The invasions of Khiva and Afghanistan in the Russian and British official mind, 1839–1842
Morrison, Alexander Stephen
Colonialism
British Empire
Imperialism
This paper examines two linked cases of abortive Imperial expansion. The British invasion of Afghanistan and the Russian winter expedition to Khiva both took place in 1839, and both ended in disaster. These events were linked, not merely by coincidence, but by mutual reactions to intelligence received in Orenburg, St Petersburg, Calcutta, London, and Tehran. British and Russian officials shared similar fears about each other's ambitions in Central Asia, similar patterns of prejudice, arrogance and ignorance, and a similar sense of entitlement as the self-conscious agents of two ‘Great Powers’. By examining the decision-making process which preceded these twin cases of expansion, and the British and Russian attitudes to Central Asian rulers and informants, the paper provides not only a deeper understanding of what provoked these particular disasters, but also of the wider process of European imperial expansion in the early nineteenth century.
2016-04-27T05:05:52Z
2016-04-27T05:05:52Z
2016-04-27T05:05:52Z
2014
Article
Alexander Stephen Morrison; 2014; Twin Imperial Disasters. The invasions of Khiva and Afghanistan in the Russian and British official mind, 1839–1842; Modern Asian Studies
http://nur.nu.edu.kz/handle/123456789/1446
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White Todas’. The Politics of Race and Class amongst European Settlers on the Nilgiri Hills c1860 – 1900
Morrison, Alexander Stephen
British Imperial & Commonwelath History - 19th & 20th century
British Imperial and Colonial History (1600 - )
South Asia (History)
This article argues that it is not possible to generalise about the politics and racial attitudes of so-called 'unofficial' Europeans in India from observations of the community in Calcutta which, precisely because it was so large, was atypical. Elsewhere where the number of Europeans was smaller, attitudes towards Indians were more complex, and hostility towards the 'official element' of Europeans in civil and military employ with the Government of India was often greater than racial antagonism towards Indians. The Nilgiri Hills in South India, with a population of about 1,500 settlers, are a case in point. The 'White Todas' (the name is taken from a pastoral Hill-tribe) felt distinct from the 'official' Europeans who came up to the main hill-station, Ootacamund, the summer capital of the Madras Presidency, during the hot weather. To avoid complete political emasculation, the 'Todas' at times had to forge political alliances with wealthy Indian mercantile elites, with whom their interests often coincided.
2016-04-27T06:53:32Z
2016-04-27T06:53:32Z
2016-04-27T06:53:32Z
2004
Article
Alexander Stephen Morrison; 2004; White Todas’. The Politics of Race and Class amongst European Settlers on the Nilgiri Hills c1860 – 1900; Journal of Imperial & Commonwealth History
http://nur.nu.edu.kz/handle/123456789/1447
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Russia, Khoqand, and the search for a "Natural" Frontier, 1863–1865
Morrison, Alexander Stephen
Military History
Central Asian Studies
Colonialism
Abstract Russian expansion into Central Asia in the nineteenth century is usually seen either as the product of lobbying by big capitalist interests in Moscow or as a wholly unplanned process driven by “men on the spot” who slipped beyond St. Petersburg’s control. This article is a microstudy of one of the campaigns that immediately preceded the fall of Tashkent in 1865, during which Russian forces under General M. G. Cherniaev united the Orenburg and Siberian “lines” of fortification to create what was meant to be a permanent new frontier on the steppe. It demonstrates that neither of these explanations is satisfactory – economic calculations played a minor role in Russian decision making, while there was an authorized plan for expansion in the region. However this plan rested on the premise that the Russians could identify a “natural” frontier in the region, marked by a river, watershed, or mountain range. The instructions given to Cherniaev and other “men on the spot” reflected this, but a lack of detailed geographical knowledge meant that these orders were often contradictory or impossible to fulfill. It was this that allowed Cherniaev to determine the timetable (though not the direction) of Russian expansion, and that would see the fall of Tashkent in June 1865.
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2014
Article
Alexander Stephen Morrison; 2014; Russia, Khoqand, and the search for a "Natural" Frontier, 1863–1865; Ab Imperio
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Metropole, Colony, and Imperial Citizenship in the Russian Empire
Morrison, Alexander Stephen
Russian Studies
Comparative History
Central Asian Studies
This article reviews recent literature on legal and civic ideas of citizenship within the Russian empire, arguing that much of it fails to take into account the many legal and administrative inequalities which existed between European and Asiatic Russia, with Central Asia in particular emerging as a separate, military-ruled 'colony', not just in cultural, but also in institutional terms.
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2012
Article
Alexander Stephen Morrison; 2012; Metropole, Colony, and Imperial Citizenship in the Russian Empire; Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History
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Russian Rule in Turkestan and the Example of British India ca1865 - 1917
Morrison, Alexander Stephen
Central Asia (History)
South Asia (History)
This article argues that Russia's Empire in Central Asia is best understood in comparison with the other Western Colonial Empires of the nineteenth century, specifically Britain's Indian Empire. It examines nineteenth-century Russian travellers' accounts of British India, and the `Asianist' tradition which argued that Russians had a greater affinity with Asian peoples than other Europeans, and that the nature of their empire was consequently different. In the case of Turkestan it rejects this assumption on the basis of research in Russian and Uzbek archives, and of the differing views expressed in books and journals by Russian military officers and imperial administrators of the day
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2006
Article
Alexander Stephen Morrison; 2006; Russian Rule in Turkestan and the Example of British India ca1865 - 1917; Slavonic and East European Review
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Central Asia as a part of the Russian Empire
Morrison, Alexander Stephen
Central Asian Studies
Central Asia (History)
An excessively lengthy review article analysing the collectively-authored volume 'Tsentral'naya Aziya v Sostave Rossiiskoi Imperii', published by 'Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie' in 2007
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2011
Article
Alexander Stephen Morrison; 2011; Central Asia as a part of the Russian Empire; Forum for Anthropology and Culture
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Moral Philosophy
Duffel, Siegfried
moral philosophy
human rights law
religious doctrine
natural rights theories
morality
This article examines long-standing debates in moral philosophy that are relevant to international human rights law. It discusses the political conception of human rights and the four challenges to moral philosophy which include the notion that no particular religious tradition or particular comprehensive doctrine (or morality) grounded human rights and the belief that natural rights theories end up misrepresenting and narrowing the scope of human rights. This article also highlights the importance of the work of moral philosophers to the understanding of contemporary human rights and explains that the traditions of natural rights theories still influence contemporary human rights language in profound ways
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2013
Book chapter
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Human rights
Duffel, Siegfried
human rights
"As I’m writing this, Christians are brutally
murdering Muslims in the Central
African Republic; people in Syria are being
bombed, starved, and tortured; and homosexuals
still face the death penalty in Iran
as well as long prison sentences in countries
like Uganda and Nigeria and persecution
by thugs in many countries. These atrocities
and many other disturbing phenomena
are often called “human rights violations.”
What gives them this status? That is a question
about which there has been a surprising
amount of disagreement among political
philosophers."
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2015
Book chapter
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From objective right to subjective rights: the franciscans and the interest and will conceptions of rights
Duffel, Siegfried
human rights
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2010
Book chapter
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The dependence of libertarianism on the notion of sovereignty: rejoinder to morton
Duffel, Siegfried
libertarianism
human sovereignty
G. E. Morton tries to defend libertarianism against my claim that it
relies on an implausible secularization of ideas of divine sovereignty. But it is not
true, as he claims, that morality itself entails human sovereignty: witness the moral
theories of divine-command theorists and philosophical consequentialists. Nor is it
true that sovereignty can be conceptually transferred from God to equal human
individuals, since they would have no legitimate way to legislate over each other,
short of a unanimous “general will.” Nor, finally, does the idea of first possession
rescue private property rights, since it is as applicable to animals and children as to
adult human beings.
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2009
Article
Siegfried Van Duffel; 2009; The dependence of libertarianism on the notion of sovereignty: rejoinder to morton; Critical Review
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en
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Sufism, Panislamism and Information Panic: Nil Sergeevich Lykoshin and the aftermath of the Andijan Uprising
Morrison, Alexander Stephen
Area Studies
Central Asian Studies
Colonialism
Central Asia (History)
Russian History
This article explores a hitherto unknown incident in the region between Aulie-Ata and Chimkent in the eighteen months following the Andijan Uprising against Russian rule in Central Asia in 1898, in which the late Tsarist Orientalist-Administrator Nil Sergeevich Lykoshin found himself called upon to uproot an imaginary conspiracy. It uses this to explore late Russian imperial attitudes to Islam, and the degree to which, despite his unusual knowledge of Central Asian culture and society, Lykoshin's attitudes were in many ways highly typical of Russian officialdom in this period.
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2012
Article
Morrison Alexander Stephen; 2012; Sufism, Panislamism and Information Panic: Nil Sergeevich Lykoshin and the aftermath of the Andijan Uprising; Past & Present
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“Sowing the Seed of National Strife in This Alien Region”: The Pahlen Report and Pereselenie in Turkestan, 1908–1910
Morrison, Alexander Stephen
Imperial History
Central Asian Studies
Colonialism
Central Asia (History)
Russian History
This article examines the institutional background to the decision to send Senator Count K. K. Pahlen's Commission of Inspection to Turkestan in 1908. It concentrates on the divisive issue of 'pereselenie', or peasant resettlement, which Pahlen was supposed to be facilitating but ended up opposing. The article also seeks to establish the value or otherwise to the historian of the Pahlen Commission's multi-volume report.
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2012
Article
Alexander Stephen Morrison; 2011; “Sowing the Seed of National Strife in This Alien Region”: The Pahlen Report and Pereselenie in Turkestan, 1908–1910; Acta Slavica Iaponica
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How “Modern” was Russian Imperialism?
Morrison, Alexander Stephen
Imperial History
Colonialism
Russian History
Empire
Imperialism
In this paper I explore the characteristics which historians normally attribute to 'modern' forms of Imperialism, and whether these make sense when applied to Russia. I conclude by making some tentative suggestions as to where the real distinctiveness of the Russian Empire lies.
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2012
Book chapter
Alexander Stephen Morrison; 2012; How “Modern” was Russian Imperialism?
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Temperature and precipitation effects on agrarian economy in late imperial China
Pei, Qing
Zhang, David D
Li, Guodong
Forêt, Philippe
Lee, Harry F
climate change
economic vulnerability
population pressure
real GDPper capita
rice price
late imperial China
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Climate change has been statistically proven to substantially influence the economy of early modern
Europe, particularly in the long term. However, a detailed analysis of climate change and the economy
of historical China remains lacking, particularly from a large-scale and quantitative perspective. This
study quantitatively analyzes the relationship between climate change and the economy in late
imperial China (AD1600–1840) at the national level. This study also compares the findings on the
relationship between climate change and the economy in late imperial China with those in early
modern Europe. Results of multivariate regression and Granger causality analyses indicate that (1)
climate change induces economic fluctuations in late imperial China, particularly in the long term; (2)
given that the economic center is located in South China during the study period, temperature has a
greater influence on the economy than precipitation; (3) the population of China is statistically proven
to primarily act as consumers in the long term; and (4) given the long-term role of the Chinese
population, the economic vulnerability in late imperial China under climate change is further
increased and is higher than that in early modern Europe, whose population mainly acts as producers
in the long term. In conclusion, the late imperial Chinese society has a high economic vulnerability to
climate change. These findings revisit Malthusian theory and ‘Great Divergence’ theory by including
the perspective of economic vulnerability under climate change during the study period. The role of
the population must be investigated further to address the socioeconomic vulnerabilities under
climate change.
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2016-06-09
Article
Pei Qing, Zhang David D, Li Guodong, Forêt Philippe, Lee Harry F, 2016, IOP Publishing Ltd Environmental Research Letters; Temperature and precipitation effects on agrarian economy in late imperial China. http://nur.nu.edu.kz/handle/123456789/1908
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The intended perception of the Imperial Gardens of Chengde in 1780
Forêt, Philippe
imperial gardens
Chengde
Research Subject Categories::HUMANITIES and RELIGION::Religion/Theology::History of religion
The 'Record Written by the Emperor on the Mountain Manor to Escape
the Heat' is a preface to an album of poems by the Qian Long Emperor
(Qing Gaozong, r. 1735-96) illustrated by a series of engravings of vistas...
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2012-05-31
Article
Forêt Philippe, 2012, Routledge; The intended perception of the Imperial Gardens of Chengde in 1780. http://nur.nu.edu.kz/handle/123456789/1909
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Challenges to fieldwork before 1914 and today: Adaptation, Omission, Rediscovery
Forêt, Philippe
fieldwork
adaptation
omission
rediscovery
Research Subject Categories::HUMANITIES and RELIGION::Religion/Theology::History of religion
John Chappell and, before him, Lord Curzon have reminded us that much can be gained
from reviewing earlier writings and from listening to interruptions and silence.1 In January
2010, I discovered with amazement a wealth of unpublished observations while
scrutinizing the drafts of maps made by the productive and flamboyant Dr. Sven Hedin
(1865–1952). Secluded for decades in the National Archives of Sweden, Hedin’s precise
information on the vegetation types, soil and water qualities, animal tracks, former
shorelines, and abandoned settlements of Tibet and Xinjiang would have been valuable
for the elaboration of a theory on climate change in extreme environments...
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2014
Book chapter
Forêt, Philippe, 2014, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society; Challenges to fieldwork before 1914 and today: Adaptation, Omission, Rediscovery. http://nur.nu.edu.kz/handle/123456789/1910
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«De la vertu au vice: l’espace des loisirs à Macao (1910–1930)»
Forêt, Philippe
Macau (China) (1910-1930)
Portuguese empire
Research Subject Categories::HUMANITIES and RELIGION::Religion/Theology::History of religion
Outer Harbor
urban planning
urban development
tourism industry
gambling industry
orientalism
colonial studies
Je propose un jeu sur l'espace des loisirs, sur la célébration et le dénigrement d'une baie et d'une rue, sur le mariage et le divorce d'une ville et de son littoral, et sur les pratiques iconographiques de répétition et de répression. Puisque nous parlons de jeu, il nous faut des cartes et un tapis vert qui nous sont précisément fournis par les établissements de Macao. Bien plus que tout autre participant, l'industrie du jeu a en effet dirigé les changements dramatiques qu'a connus Macao au cours du XXe siècle. Dramatique n'est pas un terme trop faible pour qualifier l'évolution toute en contradictions de l'image de soi, de l'identité collective, de la conception de la modernité, et de la stratégie suivie par Macao pour éviter la marginalité.
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2005
Book chapter
Forêt Philippe, 2005, Chronos Verlag; De la vertu au vice: l’espace des loisirs à Macao (1910–1930). http://nur.nu.edu.kz/handle/123456789/1911
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Globalizing Macau. The Emotional Costs of Modernity (1910-1930)
Forêt, Philippe
Macau (China)
Macao (Portugal)
history of Macau (1557-1910)
history of Macau (1910-1930)
portuguese colonialism
urban planning
urban development
orientalism
cultural heritage
Praia Grande
landscape consumption
tourism industry
travel literature
colonial modernity
Research Subject Categories::HUMANITIES and RELIGION::Religion/Theology::History of religion
This chapter deals with the ambiguity that political authorities feel toward culture and history when they are pressed to enlarge and modernize urban infrastructures. I will discuss the strategy followed by the Harbour Works Department of Macau as the city sought to reposition itself as an international trade centre. I examine Macau's spatial transformation between 1910, when a progressive regime came to power in Lisbon, and 1930, when the first extension phase of the Porto Exterior facilities was completed.
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2006
Book chapter
Forêt Philippe, 2006, Routledge; Globalizing Macau. The Emotional Costs of Modernity (1910-1930). http://nur.nu.edu.kz/handle/123456789/1912
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Kartographie der Kontinuität: Vom vormodernen Ostasien zum postmodernen Hong Kong
Forêt, Philippe
Glauser, Jürg
Kiening, Christian
Victoria Island (Hong Kong, China)
postcolonial Hong Kong
history of cartography
pre-modern cartography
cityscape
mental geography
urban legends
British colonialism
fengshui
Dung Kai Cheung
The Atlas
archaeology of an imaginary city
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Mit meinen folgenden Ausführungen möchte ich zu einem neuen Verständnis der Vormoderne beitragen, einer Epoche, die viel offener für die kulturelle Vielfalt und toleranter gegenüber inkohärenten Entwicklungen ist als auf den ersten Blick erkennbar. Ich befasse mich mit den Gründen für das Fortleben der vormodernen Kartographie und mit der Rolle, die sie an den überraschenden Orten in Ostasien spielt.
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2007
Book chapter
Forêt Philippe, Glauser Jürg, Kiening Christian, 2007, Rombach; Kartographie der Kontinuität: Vom vormodernen Ostasien zum postmodernen Hong Kong. http://nur.nu.edu.kz/handle/123456789/1913
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Le paysage de la décolonisation de la métropole Hong Kong-Macao
Forêt, Philippe
Hong Kong (1945-1997)
Macau (1945-1999)
urban planning
architectural heritage
landscape preservation
colonial landscape
Research Subject Categories::HUMANITIES and RELIGION::Religion/Theology::History of religion
Les facteurs apolitiques qui dirigent la mondialisation de l'économie sont en train de brutalement détruire l'architecture vernaculaire chinoise ainsi que le riche symbolisme lié à l'aménagement traditionnel du paysage. Le but de cet article est plus précisément de proposer une description des effets sur l'environnement du retour à la Chine des dernières colonies européennes en Asie orientale.
2016-11-23T06:17:35Z
2016-11-23T06:17:35Z
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1997
Book chapter
Forêt Philippe, 1997, L'Harmattan; Le paysage de la décolonisation de la métropole Hong Kong-Macao. http://nur.nu.edu.kz/handle/123456789/1916
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Les blancs du Tibet : histoire des solutions adoptées pour résoudre le plus magnifique problème de la géographie
Forêt, Philippe
history of science
history of cartography
geography of Tibet
nomenclature
carto-controversy
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Cet article traite d'un demi-échec dans l'histoire des blancs de cartes. Une tentative de revivification lexicale, sans pour autant aboutir, suffit à modifier les mécanismes d'évaluation de la découverte géographique. Un géographe prestigieux a désigné d'un nom désuet l'espace qu'il a exploré, avant de voir ses travaux rejetés par ses collègues. L'objet de la dispute, qui oppose en 1909 la Royal Geographical Society de Londres (RGS) et le docteur Sven Hedin, le champion des écoles de géographie de l'Europe continentale, est le Transhimalaya. Cette querelle redéfinit la mise en oeuvre des politiques scientifiques, un sujet dont l'importance justifie l'examen des codes de conduite auxquels les géographes adhèrent. Plus fondamentalement, je cherche à analyser les procédures de remplissage des blancs de carte qu'emploie la géographie savante de la Belle Epoque au moment même où l'acceptation implicite de ces pratiques n'apparaît plus comme allant de soi. Ce que j'étudie est donc moins la viabilité d'un nom que la viabilité des pratiques des géographes et des cartographes européens en Asie centrale.
2016-11-23T06:28:53Z
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2004
Book chapter
Forêt Philippe, 2004, Presses Universitaires de Strasbourg; Les blancs du Tibet : histoire des solutions adoptées pour résoudre le plus magnifique problème de la géographie. http://nur.nu.edu.kz/handle/123456789/1917
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Railroad literature on suitable places : How the Japanese government railways forged an "old China" travel culture
Forêt, Philippe
Manchuria (1905-1945)
Manchoukuo (1932-1945)
South Manchuria Railway Company
Minami Manshû Tetsudô (SMR, Mantetsu)
Mukden (Shenyang, China)
travel literature
tourism industry
Japanese colonialism
orientalism
Research Subject Categories::HUMANITIES and RELIGION::Religion/Theology::History of religion
This empirical study on advertising campaigns and the art of running trains in distant places finds its theoretical significance in a view of history where real and imagined geographies interact. The railroad companies of the Japanese Empire did much more than transport passengers and carry freight: their express trains embodied a particular view of a world centered on racial, nationalist and dynastic myths. Modernity as ideology and the everyday experience of colonialism combined in Manchuria to generate a particular perception of China as a decadent and romantic culture.
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2003
Book chapter
Forêt Philippe, 2003, Chronos Verlag; Railroad literature on suitable places : How the Japanese government railways forged an "old China" travel culture. http://nur.nu.edu.kz/handle/123456789/1919
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"An Interesting Geographical Change" : Hedin, Stein and Huntington's surveys of climate change
Forêt, Philippe
silk road studies
Chinese Central Asia
archaeology
history of geography
environmental history
Southern Taklamakan (Xinjiang, China)
Sven Hedin
Ellsworth Huntington
Aurel Stein
Research Subject Categories::HUMANITIES and RELIGION::Religion/Theology::History of religion
Studying the contribution of the lakes of Central Asia to the discovery of global warming must touch on science policy in the early 20th century, the uneasy relationship that learned Europe used to have with the environmental history of colonial Asia, and the production and mobility of new and potentially troubling knowledge. I intend to provide an account of how three independent scholars engaged the Royal Geographical Society of London and the international geography community. I will intertwine their maps, private letters, travelogues and scientific reports from the field with the history of theorizing on climate change. My analysis of Sven Hedin, Ellsworth Huntington and Aurel Stein's interactions with their colleagues promises to challenge the current narrative on the discovery of global warming.
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2012-11-09
Presentation
Forêt Philippe, 2012, British Library Conference Centre; "An Interesting Geographical Change" : Hedin, Stein and Huntington's surveys of climate change. http://nur.nu.edu.kz/handle/123456789/1923
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Au delà de la frontière scientifique, la frontière du réel en Asie centrale chinoise
Forêt, Philippe
frontier
frontier studies
Chinese Central Asia
Tibet
Iran
history of geography
Research Subject Categories::HUMANITIES and RELIGION::Religion/Theology::History of religion
To comprehend the role of frontier and frontier-making in the scientific controversy on the "geographical pivot history," I will propose a short account of the remarkable topographical expeditions that explored the Gobi, Taklamakan, Qinghai and Kevir deserts.
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2016-11-23T08:58:09Z
2016-11-23T08:58:09Z
2010-02-04
Presentation
Forêt Philippe, 2010, Au delà de la frontière scientifique, la frontière du réel en Asie centrale chinoise. http://nur.nu.edu.kz/handle/123456789/1926
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The role of Central Asia in the discovery of global warming
Forêt, Philippe
role of Central Asia
discovery
global warming
Research Subject Categories::HUMANITIES and RELIGION::Religion/Theology::History of religion
The review of precise field maps and photographs should help me reconstruct
not only the environmental and cultural history of Central Asia, but also the
scholarly debate on climate that occurred during the first three decades of last
century. I will very specifically investigate expedition reports because these
publications exemplify the methodological guidelines enforced by the scholarly
community. I will indeed argue that Stein's Explorations in Turkestan or Hedin's
Sino-Swedish "Scientific Expedition to the North-western Provinces of China"
provide a useful framework to analyze the first debate on global warming.
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2016-11-23T09:09:38Z
2016-11-23T09:09:38Z
2009-11-11
Presentation
Forêt Philippe, 2009, The role of Central Asia in the discovery of global warming. http://nur.nu.edu.kz/handle/123456789/1928
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De la vertu au vice: l'espace des loisirs à Macao (1910-1930)
Forêt, Philippe
Macau (China)
Macao (Portuguese empire)
urban geography
urban history
urban planning
cultural landscape
development policy
modernity
orientalism
Research Subject Categories::HUMANITIES and RELIGION::Religion/Theology::History of religion
Le nom Macao (Aomen en chinois, Ou-mun en cantonais) proviendrait d’une
corruption du nom du temple A-ma (Make miao en chinois, Ma-kok miu en
cantonais) qui se situe à l’entrée (men, mun) du Port Intérieur. Le temple est fondé
au moins deux siècles avant l’arrivée des Portugais. Il est dédié à l’impératrice
divine A-ma ou Mazu tianhou, qui est la patronne des pêcheurs et des marins...
2016-11-23T09:20:01Z
2016-11-23T09:20:01Z
2016-11-23T09:20:01Z
2003-05-16
Presentation
Forêt Philippe, 2003, De la vertu au vice: l'espace des loisirs à Macao (1910-1930). http://nur.nu.edu.kz/handle/123456789/1929
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Is China ––––––––––––––– flat? A minor contribution to counterfactual geography
Forêt, Philippe
China (1949-today)
sustainable development
philosophy
On the Line
Deleuze and Guattari
Research Subject Categories::HUMANITIES and RELIGION::Religion/Theology::History of religion
The French philosophers Gilles Deleuze (1925-95) and Félix Guattari (1930-92) gathered two seminal texts in On The Line. In "Rhizome," Deleuze and Guattari introduced a new kind of thinking, which is both nondialectical and non-hierarchical, substituted pragmatic and free-floating logic to our usual binary, oppositional, and exclusive logic model, and offered an early template to understand the internet. In "Politics," Deleuze and Guattari envisaged society as a series of lines, reinvented politics as a process of flux whose outcome is
always unpredictable, and suggested that the creativity and multiplicity of its flows
can redirect and question capitalism.
According to On The Line, China always rebounds after most of the country is destroyed. China starts up again on one of its old lines, or on new lines, when it is shattered at a given spot. A rupture occurs in China whenever segmentary lines explode into a line of flight. After each rupture, there is a danger that China will stratify again everything, from Taoist resurgences to communist concretions. China experts can never posit a dualism or a dichotomy, even in the rudimentary form of the good and bad. China has valued the making of flat spaces, traditionally for food production and today for profit-making in the well-connected
global economy. China's vision of state-building has always been at odds with the physical reality of a country rich in hills and mountains. We have had so far thirty centuries of unsustainable development.
2016-11-23T09:30:03Z
2016-11-23T09:30:03Z
2016-11-23T09:30:03Z
2008-12-11
Presentation
Forêt Philippe, 2008, Is China ––––––––––––––– flat? A minor contribution to counterfactual geography. http://nur.nu.edu.kz/handle/123456789/1931
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Staking a Claim in Paradise : The Appropriation of Central Asia by the Capitals of China (1625-1945)
Forêt, Philippe
historical geography
Central Asia and China
imperial landscape
cultural landscape
notion and representation
place and scale
state building
Qing dynasty (1644-1912) and successor states
capital cities
frontier studies
Beijing
Chengde
Shenyang
Changchun
Research Subject Categories::HUMANITIES and RELIGION::Religion/Theology::History of religion
Lecture given at the China in Asia colloquia series, 2010-2011
OBJECTIVE
Understand the non-Chinese notions at work in landscape-making and in thegarden architecture of the imperial capitals of China.
METHODOLOGY
Examine imperial villas, gardens and temples.
Hypothesis: These sites represent physically and explicitly theories andtechniques on landscape appropriation.
Case study: The residences of the Qing dynasty (1625-1912) in Shenyang, Beijing (Yuanming yuan and Yihe yuan) and in Chengde (Bishu shanzhuang),and those of Manchoukouo (1932-1945).
EXPECTED RESULTS
Conceptualize the Qing landscape through changes in scale rather thanthrough ruptures in time.
2016-11-23T09:54:54Z
2016-11-23T09:54:54Z
2016-11-23T09:54:54Z
2010-11-01
Presentation
Forêt Philippe, 2010, Staking a Claim in Paradise : The Appropriation of Central Asia by the Capitals of China (1625-1945). http://nur.nu.edu.kz/handle/123456789/1933
http://nur.nu.edu.kz/handle/123456789/1933
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The Disentangled Pictorial History of Mémoire sur la Chine (1776)
Forêt, Philippe
Qing China (1644-1912)
18th-century France
history od science
history of cartpgraphy
geography of knowledge
Sino-European collaboration in the sciences
Research Subject Categories::HUMANITIES and RELIGION::Religion/Theology::History of religion
This paper would add a contribution to the "entangled histories" of the circulation of Sino-European representations of landscape during the long 18th century. I will discuss a prime example of interaction, interpretation and hybridization that occurred in French essays, atlases, encyclopedias, reports, and private letters on the Qing land-scape. I am especially interested in the grey literature and colorful maps that have sur-rounded two publications by d'Anville and Father Du Halde, SJ: Mémoire sur la Chine (1776); and Description géographique, historique, etc. de l'Empire de la Chine et de la Tartarie chinoise (1735).
I will disentangle only two in the many layers of the French interpretation of the Qing landscape:
Layer 1: Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville (1697-1782)'s quarrel with Father Joseph-Anne-Marie de Moyriac de Mailla (1669-1748) SJ, about de Mailla's disentanglement of d'Anville's disentanglement made when he reviewed…
Layer 2: … several disentanglements made by the Manchu, Russian, Dutch, and French cartographers who mapped and depicted independently several parts of the Qing Em-pire
I will examine why and how d'Anville defined concepts, methods, and best practices in the disentanglement of landscape representation. I plan to revisit the Sino-European history of transfers of theories and techniques on visual information, from technical surveys of the physical landscape in Beijing to the emergence of a new intellectual landscape in Paris. Case study: The carto-controversy of the Mémoire de M. d'Anville, etc. sur la Chine (1776), and of the Description géographique, historique, etc. de l'Empire de la Chine et de la Tartarie chinoise (1735)
Since Julius von Klaproth (1826), Henri Cordier (1904-1908), and Marcel Destombes (1976), we believe that we know everything that deserves to be known on the infor-mation on China that became available to 18th-century Paris. We have been maybe too self-confident. Since 2010, Lucile Haguet has unearthed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France new materials that are telling us an un-redacted story on the Sino-European exchanges of landscape depiction.
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2016-11-23T11:07:42Z
2016-11-23T11:07:42Z
2013-05-11
Presentation
Forêt Philippe, 2013, The Disentangled Pictorial History of Mémoire sur la Chine (1776) . http://nur.nu.edu.kz/handle/123456789/1936
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The Swiss contributions to the international development of cartography: The Eduard Imhof Era
Forêt, Philippe
Eduard Imhof
Swiss cartography
international cartographic association
geography of knowledge
history of cartography
Research Subject Categories::HUMANITIES and RELIGION::Religion/Theology::History of religion
My paper is about a project that will examine Switzerland's participation, during five decades, in the institutional and intellectual emancipation of the map-based sciences. I intend to provide a thematic and dispassionate account of the achievements of Swiss cartography and cartographers, and document the crucial initiatives a Swiss academic took to develop cartography worldwide. In the course of my analysis of Professor Eduard Imhof's interactions with his foreign colleagues, I will add cultural as well as technical perspectives to the interpretation of contemporary progress in the mapping sciences. For the Swiss school of cartography, the Imhof era (1920-1970) was more formative than the bet-ter-studied Dufour and Siegfried Maps period (1845-1926). Despite the contentious political environment of his time, E. Imhof (1895-1986) used his personal charisma to systematically encourage cooperation worldwide. Through the seminars he led and the International Cartographic Association he created and chaired, E. Imhof federated the cartographers from across the world. I will explain how by 1970, on the eve of the digital revolution, he had forged a common professional identity and improved modes and venues to communicate across the discipline. Eduard Imhof will thus allow us to touch on two important themes in science and society: the geography of knowledge and the adoption of new theories, standards and methods by the international scientific community.
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2016-11-25T09:48:45Z
2016-11-25T09:48:45Z
2009-07-12
Working Paper
Forêt Philippe, 2009, The Swiss contributions to the international development of cartography: The Eduard Imhof Era. http://nur.nu.edu.kz/handle/123456789/1939
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Ulan-Ude Manuscript Kanjur: An Overview, Analysis and Brief Catalogue
Tsyrempilov, Nikolay
Kanjur
Mongolian versions
manuscript
Buddhism
canon
This study investigates the Mongolian manuscript Kanjur preserved at the Center of Oriental Manuscripts and Xylographs of the Institute for Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan studies of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The manuscript previously be- longed to the Chesan Buddhist monastery of Central Transbaikalia and was brought to the Buruchkom, a rst academic institute of the Republic of Buryat-Mongolia (Ulan-Ude) by the eminent Buryat writer Khotsa Namsaraev. The manuscript is an almost complete copy of the Ligdan Khan’s Kanjur presumably made in the late sev- enteenth to early eighteenth century in Beijing. The article presents a description, analysis and brief catalogue of Ulan-Ude manuscript Kanjur.
2017-01-06T03:30:41Z
2017-01-06T03:30:41Z
2017-01-06T03:30:41Z
2017-01
Article
Tsyrempilov , N. (2017). Ulan-Ude Manuscript Kanjur: An Overview, Analysis and Brief Catalogue. Buddhist Studies Review, 2(33.1), 237-265.
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Buddhist Studies Review
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Introduction
Tsyrempilov, Nikolay
Buriats
Mongolian studies
Russian studies
Present-day scholarship on the Buryats, or Buryat-Mongols, consciously or otherwise considers the people in question and the areas they inhabit as a marginal part or periphery of the Mongolian or Russian worlds ; the logic of this marginality is determined by the history of this ethno-cultural group formation at the civilizational juncture between Asia and Europe, and furthermore acquires its historical and cultural identity from this marginality. Indeed, most of the few Western Buryatologists approach their area specialization from one of two dominant perspectives. The majority of them initially had, and still have, an established basic interest in Russian studies or, to be precise, studies in Russian Siberia. In this perspective the Buryats are viewed as the largest indigenous people of Siberia, culturally and historically one of the most curious minorities of Asiatic Russia.
2017-01-06T04:12:34Z
2017-01-06T04:12:34Z
2017-01-06T04:12:34Z
2016
Article
Tsyrempilov , N. (2016). Introduction. Etudes Mongoles et Siberiennes, Centrasiatiques et Tibetaines, (46), 2.
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Etudes Mongoles et Siberiennes, Centrasiatiques et Tibetaines
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Noble Paganism. Orientalist Discourse on Tibetan Buddhism in Nineteenth-Century Russian Polemic Literature
Tsyrempilov, Nikolay
Buddhism
Orthodox Christianity
Russian empire
Buriats
Tibet
Mongolia
Tibetan Buddhism, in the eyes of Orthodox Christian polemicists, was always seen as a harmful paganism, and fifighting against this ‘superstition’ was a high priority. Based on analysis of nineteenth-century Russian Orthodox missionary articles, this paper examines the stereotyped portrayal of Tibetan Buddhism as a civilisational opponent to Christianity, and the ways Russian scholars, ethnographers, philosophers, and offiffcials either supported or challenged this view. In this paper, I argue that, in Russia, the Orientalist paradigm is common to a greater degree among Christian clergy than in academic circles due to the status of a dominating religion the Orthodoxу enjoyed in Russia. The Russian missionaries’ support of imperial power was the essential fac-tor. The clerics viewed themselves as carriers not only of Christian values, but also of the idea of Russian statehood and European civilisation in general. Russian Christian intellectuals repeatedly attempted to comprehend Buddhism rationally, but these attempts were highly formalistic. For them, academic study was never an end in itself, but, I argue, a convenient tool to achieve ideological domination and establish moral authority. However, their intellectual and psychological inability to view other reli-gions as different, rather than false, was, and still is, an obstacle to mutual understand-ing and respect between Christianity and Buddhism in today’s Russia.
2017-01-06T04:21:37Z
2017-01-06T04:21:37Z
2017-01-06T04:21:37Z
2016
Article
Tsyrempilov , N. (2016). Noble Paganism. Orientalist Discourse on Tibetan Buddhism in Nineteenth-Century Russian Polemic Literature. Inner Asia, (17), 199-224.
http://nur.nu.edu.kz/handle/123456789/2162
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Inner Asia
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The Constitutional Theocracy of Lubsan- Samdan Tsydenov: An Attempt to Establish a Buddhist State in Transbaikalia (1918–22)
Tsyrempilov, Nikolay
theocracy
self determination
state building
The paper examines the causes and circumstances of the establish- ment of a Buddhist theocratic state by Lubsan-Samdan Tsydenov, an outstanding figure of Buriat Buddhism. Drawing upon some hitherto unedited Tibetan, Mongolian and Russian sources, the paper undertakes a detailed reconstruction of the events in Siberian Transbaikalia in the period of the Russian Civil War. An analysis of personal notes by Tsydenov and the text of the constitution of the Kudun Buddhist state shows that “Kudun theocracy” was a syncretic fusion of the traditional Buddhist understanding of the Buddhist “Dharmic state” and modernist conceptions of republicanism and constitutional democracy. The Kudun theocracy should also be interpreted as a response of Buddhist circles to attempts by Buriat secular nationalists to build Buriat statehood based upon the idea of national self-determination. The Kudun project shows that Buddhism could serve as a foundation for state-building at the time of the early twentieth-century Russian political crisis.
2017-01-06T04:33:40Z
2017-01-06T04:33:40Z
2017-01-06T04:33:40Z
2016
Article
Tsyrempilov , N. (2016). The Constitutional Theocracy of Lubsan- Samdan Tsydenov: An Attempt to Establish a Buddhist State in Transbaikalia (1918–22). State, Religion and Church, 3(2), 26-52.
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State, Religion and Church
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On the Local Origins of the Soviet Attack on “Religious” Waqf in the Uzbek SSR (1927)
Penati, Beatrice
Soviet
land reform
incentive
This article studies when, how, and by whom the decision to nationalise land properties the rent from which supported mosques, shrines, and hostels (rather than schools) was first taken in Soviet Uzbekistan. Through a quasi-philological reconstruction of the drafting process behind the land reform decree in a peripheral area of Fergana, the article demonstrates how local power dynamics produced incentives for provincial Party and Soviet leaders to prove themselves better Bosheviks than their neighbours. A close scrutiny of chains of command is essential for capturing the importance of local political agency, pace top-down interpretations that privilege Moscow's or Samarkand's viewpoints instead.
2017-01-06T04:59:33Z
2017-01-06T04:59:33Z
2017-01-06T04:59:33Z
2015
Article
Penati, B. (2015). On the Local Origins of the Soviet Attack on “Religious” Waqf in the Uzbek SSR (1927). Acta Slavica Iaponica, 26, 39-72.
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Acta Slavica Iaponica
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On the Soviet discovery of rural Central Asia. The Karp commission in context
Penati, Beatrice
Central Asia
Communist Party
countryside
In 1925, the USSR communist party’s Central Asian Bureau ordered an inquiry on the countryside, resulting in the series The Modern Central Asian Village. It combined pre-revolutionary methods with Soviet attention to social stratification, while the benchmark of the pre-1917 economy and the composition of the commission revealed the heritage of Tsarist colonial rule.
2017-01-06T05:36:47Z
2017-01-06T05:36:47Z
2017-01-06T05:36:47Z
2013
Article
Penati, B. (2013). On the Soviet discovery of rural Central Asia. The Karp commission in context. Revue Monde(s). Histoire, Espaces, Relations, 4, 105-125.
http://nur.nu.edu.kz/handle/123456789/2176
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Revue Monde(s). Histoire, Espaces, Relations
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‘Alien’ Lamas: Russian Policy toward Foreign Buddhist Clergy in the Eighteenth to Early Twentieth Centuries
Tsyrempilov, Nikolay
Buddhism
Russian empire
Tibet
Mongolia
This article analyses the Russian policy towards foreign Buddhist clergy who penetrated into the Russian Empire from Mongolia and Tibet between the eighteenth and early twentieth centuries. Drawing on archive materials, the origins of this policy are identified. The attitude of the official Buddhist administration of East Siberia led by Khambo Lama to the so- called alien lamas is discussed.
2017-01-06T05:56:50Z
2017-01-06T05:56:50Z
2017-01-06T05:56:50Z
2012
Article
Tsyrempilov , N. (2012). ‘Alien’ Lamas: Russian Policy toward Foreign Buddhist Clergy in the Eighteenth to Early Twentieth Centuries. Inner Asia, 14(2), 245-255. DOI: 10.1163/22105018-90000003
http://nur.nu.edu.kz/handle/123456789/2179
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A neonatal perspective on Homo erectus brain growth
Zachary, Cofran
Cofran, Zachary
DeSilva, Jeremy M.
Life history
Resampling
Simulation
Abstract The Mojokerto calvaria has been central to assessment of brain growth in Homo erectus, but different analytical approaches and uncertainty in the specimen's age at death have hindered consensus on the nature of H. erectus brain growth. We simulate average annual rates (AR) of absolute endocranial volume (ECV) growth and proportional size change (PSC) in H. erectus, utilizing estimates of H. erectus neonatal ECV and a range of ages for Mojokerto. These values are compared with resampled ARs and PSCs from ontogenetic series of humans, chimpanzees, and gorillas from birth to six years. Results are consistent with other studies of ECV growth in extant taxa. There is extensive overlap in PSC between all living species through the first postnatal year, with continued but lesser overlap between humans and chimpanzees to age six. Human ARs are elevated above those of apes, although there is modest overlap up to 0.50 years. Ape ARs overlap throughout the sequence, with gorillas slightly elevated over chimpanzees up to 0.50 years. Simulated H. erectus PSCs can be found in all living species by 0.50 years, and the median falls below the human and chimpanzee ranges after 2.5 years. H. erectus ARs are elevated above those of all extant taxa prior to 0.50 years, and after two years they fall out of the human range but are still above ape ranges. A review of evidence for the age at death of Mojokerto supports an estimate of around one year, indicating absolute brain growth rates in the lower half of the human range. These results point to secondary altriciality in H. erectus, implying that key human adaptations for increasing the energy budget of females may have been established by at least 1 Ma.
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Zachary Cofran, Jeremy M. DeSilva, A neonatal perspective on Homo erectus brain growth, In Journal of Human Evolution, Volume 81, 2015, Pages 41-47
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From Tibet Confidentially. The Secret Correspondence of the Thirteenth Dalai Lama to Agvan Dorzhiev, 1912–1925
Samten, Jampa
Tsyrempilov, Nikolay
Tibet
Thirteenth Dalai Lama
Dalai Lama
Agvan Dorzhiev
Mongolia
Russian empire
Soviet Union
Great Game
Letters, like human beings, can have complicated fates. This is especially true for the letters presented here – letters that were for many years stored on the dusty shelves of the Antireligious Museum of Verkhneudinsk. Today, both the museum and its city bear different names. The museum is now known as the National Museum of Buriatia, the city as Ulan-Ude. One may suppose that after the famous owner of these letters died in a prison hospital in November 1938, the letters, together with the rest of his property, were confiscated by NKVD officers. The officers probably assumed them to be religious writings, and handed them over to the Antireligious Museum. This is only speculation, of course, but the fact remains that the letters were stored for almost seventy years in the reserve funds of the Museum, completely unknown to the scholarly community, until they were introduced to us in 2004. Half of the preserved letters are of a private nature, but another half are of considerable significance for specialists in the history of modern Tibet.
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2012
Book
Jampa Samten (2012). From Tibet Confidentially. The Secret Correspondence of the Thirteenth Dalai Lama to Agvan Dorzhiev, 1912–1925. Dharamsala, India: Library of Tibetan Works and Archives.
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«Зловредное суеверие» или «Лучшая из языческих религий»? Буддизм в православной публицистике XIX – начала XX вв
Цыремпилов (Tsyrempilov), Н. (N).
буддизм
православие
буряты
православная публицистика
восприятие
чужой
межкультурная коммуникация
XIX в.
Российская империя
Попытки рационального осмысления буддизма, пред-
принимавшиеся православными интеллектуалами, всегда были сугу-
бо формальными. Исследовательский поиск был для них лишь удоб-
ной формой, с помощью которой они могли эффективнее добивать-
ся целей идеологического доминирования и утверждения своего ав-
торитета. Их осмыслению буддизма мешало интеллектуальное и
психологическое недопущение возможности другой веры не как лож-
ной, а как принципиально иной. Несмотря на то, что после несколь-
ких десятилетий официальной секуляризации православные христи-
ане, мусульмане и буддисты России нашли платформу для дальней-
шего сосуществования и даже активного взаимодействия, эта не-
способность до сих пор препятствует полному взаимопониманию
между христианством и буддизмом в современной России.
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2018-11-21T09:25:59Z
2018-11-21T09:25:59Z
2012-10
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Цыремпилов (Tsyrempilov), Н. (N). (2012) «Зловредное суеверие» или «Лучшая из языческих религий»? Буддизм в православной публицистике XIX – начала XX вв. Религиоведение.
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Religious Identity in the Pamirs: The Institutionalization of the Ismāʿīlī Daʿwa in Shughnān
Beben, Daniel
Dagiev, Dagikhudo
Faucher, Carole
One of the most conspicuous aspects of the culture and identity of the Pamiri peoples today is the prevalence of Jsma'TIT ShT'ism within the region. Yet the prominence of Jsma'Tlism in the Pamirs in the present day is matched equally by the uncertainty that surrounds the question of the date and circumstances of its introduction. While both scholarship and the oral traditions of the Parniri peoples ascribe a foundational role in the introduction and spread of lsma'Tlism in the region to the 11 th-century lsma'TIT poet, hilosopher and missionary (dii 'l) Na$ir-i Khusraw, the subsequent history of the Isma'TITmission or da 'wa in the region in the centuries foJlowing his death remains almost entirely obscure (Beben, 2017a). Alongside Na~ir-i Khusraw, the lsma'TITs of Shughnan also maintain oral traditions concerning the role of a legendary figure by the name of Shah Khamush, who, along with several companions, is likewise credited with a later role in the establishment or re-establishment of the Isma'TIT da 'wa in the region (Gross, 2013). By contrast with Na$ir-i Khusraw, whose historical role as a representative of the lsma'TIT da 'iva is well -attested, the figure of Shah Khamush and his historical identify is far more ambiguous. A closer examination of the evidence reveals a much more diverse and equivocal array of narratives connected with this individual that circulated in the past, in comparison with those that are reflected in public memory today.
2018-11-22T04:06:05Z
2018-11-22T04:06:05Z
2018-11-22T04:06:05Z
2018
Book chapter
Beben, Daniel. (2018) Religious Identity in the Pamirs: The Institutionalization of the Ismāʿīlī Daʿwa in Shughnān. in: Identity, History and Trans-Nationality in Central Asia: The Mountain Communities of Pamir. Routledge
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The Ismaili of Central Asia
Beben, Daniel
Nasir-i Khusraw
Badakhshan
Pamirs
Ismailism
Shiʿism
Central Asia
Tajikistan
Afghanistan
The Ismailis are one of the largest Muslim minority populations of Central Asia, and they
make up the second largest Shiʿi Muslim community globally. First emerging in the
second half of the 8th century, the Ismaili missionary movement spread into many areas
of the Islamic world in the 10th century, under the leadership of the Ismaili Fatimids
caliphs in Egypt. The movement achieved astounding success in Central Asia in the 10th
century, when many of the political and cultural elites of the region were converted.
However, a series of repressions over the following century led to its almost complete
disappearance from the metropolitan centers of Central Asia. The movement later reemerged
in the mountainous Badakhshan region of Central Asia (which encompasses the
territories of present-day eastern Tajikistan and northeastern Afghanistan), where it was
introduced by the renowned 11th-century Persian poet, philosopher, and Ismaili
missionary Nasir-i Khusraw. Over the following centuries the Ismaili movement expanded
among the populations of Badakhshan, reaching a population of over 200,000 in the 21st
century. In the 19th and 20th centuries, the Ismailis suffered a series of severe
repressions, first under local Sunni Muslim rulers and later under the antireligious
policies of the Soviet Union. However, in the decades since the end of the Soviet period,
the Ismailis of the region have become increasingly connected with the global Ismaili
community and its leadership. While many aspects of the history of Ismailism in the
Badakhshan region remain obscure and unexplored, the discoveries of significant
corpuses of manuscripts in private collections since the 1990s in the Badakhshan region
have opened up wide possibilities for future research.
2018-11-22T05:44:24Z
2018-11-22T05:44:24Z
2018-11-22T05:44:24Z
2018
Article
Beben, Daniel. (2018) The Ismaili of Central Asia. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History.
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The Fatimid Legacy and the Foundation of the Modern Nizari Ismaili Imamate
Beben, Daniel
Daftary, Farhad
Jiwa, Shainool
The Fatimid era is ubiquitous today in the discourse of the Nizari
Ismaili imamate. Yet this was not always the case. As with other
societies and religious communities the world over, the arrangement
and presentation of history in the Ismaili tradition has
evolved in the course of time, with new historiographical agendas
and subjects of emphasis emerging or receding in response
to changes in the political and social contexts. In this chapter the
place of the Fatimids in the cultural memory of the Nizari Ismailis
in the post-Mongol era will be explored. 2 It will be argued that
the emphasis placed on the Fatimid era in present-day Nizari discourse
is a relatively recent development, rooted in the dynamic
changes that occurred in the social and political context of the
community in the 18th and 19th centuries.
2018-11-23T09:08:21Z
2018-11-23T09:08:21Z
2018-11-23T09:08:21Z
2017
Book chapter
Beben, D. (2017). The Fatimid Legacy and the Foundation of the Modern Nizārī Imamate. In The Fatimid Caliphate: Diversity of Traditions I. B. Tauris.
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The Sangho in the Age of Degradation. Responses of the Russian Buddhists to the Russian Revolution and Civil War
Tsyrempilov, Nikolay
The Buriat Buddhists who constituted the majority of the Buddhist population of the former Russian Empire did not stay away from the revolutionary events. The secular segment of the Buriat society viewed the collapse of the monarchy as the unfolding opportunity to get rid of the colonial legacy, including discrimination of their reli‑ gion. However, already in 1918 the deviation of the positions of cleri‑ cal and secular segments of the Buriat society became obvious. If the Buriat nationalists remained hostile to the idea of Restoration, the official Buddhist circles supported admiral Kolchak, whereas a part of rank‑and‑file lamas consolidated around the idea of Buddhist the‑ ocracy. After the Soviet regime firmly established in Trans‑Baikal area, a part of the Buddhist monks, the Buddhist renovationists un‑ der leadership of Agvan Dorzhiev, attempted to come to terms with the Bolsheviks. These attempts ended in the total defeat of the organ‑ ized Buddhist community by the late 1930s.
2019-12-11T09:00:29Z
2019-12-11T09:00:29Z
2019-12-11T09:00:29Z
2019-01
Article
Tsyrempilov, N. (2019). Сангха в эпоху упадка. Реакции российских буддистов на Русскую революцию и Гражданскую войну. Gosudarstvo, Religiia, Tserkov' v Rossii i za Rubezhom/State, Religion and Church in Russia and Worldwide, 37(1-2), 347-370. https://doi.org/10.22394/2073-7203-2019-37-1/2-347-370
https://doi.org/10.22394/2073-7203-2019-37-1/2-347-370
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Московская епархиальная революция
Scarborough, Daniel
In the months after the February Revolution, the Church was convulsed by a general revolt against ecclesiastical authority. The Church survived this revolt, and organized an " All- Russian Council ( Sobor)" from September of 1917 untilAugust of 1918, which re- established the Patriarchate of Moscow and negotiated a reform of the Church's authority structure. The ultimate success of the reform process depended on the ability of the Church's various communities to forge a compromise in the midst of a political and ecclesiastical revolution. This article traces the development of that compromise through the discourse of canon law.
2019-12-12T08:41:55Z
2019-12-12T08:41:55Z
2019-12-12T08:41:55Z
2019
Article
Скарборо Д. Московская епархиальная революция // Государство, религия, церковь в России и за рубежом. 2019. №1-2. С. 104-126. DOI: https://doi.org/10.22394/2073-7203-2019-37-1/2-104-126
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RUSSIAN PRESIDENTIAL ACAD NATL ECONOMY & PUBLIC ADM
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FACT-TRACKING BELIEF AND THE BACKWARD CLOCK: A REPLY TO ADAMS, BARKER AND CLARKE
WILLIAMS, JOHN
Backward Clock
Adams
Barker and Clarke
Sensitivity
In “The Backward Clock, Truth-Tracking, and Safety”
(2015), Neil Sinhababu and I gave Backward Clock, a
counterexample to Robert Nozick’s (1981) truth-tracking analysis
of knowledge. In “Knowledge as Fact-Tracking True Belief”
(2017), Fred Adams, John Barker and Murray Clarke propose that
a true belief constitutes knowledge if and only if it is based on
reasons that are sensitive to the fact that makes it true, that is,
reasons that wouldn’t obtain if the belief weren’t true. They argue
that their analysis evades Backward Clock. Here I show that it
doesn’t. Backward Clock likewise shows their analysis to be too
weak. The broader lesson seems to be that Backward Clock tells us
the time is up for purely modal analyses of knowledge....
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2018-09-08
Article
WILLIAMS, JOHN (2018) FACT-TRACKING BELIEF AND THE BACKWARD CLOCK: A REPLY TO ADAMS, BARKER AND CLARKE. Manuscrito.https://doi.org/10.1590/0100-6045.2018.v41n3.jw
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The Kazakh New Wave: Overcoming Socialist Realism in The Age of New Waves
Akhmetova, Danel
Research Subject Categories::HUMANITIES and RELIGION::History and philosophy subjects::Historical cultures
In 1988, Murat Auezov, the editor-in-chief at Kazakhfilm national film studio proposed its structural reformation. From now on, the studio was to be divided into two creative associations, Miras (“heritage”) and Alem (“world”, “universe”), that in the next few years would become home to a number of key films of the decade, later collectively known as the Kazakh New Wave. The former division devoted its attention to the questions of Kazakh national culture through historical, ethnographic, and folkloric films, while the latter demonstrated strong commitment to their official motto of “knowledge of the world in its motion” and encouraged production of films of modern, cosmopolitan, and all-round character. Even though the Alem and Miras associations had gradually disappeared, the emergence of these divisions at Kazakhfilm in the second half of the 1980s reveals a lasting dilemma about priorities in the Kazakh cinema industry. What themes should the Kazakh filmmakers tackle – national or universal ones? The Kazakh New Wave films that were made at those two studios were neither entirely national nor completely cosmopolitan.
2020-05-08T09:20:12Z
2020-05-08T09:20:12Z
2020-05-08T09:20:12Z
2020-05-05
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The Implementation of the Singaporean Model in Kazakhstan: Applying or Appealing?
Amanbekov, Timur
Research Subject Categories::HUMANITIES and RELIGION::History and philosophy subjects
The use of the Singaporean model was adopted by the government of Kazakhstan in 1995 with the approval of the Second Constitution, partially due to the ideas of Nursultan Nazarbayev, who considered this model to be beneficial to the post-independence state development. The Singaporean model is based on the Japanese model of “Iron Triangle”, i.e. the mixture of formal and informal networks fusing bureaucracy, politics and private sector. This implies heavy government intervention in the market, authoritarian regulations of the legal and private sectors, as well as central planning. The economy itself relies on three major aspects, such as geostrategic locations, manufactured export, and foreign direct investments. The state is run by a neo-patrimonial government, formed around Lee Kuan Yew, and, after his death, around his son and current prime minister Lee Hsien Loong. On the other hand, the social welfare is operated by the means of co-optation, as the Lee Kuan Yew administration introduced semi-socialist measures, such as public housing and healthcare, which is believed to balance the authoritarianism and silence opposition. The success of the model can be observed in the economic indexes, like Singapore, while being a city-state and 176th biggest country in the world, in 2019, had the 8th largest GDP per capita of $64 thousand, 0.935 Human Development Index, and the 11th largest foreign exchange reserve.
2020-05-11T04:55:32Z
2020-05-11T04:55:32Z
2020-05-11T04:55:32Z
2020-05-01
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The Importance of the December 16th uprising of 1986 in the process of formation of Kazakh nationalism on the eve of the collapse of Soviet Union and its place in the modern history of independent Kazakhstan
Bakhretdinov, Valikhan
history of Kazakhstan, December uprising in Alma-Ata, 1986, Independence
2020-06-09T06:52:38Z
2020-06-09T06:52:38Z
2020-06-09T06:52:38Z
2020-05
Capstone Project
http://nur.nu.edu.kz/handle/123456789/4789
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The Role of Experts in the Covid-19 Pandemic and the Limits of Their Epistemic Authority in Democracy
Lavazza, Andrea
Farina, Mirko
COVID-19
Research Subject Categories::MEDICINE
Epistemic authority
Democracy
In the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic, medical experts (virologists, epidemiologists, public health scholars, and statisticians alike) have become instrumental in suggesting policies to counteract the spread of coronavirus. Given the dangerousness and the extent of the contagion, almost no one has questioned the suggestions that these experts have advised policymakers to implement. Quite often the latter explicitly sought experts' advice and justified unpopular measures (e.g., restricting people's freedom of movement) by referring to the epistemic authority attributed to experts. The main goal of this paper is to analyze the basis of this epistemic authority and the reasons why in this case it has not been challenged, contrary to the widespread tendency to devalue expertise that has been observed in recent years. In addition, in relation to the fact that experts' recommendations are generally technical and supposedly neutral, we note that in the COVID-19 crisis different experts have suggested different public health policies. We consider the British case of herd immunity and the US case of the exclusion of disabled people from medical care. These decisions have strong axiological implications and affect people profoundly in very sensitive domains. Another goal is, therefore, to argue that in such cases experts should justify their recommendations-which effectively become obligations-by the canons of public reason within the political process because when values are involved it is no longer just a matter of finding the “best technical solution,” but also of making discretionary choices that affect citizens and that cannot be imposed solely on the basis of epistemic authority.
2020-09-21T10:35:20Z
2020-09-21T10:35:20Z
2020-09-21T10:35:20Z
2020-07-14
Article
Lavazza, A., & Farina, M. (2020). The Role of Experts in the Covid-19 Pandemic and the Limits of Their Epistemic Authority in Democracy. Frontiers in Public Health, 8. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2020.00356
2296-2565
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2020.00356/full
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2020.00356
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FOOD, CANNIBALISM, AND ANTI-ASIAN RACISM IN THE ERA OF COVID-19
Griffin, Clare
Food
Cannibalism
Anti-Asian Racism
COVID-19
Pandemic
Humanities
Research Subject Categories::HUMANITIES and RELIGION
The second talk of our Fall 2020 speaker series will feature Dr. Clare Griffin, (Assistant Professor, Department of History, Philosophy, and Religious Studies Nazarbayev University), who will discuss “Food, Cannibalism, and Anti-Asian Racism in the Era of COVID-19”.
2020-09-22T05:34:30Z
2020-09-22T05:34:30Z
2020-09-22T05:34:30Z
2020-09
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COVID-19, THE MEDIA AND HISTORICAL MEMORY
Elliott, Bowen
Research Subject Categories::SOCIAL SCIENCES
Research Subject Categories::HUMANITIES and RELIGION::History and philosophy subjects
COVID-19
pandemics
philosophy
history
media
The next talk of our Fall 2020 speaker series will feature Dr. Elliott Bowen, (Assistant Professor, Department of History, Philosophy, and Religious Studies Nazarbayev University), who will discuss “COVID-19, the Media, and Historical Memory”. To watch this webinar please follow the link above and log in using your library account.
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2020-10-28T11:39:04Z
2020-10-28T11:39:04Z
2020-10
Video
https://library.nu.edu.kz/.RMSearch/URL?type=search&book=114089
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FACT OR FICTION: WHAT DO PEOPLE IN KAZAKHSTAN BELIEVE ABOUT COVID-19?
Schenk, Caress
COVID-19
pandemics
ZOOM
Kazakhstan
history
The next talk of our Fall 2020 speaker series will feature Dr. Caress Schenk, (Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and International Relations, Nazarbayev University), who will discuss “Fact or Fiction: What do People in Kazakhstan Believe About Covid-19?”. To watch this webinar please follow the link above and log in using your library account.
2020-11-04T04:33:50Z
2020-11-04T04:33:50Z
2020-11-04T04:33:50Z
2020-11
Video
https://library.nu.edu.kz/.RMSearch/URL?type=search&book=114269
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COVID-19: THE PAST, THE PRESENT, AND THE FUTURE
Stitt, Nancy
Crape, Byron
Sarria-Santamera, Antonio
COVID-19
pandemics
medicine
Research Subject Categories::MEDICINE
The last talk of our Fall 2020 speaker series will feature Nancy Stitt (RN, BSN, BC-RN; Nursing Professional Development Specialist; Program Director; Department of Nursing Education; Nazarbayev University School of Medicine), Byron Crape (PhD; Program Director; Master Of Public Health; Nazarbayev University School of Medicine), and Antonio Sarria-Santamera (MD, PhD; Associate Professor; Nazarbayev University School of Medicine), who will discuss “COVID-19: The Past, The Present, and the Future”. To watch this webinar please follow the link above and log in using your library account.
2020-11-18T07:56:25Z
2020-11-18T07:56:25Z
2020-11-18T07:56:25Z
2020-11
Video
http://nur.nu.edu.kz/handle/123456789/5116
https://library.nu.edu.kz/.RMSearch/URL?type=search&book=115035
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PANDEMICS IN THE HISTORY OF TURKIC LANGUAGES AND CULTURES
Schamiloglu, Uli
Research Subject Categories::HUMANITIES and RELIGION::History and philosophy subjects
NU in History
Nazarbayev University
pandemics
history
bubonic plague
presentation
Eurasia
epidemics
The first talk of our Spring 2021 speaker series will feature Dr. Uli Schamiloglu (Professor and Chair of the Department of Kazakh and Turkic Studies), who will discuss “Pandemics in Turkic Culture”. To watch this webinar please follow the link above and log in using your library account.
2021-02-09T09:53:13Z
2021-02-09T09:53:13Z
2021-02-09T09:53:13Z
2021
Video
https://library.nu.edu.kz/.RMSearch/URL?type=search&book=118696
http://nur.nu.edu.kz/handle/123456789/5289
en
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COPING WITH COVID-19: EMERGENCY REMOTE TEACHING
Guven, Funda
Omarbekova, Gulnara
pandemics
COVID-19
remote teaching
Research Subject Categories::SOCIAL SCIENCES
The next talk of our Spring 2021 speaker series will feature Funda Guven (Assistant Professor, Department of Kazakh Language and Turkic Studies) and Gulnara Omarbekova (Associate Professor, Department of Kazakh Language and Turkic Studies) who will discuss
“Coping With COVID-19: Emergency Remote Teaching”. To watch this webinar please follow the link above and log in using your library account.
2021-03-19T03:49:06Z
2021-03-19T03:49:06Z
2021-03-19T03:49:06Z
2021-03
Video
https://library.nu.edu.kz/.RMSearch/URL?type=search&book=119545
https://library.nu.edu.kz/.RMSearch/URL?type=search&book=119546
https://library.nu.edu.kz/.RMSearch/URL?type=search&book=119547
http://nur.nu.edu.kz/handle/123456789/5349
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ARTS IN TIMES OF CRISIS: KAZAKH PAINTERS RECONNECTING; AMERICAN ACTORS REGROUPING
Kruszewska, Małgorzata
NU in History
Research Subject Categories::SOCIAL SCIENCES::Social sciences
arts
pandemics
COVID-19
kazakh painters
The second talk of our Spring 2021 speaker series will feature Małgorzata Kruszewska (Instructor, Writing Program), who will discuss
“Arts in Times of Crisis: Kazakh Painters Reconnecting; American Actors Regrouping”. To watch this webinar please follow the link above and log in using your library account.
2021-03-30T10:05:05Z
2021-03-30T10:05:05Z
2021-03-30T10:05:05Z
2021-03
Video
https://library.nu.edu.kz/.RMSearch/URL?type=search&book=119675
http://nur.nu.edu.kz/handle/123456789/5353
en
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EMBODIED COGNITION: DIMENSIONS, DOMAINS AND APPLICATIONS
Farina, Mirko
Type of access: Open Access
Embodiment
cognitive science
cognitive psychology
human cognition
philosophy of mind
This article is intended as a response to Goldinger et al. and to all those, an increasing minority in the sciences, who still belittle the contribution of embodied cognition to our understanding of human cognitive behaviour. In this article (section 1), I introduce the notion of embodiment and explain its dimensions and reach. I review (section 2) a range of embodied cognition theories and highlight the principles and criteria on which they rely or draw from. I focus (section 3) on three crucial empirical domains in which an embodied perspective has driven novel insights about the relationship between mind and cognition. I argue that embodiment is not just a philosophical mantra empty of empirical content. I draw attention (section 4) to some of the recent ways in which principles underlying embodied cognition have begun to be applied in different fields (contemporary psychology). I review some of these interventions and suggest that discussing these applications not only provides additional evidence against any poverty claim but can also help moving the field forward in important ways. Contra Goldinger et al., I therefore conclude (section 5) that embodied cognition is a very fruitful research programme for the empirical sciences and that can adequately explain many aspects of human cognitive behaviour.
2021-09-16T05:22:48Z
2021-09-16T05:22:48Z
2021-09-16T05:22:48Z
2021-02-01
Article
Farina, M. (2020). Embodied cognition: dimensions, domains and applications. Adaptive Behavior, 29(1), 73–88. https://doi.org/10.1177/1059712320912963
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Adaptive Behavior
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ВОСТОК ВНУТРИ «ВОСТОКА»? ЦЕНТРАЛЬНАЯ АЗИЯ МЕЖДУ «СТРАТЕГИЧЕСКИМ ЭССЕНЦИАЛИЗМОМ» ГЛОБАЛЬНЫХ СИМВОЛОВ И ТАКТИЧЕСКИМ ЭССЕНЦИАЛИЗМОМ НАЦИОНАЛЬНЫХ НАРРАТИВОВ
Шелекпаев, Нари
Чокобаева, Аминат
«Глобальный Восток»
Центральная Азия
Советский Союз
постсоветское пространство
транснационализм
национализм(ы)
историография
Type of access: Open Access
В своей статье «Разыскивая Глобальный Восток: мышление между Севером и Югом»
Мартин Мюллер предлагает ряд радикальных, хотя и не новых, мыслей о роли, которую постсоциалистические страны играют в современном мире, их восприятии,
а также производстве знания о самих себе в этих странах. Данная статья является ответом на текст Мюллера и размышлением над историографией Центральной Азии —
составной части «Глобального Востока». В первом разделе этого текста мы разберем
собственно подход Мюллера и объясним, почему он кажется нам проблематичным
с исторической точки зрения. Во втором сфокусируемся на производстве «внешнего»
и «внутреннего» знания о Центральной Азии и предложим ответную парадигму —
«тактический эссенциализм» — которая, как нам кажется, лучше всего описывает
производство исторических нарративов в регионе на настоящий момент. Несмотря на
различия между двумя понятиями, нам представляется, что «стратегический» и «тактический» эссенциализм по сути являются проявлениями одного и того же процесса — а именно попытками вытеснения советского прошлого из этоса постсоциалистических исследователей (либо его замещения другими нарративами).
Ключевые слова: «Глобальный Восток», Центральная Азия, Советский Союз, постсоветское пространство, транснационализм, национализм(ы), историография
2021-09-16T06:30:39Z
2021-09-16T06:30:39Z
2021-09-16T06:30:39Z
2020
Article
Shelekpayev, N., & Chokobaeva, A. (2020). An East within “the East”? Central Asia between the “Strategic Essentialism” of Global Symbols and a “Tactical Essentialism” of National Narratives. Sotsiologicheskoe Obozrenie / Russian Sociological Review, 19(3), 70–101. https://doi.org/10.17323/1728-192x-2020-3-70-101
1728-192X
https://doi.org/10.17323/1728-192x-2020-3-70-101
http://nur.nu.edu.kz/handle/123456789/5791
ru
The Russian Sociological Review;vol. 19, no 3, pp. 70-101 (in Russian)
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National Research University Higher School of Economics
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ВОСТОК ВНУТРИ «ВОСТОКА»? ЦЕНТРАЛЬНАЯ АЗИЯ МЕЖДУ «СТРАТЕГИЧЕСКИМ ЭССЕНЦИАЛИЗМОМ» ГЛОБАЛЬНЫХ СИМВОЛОВ И ТАКТИЧЕСКИМ ЭССЕНЦИАЛИЗМОМНАЦИОНАЛЬНЫХ НАРРАТИВОВ
Шелекпаев, Нари
Чокобаева, Аминат
«Глобальный Восток»
Центральная Азия
Советский Союз
историография
национализм
Type of access: Open Access
В своей статье «Разыскивая Глобальный Восток: мышление между Севером и Югом» Мартин Мюллер предлагает ряд радикальных, хотя и не новых, мыслей о роли, ко-торую постсоциалистические страны играют в современном мире, их восприятии, а также производстве знания о самих себе в этих странах. Данная статья является от-ветом на текст Мюллера и размышлением над историографией Центральной Азии — составной части «Глобального Востока». В первом разделе этого текста мы разберем собственно подход Мюллера и объясним, почему он кажется нам проблематичным с исторической точки зрения. Во втором сфокусируемся на производстве «внешнего» и «внутреннего» знания о Центральной Азии и предложим ответную парадигму — «тактический эссенциализм» — которая, как нам кажется, лучше всего описывает производство исторических нарративов в регионе на настоящий момент. Несмотря на различия между двумя понятиями, нам представляется, что «стратегический» и «так-тический» эссенциализм по сути являются проявлениями одного и того же процес-са — а именно попытками вытеснения советского прошлого из этоса постсоциалисти-ческих исследователей (либо его замещения другими нарративами).Ключевые слова: «Глобальный Восток», Центральная Азия, Советский Союз, постсо-ветское пространство, транснационализм, национализм(ы), историография
2022-04-25T10:53:16Z
2022-04-25T10:53:16Z
2022-04-25T10:53:16Z
2020
Article
Shelekpayev, N., & Chokobaeva, A. (2020). An East within “the East”? Central Asia between the “Strategic Essentialism” of Global Symbols and a “Tactical Essentialism” of National Narratives. In Sotsiologicheskoe Obozrenie / Russian Sociological Review (Vol. 19, Issue 3, pp. 70–101). National Research University, Higher School of Economics (HSE). https://doi.org/10.17323/1728-192x-2020-3-70-101
1728-192Х
1728-1938
https://sociologica.hse.ru/en/2020-19-3/403282922.html
https://doi.org/10.17323/1728-192x-2020-3-70-101
http://nur.nu.edu.kz/handle/123456789/6116
ru
Russian Sociological Review;Vol. 19, Issue 3, pp. 70–101
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National Research University, Higher School of Econoimics
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CREATING KNOWLEDGE ABOUT ISLAM OF THE KAZAKH STEPPE: THE STEPPE, THE EMPIRE, AND THE OUTSIDER
Baiseit, Dina
Type of access: Open Access
Islam
Kazakh steppe
Thesis: The depiction of Islam that the Qazaqs practiced during the 19th and early 20th centuries
differed hugely in the accounts of the outsiders and insiders. The first group, which included
colonizers and foreigners, had specific purposes while creating accounts of this religion. One of
the primary aims was, as Edward Said puts it, to justify their colonial presence in the region and
oppressive policies toward these nomads. They depicted the Qazaqs as backward, uncivilized, and
uneducated subjects who did not believe truly in Islam and were not true Muslims1
. Christian
missionaries were present in the steppe and tried to convert the locals into Christianity. They
believed blindly that they could convert the locals to Christianity, but after a couple of attempts
failed and the tsarist government just decided to use Islam as a tool to control the locals by sending
Tatar Muslims to the steppe and assigning them into positions of the steppe religious community
before 1868. In 1868, Qazaqs were excluded from the Orenburg Spiritual Assembly.
2022-05-17T04:47:56Z
2022-05-17T04:47:56Z
2022-05-17T04:47:56Z
2022-04
Capstone Project
Dina Baiseit (2022). Creating knowledge about Islam of the Kazakh steppe: The Steppe, the Empire, and the Outsider. Nazarbayev University, Nur-sultan, Kazakhstan
http://nur.nu.edu.kz/handle/123456789/6156
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THE ‘GREAT STEPPE’ NARRATIVE: ORIGINS, POLITICS, AND ASPIRATIONS OF ETERNAL KAZAKHSTAN
Mukhlissova, Nazerke
Type of access: Open Access
Great Steppe
Eternal Kazakhstan
In the last several years, a person living in Kazakhstan is likely to notice more and more
of the different manifestations of the Steppe: be that the “Tomiris” 2019 movie, depictions of the
Steppe on billboards, or government campaigns featuring “Nur-Sultan - the heart of the Great
Steppe.” These kinds of expressions are not solely based on historical facts, but they emphasize,
focus, and interpret the ancient past in various, volatile ways. The public narrative and newly
constructed modern traditions in Kazakhstan started employing more Steppe-related themes. The
Eurasian Steppe is being increasingly portrayed with the epithet “Great” - as the “Great Steppe”,
and the Kazakhstani establishment is seeking towards taking ownership over that Steppe. While
it is understandable when people tie their identity to the ancient past and the Steppe (an informal
memory, invoking myths), since people will always look forward to solidifying their identities
and remembering the past in a certain way, it is still unclear what purposes authorities want to
satisfy by over-emphasizing, re-creating the Great Steppe in their projects and state ideology.
The approaches to the Steppe embodied in government rhetoric have been fluctuating, reflecting
changing and often mutually exclusive claims. Purposefully ambiguous, the Great Steppe
narrative experiences internal contradictions as well as external. Kazakhstani officials are trying
to claim everything that happened and everyone who lived in the Steppe for the history of
modern Kazakhstan
2022-06-27T03:56:39Z
2022-06-27T03:56:39Z
2022-06-27T03:56:39Z
2022
Capstone Project
Nazerke Mukhlissova (2022). The ‘Great Steppe’ narrative: origins, politics, and aspirations of Eternal Kazakhstan. Nazarbayev University, Nur-sultan, Kazakhstan
http://nur.nu.edu.kz/handle/123456789/6293
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A NATION’S HOLY LAND: KAZAKHSTAN’S LARGE-SCALE NATIONAL PROJECT TO MAP ITS SACRED GEOGRAPHY
Tsyrempilov, Nikolay
Bigozhin, Ulan
Zhumabayev, Batyrkhan
Type of access: Open Access
sacred geography
Kazakhstan
nationalism
territory
national territorialization
This article focuses on the project Sacred Geography of Kazakhstan, launched in 2017 in Kazakhstan as part
of the nationwide program Ruqani Zhangyru (Modernization of Spirituality). The officially stated goal of the
project is to cultivate a sense of patriotism in the country’s residents related to places and geographic sites
that are important for the historical memory of independent Kazakhstan. The authors assume that the real
goal of the project is national territorialization, or recoding of the semantics of space, by selecting, codifying,
and articulating some symbols and practices, while leveling and “forgetting” others. The analysis, which is
based on expert interviews and official documents, shows that this postcolonial process fits into the tendency
toward ethnonationalization of Kazakhstan, in which discourse on the civil nation continues to be
reproduced at the official level, while real activity is more focused on reinforcing the idea of Kazakhstan
as the state of the Kazakh nation. The institutionalization of organizing and recoding the sacred landscape
involves a wide variety of groups and actors. These factors may explain the success of the project in
comparison to other projects being implemented under the Ruqani Zhangyru program.
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2023-02-13T06:55:29Z
2023-02-13T06:55:29Z
2022
Article
Tsyrempilov, N., Bigozhin, U., & Zhumabayev, B. (2021). A Nation’s Holy Land: Kazakhstan’s Large-Scale National Project to Map Its Sacred Geography. Nationalities Papers, 50(4), 704–721. https://doi.org/10.1017/nps.2021.22
http://nur.nu.edu.kz/handle/123456789/6948
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Nationalities Papers
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COLLABORATIONISM OF CENTRAL ASIAN MUSLIMS WITH NAZI GERMANY DURING WWII
Kapasheva, Nargiz
Type of access: Open Access
central Asian Muslims
Nazi Germany
WWII
The Central Asian population was one of the most mobilized groups in the Red Army. Around 3,4 million Turkestanis (Uzbeks, Kazakhs, Turkmens, Kirghiz, and Tajiks) were drafted into the Red Army during the war, thousands of whom died, and many were captured. 1 Taking advantage of the failures of the Soviet soldiers, the German Nazi’s Ostministerium or Reichsministerium für die besetzten Ostgebiete (The Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories) tried to recruit Muslim Central Asian prisoners of war. The Germans’ attempts at drawing support from the Soviet Union’s Central Asian citizens reflected the heavy losses they suffered after 1942-43 due to the lack of support of people in the occupied areas and inability to fulfil the Blitzkrieg plan as well as their intention to disrupt the stability of the Soviet regime in the Central Asian region. De Cordier estimates that the number of Soviet Muslims ranged from 280,000 to 297,000 soldiers in the Wehrmacht and 8,000 soldiers in the Waffen-SS, where the Turkestani battalions had the biggest number (between 110,000 to 178,000 soldiers in the Wehrmacht and 3,000 soldiers in the Waffen-SS). 2 While the number of people recruited to these battalions was much lower than the number of Muslims fighting in the Red Army, the topic of war-time collaboration among Central Asian soldiers remains underexplored. The paper will examine soldiers’ motivations for collaboration and ask whether these were exclusively survival-driven. I will argue that Nazi Germany changed its racial policies and created a possibility of collaboration due to the war-time practical necessities, such as advancing on the front and promoting propaganda against the Soviet Union
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2023
Capstone Project
Kapasheva, N. (2023). Collaborationism of central Asian Muslims With Nazi Germany during WWII. School of Sciences and Humanities
http://nur.nu.edu.kz/handle/123456789/7188
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WHAT MOTIVATED MONOPHYSITE REVOLTS IN THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE?
Jantassov, Amiren
Type of access: Restricted
Monophysite revolts
Byzantine Empire
For specialists interested in the history of the Roman Empire, it is very interesting to learn about conflicts within the empire because this sheds a light on the history of Rome more comprehensively. Many specialists are interested in the reasons for the aggrandizement and decline of the Roman Empire. Monophysite Christianity is interesting because its conflict with Chalcedonian Christianity caused various rebellions and discontent destabilizing the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire. The struggle between Chalcedonian and anti-Chalcedonian Christianity is an important topic for me as a historian because it allows analyzing the history of the late Roman Empire from different perspectives. This dissertation will mostly focus on the history of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire. The main authors on whose sources I will rely are John Rufus, Theophanes the Confessor, and Zachariah of Mitylene. John Rufus was a Monophysite monk, who wrote a lot about Monophysite resistance in Palestine. Theophanes the Confessore was a historian and monk, but his position towards Monophysite Christianity is unclear because he has an unclear position towards eunuchs, who are connected with Monophysite Christianity. Zachariah Of Mitylene was a Monophysite historian. Opposition to the center in the monastic community, the struggle of more democratic urban classes, separatism of Eastern nations, and manipulations in the court all have a common element, the connection with Monophysite Christianity. To understand better their ties with Monophysite Christianity I need to say about how Monophysite Christianity motivated the struggle of the groups mentioned above. The study of these facets allows us to understand what really motivated the anti-Chalcedonian revolts. The Monophysite and Chalcedonian divide was strong enough to allow grievances of opposition to center in monastic community and struggle of more democratic urban classes come to the surface, whilst these factors with separatism of Eastern nations and political intrigues (in which eunuchs were involved) also motivated the Monophysite rebellions.
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2022-04-29
Capstone Project
Jantassov, A. (2022). What motivated Monophysite revolts in the Byzantine Empire?. School of Sciences and Humanities
http://nur.nu.edu.kz/handle/123456789/7418
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