Articleshttp://nur.nu.edu.kz:80/handle/123456789/10262024-03-29T13:33:59Z2024-03-29T13:33:59ZA RELIGION NOT MINE: FOUR AUTOETHNOGRAPHIC POEMS ABOUT THE INFLUENCE OF ISLAM ON NON-RELIGIOUS WOMEN IN MUSLIM-DOMINANT KAZAKHSTANZhunussova, Darinahttp://nur.nu.edu.kz:80/handle/123456789/63872022-07-08T21:00:39Z2022-01-01T00:00:00ZA RELIGION NOT MINE: FOUR AUTOETHNOGRAPHIC POEMS ABOUT THE INFLUENCE OF ISLAM ON NON-RELIGIOUS WOMEN IN MUSLIM-DOMINANT KAZAKHSTAN
Zhunussova, Darina
These autoethnographic poems reflect how Islamic patriarchal culture influences non-religious women in a Muslim-dominant Kazakhstan. The majority of the country's population identifies itself as Muslim, and the government pursues the traditionalization of values directed at the national revival. The core of this process deals with the re-imagination of the pre-Soviet patriarchal past, with women and men having different roles and statuses. For me, as a Kazakh woman and a citizen of Kazakhstan, not following this process equals being a marginalized minority. In an attempt to address the position of these minorities, I explore Islamic patriarchy's effects on society and women.
2022-01-01T00:00:00ZUNE GUERRE QUI AURAIT PU ÊTRE ÉVITÉECaron, Jean-Francoishttp://nur.nu.edu.kz:80/handle/123456789/61142023-11-11T14:45:36Z2022-03-24T00:00:00ZUNE GUERRE QUI AURAIT PU ÊTRE ÉVITÉE
Caron, Jean-Francois
Avec l’invasion de l’Ukraine par les troupes de Vladimir Poutine, plusieurs ont vu dans ce geste le retour à un monde international anarchique et hobbesien au sein duquel les grandes puissances s’octroient désormais le droit d’attaquer des états plus faibles. Qu’en est-il réellement ? Et si Vladimir Poutine ne faisait que reproduire la logique étasunienne des 30 dernières années marquée par des actions unilatérales et souvent en contradiction avec le droit international ?
2022-03-24T00:00:00ZEUROPEAN UNION MEMBERSHIP STATUS AND DECENTRALIZATION: A TOP-DOWN APPROACHChacha, Mwitahttp://nur.nu.edu.kz:80/handle/123456789/61022023-11-11T14:45:36Z2020-01-01T00:00:00ZEUROPEAN UNION MEMBERSHIP STATUS AND DECENTRALIZATION: A TOP-DOWN APPROACH
Chacha, Mwita
Despite state resilience and the waning of the ‘Europe of the Regions’, European
integration persists in affecting subnational actors. Subnational actors have
maintained lobbying offices in Brussels to access European Union institutions
while others have continued to organize around regionalist parties in the
European Parliament. This study explores whether and how EU membership
has influenced decentralization. I argue that states exposed to
Europeanization, candidates and members of the EU, decentralize more
compared to non-EU states. Quantitative tests using recent data on regional
authority and three case studies of France, Poland, and Spain provide support
for this argument. This article contributes to the research on Europeanization
and multilevel governance by focusing on state-level motivations for
decentralization. This study’s findings allude to the need of examining how
other facets of European integration affect subnational actors and
investigating variations in decentralization between EU member-states.
2020-01-01T00:00:00ZONLINE TEMPTATIONS: DIVORCE AND EXTRAMARITAL AFFAIRS IN KAZAKHSTANDall’Agnola, JasminThibault, Hélènehttp://nur.nu.edu.kz:80/handle/123456789/59902022-02-01T21:00:09Z2021-08-18T00:00:00ZONLINE TEMPTATIONS: DIVORCE AND EXTRAMARITAL AFFAIRS IN KAZAKHSTAN
Dall’Agnola, Jasmin; Thibault, Hélène
In recent years, the institution of marriage in Muslim Central Asia has undergone profound transformations in terms of religious dynamics, migration patterns, and the impact of globalization. In Kazakhstan between 2014 and 2019, every third marriage ended in divorce. By examining how Muslim Kazakhs’ support for divorce and casual sex is related to their consumption of information obtained on the Internet, mobile phone, and social media, this study contributes to the growing body of literature on the transformative forces of information and communication technology (ICT) in Kazakhstan and Central Asia. It uses a mixed-method approach that contrasts wider statistical trends from the World Values Survey Wave 7 country dataset on Kazakhstan with empirical data from focus groups conducted in five different regions of the country in 2019, involving a total of 96 respondents. The findings from the statistical and non-statistical analysis show that frequent exposure to information online influences Muslim Kazakhs’ support for extramarital affairs and divorce. Yet, frequent use of ICTs does not necessarily weaken the institution of marriage. Apart from its effect on university-educated female Kazakh youth, it seems to reinforce traditional understanding of marriage obligations among older generations and young men.
2021-08-18T00:00:00ZTHE MIGRANT OTHER: EXCLUSION WITHOUT NATIONALISM?Schenk, Caresshttp://nur.nu.edu.kz:80/handle/123456789/58052021-09-16T21:00:46Z2021-02-09T00:00:00ZTHE MIGRANT OTHER: EXCLUSION WITHOUT NATIONALISM?
Schenk, Caress
Migrants are an easy, visible Other, seeming to fall neatly into the us-versus-Them framework of nationalism. Nevertheless, much of the scholarly approach to migrant identity, with the partial exception of a largely separate literature on citizenship, has eschewed overt ties to nationalism studies. When us-versus-Them language is used in relation to nationalism, the focus or nodal point is the identity of the seemingly homogenous us of the nation. However, when migrants are othered, the focus is not always the nation, and while othering migrants always creates exclusion, it is not always exclusion from a nation or identity group. This state of the field article analyzes the literature on populism, securitization, biopolitics, and other critical scholarship related to the issue of othering migrants. In each of these bodies of work, different sets of us are set against migrants, some of which evoke identity and others of which do not, elucidating the links (or the lack thereof) of each approach to the study of nationalism. In each of these frameworks, the migrant Other comes up against a different frame of reference, leaving migrants themselves (or any sense of migrant identity) somewhat lost amid the analytical frameworks, at continual risk of being re-othered as victims of circumstance without agency.
2021-02-09T00:00:00ZCAMPAIGNING BY HUMAN BRANDING: ASSOCIATING WITH AMERICAN PRESIDENTSCollins, Neilhttp://nur.nu.edu.kz:80/handle/123456789/57032021-08-25T21:00:44Z2020-09-08T00:00:00ZCAMPAIGNING BY HUMAN BRANDING: ASSOCIATING WITH AMERICAN PRESIDENTS
Collins, Neil
Human branding has become an essential issue in political marketing. It is exemplified in the election of American Presidents. This paper examines the American experience to suggest a typology of human branding that may apply in both presidential and other political systems. It examines examples of presidential human brands from George Washington on but, given significant changes to electoral procedures, concentrates on first-time successful presidential candidates since 1901. The fourfold typology offers an interrelated set of ideal types that will augment the analysis of human branding. It is applied to presidents when they take up office rather than after serving. The typology draws on the source of primary brand association and relation to the core political system of each politician
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