Utetileuova, Togzhan(Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2021-06)
This thesis explores the experience of being an ethnic returnee, an individual “returning”
to the land where their ancestors had once migrated from. Return motivations, post-return
experiences, and transnational ...
Koldeyeva, Dana(Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2021-06)
As one of the new actors in the global higher education market, South Korea has enhanced its
international competitiveness over the last two decades. Education policies aimed at receiving
international recognition have ...
Ilyassov, Dulat(Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2020)
This thesis examines the construction and expression of a queer identity on the example
of queer fiction written in Kazakh in modern Kazakhstan. A single work of fiction titled
“Renaissance”, and written by a young Kazakh ...
Kimel, Zhansaule(Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2020-07-16)
Many people believe that shuttle trade does not exist anymore and it is a thing of the past. Shuttle trade as an activity in which individual peddlers buy goods abroad and import them for resale in local markets and street ...
Ten, Yuliya(Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2020-07-26)
While gender binarism and heterosexual relations are widely present in traditional art spaces
such as museums and art exhibitions in modern Kazakhstan, non-normative gender and sexual
behavior can rarely be seen there. ...
Orlov, David(Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2020-05-01)
During the socialist period, under the rule of Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslavia has experienced an unprecedented peaceful period that lasted for several decades, however, it was followed by the disastrous Yugoslav Wars in the ...
Real Avila, Sandra(Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2019)
Kumis, a beverage made with fermented mare´s milk, is a part of national cuisine, symbol of health, and unique cultural identity in modern Kazakhstan. It is also a part of the traditional cycle of horse husbandry and the ...
Baltabayeva, Gaukhar(Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2019)
International students are generally neglected as a type of migrating population in the literature. However, building on transnationalism theory in migration studies, the present thesis demonstrates that current and former ...
Kaliyeva, Assem(Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2019)
The waste management system of Nur-Sultan is a large-scale complex that provides the services like waste collection, sorting, recycling and burying in the landfill. The main organizations that are directly involved in these ...
Kosherbayeva, Adel(Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2019)
Critical literature on ageing and old age points to the pervasiveness of ageism, whereas aged people do not celebrate high social status in modern industrial capitalist societies. At the same time, anti-ageing discourses ...
Otan, Merey(Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2019)
In the two decades since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the musical landscape in Kazakhstan has come to include diverse localized versions of global music. The alternative soundscape of modern Kazakhstan encompasses ...
Tashmanbetova, Zhuldyz(Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2019)
In 2016 archeologists discovered the medieval city of Ilibalyk in modern day
Kazakhstan. This new and exciting archeological excavation of the medieval archeological
site Ilibalyk reveals the presence of the Church of ...
Udod, Xeniya(Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2018)
This thesis is an exploratory qualitative study into the recent revival of feminism which is now gaining its momentum in Kazakhstan, where several feminist unions and numerous individual activists publicly promote feminist ...
Matkarimova, Karina(Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2018)
The research represents a case study and explores Germany’s “soft power” strategy in Kazakhstan in terms of education and culture. Since no research has been conducted before on this matter, the author attempts to provide ...
Wang, Di(Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2018)
The Treaty of Kuldja (Ili) signed in 1851 between the Russian empire and the Qing empire marked the start of the official Russo-Qing trade in Xinjiang. This thesis aims to explore the generally neglected pre-1851 unofficial ...
Zhanabayeva, Nurgul(Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2018)
This thesis is an exploratory qualitative study of the culture of premarital dating and romantic relationships among urban Kyrgyz youth in the city of Bishkek. Drawing from focus group discussions and individual in-depth ...
Kagarmanova, Aigerim(Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2018)
This study focuses on different modalities of social media trade in Kazakhstan and how sellers create trust online using platform features, personal skills and physical locations of stores associated with social media ...
Kalamysheva, Togzhan(Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2018-05-10)
This thesis analyzes the determinants of the life insurance demand in Kazakhstan. The aim of this study was to find how Kazakhs perceive life insurance as a market product and how the perception impacts the consumption ...
Karatayev, Marat; Kapsalyamova, Zhanna; Spankulova, Lazat; Skakova, Aizhan; Movkebayeva, Galiya; Kongyrbay, Adilet(Sustainability of Water Quality and Ecology, 2017-11-01)
Abstract The water availability in Kazakhstan is 37000 m3 per one km2 and 3650 m3 per capita a year, an amount that is lower than the world average (around 6000 m3) (Knoema, 2016). It is expected that water availability ...
Abstract The occurrence of both natural and man-made disasters is inescapable, but the consequences for the lives of vulnerable communities can be mitigated. United Nation (UN) and organizations such as the Federal Emergency ...