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Monstrous femininity in kazakh folklore: delineating normative and transgressive womanhood

Karazhanova, Inzhuna (Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2016)

Representations of the feminine as monstrous can be found in any type of narrative from ancient mythology to modern video games. Witches, succubi, female vampires, sirens, furies, mermaids, possessed women, ghost women, ...
NARRATIVES OF KUMIS CONSUMPTION AND PRODUCTION IN CONTEMPORARY KAZAKHSTAN

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 ...
NATIONALISM FROM THE MARGINS: A CRITICAL STUDY OF ELITIST HISTORIOGRAPHY AND POLITICS IN MĀWARĀʾ AL-NAHR AND KHURĀSĀN (LATER UZBEKISTAN, TAJIKISTAN AND AFGHANISTAN), 1800-1950.

Ahwar, Ahmad Javeed (School of Sciences and Humanities, 2023)

This dissertation traces the history of national ideas in Māwarāʾ al-Nahr and Khurāsān, later known as Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Afghanistan, from the margins. This study follows the transformations of ideas of differences ...
NEITHER ALLOWED TO GET OLD, NOR ALLOWED TO STAY YOUNG: URBAN KAZAKHSTANI AGED WOMEN NEGOTIATE AGEING

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 ...
Not Suitable for Kazakhs? Authenticity and National Identity in Contemporary Kazakhstani Music

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 ...
Origins of Bosnian Humor and Its Role During the Siege of Sarajevo

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 ...
PATRIOTIC AND PRAGMATIC. TRANSNATIONAL INVOLVEMENT OF CURRENT AND FORMER INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS FROM KAZAKHSTAN IN THE US

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 ...
PERCEPTIONS OF VOLUNTEERING EXPERIENCES OF YOUNG VOLUNTEERS IN KAZAKHSTAN

Boteu, Saltanat (Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2017)

This study applies qualitative exploratory research methodology as it seeks to study the volunteering phenomenon in Kazakhstan from the perspectives of people who are involved in volunteering. The volunteering phenomenon ...
PERCEPTIONS OF YOUNG PEOPLE ABOUT THE GREAT FAMINE OF THE 1930s IN KAZAKHSTAN

Saniyazova, Zhanar (Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2021-06)

Since 2012 on May 31, Kazakhstan commemorates the victims of the famine of the 1930s. Though there is a growing body of research on the famine of the 1930s in Kazakhstan both locally and internationally, there is lack ...
THE POLITICAL POWER OF THE MEDIEVAL ECCLESIASTICAL AUTHORITIES AND THE MAMLUK-ILKHANATE WARFARE BETWEEN 1284 AND 1304: COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE ARMENIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH AND THE ASSYRIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH IN CILICIAN ARMENIA AND ILKHANATE

Saduakassov, Aidar (Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2021-06)

The modern history often avoids researching the marginalized medieval Christian religious institutions due to the lack of their political significance. However, the medieval accounts present the information about their ...
Postcolonial readings of Oralkhan Bȯkei’s works

Berdikhojayeva, Laura (Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2016)

This study explores the relationship between literature and the social, historical, political and cultural themes in the literary works of the Kazakh writer Oralkhan Bȯkei. It discusses the postcolonial aspects of Bȯkei’s ...
Restrained by uyat [shame]: culture of dating and romantic relationships among urban Kyrgyz youth

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 ...
THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE AND THE MUSLIM REVOLT IN XINJIANG, 1860-1870s

Shtumpf, Alexandr (Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2021-06)

In 1864 a revolt by Muslim communities of Xinjiang precluded for more than a decade Qing presence in the region. The Muslim rebels eventually made attempts at establishing new political entities throughout Xinjiang. ...
SHUTTLE TRADING IN KAZAKHSTAN: ORAL HISTORIES OF WOMEN TRADERS AND THEIR CHILDREN

Satova, Damesh (Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2021-06)

Tourist traders emerged in the early 1990s as a predominantly female response to the collapse of state systems, job cutbacks, shortages in commodities - the chaos that enveloped newly emerging nation-states. There is ...
The socio-cultural underpinnings of the life insurance market in Kazakhstan

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 ...
The development of social capital among Bolashak graduates and the Alumni of other international programs in Astana

Akhmetov, Alibek (Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2016)

In this master’s thesis I focus on the development of social capital among Kazakhstani youth. In particular, I aim to investigate the way people with international qualifications enrich their social capital in Astana. ...
TOWARD RUSSOPHONE SUPER-LITERATURE: MAKING SUBJECTIVITIES, SPACES AND TEMPORALITIES IN POST-SOVIET KAZAKHSTANI RUSSOPHONE WRITING

Melnikov, Dmitriy (Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2017)

This thesis is devoted to the analysis of literary works by a number of the leading post-Soviet Russophone Kazakhstani writers: Anuar Duisenbinov, Bakhyt Kairbekov, Diusenbek Nakipov, Nikolai Verёvochkin, Il’ia Odegov ...
TRADERS OF THE CENTRAL BAZAAR IN ASTANA: A PERSPECTIVE ON MOTIVES AND SOCIAL NETWORKS

Baitas, Meiirzhan (Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2017)

This MA thesis focuses on the Central Bazaar traders in Astana that were recruited via convenience and snowball sampling. The goal of the research is to investigate the reasons for becoming a trader, identifying factors ...
The unofficial Russo-Qing trade on the eastern Kazakh steppe and in northern Xinjiang in the first half of the 19th century

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 ...
What to Throw Away? Perspectives on Waste Management in Nur-Sultan

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 ...