Diana T. Kudaibergen (University of Cambridge)

The Kazakh Spring

Digital Activism and the Challenge to Dictatorship

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Produktbeschreibung

Combining original interview data, digital ethnography and contentious politics studies, Kudaibergenova argues that the new generation of activists have been able to de-legitimise and counter one of the most resilient authoritarianism regimes and inspire mass protests that none of the formalised opposition ever imagined possible in Kazakhstan.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9781009454261
• ISBN-10: 1009454269
• Artikelnr.: 69727234

Autorenporträt

Diana T. Kudaibergen is a political sociologist. She teaches sociology at the University of Cambridge where she is also a fellow at Homerton College.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. What is the Kazakh Spring? 2. Who are Oyan, Qazaqstan?
3. Deconstructing Vlast'
4. Performing the state, performing the protest
5. Generation Q and decolonizing Alash
6. The public square and the body under authoritarian pressures
7. Queering the public sphere
8. Making sense of the Bloody January 2022 mass protests (with Marlene Laruelle)
Conclusions.