CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2011
| Author | Kim, Maya |
|---|---|
| Title | (Re)defining National Identity in Post-Soviet Central Asia: the Cases of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan |
| Summary | Through the analysis of identity production and nation-building projects in the independent Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, the study aims to examine how the weak state contests national identity and defines nationality today and why it has chosen a particular discourse over others. It seeks to understand why nation-building appeared so problematic and how a deeply fragmented society evolved which challenges attempts to introduce state-national identity embracing its whole citizenry. The study suggests that understanding the legacy of the nationality policy effected in institutionalization of nationhood and ethnicity both territorially and ethnoculturally reveals the dynamics of the current discourse on national identity in the successor states carried out by national elites. By looking at the Soviet institutions of territorial nationhood and personal nationality the analysis attempts to demonstrate how they pervaded into the post-Soviet space of social classification and still constitute basic categories of identity. |
| Supervisor | Matteo Fumagalli; Szabolcs Pogonyi |
| Department | Nationalism Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2011/kim_maya.pdf |
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