CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2012
| Author | Kelner, Courtney Marie |
|---|---|
| Title | Social Reproduction in Transition: Kyrgyzstani Language Policies and Higher Education |
| Summary | Since 1991, the Central Asian state of Kyrgyzstan has chosen a variety of legal and institutional approaches, pulling from both the assimilationist and multiculturalist toolkits, in attempt to transition from Soviet Union membership, to an independent, nationally coherent and institutionally inclusive statehood. While state policies have struggled to simultaneously balance many interrelated goals, language continues to cross-cut the entire nation-building project and exercise its symbolic power on all policy formulations. This paper takes a critical approach to assessing the interplay between nation-building projects and language policy formulations and outcomes. Focusing on the obstacles to educational reform in Kyrgyzstan's transitional context, linguistic divisions at all level of education are explored through the conceptual lens of linguistic capital. Policies seeking to address the distribution of this capital are constrained by the upheaval of transition, low state capacity, and rural/urban cleavages. Because of these obstacles and the social reproduction they evoke, reform and relapse of multilingual educational policies in Kyrgyzstan exacerbate social stratification along linguistic, class, and regional cleavages. |
| Supervisor | Kovács, Mária |
| Department | Nationalism Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2012/kelner_courtney.pdf |
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