Kazakhstan's National Identity - Building Policy: Soviet Legacy, State Efforts, and Societal Reactions

IF 0.2 Q4 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS CORNELL INTERNATIONAL LAW JOURNAL Pub Date : 2017-01-01 DOI:10.31228/osf.io/2hfr6
A. Burkhanov
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The collapse of the Soviet Union led to profound changes in ethnicity and identity policies and practices in the newly independent countries, including Kazakhstan. The ethnically diverse population of Kazakhstan presented a particularly unique challenge for the new regime and its approaches to the identity-building policies. This paper focuses on the ethnic and identity-building policies of Kazakhstan and offers an overview of the legal framework regulating language use, education, media, citizenship, and official identity policy. The paper also focuses on the de-facto implementation of the officially stated policies and explores reasons behind inconsistencies and discrepancies between the declared policies and situation on the ground. Finally, this paper also looks at the societal reactions towards the official identity and language policies, expressed in the country’s public and media discourse. This paper argues that the post-independence Kazakhstan’s and identity-building process is affected by several important implications, including legacy of the Soviet nationality policy, significant amount of continuity with late-Soviet policies and practices, search for a new identity and the regime’s aim to prevent political confrontation along ethnic lines by assuring Kazakh hegemony while allowing nominal minority representation.
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哈萨克斯坦的国家认同建设政策:苏联遗产、国家努力和社会反应
苏联的解体导致包括哈萨克斯坦在内的新独立国家的种族和身份政策和做法发生了深刻的变化。哈萨克斯坦不同种族的人口对新政权及其对建立身份的政策的做法提出了特别独特的挑战。本文重点关注哈萨克斯坦的民族和身份认同政策,并概述了规范语言使用、教育、媒体、公民身份和官方身份政策的法律框架。本文还关注了官方政策的实际执行情况,并探讨了所宣布的政策与实际情况之间不一致和差异的原因。最后,本文也探讨了社会对官方身份和语言政策的反应,这些政策在国家的公众和媒体话语中表达出来。本文认为,独立后的哈萨克斯坦及其身份建构过程受到几个重要因素的影响,包括苏联民族政策的遗产、苏联后期政策和实践的大量连续性、对新身份的寻求以及政权的目标,即通过确保哈萨克霸权,同时允许名义上的少数民族代表,防止沿着民族界线的政治对抗。
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