Doctoral Dissertation Research: From Almaty to Astana: Authoritarianism, Nationalism, and Kazakhstan's Capital Change

博士论文研究：从阿拉木图到阿斯塔纳：威权主义、民族主义与哈萨克斯坦首都变更

• 批准号: 1003836
• 负责人: John O'Loughlin
• 金额: $ 1.2万
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Boulder
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-08-01 至 2012-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1003836&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Almaty; Astana

This project examines state strategies and the nature of popular and elite geopolitical culture in Kazakhstan. It highlights the contested nature of the state project to promote a particular vision of national identity in Kazakhstan. The central research questions are: How has the state decision to move the capital to Astana been used to promote a particular "Kazakhstani" identity? And how has this been interpreted by the people of Kazakhstan? In answering these questions, this study will employ both quantitative and qualitative methods, including a country-wide survey (of 1,500 respondents), textual analysis, focus groups, and interviews. Furthermore, the research project will explore the ways in which the citizens of Kazakhstan have actively engaged in the interpretation of the state's identity project. The researcher will also shed light on contestations and multiple articulations of identity in Kazakhstan. The capital city change is used as a focal point for understanding the population's articulations of their identity and their geopolitical imaginations. The findings of the proposed research will contribute to advancing knowledge by linking theoretical and methodological approaches to the investigation of nationalism of a region currently undergoing significant political changes. The project draws heavily on the regional studies tradition, highlighting the centrality of deep regional knowledge to the generation of theory and empirical field research in geography. Furthermore, Kazakhstan is an important site for this study because Central Asia is a particularly neglected region within the discipline of geography. Although Kazakhstan has a small population of 16 million people with a territorial size of 2.7 million sq km, its strategic significance cannot be underestimated given that the country is home to vast oil and gas reserves and is one of the world's leading producers of uranium ore. As a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement award, this award also will provide support to enable a promising student to establish a strong independent research career. This project is jointly supported by the NSF Geography and Spatial Sciences Program and the NSF Office of International Science and Engineering.

该项目研究了哈萨克斯坦的国家策略和流行和精英地缘政治文化的性质。它强调了国家项目的有争议的本质，以促进哈萨克斯坦的民族认同的特殊愿景。中心研究问题是：国​​家决定将资本转移到阿斯塔纳的决定如何用于促进特定的“哈萨克斯坦”身份？哈萨克斯坦人民如何解释这件事？在回答这些问题时，本研究将采用定量和定性方法，包括（1,500名受访者），文本分析，焦点小组和访谈。此外，该研究项目将探索哈萨克斯坦公民积极参与该州身份项目的方式。研究人员还将阐明哈萨克斯坦的比赛和多个身份表达。首都的变化被用作了解人口对其身份和地缘政治想象的表达的焦点。拟议研究的发现将通过将理论和方法论方法与当前经历重大政治变化的地区的民族主义联系起来，从而有助于提高知识。该项目在很大程度上借鉴了区域研究的传统，强调了深度区域知识对地理学理论和经验领域研究的中心地位。此外，哈萨克斯坦是这项研究的重要场所，因为中亚是地理学科中特别忽视的地区。尽管哈萨克斯坦的人口少于1600万人口，其领土规模为270万平方公里，但由于该国是庞大的石油和天然气储量的家园，其战略意义不可低估，并且是世界领先的铀矿石生产国之一。作为博士学位论文研究改进奖，该奖项还将提供支持，使有前途的学生能够建立强大的独立研究职业。 NSF地理和空间科学计划和NSF国际科学与工程办公室共同支持该项目。