Post-Colonial Approaches in Kazakhstan and Beyond: Politics, Culture and Literature

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Dina Sharipova is an Associate professor at the Graduate School of Public Policy at Nazarbayev University in Astana. Her research interests include nation and state-building security issues formal and informal institutions civil society and well-being in Central Asia. Dr. Sharipova is the author of the book State-building in Kazakhstan: Continuity and Transformation of Informal Institutions Lexington Books 2018. She has published in Europe-Asia Studies Journal Nationalism and Ethnic Politics Central Asian Survey Nationalities Papers and in other scholarly journals.Alima Bissenova is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Nazarbayev University. She specializes in urban anthropology anthropology of Islam postcolonial studies and intellectual history. She has published her work in English and Russian in the journals Religion State and Society Europe-Asia Studies AB Imperio Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie Sotsiologiya Vlasti.Aziz Burkhanov is an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Public Policy at Nazarbayev University in Astana Kazakhstan. His research interests include nationalism and identity theories and national identity politics policies and practices with a special focus on identity issues and their perceptions in the public narratives in the former Soviet area. Dr. Burkhanov has published his work in Cornell International Law Journal Nationalism and Ethnic Politics and Ethnic and Racial Studies among others.