”Nomadity of Being” in Central Asia : Narratives of Kyrgyzstani Women’s Rights Activists Hardback
by Syinat Sultanalieva
Part of the Politics and History in Central Asia series
Hardback
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This book offers a new framework for understanding feminism and political activiism in Kyrgyzstan, “nomadity of being. ” Here, foreign information and requirements, even forced ones, are transformed into an amalgamation of the new and the old, alien and native—like kurak, a quilted patchwork blanket, made from scraps.
Conceptualizing feminist narratives in Kyrgyzstan, while keeping in mind, the complex relationship between ideological borrowing, actualization, appropriation or self-colonization of “feminist” concepts can expand both scholarly and activist understanding of specificities of post-Soviet feminisms from a historiographic point of view.
Kurak-feminism is feminism that is half-donor-commissioned, half-learned through interactions (personal, media, academic, professional), unashamed of its borrowed nature and working toward its own purpose that is being developed as the blanket is being quilted.
Weaving in elements from completely different and, to a Western eye, incompatible approaches nomadity of being might pave the way toward a Central Asian reframing of non-Western feminisms.
This provocative text will interest scholars of European politics, the post-Soviet sphere, and feminists.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:169 pages, 1 Illustrations, black and white; VIII, 169 p. 1 illus.
- Publisher:Springer Verlag, Singapore
- Publication Date:02/01/2023
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- ISBN:9789811954450
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:169 pages, 1 Illustrations, black and white; VIII, 169 p. 1 illus.
- Publisher:Springer Verlag, Singapore
- Publication Date:02/01/2023
- Category:
- ISBN:9789811954450
