Botakoz Kassymbekova
Biographic Data
| ID | 1708483 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Botakoz Kassymbekova |
| GIVEN NAMES | Botakoz |
| FAMILY NAME | Kassymbekova |
| SIGNATURE | KASSYMBEKOVA B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7079-9300 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Aufsätze / Articles. Imperiale Unschuld als Identität und Methode
The article sets current colonial war narratives in historical perspective. It argues that one should understand Russia’s insistence on cultural unity with Ukrainians through the lens of settler colonialism. In contrast to overseas extractive colonial regimes, which based their rule on highlighting difference with the colonized, settler colonialism works through politics of assimilation and elimination of cultural difference. Settler colonial reg…
On writing Soviet History of Central Asia
The article reviews major frameworks for re-evaluating Soviet Central Asian history in anglophone scholarship after the collapse of the Soviet Union. It tackles recent popular concepts such as ‘modernity’, ‘development’ and ‘modernization’ for analysing the Soviet past in the region. It questions the analytical value of the terms as well as their ability to capture the complexity of social, political and economic changes that Central Asia underwe…
Drinking for the Revolution in Stalinabad
The article analyzes a photographic representation of a Soviet banquet in celebration of the fifteenth anniversary of the socialist revolution in Tajikistan in 1932. Reading spatial arrangements and semiotics at the Soviet festivity as representations of power, it examines how the table manifests Soviet “center” and “periphery” and investigates the role that alcohol played in producing and negotiating political hierarchies
Understanding Stalinism in, from and of Central Asia
Despite Cultures
Humans as territory
This article re-evaluates the history of internal resettlement in Soviet Tajikistan in the 1920s and early 1930s. Rather than a purely 'economic' measure, as the policy has thus far been identified by historians, the programme of internal resettlement had political and military rationales to secure the republic's southern plains bordering Afghanistan. These territories were considered by Soviet leaders to be insecure and under threat. By pointing…
Helpless imperialists
This article examines everyday realities of the state-building process in early Soviet Tajikistan. The work concentrates exclusively on the experiences of ‘European’ state workers, that is, their uncertain position as ‘imperialists’, and points to nuances of the early Soviet state building. By observing the mundane micro-level experiences of the state actors from the European parts of the Soviet Union in Central Asia, the author proposes to treat…
Humans as territory
This article re-evaluates the history of internal resettlement in Soviet Tajikistan in the 1920s and early 1930s. Rather than a purely 'economic' measure, as the policy has thus far been identified by historians, the programme of internal resettlement had political and military rationales to secure the republic's southern plains bordering Afghanistan. These territories were considered by Soviet leaders to be insecure and under threat. By pointing…
On writing Soviet History of Central Asia
The article reviews major frameworks for re-evaluating Soviet Central Asian history in anglophone scholarship after the collapse of the Soviet Union. It tackles recent popular concepts such as ‘modernity’, ‘development’ and ‘modernization’ for analysing the Soviet past in the region. It questions the analytical value of the terms as well as their ability to capture the complexity of social, political and economic changes that Central Asia underwe…
Understanding Stalinism in, from and of Central Asia
Helpless imperialists
This article examines everyday realities of the state-building process in early Soviet Tajikistan. The work concentrates exclusively on the experiences of ‘European’ state workers, that is, their uncertain position as ‘imperialists’, and points to nuances of the early Soviet state building. By observing the mundane micro-level experiences of the state actors from the European parts of the Soviet Union in Central Asia, the author proposes to treat…
Humans as territory
This article re-evaluates the history of internal resettlement in Soviet Tajikistan in the 1920s and early 1930s. Rather than a purely 'economic' measure, as the policy has thus far been identified by historians, the programme of internal resettlement had political and military rationales to secure the republic's southern plains bordering Afghanistan. These territories were considered by Soviet leaders to be insecure and under threat. By pointing…
Helpless imperialists
This article examines everyday realities of the state-building process in early Soviet Tajikistan. The work concentrates exclusively on the experiences of ‘European’ state workers, that is, their uncertain position as ‘imperialists’, and points to nuances of the early Soviet state building. By observing the mundane micro-level experiences of the state actors from the European parts of the Soviet Union in Central Asia, the author proposes to treat…
Despite Cultures
Understanding Stalinism in, from and of Central Asia
Drinking for the Revolution in Stalinabad
The article analyzes a photographic representation of a Soviet banquet in celebration of the fifteenth anniversary of the socialist revolution in Tajikistan in 1932. Reading spatial arrangements and semiotics at the Soviet festivity as representations of power, it examines how the table manifests Soviet “center” and “periphery” and investigates the role that alcohol played in producing and negotiating political hierarchies
On writing Soviet History of Central Asia
The article reviews major frameworks for re-evaluating Soviet Central Asian history in anglophone scholarship after the collapse of the Soviet Union. It tackles recent popular concepts such as ‘modernity’, ‘development’ and ‘modernization’ for analysing the Soviet past in the region. It questions the analytical value of the terms as well as their ability to capture the complexity of social, political and economic changes that Central Asia underwe…
Aufsätze / Articles. Imperiale Unschuld als Identität und Methode
The article sets current colonial war narratives in historical perspective. It argues that one should understand Russia’s insistence on cultural unity with Ukrainians through the lens of settler colonialism. In contrast to overseas extractive colonial regimes, which based their rule on highlighting difference with the colonized, settler colonialism works through politics of assimilation and elimination of cultural difference. Settler colonial reg…
History (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Soviet and Russian History (5 works) · Central asia (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics (2 works)