Kristopher D White
Biographic Data
| ID | 3647576 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kristopher D White |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kristopher D |
| FAMILY NAME | White |
| SIGNATURE | WHITE K D |
| AFFILIATIONS | KIMEP University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Narrating the state in miniature
Postage stamps, despite being somewhat cloaked over time by both obscurity and sheer ubiquity, are important official, primary source state documents. The iconography and visual data on the stamp have been used by states to project an official narrative, at times crossing into propaganda. Scholars have analysed these data to access how a given state has sought to portray itself to both domestic and international audiences. Over the course of its …
The Snow Leopard and Cultural Landscape in Contemporary Kazakhstan
The snow leopard ( Panthera uncia ) is commonly seen in the cultural landscape within the Republic of Kazakhstan. This contrasts rather starkly with the endangered species’ presence on the natural landscape there. Three contemporary cultural landscape sightings of the snow leopard in Kazakhstan—the Almaty zoological park, the Kazakhstan 2030 strategy initiative, and the 2011 Asian Winter Games—are explored here. The positive imagery and symbolism…
A geographical perspective on the Aral Sea crisis
The Aral Sea crisis has gained global notoriety as a human-induced environmental disaster. This paper contextualizes this crisis within a broad geographical framework. Three interpretations of a single photographic image emblematic of the desiccation of the Aral Sea are related to general foci within the academic discipline of geography. These interpretations serve to guide a framing of the Aral Sea crisis within a geographical context. This is p…
Power Games in the Caucasus
Nature–Society Linkages in the Aral Sea Region
Central Asia's Aral Sea crisis represents a disaster of monumental proportions, a tragedy for both the region's ecology and its human inhabitants. While the human and natural environments had operated in a sustainable co-joined system for millennia, Tsarist Russian expansion into Central Asia, followed by Soviet expansion of both the cotton industry and unsustainable irrigation practices to anchor it spelled doom for the Aral Sea. Today, many of …
Central Asia and the Caucasus
Central Asia and the Caucasus: transnationalism and diaspora, edited by Touraj Atabaki and Sanjyot Mehendale, London and New York, Routledge, 2005, xii + 242 pp., Index, £24.95 (paperback), ISBN 97
Azerbaijan
Suha Bolukbasi. Azerbaijan: A Political History . I.B. Tauris, London, 2011. pp. xvi + 292. Maps. Illust. Notes. Bibliog. Index. Hb. £56.50. ISBN 9 7818 4885 6202 As its title suggests, the volume
Nature–Society Linkages in the Aral Sea Region
Central Asia's Aral Sea crisis represents a disaster of monumental proportions, a tragedy for both the region's ecology and its human inhabitants. While the human and natural environments had operated in a sustainable co-joined system for millennia, Tsarist Russian expansion into Central Asia, followed by Soviet expansion of both the cotton industry and unsustainable irrigation practices to anchor it spelled doom for the Aral Sea. Today, many of …
Narrating the state in miniature
Postage stamps, despite being somewhat cloaked over time by both obscurity and sheer ubiquity, are important official, primary source state documents. The iconography and visual data on the stamp have been used by states to project an official narrative, at times crossing into propaganda. Scholars have analysed these data to access how a given state has sought to portray itself to both domestic and international audiences. Over the course of its …
The Snow Leopard and Cultural Landscape in Contemporary Kazakhstan
The snow leopard ( Panthera uncia ) is commonly seen in the cultural landscape within the Republic of Kazakhstan. This contrasts rather starkly with the endangered species’ presence on the natural landscape there. Three contemporary cultural landscape sightings of the snow leopard in Kazakhstan—the Almaty zoological park, the Kazakhstan 2030 strategy initiative, and the 2011 Asian Winter Games—are explored here. The positive imagery and symbolism…
Nature–Society Linkages in the Aral Sea Region
Central Asia's Aral Sea crisis represents a disaster of monumental proportions, a tragedy for both the region's ecology and its human inhabitants. While the human and natural environments had operated in a sustainable co-joined system for millennia, Tsarist Russian expansion into Central Asia, followed by Soviet expansion of both the cotton industry and unsustainable irrigation practices to anchor it spelled doom for the Aral Sea. Today, many of …
Central Asia and the Caucasus
Central Asia and the Caucasus: transnationalism and diaspora, edited by Touraj Atabaki and Sanjyot Mehendale, London and New York, Routledge, 2005, xii + 242 pp., Index, £24.95 (paperback), ISBN 97
Azerbaijan
Suha Bolukbasi. Azerbaijan: A Political History . I.B. Tauris, London, 2011. pp. xvi + 292. Maps. Illust. Notes. Bibliog. Index. Hb. £56.50. ISBN 9 7818 4885 6202 As its title suggests, the volume
A geographical perspective on the Aral Sea crisis
The Aral Sea crisis has gained global notoriety as a human-induced environmental disaster. This paper contextualizes this crisis within a broad geographical framework. Three interpretations of a single photographic image emblematic of the desiccation of the Aral Sea are related to general foci within the academic discipline of geography. These interpretations serve to guide a framing of the Aral Sea crisis within a geographical context. This is p…
Power Games in the Caucasus
The Snow Leopard and Cultural Landscape in Contemporary Kazakhstan
The snow leopard ( Panthera uncia ) is commonly seen in the cultural landscape within the Republic of Kazakhstan. This contrasts rather starkly with the endangered species’ presence on the natural landscape there. Three contemporary cultural landscape sightings of the snow leopard in Kazakhstan—the Almaty zoological park, the Kazakhstan 2030 strategy initiative, and the 2011 Asian Winter Games—are explored here. The positive imagery and symbolism…
Narrating the state in miniature
Postage stamps, despite being somewhat cloaked over time by both obscurity and sheer ubiquity, are important official, primary source state documents. The iconography and visual data on the stamp have been used by states to project an official narrative, at times crossing into propaganda. Scholars have analysed these data to access how a given state has sought to portray itself to both domestic and international audiences. Over the course of its …
Political science (5 works) · Geography (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Ecology (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Central asia (2 works)