Ainur Begim
Biographic Data
| ID | 648795 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ainur Begim |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ainur |
| FAMILY NAME | Begim |
| SIGNATURE | BEGIM A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Norwegian University of Science and Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6509-5413 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
ESG investments, economic moralities, and data-driven ethics in the age of sustainability
"If It Is Stocks, It Is Not Supposed to Be a Pyramid Scheme!" Financial Consultants, Illiberal Economies, and State-Led Financialization in Postsocialist Kazakhstan
This article examines how the formal state-centered economy and the informal economic sphere in Kazakhstan are enmeshed and intertwined. In analyzing these entanglements, I draw on Hayden and Muir's concept of "illiberal economies," defined as alternative paradoxical spaces that are at once critical of formal economic institutions and also reliant on those institutions for procurement of value. I examine two illiberal economies, a state-led finan…
Surreal events, “TV zombies,” and social media in postsocialist Kazakhstan: Reflecting on violence in Russia’s sphere of influence
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which came on the heels of violent domestic protests in January 2022, elicited powerful reactions in postsocialist Kazakhstan. For the past thirty years Kazakhstan has been a close economic and political ally of Russia but in the aftermath of the invasion, the relations between the two countries are fragile. Kazakhstanis are split over the war in Ukraine along ethnic and generational lines. The pro-Russia camp is anx…
How to retire like a Soviet person: Informality, household finances, and kinship in financialized Kazakhstan
What motivates financially savvy and well-to-do Kazakhstanis to invest in illegal financial products peddled by informal financial consultants? This article examines how such consultants capitalize on citizens' discontent with the state and its management of the financial sphere and position their products as means of achieving socialist-era security through Western financial technologies. By attending to the emergent space between idealized soci…
How to retire like a Soviet person: Informality, household finances, and kinship in financialized Kazakhstan
What motivates financially savvy and well-to-do Kazakhstanis to invest in illegal financial products peddled by informal financial consultants? This article examines how such consultants capitalize on citizens' discontent with the state and its management of the financial sphere and position their products as means of achieving socialist-era security through Western financial technologies. By attending to the emergent space between idealized soci…
How to retire like a Soviet person: Informality, household finances, and kinship in financialized Kazakhstan
What motivates financially savvy and well-to-do Kazakhstanis to invest in illegal financial products peddled by informal financial consultants? This article examines how such consultants capitalize on citizens' discontent with the state and its management of the financial sphere and position their products as means of achieving socialist-era security through Western financial technologies. By attending to the emergent space between idealized soci…
Surreal events, “TV zombies,” and social media in postsocialist Kazakhstan: Reflecting on violence in Russia’s sphere of influence
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which came on the heels of violent domestic protests in January 2022, elicited powerful reactions in postsocialist Kazakhstan. For the past thirty years Kazakhstan has been a close economic and political ally of Russia but in the aftermath of the invasion, the relations between the two countries are fragile. Kazakhstanis are split over the war in Ukraine along ethnic and generational lines. The pro-Russia camp is anx…
"If It Is Stocks, It Is Not Supposed to Be a Pyramid Scheme!" Financial Consultants, Illiberal Economies, and State-Led Financialization in Postsocialist Kazakhstan
This article examines how the formal state-centered economy and the informal economic sphere in Kazakhstan are enmeshed and intertwined. In analyzing these entanglements, I draw on Hayden and Muir's concept of "illiberal economies," defined as alternative paradoxical spaces that are at once critical of formal economic institutions and also reliant on those institutions for procurement of value. I examine two illiberal economies, a state-led finan…
ESG investments, economic moralities, and data-driven ethics in the age of sustainability
Politics (3 works) · Capitalism (2 works) · Financialization (2 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political economy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Ancient history (1 works) · Anthropology (1 works)