Maize-farming Forever
Path Dependency and Friction in South-east Kazakhstan’s ‘Post-Soviet’ Borderland Agriculture
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13063443 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Henryk Alff (0000-0003-2577-0928, Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 270-292 |
| Publication date | 2023-12-28 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Central Asian Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2214-2282 • E-ISSN: 2214-2290 |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.30965/22142290-bja10040 |
| OpenAlex | W4390365866 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 20 |
Based on qualitative and ethnographic field research in the Panfilov District of Almaty Region, Kazakhstan, and selected supportive quantitative data, this contribution explores the dynamics of agricultural transformation along the former Sino-Soviet border since the mid-1990s. It particularly scrutinises path dependency, as well as friction, in cultivation patterns navigated by local agricultural actors in the face of changing irrigation water and infrastructural access, commodification schemes and alternative employment opportunities that are produced by emerging transborder (and increasingly globalised) infrastructures. Therefore, how do agricultural actors in Panfilov District make sense of and negotiate past and current agricultural development at the local level? The article aims to provide a reflection of what the analytical ‘post-Soviet’ category might still mean from an everyday life perspective in a borderland context affected by socio-political neglect and newly evolving connections alike
Agriculture · Commodification · Context (archaeology · Economic growth · Economics · Economy · Ethnography · Everyday life · Face (sociological concept · Field (mathematics · Geography · Negotiation · Participant observation · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Cross-Border Cooperation and Integration · Post-Communist Economic and Political Transition · Urbanization and City Planning
Russia's economy of favours
Theories of the Policy Process
Understanding the Process of Economic Change
Subverting Borders
Friction
Seeing Like a State
Exploring China’s borderlands in an era of BRI-induced change
The Political Lives of Dead Bodies
Producers' cooperation within or against cooperative agricultural institutions? The case of reindeer husbandry in Post-Soviet Russia
Liberal land reform in Kazakhstan? The effect on land rental and credit markets
Kazakhstan’s leverage and economic diversification amid Chinese connectivity dreams
Rural development and the entwining of dependencies
Getting stuck within flows
Beyond the Steppe Frontier
The bridge that divides
The Uighurs of the Kazakstan Borderlands
How can I be post-Soviet if I was never Soviet?’ Rethinking categories of time and social change – a perspective from Kulob, southern Tajikistan
Folklorized politics
Seeing Like a StateHow Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
Markets and Moralities
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |