Outer space technopolitics and postcolonial modernity in Kazakhstan
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چکیده
This article examines the role of outer space technopolitics in post-Soviet Kazakhstan. It explores how space, technological artefact global relevance, works as a postcolonial fetish modernity that is called upon to produce what it represents, is, reality technologically advanced Kazakh nation. The shows its project becoming spacefaring nation country reiterates major incentives have motivated nuclear and programme development context Global South. collaboration with Russia allows Kazakhstan claim share Soviet legacy rather than distance itself from it. study then traces rise new internationalism Kazakhstani outside context. contributes debate on has been used enhance conventional domain national ideologies – nativism tradition technology science. Finally, depicts growing resistance among civil society groups reveals close association environmental agenda an ‘eco-nationalism’ permeated by profoundly anti-imperial and, ultimately, anti-authoritarian political discourse.
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عنوان ژورنال: Central Asian Survey
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['1465-3354', '0263-4937']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02634937.2021.1893273