His research focuses on nation-building and institutions in post-Soviet Central Asia.

Rico Isaacs is Reader in Politics at Oxford Brookes University.

The Steppe, Disorientation, Division and Corruption: Social and Economic Visions of Modern Nationhood The Kazakh Steppe The Urban-rural Divide Struggles with Bureaucracy and Authority Home and Family Morality and Wealth Accumulation The Government’s Image of Modernity Conclusion Conclusion Heterogeneity of National Identity Dissent and Contentious Politics in Cinema Film and Nation-building Notes Filmography Selected Bibliography Index Citation preview ‘Hymn to Mother’: Tengrism, Motherhood and Nationhood Tengrism Literal Representations of Tengrism in Contemporary Kazakh Cinema Historical-philosophical Symbolic Representation of Tengrism in Contemporary Kazakh Cinema Quasi-primordial Symbolic Representation: Women, Family and the Cycle of Birth, Life and Death Controversy and Reception Conclusion 7. May the Grass Never Grow at Your Door: The Civic Conception of Nationhood in Kazakh Cinema Inter-ethnic Harmony and Stability Kazakh Batyrs as Kind, Open and Hospitable Interpretation of History and Soviet Authority Reception Conclusion 6. Naked in the Mirror: The Ethno-centric Narrative of Kazakh Nationhood Introduction The Context of the Cinema Industry in post-Soviet Kazakhstan Defence of the Homeland Ethnic Identity Power and Regime Legitimation Reception Conclusion 5. The Disruption of Time: The ‘Kazakh New Wave’ 1985 – 95 Introduction Emergence of the New Wave ‘Kazakh New Wave’ as a Disruption of Empty Homogenous Time The Re-imagination of Kazakh History The Negation of Soviet Authority Capturing Transition on Screen After the ‘Kazakh New Wave’ Conclusion 4.

Between Two Worlds: Kazakh Film and Nation-building in the Soviet Era The Development of the Cinema Industry in the Soviet Union and Central Asia Antecedents to the Birth of Kazakh Cinema The Emergence of Kazakh Cinema and Shaken Aimanov 1960 – 1970s: The National Awakening in Kazakh Cinema: The Two Worlds of Soviet Kazakh Cinema Conclusion: Influence of Kazakh Soviet Cinema 3. Kazakh Khanate to Kazakh Eli: Nation-building in Kazakhstan in Historical and Political Context Ethno-genesis of the Kazakhstani Nation and the Rise and Fall of the Kazakh Khanate The Development of Nationalist Movements in Kazakhstan under Russian Rule Soviet Nation-building in Kazakhstan Post-Soviet Nation-building Conclusion 2.

Table of contents : Cover Title Copyright Dedication Contents Note on Transliteration List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction From Constructed to Contested Nations: Theorising and Analysing Nation and Cinema Nations as Constructed Nations as Contested and Multiple Enter Cinema: Nationalist Myth-making and Myth-breaking Multiple Nationalisms and National Identities in Kazakhstan Analytical Framework and Methods Structure of the Book 1.

The Nomads by Iliyas Yessenberlin