Overview
- Develops a concept of “nomadity of being” which helps see the historiography of feminist activism in Kyrgyzstan
- States that there is a lack of analysis of how local women’s rights movements are developed in such localities
- Contends that there was and is a local agency in emancipatory movements
Part of the book series: Politics and History in Central Asia (PSPSCA)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book offers a new framework for understanding feminism and political activiism in Kyrgyzstan, “nomadity of being. ” Here, foreign information and requirements, even forced ones, are transformed into an amalgamation of the new and the old, alien and native—like kurak, a quilted patchwork blanket, made from scraps. Conceptualizing feminist narratives in Kyrgyzstan, while keeping in mind, the complex relationship between ideological borrowing, actualization, appropriation or self-colonization of “feminist” concepts can expand both scholarly and activist understanding of specificities of post-Soviet feminisms from a historiographic point of view. Kurak-feminism is feminism that is half-donor-commissioned, half-learned through interactions (personal, media, academic, professional), unashamed of its borrowed nature and working toward its own purpose that is being developed as the blanket is being quilted. Weaving in elements from completely different and, to a Western eye, incompatible approaches nomadity of being might pave the way toward a Central Asian reframing of non-Western feminisms. This provocative text will interest scholars of European politics, the post-Soviet sphere, and feminists.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Syinat Sultanalieva is a Ph.D. researcher at the University of Tsukuba, Japan. In her academic research, she focuses on studying feminist narratives and activism from a decolonial point of view. She is a recipient of the MEXT Japanese governmental scholarship, as well as the Fall 2020 CAAFP Fellowship at the George Washington University. Prior to academia, Syinat has been actively involved in LGBTQ and feminist activism in Kyrgyzstan and Central Asia.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: ”Nomadity of Being” in Central Asia
Book Subtitle: Narratives of Kyrgyzstani Women’s Rights Activists
Authors: Syinat Sultanalieva
Series Title: Politics and History in Central Asia
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-5446-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-19-5445-0Published: 02 January 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-19-5448-1Published: 03 January 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-981-19-5446-7Published: 01 January 2023
Series ISSN: 3005-0081
Series E-ISSN: 3005-009X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 169
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Cultural Studies, Social Philosophy, Russian, Soviet, and East European History, Political Science