The background to the January 15 Kazakhstan’s parliamentary elections has been most unfavorable. The image of stability that Kazakhstan’s government had carefully cultivated over the years has been tarnished with the outbreak of violence in an oil town of Zhanaozen. In neighboring Russia, on which Kazakhstan depends both culturally and politically, dozens of thousands of [...]
Archive of Alima Bissenova
Alima Bissenova is an assistant professor at the Nazarbayev University School of Humanities and Social Sciences. Starting from October 2011 until September 2012 she will also be a post-doctoral fellow with the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne. She has recently finished her doctorate studies in Anthropology at Cornell University and defended her dissertation “Post-socialist Dreamworlds: Construction Boom and Urban Development in Kazakhstan.” She has a Bachelor’s degree in Kazakh Language and Literature from the Karaganda State University and a Master’s degree in Middle East Studies from the American University in Cairo. In addition to her academic work, she regularly contributes to the national online newspaper zonakz.net (in Russian) and also contributes to Registan.net and to the Central Asia and Caucasus Analyst.
Alima has written 2 articles at Registan.
