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Alima Bissenova is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology in the department of Sociology and Anthropology at Nazarbayev University. She obtained her PhD in 2012 at Cornell University, has Bachelor’s degree in Kazakh language and literature from the Karaganda State University and a Master’s in Middle East Studies. In her current research, she investigates the social implications of post-Soviet development through the prism of the changing environment of Kazakhstan’s cities, newly emerging lifestyles and subjectivities, strategies of mobility, and new religious sensitivities in the urban space. She is in the process of completing her first book manuscript Learning to Be Bourgeois: the Rise of the Middle Classes in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan. She is also leading an interdisciplinary project which deals with the issues of coloniality of knowledge, contemporary and historical intellectual networks, knowledge transfers and transformations of cultural capital from generation to generation and from one locality to another.
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Value creation within Kazakhstan's Entrepreneurial Ecosystem: Towards an Understanding of Informal and Formal Entrepreneurs
Yousafzai, S., Akemu, A., Rakshit, A., Durrani, N., Bissenova, A., Nurbayeva, A., Lipovka, A., Henry, C., Bhartiya, T., Saeed, S., Fayolle, A., Cornelissen, J. & Meyrbayev, B.
1/1/22 → 12/31/24
Project: CRP
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Intellectual-Academic Networks and the Political Economy of Knowledge Production and Transfer in Kazakhstan
4/6/18 → 12/31/20
Project: MES RK
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Колониальные интеллектуалы: между просвещенческой и представительской ролью
Bissenova, A. & Mukasheva, A., Dec 2020, In: Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie. 166, 6, p. 445 459 p.Translated title of the contribution :Colonial Intellectuals: Caught between the Enlightenment and Representation of their People Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Social change unsettles Kazakhstan
Bissenova, A., Oct 1 2019, In: Current History. 118, 810, p. 271-275 5 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article
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The Fortress and the Frontier: Mobility, Culture, and Class in Almaty and Astana
Bissenova, A., Jun 2017, In: Europe-Asia Studies. 69, 4, p. 642 667 p., DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2017.1325445.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Building a Muslim Nation: The Role of the Central Mosque of Astana
Bissenova, A., 2016, Kazakhstan in the Making: Legitimacy, Symbols, and Social Changes. Lexington Books, p. 211 229 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Давление метрополий и тихий национализм академических практик: The Pressure of Metropoles and the Quiet Nationalism of Academic Practices
Bissenova, A., Dec 2016, In: Ab Imperio. 2016, 4, p. 207 255 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review