Outer space technopolitics and postcolonial modernity in Kazakhstan
dc.contributor.author | Bekus, N | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-02-25T14:09:25Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021-03-25 | |
dc.description.abstract | This article examines the role of outer space technopolitics in post-Soviet Kazakhstan. It explores how outer space, the technological artefact of global relevance, works as a postcolonial fetish of modernity that is called upon to produce what it represents, i.e. the reality of a technologically advanced Kazakh nation. The article shows that in its project of becoming a spacefaring nation the country reiterates major incentives that have motivated nuclear and space programme development in the postcolonial context of the Global South. The article explores how collaboration with Russia allows Kazakhstan to claim its share in the Soviet space legacy rather than to distance itself from it. It then traces the rise of a new internationalism in the Kazakhstani space programme outside the post-Soviet context. The article contributes to the debate on postcolonial techonopolitics and shows how outer space has been used to enhance the conventional domain of postcolonial national ideologies – nativism and tradition – with technology and science. Finally, the article depicts how the growing resistance to the space programme among Kazakh civil society groups reveals a close association of the environmental agenda with an “eco-nationalism” permeated by a profoundly anti-imperial and, ultimately, antiauthoritarian political discourse. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Published online 25 March 2021 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/02634937.2021.1893273 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/124918 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Routledge | en_GB |
dc.rights | © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. | |
dc.subject | Postcolonial Modernity | en_GB |
dc.subject | Outer Space | en_GB |
dc.subject | Technopolitics | en_GB |
dc.subject | Kazakhstan | en_GB |
dc.subject | Nationalism | en_GB |
dc.subject | Internationalism | en_GB |
dc.title | Outer space technopolitics and postcolonial modernity in Kazakhstan | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2021-02-25T14:09:25Z | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available on open access from Routledge via the DOI in this record | en_GB |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1465-3354 | |
dc.identifier.journal | Central Asian Survey | en_GB |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2021-02-16 | |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2021-02-16 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2021-02-25T13:56:23Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | AM | |
refterms.panel | D | en_GB |
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