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SUMMARY:“The Kazakh Spring” - Dr Diana Kudaibergenova
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CONTACT:Said Reza Huseini
DESCRIPTION:How can a de-institutionalised protest movement disrupt a soli
 dified\, repressive and extremely resilient authoritarian regime? Using th
 e context of the Kazakh Spring protests (2019–ongoing)\, Diana T. Kudaib
 ergen focuses on how the interplay between a repressive regime and democra
 tisation struggles define and shape each other. Combining original intervi
 ew data\, digital ethnography and contentious politics studies\, she argue
 s that the new generation of activists\, including Instagram political inf
 luencers and renowned public intellectuals\, have been able to de-legitimi
 se and counter one of the most resilient authoritarian regimes and inspire
  mass protests that none of the formalised opposition ever imagined possib
 le in Kazakhstan. 'The Kazakh Spring' is the first book to detail the emer
 gence of this political field of opportunities that allowed the possibilit
 y to rethink the political limits in Kazakhstan\, essentially toppling the
  long-term dictator in unprecedented mass protests of the Bloody January 2
 022.\n
LOCATION:Munby Room\, King’s College (and online)
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