Labyrinth of Postcoloniality - book discussion

Alma Bissenova (Nazarbayev University)
Chair: Zuzanna Bogumił (University of Warsaw)

This collection is an attempt to form a new post-colonial agenda, in which we, seven Kazakhstani authors, are trying to rethink and theorize our current state from the position of our own locality and develop a “local” point of view on the most pressing issues of “our post-coloniality” - a point of view that would be pronouncedly local but, at the same time, global – connected with the universal post-colonial experience.

Bio:
Alima Bissenova is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Nazarbayev University. She specializes in urban anthropology, anthropology of Islam, postcolonial studies, and intellectual history. She has published her work in English and Russian in the journals Religion, State, and Society, Europe-Asia Studies, AB Imperio, Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie, Sotsiologiya Vlasti.

Series "Postcolonial perspectives - postdepnedence entanglements" is organized in frames of two research projects sponsored by the National Science Centre, Poland (NCN): no. 2020/39/B/HS6/02809 and no. 2021/41/B/HS3/00852.