Traditions of nomadism as the capital for modernization: Anthropological and economic research (Considering experience of Kazakhstan)

E.A. PAIN
Doctor of Politics (DSc), Professor of the Department of State and Municipal Management of the National Research University Higher School of Economics, General Manager of the Center for Ethnopolitical and Regional Studies, Leading staff scientist of the Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow

TERRA ECONOMICUS, 2014, Vol. 12 (no. 2),

p. 72-81

The article is devoted to the little-known issue of using traditions in the modernization processes management. Examples of reliance on nomadism tradition in Kazakhstan management practices are given, in particular, used during moving of the new capital to Astana. The author examines the boundaries of foreign adoptionы using in the socio-economic life of Kazakhstan, including seemingly close to the republic Eastern countries traditions. However, modernization potential of traditions is limited as well: it only works at the start of modernization.

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Keywords: modernization; traditions; nomadism; capital; Kazakhstan

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Publisher: Southern Federal University
Founder: Southern Federal University
ISSN: 2073-6606