Rico Isaacs: 3 books
Film and Identity in Kazakhstan
Soviet and Post-Soviet Culture in Central Asia
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2018
Cinema and nationalism are two fundamentally modern phenomena, but how have films shaped our understanding of the creation -the 'imagining' - of Central-Asian nations? Here, Rico Isaacs uses cinema as an analytical lens to explore how the Kazakh national identity has been constructed and contested....
Nation-Building and Identity in the Post-Soviet Space
New Tools and Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Nation-building as a process is never complete and issues related to identity, nation, state and regime-building are recurrent in the post-Soviet region. This comparative, inter-disciplinary volume explores how nation-building tools emerged and evolved over the last twenty years. Featuring in-depth...
Politics
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
The eagerly awaited third edition of this highly respected and user-friendly text for introductory courses has been thoroughly updated to reflect the world today. Politics: An Introduction provides stimulating coverage of topics essential to the understanding of contemporary politics. It offers students...