1st Edition

Internet and Gender in Kazakhstan A Decolonial Feminist Perspective on Women’s Roles in the Digital Age

By Jasmin Dall’Agnola Copyright 2024
140 Pages
by Routledge

140 Pages
by Routledge

140 Pages
by Routledge

Internet and Gender in Kazakhstan offers an empirically rich and theoretically compelling analysis of how the Internet is influencing societal attitudes towards women’s roles and agency in Kazakhstan. Equipped with intimate perspectives from the wider public in five different regions of Kazakhstan, the book conceptualises, theorises, and analyses the relationship between the Internet and... Read more

Introduction: A Decolonial Feminist Introduction to the Internet & Gender Roles in Kazakhstan; Chapter 1. Kazakh Femininity and Masculinity in the Information Age; Chapter 2. Re- or Detraditionalizing Discourses on Kazakhstan’s Internet? Chapter 3. Love at First Click: Kazakh Marriage in the Third Millennium; Chapter 4. Social Media: A Tool for Enhancing Women’s Agency in Kazakhstan; Concluding Thoughts and Suggestions; Index

Biography

Jasmin Dall’Agnola is a postdoctoral researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology’s Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (D-GESS) in Zurich, Switzerland. Her research focuses on the relationship between gender, technology, and surveillance in authoritarian societies. She has published widely in scholarly journals including Surveillance & Society and is the Associate Editor for Research Notes at Central Asian Survey.