Schooling to Undermine Subsistence Cultures in Central Asia

• In Event: Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society, and Opening Imaginations to the Liberating Possibilities of Creative Societies

Abstract

My research looks at the history of the colonization of Central Asia (CA) by Tsarist Russia, and later the Soviet Union, from the 1850s into the early years of the twentieth Century using an EcoJustice theoretical approach with postcolonial theory. I focus on the impact of settler colonialism through schooling on land-based cultures in CA and how colonial discourses created a new social, economic, and ecological order, which drastically altered the lifestyles of pastoral nomads and the sedentary population of CA.

Author

• Nigora Erkaeva, Eastern Michigan University