Schooling as a Technology of Manufactured Consent: Settle Colonialism in Central Asia

• In Event: Countering Coloniality

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 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. I wanted to expand my understanding of how Russian settler colonials altered the lives of my ancestors, who lived pastoral nomadic or sedentary lifestyles before colonial expansion of 1800s in CA.

Author

• Nigora Erkaeva, Eastern Michigan University