What Happened to the Second World? Earthquakes and Postsocialism in Kazakhstan

Bankoff, G.; Oven, K.J.

doi:10.1111/disa.12362

What Happened to the Second World? Earthquakes and Postsocialism in Kazakhstan

Bankoff, G.; Oven, K.J.

Authors

G. Bankoff

K.J. Oven

Abstract

There is an assumption that with the disintegration of the USSR the Second World ceased to exist. Yet the demise of the Communist bloc as a geopolitical reality did not mean that it ceased to exert a defining influence over how people think and behave. This article examines how the postsocialist state in Kazakhstan deals with potential crises such as earthquakes and the extent to which the Soviet legacy still shapes intellectual debates, state structures and civil society organisations in in that country. Drawing on fieldwork and interviews, this paper re‐examines the Second World not only in its historical context but re‐establishes it as a conceptual framework for considering DRR in the former Soviet Bloc.

Citation

Bankoff, G., & Oven, K. (2019). What Happened to the Second World? Earthquakes and Postsocialism in Kazakhstan. Disasters, https://doi.org/10.1111/disa.12362

Journal Article Type	Article
Acceptance Date	Oct 21, 2018
Online Publication Date	Oct 6, 2019
Publication Date	2019
Deposit Date	Oct 22, 2018
Publicly Available Date	Oct 6, 2021
Journal	Disasters
Print ISSN	0361-3666
Electronic ISSN	1467-7717
Publisher	Wiley
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1111/disa.12362