§16§This collection emphasizes a cross-disciplinary approach to the problem of scale, with essays ranging in subject matter from literature to film, architecture, the plastic arts, philosophy, and scientific and political writing. Its contributors consider a variety of issues provoked by the sudden and pressing shifts in scale brought on by globalization and the era of the Anthropocene, including: the difficulties of defining the concept of scale; the challenges that shifts in scale pose to knowledge formation; the role of scale in mediating individual subjectivity and agency; the barriers to understanding objects existing in scalar realms different from our own; the role of scale in mediating the relationship between humans and the environment; and the nature of power, authority, and democracy at different social scales.§ §04§1. Introduction.- 2. Understanding Neoliberalism: A Comprehensive Approach the Concept of Neoliberalism.- 3. Political Liberalization in Post-Soviet Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan: The Influence of Neoliberalism.- 4. The Influence of Neoliberalism on Economic Liberalization in Post-Soviet Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan.- 5. Neoliberal Capitalist Transitions in Post-Soviet Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan: A Cultural Perspective.- 6. Applying a Three-Dimensional Framework for Understanding Neoliberalism: Discourse Analysis of Speeches and Writings of Karimov and Nazarbayev from 1991 to 2015.- 7. Conclusion. §02§Wumaier Yilamu holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA.
