{"id":20279,"date":"2026-07-09T11:11:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T09:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/?post_type=person&p=20279"},"modified":"2026-07-22T13:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T11:16:11","slug":"dr-yerkebulan-sairambay","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/person\/dr-yerkebulan-sairambay\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Yerkebulan Sairambay"},"content":{"rendered":"

Academic Career<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2013 since July 2026: Academy in Exile Fellow, TU Dortmund and KWI<\/p>\n

\u2013 2025-2026: Research Fellow at the University of Tartu (Estonian national grant for researchers and academic staff: HARNO)<\/p>\n

\u2013 2025: Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow, SDU University<\/p>\n

\u2013 2022-2025: Assistant Professor and Senior Research Fellow, SDU University<\/p>\n

\u2013 2022-2024: SDU University\u2019s Ethics Committee Member<\/p>\n

\u2013 2022-2023: Research Associate, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge<\/p>\n

\u2013 2018-2022: PhD in Sociology, University of Cambridge<\/p>\n

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Research Interests<\/strong><\/p>\n

Media policial sociology, political participation, new media, civil society, climate change, clan politics, democratisation, queer studies, academic freedom, transitional justice, and nation- and state- building with a particular focus on the countries of post-communist Europe and former Soviet Union.<\/p>\n

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Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n

Books and Book Chapters<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2013 Sairambay, Yerkebulan. New Media and Political Participation in Russia and Kazakhstan: Exploring the Lived Experiences of Young People in Eurasia<\/em>. Lexington Books, 2023.<\/p>\n

\u2013 Sairambay, Yerkebulan. The Geography<\/em> T<\/em>est <\/em>C<\/em>ollection<\/em>. Shymkent: Zhebe design, 2009.<\/p>\n

\u2013 Sairambay, Yerkebulan. \u201cDigital Political Participation in Rural Kazakhstan: Evidence from Three Villages.\u201d In Rural Media Studies: A Global Perspective<\/em>, edited by Rashid Gabdulhakov and Marc Esteve del Valle, 37-58. Bloomsbury Academic, 2026.<\/p>\n

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Peer-Reviewed Articles<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2013 Sairambay, Yerkebulan. \u201cTowards a Conceptualisation of \u2018Alternative\u2019 Political Participation.\u201d Journal for Philosophy and Cultural Studies: Topos<\/em> 56, no. 1 (2026): 262-79. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.61095\/815-0047-2026-1-262-279<\/p>\n

\u2013 Sairambay, Yerkebulan. \u201cInternet and New Media use by Central Asian Citizens Before and Towards the End of the COVID-19 Pandemic.\u201d SDU Journal of Media Studies<\/em>, 1, no. 1 (2025): 6-17. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.47344\/sdubss.v55i1.003<\/p>\n

\u2013 Sairambay, Yerkebulan, and Assel Kamza. \u201cThe Effects of the Russo-Ukrainian War on the Kazakhstani Online Media Landscape.\u201d Slavonica<\/em> 29, no. 1 (January 2, 2024): 16\u201331. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/13617427.2025.2452794.<\/p>\n

\u2013 Sairambay, Yerkebulan, Assel Kamza, Yessengul Kap, and Bakhtiyar Nurumov. \u201cMonitoring Public Electoral Sentiment Through Online Comments in the News Media: A Comparative Study of the 2019 and 2022 Presidential Elections in Kazakhstan.\u201d Media Asia<\/em> 51, no. 1 (July 3, 2023): 33\u201361. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/01296612.2023.2229162.<\/p>\n

\u2013 Sairambay, Yerkebulan. \u201cHow Young People Use New Media in Political Participation in Russia and Kazakhstan.\u201d Laboratorium: Russian Review of Social Research<\/em> 14, no. 2 (January 1, 2022). https:\/\/doi.org\/10.25285\/2078-1938-2022-14-2-38-72.<\/p>\n

\u2013 Sairambay, Yerkebulan. \u201cInternet and Social Media Use by Young People for Information About (Inter)National News and Politics in Russia and Kazakhstan.\u201d Studies of Transition States and Societies<\/em> 14, no. 1 (2022): 56-70. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.58036\/stss.v14i1.1007<\/p>\n

\u2013 Sairambay, Yerkebulan. \u201cThe Contributions of New Media to Young People\u2019s Political Participation in Russia and Kazakhstan.\u201d Central Asian Survey<\/em> 41, no. 3 (October 18, 2021): 571\u201395. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/02634937.2021.1978929.<\/p>\n

\u2013 Sairambay, Yerkebulan. \u201cPolitical Culture and Participation in Russia and Kazakhstan: A New Civic Culture with Contestation?\u201d Slavonica<\/em> 26, no. 2 (July 3, 2021): 116\u201327. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/13617427.2021.1983095.<\/p>\n

\u2013 Sairambay, Yerkebulan. \u201cTransitional Justice and Democratic Consolidation in the Post-Communist Space: A Comparative Review of the Czech Republic, Latvia and Slovakia.\u201d Politics in Central Europe<\/em> 17, no. 1 (March 1, 2021): 127\u201342. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.2478\/pce-2021-0006.<\/p>\n

\u2013 Sairambay, Yerkebulan. \u201cThe Contemporary Challenges of Measuring Political Participation.\u201d Slovak Journal of Political Sciences<\/em> 20, no. 2 (December 31, 2020): 206\u201326. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.34135\/sjps.200202.<\/p>\n

\u2013 Sairambay, Yerkebulan. \u201cReconceptualising Political Participation.\u201d Human Affairs<\/em> 30, no. 1 (January 1, 2020): 120\u201327. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1515\/humaff-2020-0011.<\/p>\n

\u2013 Sairambay, Yerkebulan. \u201cYoung People\u2019s Perspectives on How \u2018Zhuz\u2019 and \u2018Ru\u2019 Clans Affect Them: Evidence from Three Cities in Post-Soviet Qazaqstan.\u201d Studies of Transition States and Societies<\/em> 11, no. 1 (2019): 39-54.<\/p>\n

\u2013 Sairambay, Yerkebulan. \u201cPost-Soviet Russian Nation-Building: \u2018Purposefully Ambiguous\u2019 or \u2018Sufficiently Flexible\u2019 With \u2018A Russian Flavour\u2019?\u201d Slavonica<\/em> 24, no. 1\u20132 (June 10, 2019): 1\u201311. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/13617427.2019.1573554.<\/p>\n

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Book reviews<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2013 Sairambay, Yerkebulan. Review of The Kazakh Spring: Digital Activism and the Challenge to Dictatorship<\/em>, by Diana T. Kudaibergen. Journal of Contemporary Asia<\/em> (2026).<\/p>\n

\u2013 Sairambay, Yerkebulan. Review of Backlash: China\u2019s struggle for influence in Central Asia<\/em>, by Bradley Jardine and Edward Lemon. Central Asian Affairs <\/em>13, no. 1 (2026): 119-121.<\/p>\n

\u2013 Sairambay, Yerkebulan. Review of What does it mean to be Kazakhstani? Power, identity and nation-building<\/em>, by Diana T. Kudaibergen. Nationalities Papers <\/em>54, no. 3 (2026): 678-679.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":20399,"template":"","person_category":[277],"class_list":["post-20279","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","person_category-forschende"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/20279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"person_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person_category?post=20279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}