Models of Collaboration

The comparative study of countryside cases is aimed at the identi cation and interpretation of speci c practice of "collaborative models" observed within the rural contexts of Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan Republics. It employs an overview of the Resource Mobilization Theory by Bob Edwards (2007), as an approach for investigation of main differences and commonalities of mutual communal activities, aimed on acquisition of social changes and other rural benefits, analyzing experiences, interactions and practices of villagers within their own rural realities. Finally the study thinks over the retrieved collaborative phenomenon and calls attention to the researcher s attempt to propose scheming of the most functional and optimal aspects of the studied collaborative models.

Autorentext

Bachelor of Arts in Sociology at American University of Central Asia and current student of Master of Arts in Politics and Security Program in Central Asia at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Academy in Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic.

Klappentext

The comparative study of countryside cases is aimed at the identi cation and interpretation of speci c practice of "collaborative models" observed within the rural contexts of Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan Republics. It employs an overview of the Resource Mobilization Theory by Bob Edwards (2007), as an approach for investigation of main differences and commonalities of mutual communal activities, aimed on acquisition of social changes and other rural benefits, analyzing experiences, interactions and practices of villagers within their own rural realities. Finally the study thinks over the retrieved collaborative phenomenon and calls attention to the researcher s attempt to propose scheming of the most functional and optimal aspects of the studied collaborative models.