Koktem Zhaqyndady: the spring is not over: response to the reviewers of The Kazakh Spring book symposium

In this essay, I provide a short response to my colleagues, Dr Anna Jordanova, Dr Tereza Hendl and Dr Assel Tutumlu, who wrote detailed reviews of my book, The Kazakh Spring. Book symposiums of this kind is a great place to reflect on the processes and aftermaths of the writing, so I respond to the ongoing nature of both my arguments and the conditions in which my interlocutors and their interpretations continue to develop at the fast pace of Kazakhstan's newest chapter. The book was written in this ongoing and urgent manner and the arguments naturally reflected the impact of such constant movement, so I underline it further in this essay and hope that it can be of some methodological help or reflection on the state of most political and social sciences and for the dynamic, fast-growing and expanding field of Central Asian studies.