After the collapse of the Soviet Union, both the Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan governments in Central Asia aimed at nationalizing and indigenizing the territories under their control and rectifying what many saw as decades of dominance by foreign actors. The recently acquired sovereign statehood offers them a legal framework and an organizational tool for executing remedial political actions and erecting safe havens for their indigenous cultures and languages as well as redressing their historical injustices. The present study is built on the assumption that indigenizing practices and policies are an ongoing process, closely related to a combination of economic, cultural, and political factors. On this basis, this article aims to examine two diverse nationalizing states in Central Asia, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, since they have relatively different conditions and settings. By doing so, this article attempts to illustrate the disjunction between the formal expression of equality in Central Asian constitutions and the actual impacts of the nationalizing actions of the elites in the titular nations.
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