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How to Turn a Sea Into Qum*?
  • Shaxrizoda Ergasheva

How to Turn a Sea Into Qum*?

Article by a feminist decolonial researcher Shaxrizoda Ergasheva on the history of evaporation of the Aral Sea
analysis04.11.2024
  • EN
Can we hope together: Crimean Tatar and Palestinian liberations
  • Çırlaq

Can we hope together: Crimean Tatar and Palestinian liberations

Crimean Tatar researcher and activist’s reflection on the overlaps between Russian and Israeli colonial violence as well as the possibility of transnational solidarity
voices03.09.2024
  • EN
BUR'YAN. Episode 2. Crimean Tatars: history and culture, identity and struggle
  • Beda Collective
  • Feminist Translocalities

BUR'YAN. Episode 2. Crimean Tatars: history and culture, identity and struggle

Discussion with Elmaz Alimova and Martin-Oleksandr Kisly on the history, ethnogenesis and anti-colonial struggle of Crimean Tatars
podcast30.08.2024
  • UKR
  • EN
The Caspian Sea is under the threat of desertification. What are the causes and consequences?
  • Aida Amangeldina

The Caspian Sea is under the threat of desertification. What are the causes and consequences?

The article by political scientist Aida Amangeldina sheds light on the threat of desertification of the Caspian Sea, outlining its main causes and consequences
analysis21.08.2024
  • QAZ
  • RU
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Empires rise and fall, but the steppe remains... Notes on Kazakhstan’s transgenerational struggle towards nuclear disarmament
  • Alisher Khassengaliyev

Empires rise and fall, but the steppe remains... Notes on Kazakhstan’s transgenerational struggle towards nuclear disarmament

Alisher Khassengaliyev recalls his trip to the Meeting of States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons at the UN
voices04.08.2024
  • QAZ
  • RU
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How can we live in a perfect world?
  • Neseyne

How can we live in a perfect world?

An essay by a Nenets artist Neseyne on relations between scholars and native peoples, ethics, subject’s agency, fair resource distribution, and the right to rage
voices03.07.2024
  • RU
  • EN
“Exceptional Boon”. The Russian colonization of Tyva: When did it start and how did it unfold?
  • Dankhaiaa Khovalyg

“Exceptional Boon”. The Russian colonization of Tyva: When did it start and how did it unfold?

Dankhaiaa Khovalyg discusses the main stages of the Russian colonization of Tyva in a joint material by “Beda” and “Feminist Translocalities”
histories16.05.2024
  • RU
  • TYV
  • EN
BUR'YAN. Episode 1. «Х_й буде атом робiтником, а не солдатом»
  • Feminist Translocalities
  • Beda Collective

BUR'YAN. Episode 1. «Х_й буде атом робiтником, а не солдатом»

“May the atom (never) be a worker, but a soldier”: Discussion with Svitlana Matviyenko on russian nuclear colonialism
podcast24.02.2024
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  • UKR
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How to Turn a Sea Into Qum*?
  • Shaxrizoda Ergasheva
How to Turn a Sea Into Qum*?
Article by a feminist decolonial researcher Shaxrizoda Ergasheva on the history of evaporation of the Aral Sea
  • analysis
  • 04.11.2024
  • EN
The Caspian Sea is under the threat of desertification. What are the causes and consequences?
  • Aida Amangeldina
The Caspian Sea is under the threat of desertification. What are the causes and consequences?
The article by political scientist Aida Amangeldina sheds light on the threat of desertification of the Caspian Sea, outlining its main causes and consequences
  • analysis
  • 21.08.2024
  • RU
  • QAZ
  • EN
Online public conference ВЗВЕСЬ / Suspended Matter as a resulting event of the research group
  • Beda Collective
Online public conference ВЗВЕСЬ / Suspended Matter as a resulting event of the research group
Intertwining decolonial, environmental and feminist activisms and studies
  • analysis
  • 18.12.2023
  • RU
  • EN
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“Exceptional Boon”. The Russian colonization of Tyva: When did it start and how did it unfold?
  • Dankhaiaa Khovalyg
“Exceptional Boon”. The Russian colonization of Tyva: When did it start and how did it unfold?
Dankhaiaa Khovalyg discusses the main stages of the Russian colonization of Tyva in a joint material by “Beda” and “Feminist Translocalities”
  • histories
  • 16.05.2024
  • RU
  • TYV
  • EN
Multan case. What does being a “foreigner” mean in the Russian Empire?
  • anonymous
Multan case. What does being a “foreigner” mean in the Russian Empire?
The “Multan case”, initiated in 1892, took its place among numerous false accusations of blood libel and once again demonstrated how the Russian Empire treats ethnic minorities. Accused of the ritual murder of a Russian peasant, the Udmurts endured torture and spent several years in prison until, thanks to the intervention of human rights activists and wide publicity, they received a well-deserved acquittal
  • histories
  • 10.11.2022
  • People, not territories
  • RU
  • EN
Who are the Erzya and what is Erzyan Mastor?
  • Feminist Translocalities
  • anonymous
Who are the Erzya and what is Erzyan Mastor?
Beda & Feminist Translocalities present to you anonymous author's text, in which he traces the history of the Erzya, a Finno-Ugric ethnic group in Russia's Volga region, from the beginning of the 12th century subjected to brutal colonization, forced russification and attempts to erase their culture. Who are the Erzyas and how did Erzyan Mastor survive colonization by the Russian empire, the Soviet Union and modern Russia?
  • histories
  • 04.07.2022
  • People, not territories
  • RU
  • ERZ
  • EN
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