Dr. Diana T. Kudaibergen 🌻🍉

Sociologist, Feminist, Writer. Political Sociologist based at UCL SSEES. Writing a book on Russian imperialism. Views & typos are my own

[Dr. Diana T. Kudaibergen 🌻🍉 @CreativeCorazon]

It’s a good day today, so I’m sharing my newest book you can preorder now and get by the end of May!

#TheKazakhSpring #QazaqKoktemi

Pre-order here: https://t.co/93ybFLX15X

Amazon: https://t.co/dXNHmcNAZw

Short 🧵 on what it’s all about:

[The Hidden Nations @hiddennations]

Sakha: resource wealth, limited control
Sakha (Yakutia), Russia’s largest region, holds diamonds, gold, and natural gas. GRP: $26.64 billion. Its resources generate wealth, but major financial flows are controlled by the federal center. Resource wealth and local control are not the same.
#HiddenNations #Sakha #Yakutia #IndigenousPeoples

[Tereza Hendl @TerezaHendl]

The full forum can be read here, it’s open access and contains crucial transregional dialogues on the (not only) Soviet legacy and the way forward https://t.co/Lg0718uthv

[Tereza Hendl @TerezaHendl]

Join us on Wed for this important launch

Register here: https://t.co/5KhCuGk302

[Tereza Hendl @TerezaHendl]

This text is now out, in which I reflect on @CreativeCorazon’s Kazakh Spring alongside the Prague Spring and the Arab Spring. Diana's book gives a powerful account of the often nonlinear & multi-generational struggle to take down dictatorship. Do read it.

https://t.co/dGxHr0OfHp

[Tereza Hendl @TerezaHendl]

Feels like a strangely apt day to be doing the final final proofs on this text, reflecting on Diana Kudaibergen’s powerful book on the often nonlinear, long, back-and-forth, multigenerational struggle to take down dictatorship. Soon out in Central Asian Survey. Do read the book.

[Lena Wolf @KazakhGerman]

I posted about Stalin’s deportations of over 20 ethnic groups in the Soviet Union. The replies were baffling. Some Russians called it fiction. Others said Volga Germans deserved to die because they started the war. 🤔Others claimed Stalin must have done it to protect people.

[Tereza Hendl @TerezaHendl]

The full forum can be read here, open access

https://t.co/Lg0718uthv

[Tereza Hendl @TerezaHendl]

Join us for our next webinar! Glad to have been part of this forum and our ongoing transregional dialogues on decoloniality in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. We’re fortunate to have Madina Tlostanova and Yuliya Yurchuk reading our work—looking forward to hearing their thoughts!

[Tereza Hendl @TerezaHendl]

Just finished the last round of proofs—this book will be published open access this autumn. Can’t wait to see it in print!

[Dr. Diana T. Kudaibergen 🌻🍉 @CreativeCorazon]

This special issue on decolonial dialogues across Eastern Europe and Central Asia is open access. I hope more people can learn about it.

[Tereza Hendl @TerezaHendl]

Just out: a special issue on decolonial thought and the implications of Soviet colonialism. Big thanks to @nkholmat2021, @OBurlyuk & Gulnaz Sibgatullina for bringing us together + special appreciation to @CreativeCorazon & @DurdiyevaSelbi for the synergies https://t.co/Lg0718tVrX

[Dr. Diana T. Kudaibergen 🌻🍉 @CreativeCorazon]

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[Assel Tutumlu @AsselTutumlu]

https://t.co/IAzcAhGtOM
Thank you Central Asian Affairs for giving our ideas on "Decolonial Thought and the Soviet Legacy" such a wonderful home! Thank you my co-authors: @CreativeCorazon @nkholmat2021 @OBurlyuk @TerezaHendl @dilyamamadsho @swotithot

[Tereza Hendl @TerezaHendl]

Just out: a special issue on decolonial thought and the implications of Soviet colonialism. Big thanks to @nkholmat2021, @OBurlyuk & Gulnaz Sibgatullina for bringing us together + special appreciation to @CreativeCorazon & @DurdiyevaSelbi for the synergies https://t.co/Lg0718tVrX

[Tereza Hendl @TerezaHendl]

Join our next RUTA webinar this Friday

We will discuss the struggles against gender rigid and authoritarian politics in Europe’s East, Central Asia and Latin America, and explore what these struggles share, where they diverge, and what solidarity across them might look like

[UNITED24 Media @United24media]

🚨 BREAKING: Russian strike hits the historic Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, a world-famous Orthodox monastery and UNESCO site, igniting fire on the roof of the Dormition Cathedral.

[Sudha Rajagopalan @swotithot]

Call for papers: “Dialogues on Central Asia”. Workshop in September 2026 at the University of Amsterdam. Colleagues and others who are interested, check it out and retweet, please! Interesting abstracts have come in, but we welcome many, many more! https://t.co/L5agdShVOW

[Tereza Hendl @TerezaHendl]

Sneak peek: forthcoming with OUP, open access. This book features perspectives on digital health transformation & justice, including from Indonesia, Brazil, India, and Ghana, and First Nations expert analyses on health and Indigenous Data Sovereignty from Aotearoa and Australia

[Tereza Hendl @TerezaHendl]

A much needed book, looking forward to reading: “Decolonial discussions are gaining traction, challenging political elites' hegemony over national identity formation. Such changes harbour the potential to profoundly alter Russia's influence in the areas it once controlled”

[Emmanuel Dalle Mulle @Emmanuel__DM]

One week left to apply for our Master in Nationalism Studies at @unicomplutense.

Do not miss the opportunity to better understand one of the most powerful political forces shaping our world today.

https://t.co/g4Ntnxplh7

https://t.co/fOx8ulD9Cq

@masternacionucm

[Dr. Diana T. Kudaibergen 🌻🍉 @CreativeCorazon]

Congratulations @irgarner and all new associate editors! 🤟

[Post-Soviet Affairs @PostSoviet31355]

4) Meet our new Associate Editor, Ian Garner:

“I’m delighted to have joined PSA, which I hope will continue to be a leading academic journal. As Associate Editor, I get to read so much great new research from all over the world!”

[Dr. Diana T. Kudaibergen 🌻🍉 @CreativeCorazon]

Biennaling

Easter eggs for my forthcoming book though 🐣