Dr. Diana T. Kudaibergen 🌻🍉 @CreativeCorazon
Sociologist, Feminist, Writer. Political Sociologist based in Cambridge. Writing a book on Russian imperialism. Views & typos are my own Global Nomad Joined May 2009-
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New episode of Yurt Jurt podcast about decolonial thought in North and Central Asia just dropped! Here I talk with Prof Madina Tlostanova about decolonial future, her new book and the term “postsoviet”. available for free on Spotify, Apple Podcast & other major platforms!
We absolutely need to know more about nuclear testing in Kazakhstan! I grew up in Aktobe/West Kazakhstan and there was plenty of testing there, underground. But my mother also recalled a big mushroom exploding on the horizon in the 1950s. Many young people with throat cancer.
We absolutely need to know more about nuclear testing in Kazakhstan! I grew up in Aktobe/West Kazakhstan and there was plenty of testing there, underground. But my mother also recalled a big mushroom exploding on the horizon in the 1950s. Many young people with throat cancer.
A call to researchers & activists who might want to further critically explore the affective attachment to the USSR and the hammer & sickle, and to address how it fuels present genocide denial and also inhibits the Left’s ability to identify and oppose nonwestern forms of fascism
A call to researchers & activists who might want to further critically explore the affective attachment to the USSR and the hammer & sickle, and to address how it fuels present genocide denial and also inhibits the Left’s ability to identify and oppose nonwestern forms of fascism https://t.co/SDhnZfsd8E
Congratulations @EricaMarat!!!!! Fantastic news!!!!!!
Congratulations @EricaMarat!!!!! Fantastic news!!!!!!
Diana T. Kudaibergen - What Does It Mean to Be Kazakhstani? Power, Identity and Nation-Building À paraître en février chez Hurst
Die Politiksoziologin Diana Kudaibergen begibt sich in ihrem Buch "Was es bedeutet, Kasachstaner zu sein?" auf die Suche, wie sich die Gesellschaft Kasachstans seit 1991 verändert hat.
What does it mean to be Kazakhstani? Scholar Diana T. Kudaibergen explores this question in the context of Kazakhstan’s more than three decades of independence. buff.ly/Bjtxees
Alexander Morrison: Building Kazakhstani-ness from the bottom up the-tls.com/regular-featur…
Honored to be published in Central Asian Affairs @CreativeCorazon with an unconventional view on a long-standing Kazakh tradition. Thank you, @AijanCo and @EdwardLemon3, for your tremendous support along the way. brill.com/view/journals/…
Superb presentation on Usta mentorship program. Superb work by @gulzatboto and @sofyaduboulay 👏👏👏👏👏
Sitting down with @CreativeCorazon’s book and putting the finishing touches to a text that reflects on some of the lessons from a sequence of major protest Springs: Prague Spring, Arab Spring and Qazaq Spring and the mass uprisings and challenges to dictatorship they involved
OUT NOW 📚 ‘What Does It Mean to be Kazakhstani?’ by @CreativeCorazon is an in-depth study of this Central Asian nation’s evolution since 1991, exploring how ethnicity, war and internal unrest are shaping and reshaping Kazakh identity. Get 25% off w/code KAZAKHSTANI25 ➡️…
🔊 Baltic Symposium 2025: #StandingStrong Panel III: Creative Industries and Cultural Diplomacy Panelists: Julija Reklaitė, Ieva Zemite and Ragnar Siil Chaired by: @CreativeCorazon 🗓️ 31 March 2025 ➡️ Register for free: buff.ly/4aYhMNq
My newest (fourth!) book is out now with Hurst! Thank you @BenHNoble and @MikeDwyerMike and @HurstPublishers! Thank you to @AsselTutumlu and @DurdiyevaSelbi for the reviews! Order now! It’s the book I wish I had when I was a graduate student!

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