No Longer Post-Soviet: Madina Tlostanova on Art, Academia, and Identity
Podcast: Yurt JurtPublished On: Mon Sep 01 2025
Description: What does it really mean to be “post-Soviet”? And is it time to leave that label behind?In this episode of Yurt Jurt, host Diana Kudaibergen speaks with Madina Tlostanova - decolonial thinker, writer, and Professor of Postcolonial Feminisms at Linköping University. Tlostanova is the author of What Does It Mean to Be Post-Soviet? and Postcolonialism and Postsocialism in Fiction and Art, and one of the leading voices on decolonial thought in Eurasia.They explore how Central Asian identities are still framed through the “post-Soviet” lens, the role of the nation-state in shaping self-understanding, and how indigenous sustainable ways of living resist extractive state logics. The conversation also asks why academia so often reproduces colonial structures - and why art, rather than universities, has become a space for powerful decolonial expression.
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