Selbi Durdiyeva
Biographic Data
| ID | 4375905 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Selbi Durdiyeva |
| GIVEN NAMES | Selbi |
| FAMILY NAME | Durdiyeva |
| SIGNATURE | DURDIYEVA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nottingham Trent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0979-6968 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Reckoning with Positionality and the Implications of Soviet Colonialism
Audre Lorde, (post)colonial hauntings of socialist archive and the “emancipated” women write back
This paper engages with Audre Lorde’s journal entry, ‘Notes from a Trip to Russia’, as a framework for locating haunting hegemonic feminist imaginaries fed by the narratives of state-managed socialism. Despite being exposed to what Soviet officials wanted Lorde to see in 1976, this paper argues that Lorde nevertheless engaged in a feminist act of questioning the violence of omitted narratives. As a counter-narrative to the ‘curated visibility’ to…
Too Long a Sacrifice?’
In a field that of late appears beset by crises of confidence, this essay reviews three books that send transitional justice scholarship back to basics. The focus in the books on post-authoritarian settings sheds light on the effects of time on transitional justice expectations, actions and futures. The books also offer rear-view mirror vantage points on the assumptions, teleological and otherwise, that informed early praxis in the field. The com…
The shadow of the object fell upon the ego
Russia’s full-scale aggressive war in Ukraine launched in 2022, once again, opened the debates on the inclination of humans towards destructiveness. The paper argues that the predisposition to the war was driven by colonial melancholia. Melancholia, in this case, is characterized by colonial attachments, internalization of “loss of empire,” and destructive and genocidal drives. The analysis of the issue is sought through the intersection of psych…
On Collateral Damage, Selective Anti-Imperialism and the Path to Liberation
Children of the Gulag, Long Road to Justice
∞ The article examines the 2019 judgment of the Constitutional Court of Russia concerning the right to compensation of housing and right to return of the children of the victims deported by the Soviet state to the gulag or exile. Despite the favourable judgment of the Constitutional Court, the right to remedy for the victims was still unattainable. The article examines why this was the case by drawing on the absence of internal and external coher…
Antoine Bousquet, The Eye of War
Memory production, vandalism, violence
On September 15th 2016, the leaders of youth group the “Russian Spirit,”2 unveiled a monument to Stalin in the Siberian city Surgut, located in central Russia. The bust was erected a few meters away from a display board, which states, “In some time at this place there will be a monument to the victims of Soviet Repressions.”3 Someone poured red paint over Stalin's bust twice and wrote “henchman” on the side. The first time vandalism occurred was …
Memory production, vandalism, violence
On September 15th 2016, the leaders of youth group the “Russian Spirit,”2 unveiled a monument to Stalin in the Siberian city Surgut, located in central Russia. The bust was erected a few meters away from a display board, which states, “In some time at this place there will be a monument to the victims of Soviet Repressions.”3 Someone poured red paint over Stalin's bust twice and wrote “henchman” on the side. The first time vandalism occurred was …
Children of the Gulag, Long Road to Justice
∞ The article examines the 2019 judgment of the Constitutional Court of Russia concerning the right to compensation of housing and right to return of the children of the victims deported by the Soviet state to the gulag or exile. Despite the favourable judgment of the Constitutional Court, the right to remedy for the victims was still unattainable. The article examines why this was the case by drawing on the absence of internal and external coher…
Antoine Bousquet, The Eye of War
Memory production, vandalism, violence
On September 15th 2016, the leaders of youth group the “Russian Spirit,”2 unveiled a monument to Stalin in the Siberian city Surgut, located in central Russia. The bust was erected a few meters away from a display board, which states, “In some time at this place there will be a monument to the victims of Soviet Repressions.”3 Someone poured red paint over Stalin's bust twice and wrote “henchman” on the side. The first time vandalism occurred was …
Children of the Gulag, Long Road to Justice
∞ The article examines the 2019 judgment of the Constitutional Court of Russia concerning the right to compensation of housing and right to return of the children of the victims deported by the Soviet state to the gulag or exile. Despite the favourable judgment of the Constitutional Court, the right to remedy for the victims was still unattainable. The article examines why this was the case by drawing on the absence of internal and external coher…
Too Long a Sacrifice?’
In a field that of late appears beset by crises of confidence, this essay reviews three books that send transitional justice scholarship back to basics. The focus in the books on post-authoritarian settings sheds light on the effects of time on transitional justice expectations, actions and futures. The books also offer rear-view mirror vantage points on the assumptions, teleological and otherwise, that informed early praxis in the field. The com…
The shadow of the object fell upon the ego
Russia’s full-scale aggressive war in Ukraine launched in 2022, once again, opened the debates on the inclination of humans towards destructiveness. The paper argues that the predisposition to the war was driven by colonial melancholia. Melancholia, in this case, is characterized by colonial attachments, internalization of “loss of empire,” and destructive and genocidal drives. The analysis of the issue is sought through the intersection of psych…
On Collateral Damage, Selective Anti-Imperialism and the Path to Liberation
Reckoning with Positionality and the Implications of Soviet Colonialism
Audre Lorde, (post)colonial hauntings of socialist archive and the “emancipated” women write back
This paper engages with Audre Lorde’s journal entry, ‘Notes from a Trip to Russia’, as a framework for locating haunting hegemonic feminist imaginaries fed by the narratives of state-managed socialism. Despite being exposed to what Soviet officials wanted Lorde to see in 1976, this paper argues that Lorde nevertheless engaged in a feminist act of questioning the violence of omitted narratives. As a counter-narrative to the ‘curated visibility’ to…
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