Madina Tlostanova
Biographic Data
| ID | 640239 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Madina Tlostanova |
| GIVEN NAMES | Madina |
| FAMILY NAME | Tlostanova |
| SIGNATURE | TLOSTANOVA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Linköping University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0727-2098 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 329 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Decolonial feminist aesthetics and sensibilities in filmmaking
Postkolonialna kondycja, dekolonialna opcja i postsocjalistyczna interwencja
Postkolonialność powinna być postrzegana jako ludzka kondycja, sytuacja egzystencjalna, podczas gdy dekolonialność jest opcją, świadomie wybraną jako pozycja polityczna, etyczna i epistemiczna. Takie niekonwencjonalne rozumienie terminów „postkolonialny” i „dekolonialny” pozwala przekroczyć długotrwałą rywalizację i geopolityczne podziały między studiami postkolonialnymi a opcją dekolonialną za pośrednictwem optyki i dyskursów postsocjalistycznyc…
Sobre Hermenêutica Pluritópica, Pensamento Trans-moderno e Filosofia Decolonial
Tradução de Vitor Gomes Lopes do artigo "On Pluritopic Hermeneutics, Trans-modern Thinking, and Decolonial Philosophy" de Madina Vladimirovna Tlostanova e Walter Mignolo
Discordant Trajectories of the (Post-)Soviet (Post)Colonial Aesthetics
After a short critical reflection on what is understood under anticolonial aesthetics and how it relates to the shift from political decolonization to a more epistemologically and aesthetically oriented decoloniality, the essay focuses on the seldom considered anticolonial and decolonial trajectories originating in the ex- and present colonies of the Russian/Soviet empire and post/neo-imperial Russia. It is analysed how these trajectories interse…
The geopolitics of international higher education prior and during Covid-19: A decolonial feminist analysis
Thinking with four non-EU academic migrants from the global South, and their experiences of working/studying or starting to work/study during the Covid-19 pandemic, we are unravelling the current geopolitics of the internationalised higher education in the global North. Our central argument is that Covid-19 has not simply affected the national and global politics of migration, including international academic migration, but it has also worked as …
Postcolonial and Postsocialist Dialogues: Intersections, Opacities, Challenges in Feminist Theorizing and Practice
New Political Imagination
The postcolonial condition, the decolonial option, and the post-socialist intervention
Postcoloniality should be regarded as a human condition, an existential situation, whereas decoloniality is an option, consciously chosen as a political, ethical, and epistemic positionality. Such an unconventional understanding of the terms “postcolonial” and “decolonial” allows to transcend the long-going rivalry and geopolitical divisions between the postcolonial studies and the decolonial option through the medium of the post-socialist and po…
Do We Need Decolonial Feminism in Sweden
We decided to reflect on this question because in the last several years, a number of scholarly projects and initiatives in different European countries, including Sweden, have applied the term “de
The Postsocialist 'Missing Other' of Transnational Feminism
No abstract available
What Does It Mean to Be Post-Soviet?: Decolonial Art from the Ruins of the Soviet Empire
What Does It Mean to Be Post-Soviet: Decolonial Art from the Ruins of the Soviet Empire
Identifying to dis-identify: Occidentalist feminism, the Delhi gang rape case and its internal others
Euro-American feminism’s embeddedness in a neo-liberal geo-political framework has created new though contested spaces for knowledge production among scholars, practitioners and policy-makers. In particular, a theoretical tool that has lost its transformatory potential is disidentification, specifically as a signifier for forging collective activism within Europe. In the age of global mobility and border-crossings, Western feminist disidentificat…
Transcending the Human/Non-Human Divide: The Geo-Politics and Body-Politics of Being and Perception, and Decolonial Art
This article focuses on the analysis of the geo-politics and body-politics of being, and perception as the key concepts in the decolonial option grounded in the spatiality and corporeality of our cognitive and perceptive mechanisms. Revived spatiality refers in this case not only to a physical space that we inhabit but also to our bodies as specific spatial entities – the privileged white male bodies or the damned, non-white, dehumanized and ofte…
Border thinking and disidentification: Postcolonial and postsocialist feminist dialogues
In the context of the continuing dominance of delocalised Western feminist theoretical models, which allow the non-Western and not quite Western 'others' to either be epistemically annihilated or appropriated, it becomes crucial to look for transformative feminist theoretical tools which can eventually help break the so-called mere recognition patterns and move in the direction of transversal dialogues, mutual learning practices and volatile but …
Toutes les femmes sont russes, tous les Caucasiens sont des hommes ? Intersectionnalité, pluriversalité et les autres genré-e-s des frontières eurasiennes
Les origines contestataires de l’intersectionnalité L’un des principaux concepts théoriques du féminisme contemporain, souvent utilisé pour établir des dialogues et des coalitions transnationales, est le concept au départ métaphorique d’intersectionnalité, forgé par la théoricienne afro-américaine Kimberlé Crenshaw (1989), et élaboré vers la même époque par plusieurs autres chercheuses et auteures afro-américaines et femmes de couleur. Citons ici…
Between the Russian/Soviet dependencies, neoliberal delusions, dewesternizing options, and decolonial drives
Departing from the previous tripartite post-colonial/neocolonial geopolitical structure, contemporary world offers a different specter of possibilities and alliances which rearrange the former actors and their mutual relations and (in)dependencies in unexpected ways. The most striking of such shifts is the reemergence of Asia on a global scale within a dewesternizing model, which negotiates post-colonial and modernizing impulses at once. However,…
Author–critic forum: Decolonial theory and gender research in Central Asia
The ‘Author–Critic Forum’ format consists of a standard review of a new book plus a number of shorter appraisals of it, and finally a response by the author to all these contributions. The choice o
Postsocialist ≠ postcolonial? On post-Soviet imaginary and global coloniality
The article presents the main conceptual intersections and differences between postcolonial studies as a product of the anglophone world, of the history of relations between the British Empire and its colonies, and a critical analysis of post-Soviet discourses and processes, particularly in relation to Russia/USSR and its ex-colonies. This complicates the dichotomous scheme west versus east, north versus south, reflecting the difference between h…
La aesthesis trans-moderna en la zona fronteriza eurasiática y el anti-sublime decolonial
La revista CALLE14 es un medio de circulación de saberes y conocimientos producidos por las comunidades académicas especializadas en el campo del arte que, debido a su acción mediadora, facilita la construcción de comunidades artísticas disciplinares e interdisciplinares, de redes de investigadores en el ámbito nacional e internacional y, ante todo, propende por la apropiación social del conocimiento como un instrumento de transformación de sujet…
Decolonial Feminism and the Decolonial Turn
One of the recently emerged approaches in the humanities and social sciences that attempts to act in the role of a connector between various experiences of otherness, determined by the imperial-colonial dimension of modernity, is the decolonial turn or decolonial option. There are several points formulated by decolonial humanists which I attempt to dialogue with here. First of all, it is a fundamental rethinking of modernity from its underside (D…
Gender Epistemologies and Eurasian Borderlands
Tlostanova examines Central Asia and the Caucasus to trace the genealogy of feminism in those regions following the dissolution of the USSR. The forms it takes resist interpretation through the lenses
The Imperial-Colonial Chronotope: Istanbul-Baku-Khurramabad
The Imagined Freedom: Post-Soviet Intellectuals between the Hegemony of the State and the Hegemony of the Market
Research Article| July 01 2006 The Imagined Freedom: Post-Soviet Intellectuals between the Hegemony of the State and the Hegemony of the Market Madina Tlostanova Madina Tlostanova Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2006) 105 (3): 637–659. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-2005-008 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Madina Tlostanova; The…
Theorizing from the Borders: Shifting to Geo- and Body-Politics of Knowledge
Borders' will be in the twenty-first century what 'frontiers' where in the nineteenth. Frontiers were conceived as the line indicating the last point in the relentless march of civilization. On the one side of the frontiers was civilization; on the other, nothing; just barbarism or emptiness. The march of civilization and the idea of the frontiers created a geographic and bodygraphic divide. Certain areas of the planet were designated as the loca…
Theorizing from the Borders: Shifting to Geo- and Body-Politics of Knowledge
Borders' will be in the twenty-first century what 'frontiers' where in the nineteenth. Frontiers were conceived as the line indicating the last point in the relentless march of civilization. On the one side of the frontiers was civilization; on the other, nothing; just barbarism or emptiness. The march of civilization and the idea of the frontiers created a geographic and bodygraphic divide. Certain areas of the planet were designated as the loca…
Postsocialist ≠ postcolonial? On post-Soviet imaginary and global coloniality
The article presents the main conceptual intersections and differences between postcolonial studies as a product of the anglophone world, of the history of relations between the British Empire and its colonies, and a critical analysis of post-Soviet discourses and processes, particularly in relation to Russia/USSR and its ex-colonies. This complicates the dichotomous scheme west versus east, north versus south, reflecting the difference between h…
Transcending the Human/Non-Human Divide: The Geo-Politics and Body-Politics of Being and Perception, and Decolonial Art
This article focuses on the analysis of the geo-politics and body-politics of being, and perception as the key concepts in the decolonial option grounded in the spatiality and corporeality of our cognitive and perceptive mechanisms. Revived spatiality refers in this case not only to a physical space that we inhabit but also to our bodies as specific spatial entities – the privileged white male bodies or the damned, non-white, dehumanized and ofte…
Between the Russian/Soviet dependencies, neoliberal delusions, dewesternizing options, and decolonial drives
Departing from the previous tripartite post-colonial/neocolonial geopolitical structure, contemporary world offers a different specter of possibilities and alliances which rearrange the former actors and their mutual relations and (in)dependencies in unexpected ways. The most striking of such shifts is the reemergence of Asia on a global scale within a dewesternizing model, which negotiates post-colonial and modernizing impulses at once. However,…
Do We Need Decolonial Feminism in Sweden
We decided to reflect on this question because in the last several years, a number of scholarly projects and initiatives in different European countries, including Sweden, have applied the term “de
The Postsocialist 'Missing Other' of Transnational Feminism
No abstract available
Border thinking and disidentification: Postcolonial and postsocialist feminist dialogues
In the context of the continuing dominance of delocalised Western feminist theoretical models, which allow the non-Western and not quite Western 'others' to either be epistemically annihilated or appropriated, it becomes crucial to look for transformative feminist theoretical tools which can eventually help break the so-called mere recognition patterns and move in the direction of transversal dialogues, mutual learning practices and volatile but …
Identifying to dis-identify: Occidentalist feminism, the Delhi gang rape case and its internal others
Euro-American feminism’s embeddedness in a neo-liberal geo-political framework has created new though contested spaces for knowledge production among scholars, practitioners and policy-makers. In particular, a theoretical tool that has lost its transformatory potential is disidentification, specifically as a signifier for forging collective activism within Europe. In the age of global mobility and border-crossings, Western feminist disidentificat…
The geopolitics of international higher education prior and during Covid-19: A decolonial feminist analysis
Thinking with four non-EU academic migrants from the global South, and their experiences of working/studying or starting to work/study during the Covid-19 pandemic, we are unravelling the current geopolitics of the internationalised higher education in the global North. Our central argument is that Covid-19 has not simply affected the national and global politics of migration, including international academic migration, but it has also worked as …
Toutes les femmes sont russes, tous les Caucasiens sont des hommes ? Intersectionnalité, pluriversalité et les autres genré-e-s des frontières eurasiennes
Les origines contestataires de l’intersectionnalité L’un des principaux concepts théoriques du féminisme contemporain, souvent utilisé pour établir des dialogues et des coalitions transnationales, est le concept au départ métaphorique d’intersectionnalité, forgé par la théoricienne afro-américaine Kimberlé Crenshaw (1989), et élaboré vers la même époque par plusieurs autres chercheuses et auteures afro-américaines et femmes de couleur. Citons ici…
La aesthesis trans-moderna en la zona fronteriza eurasiática y el anti-sublime decolonial
La revista CALLE14 es un medio de circulación de saberes y conocimientos producidos por las comunidades académicas especializadas en el campo del arte que, debido a su acción mediadora, facilita la construcción de comunidades artísticas disciplinares e interdisciplinares, de redes de investigadores en el ámbito nacional e internacional y, ante todo, propende por la apropiación social del conocimiento como un instrumento de transformación de sujet…
The Imperial-Colonial Chronotope: Istanbul-Baku-Khurramabad
The Russian "Fate" of Southern Letters, or Southern Fiction and "Soviet" Diction
The Imagined Freedom: Post-Soviet Intellectuals between the Hegemony of the State and the Hegemony of the Market
Research Article| July 01 2006 The Imagined Freedom: Post-Soviet Intellectuals between the Hegemony of the State and the Hegemony of the Market Madina Tlostanova Madina Tlostanova Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2006) 105 (3): 637–659. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-2005-008 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Madina Tlostanova; The…
Theorizing from the Borders: Shifting to Geo- and Body-Politics of Knowledge
Borders' will be in the twenty-first century what 'frontiers' where in the nineteenth. Frontiers were conceived as the line indicating the last point in the relentless march of civilization. On the one side of the frontiers was civilization; on the other, nothing; just barbarism or emptiness. The march of civilization and the idea of the frontiers created a geographic and bodygraphic divide. Certain areas of the planet were designated as the loca…
The Imperial-Colonial Chronotope: Istanbul-Baku-Khurramabad
Decolonial Feminism and the Decolonial Turn
One of the recently emerged approaches in the humanities and social sciences that attempts to act in the role of a connector between various experiences of otherness, determined by the imperial-colonial dimension of modernity, is the decolonial turn or decolonial option. There are several points formulated by decolonial humanists which I attempt to dialogue with here. First of all, it is a fundamental rethinking of modernity from its underside (D…
Gender Epistemologies and Eurasian Borderlands
Tlostanova examines Central Asia and the Caucasus to trace the genealogy of feminism in those regions following the dissolution of the USSR. The forms it takes resist interpretation through the lenses
La aesthesis trans-moderna en la zona fronteriza eurasiática y el anti-sublime decolonial
La revista CALLE14 es un medio de circulación de saberes y conocimientos producidos por las comunidades académicas especializadas en el campo del arte que, debido a su acción mediadora, facilita la construcción de comunidades artísticas disciplinares e interdisciplinares, de redes de investigadores en el ámbito nacional e internacional y, ante todo, propende por la apropiación social del conocimiento como un instrumento de transformación de sujet…
Author–critic forum: Decolonial theory and gender research in Central Asia
The ‘Author–Critic Forum’ format consists of a standard review of a new book plus a number of shorter appraisals of it, and finally a response by the author to all these contributions. The choice o
Postsocialist ≠ postcolonial? On post-Soviet imaginary and global coloniality
The article presents the main conceptual intersections and differences between postcolonial studies as a product of the anglophone world, of the history of relations between the British Empire and its colonies, and a critical analysis of post-Soviet discourses and processes, particularly in relation to Russia/USSR and its ex-colonies. This complicates the dichotomous scheme west versus east, north versus south, reflecting the difference between h…
Toutes les femmes sont russes, tous les Caucasiens sont des hommes ? Intersectionnalité, pluriversalité et les autres genré-e-s des frontières eurasiennes
Les origines contestataires de l’intersectionnalité L’un des principaux concepts théoriques du féminisme contemporain, souvent utilisé pour établir des dialogues et des coalitions transnationales, est le concept au départ métaphorique d’intersectionnalité, forgé par la théoricienne afro-américaine Kimberlé Crenshaw (1989), et élaboré vers la même époque par plusieurs autres chercheuses et auteures afro-américaines et femmes de couleur. Citons ici…
Between the Russian/Soviet dependencies, neoliberal delusions, dewesternizing options, and decolonial drives
Departing from the previous tripartite post-colonial/neocolonial geopolitical structure, contemporary world offers a different specter of possibilities and alliances which rearrange the former actors and their mutual relations and (in)dependencies in unexpected ways. The most striking of such shifts is the reemergence of Asia on a global scale within a dewesternizing model, which negotiates post-colonial and modernizing impulses at once. However,…
Border thinking and disidentification: Postcolonial and postsocialist feminist dialogues
In the context of the continuing dominance of delocalised Western feminist theoretical models, which allow the non-Western and not quite Western 'others' to either be epistemically annihilated or appropriated, it becomes crucial to look for transformative feminist theoretical tools which can eventually help break the so-called mere recognition patterns and move in the direction of transversal dialogues, mutual learning practices and volatile but …
Transcending the Human/Non-Human Divide: The Geo-Politics and Body-Politics of Being and Perception, and Decolonial Art
This article focuses on the analysis of the geo-politics and body-politics of being, and perception as the key concepts in the decolonial option grounded in the spatiality and corporeality of our cognitive and perceptive mechanisms. Revived spatiality refers in this case not only to a physical space that we inhabit but also to our bodies as specific spatial entities – the privileged white male bodies or the damned, non-white, dehumanized and ofte…
What Does It Mean to Be Post-Soviet?: Decolonial Art from the Ruins of the Soviet Empire
What Does It Mean to Be Post-Soviet: Decolonial Art from the Ruins of the Soviet Empire
Identifying to dis-identify: Occidentalist feminism, the Delhi gang rape case and its internal others
Euro-American feminism’s embeddedness in a neo-liberal geo-political framework has created new though contested spaces for knowledge production among scholars, practitioners and policy-makers. In particular, a theoretical tool that has lost its transformatory potential is disidentification, specifically as a signifier for forging collective activism within Europe. In the age of global mobility and border-crossings, Western feminist disidentificat…
The postcolonial condition, the decolonial option, and the post-socialist intervention
Postcoloniality should be regarded as a human condition, an existential situation, whereas decoloniality is an option, consciously chosen as a political, ethical, and epistemic positionality. Such an unconventional understanding of the terms “postcolonial” and “decolonial” allows to transcend the long-going rivalry and geopolitical divisions between the postcolonial studies and the decolonial option through the medium of the post-socialist and po…
Do We Need Decolonial Feminism in Sweden
We decided to reflect on this question because in the last several years, a number of scholarly projects and initiatives in different European countries, including Sweden, have applied the term “de
The Postsocialist 'Missing Other' of Transnational Feminism
No abstract available
New Political Imagination
Postcolonial and Postsocialist Dialogues: Intersections, Opacities, Challenges in Feminist Theorizing and Practice
Discordant Trajectories of the (Post-)Soviet (Post)Colonial Aesthetics
After a short critical reflection on what is understood under anticolonial aesthetics and how it relates to the shift from political decolonization to a more epistemologically and aesthetically oriented decoloniality, the essay focuses on the seldom considered anticolonial and decolonial trajectories originating in the ex- and present colonies of the Russian/Soviet empire and post/neo-imperial Russia. It is analysed how these trajectories interse…
The geopolitics of international higher education prior and during Covid-19: A decolonial feminist analysis
Thinking with four non-EU academic migrants from the global South, and their experiences of working/studying or starting to work/study during the Covid-19 pandemic, we are unravelling the current geopolitics of the internationalised higher education in the global North. Our central argument is that Covid-19 has not simply affected the national and global politics of migration, including international academic migration, but it has also worked as …
Sobre Hermenêutica Pluritópica, Pensamento Trans-moderno e Filosofia Decolonial
Tradução de Vitor Gomes Lopes do artigo "On Pluritopic Hermeneutics, Trans-modern Thinking, and Decolonial Philosophy" de Madina Vladimirovna Tlostanova e Walter Mignolo
Postkolonialna kondycja, dekolonialna opcja i postsocjalistyczna interwencja
Postkolonialność powinna być postrzegana jako ludzka kondycja, sytuacja egzystencjalna, podczas gdy dekolonialność jest opcją, świadomie wybraną jako pozycja polityczna, etyczna i epistemiczna. Takie niekonwencjonalne rozumienie terminów „postkolonialny” i „dekolonialny” pozwala przekroczyć długotrwałą rywalizację i geopolityczne podziały między studiami postkolonialnymi a opcją dekolonialną za pośrednictwem optyki i dyskursów postsocjalistycznyc…
Political science (17 works) · Sociology (16 works) · History (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Decolonial Thought and Epistemologies (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Colonialism (6 works) · Epistemology (6 works)