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Botakoz Kassymbekova

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Soviet ageing, stalinism, cultural and social history, russian imperial cities, soviet central asia. University of Basel, Switzerland

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  • Many of us, ex-colonial subjects of the russian empire, had russian friends before the genocide. We didn’t hold grudge for the past. We spoke russian and thought we shared a culture, even if forcefully imposed on us.
    by Botakoz Kassymbekova
  • Time to Question Russia’s Imperial Innocence
    by Botakoz Kassymbekova
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  • I have been listening to the fantastic @BotakozKassymb1 in recent days speaking not only about (Russian/Soviet) colonialism, but also about how colonial structures and knowledge are still part of academia and how we are all part of it. A thread. 1/1
    by Franziska Davies
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Botakoz Kassymbekova @BotakozKassymb1 · May 26, 2023
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How scholarship fosters colonial thinking and fails people. Read this important thread.
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I have been listening to the fantastic @BotakozKassymb1 in recent days speaking not only about (Russian/Soviet) colonialism, but also about how colonial structures and knowledge are still part of academia and how we are all part of it. A thread. 1/1
by Franziska Davies
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