Madina Tlostanova is een transdiasporische geleerde wiens werk de kritiek op moderniteit en colonialiteit vanuit een dekoloniaal perspectief onderzoekt. Haar analyses richten zich op het post-Sovjet culturele imaginarium en de politieke samenleving in een voortdurend veranderende wereld. Tlostanova behandelt ideeën over multiculturalisme en transculturele esthetiek, om uiteindelijk te verschuiven naar post/dekoloniale interpretaties. Haar academische loopbaan en publicaties hebben haar gevestigd als een belangrijke denker op het gebied van dekoloniale studies.
Making the Case
Focusing on the need for innovative political thinking, this book critiques current political institutions and philosophies that fail to address the complexities and crises facing both local and global contexts. It argues for a reimagining of political leadership and practices to effectively navigate contemporary challenges, advocating for a fresh approach to political imagination.
Being Out-of-joint as a Generative Human Condition
Exploring the relational complexity of unsettlement, this work employs an interdisciplinary inter-mediational approach to examine its significance as a key sensibility of contemporary times. It delves into how this theme shapes our understanding of current societal dynamics and individual experiences.
Madina Tlostanova traces how contemporary post-Soviet art mediates the post- Soviet human condition through analyses of art and through interviews with artists and writers, showing the important role that radical art plays in building new modes of thought and a decolonial future.
Resistance and Re-existence
This book tackles the intersections of postcolonial and postsocialist imaginaries and sensibilities focusing on the ways they are reflected in contemporary art, fiction, theater and cinema. After the defeat of the Socialist modernity the postsocialist space and its people have found themselves in the void. Many elements of the former Second world experience, echo the postcolonial situations, including subalternization, epistemic racism, mimicry, unhomedness and transit, the revival of ethnic nationalisms and neo-imperial narratives, neo-Orientalist and mutant Eurocentric tendencies, indirect forms of resistance and life-asserting modes of re-existence. Yet there are also untranslatable differences between the postcolonial and the postsocialist human conditions. The monograph focuses on the aesthetic principles and mechanisms of sublime, the postsocialist/postcolonial decolonization of museums, the perception and representation of space and time through the tempolocalities of post-dependence, the anatomy of characters-tricksters with shifting multiple identities, the memory politics of the post-traumatic conditions and ways of their overcoming.