Witnesses or Resources? On Peat, Laboring Bodies, and Imperial Practice
Essay on exploration of the Soviet transformation of peatlands into energy landscapes and human bodies into laboring tools, tracing its lingering ecological and embodied violence through recurring fires, emissions, and workers’ memories
2025
On Created Worlds and Plotted Routes
Essay on the symbolic and practical role assigned to peat in early Soviet industrialization
2024
Authoritarian Legislation and the Struggle for Sovereignty
Timeline on processes between the Constituent Republics — Bashqortostan, Tatarstan and Chechen Republic — and Russian Federal government
2023
War and Myth: the Cult of the Great Patriotic War and the Militarization of Russian Society
Essay on the history of sacralization of the Great Patriotic War in the Kremlin propaganda
2022
The Impact of Cosmic Ideas on Humankind: Past, Present, and Future Narratives
Essay on the possibility of a human relationship with space beyond the colonial approach
2021
