Dr Diana T. Kudaibergen
@dianakudaibergen.bsky.social
Political Sociologist, Decolonial Writer, Central Asian to the core.
Lecturing at @UCLSSEES.
Most of the times you can find me writing or rummaging around the steppe, deserts and valleys.
Fellow at Homerton College, previously at Cambridge Sociology
Lecturing at @UCLSSEES.
Most of the times you can find me writing or rummaging around the steppe, deserts and valleys.
Fellow at Homerton College, previously at Cambridge Sociology
Happy Bday to Almagul Menlibayeva, one of the artists who transformed my thinking and writing. I wrote a very personal text about her work that I saw for the first time in 2006 but the book I wrote it for is still stuck in print.
She is the coolest, her videoart is on show @ Highgate gallery, LDN
She is the coolest, her videoart is on show @ Highgate gallery, LDN
November 29, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Happy Bday to Almagul Menlibayeva, one of the artists who transformed my thinking and writing. I wrote a very personal text about her work that I saw for the first time in 2006 but the book I wrote it for is still stuck in print.
She is the coolest, her videoart is on show @ Highgate gallery, LDN
She is the coolest, her videoart is on show @ Highgate gallery, LDN
@joannalillis.bsky.social presenting her @bloombury.bsky.social book at the @uclssees.bsky.social Politics and Sociology seminar series chaired by @aglayasnetkov.bsky.social 🙏
November 27, 2025 at 5:40 PM
@joannalillis.bsky.social presenting her @bloombury.bsky.social book at the @uclssees.bsky.social Politics and Sociology seminar series chaired by @aglayasnetkov.bsky.social 🙏
re-reading @terezahendl.bsky.social review of the Kazakh Spring and every word resonates so deeply.
It's not a review, it's an incredibly inspiring text, an invitation for further research highlighting importance of decolonial writing about authoritarianisms and "embodied knowledge" I've been
It's not a review, it's an incredibly inspiring text, an invitation for further research highlighting importance of decolonial writing about authoritarianisms and "embodied knowledge" I've been
November 20, 2025 at 1:58 PM
re-reading @terezahendl.bsky.social review of the Kazakh Spring and every word resonates so deeply.
It's not a review, it's an incredibly inspiring text, an invitation for further research highlighting importance of decolonial writing about authoritarianisms and "embodied knowledge" I've been
It's not a review, it's an incredibly inspiring text, an invitation for further research highlighting importance of decolonial writing about authoritarianisms and "embodied knowledge" I've been
missing Tashkent and fieldworking
November 10, 2025 at 3:05 PM
missing Tashkent and fieldworking
The talk by Dr Anton Shekhovtsov at the Politics & Sociology Seminar Series tonight at @uclssees.bsky.social!
Chaired by Prof Andrew Wilson.
Please check out SSEES Politics&Sociology Seminar Series for more updates and many exciting talks this and next term! open and free for all.
Chaired by Prof Andrew Wilson.
Please check out SSEES Politics&Sociology Seminar Series for more updates and many exciting talks this and next term! open and free for all.
October 31, 2025 at 5:21 PM
The talk by Dr Anton Shekhovtsov at the Politics & Sociology Seminar Series tonight at @uclssees.bsky.social!
Chaired by Prof Andrew Wilson.
Please check out SSEES Politics&Sociology Seminar Series for more updates and many exciting talks this and next term! open and free for all.
Chaired by Prof Andrew Wilson.
Please check out SSEES Politics&Sociology Seminar Series for more updates and many exciting talks this and next term! open and free for all.
Got official photos from my talk at the Bukhara biennial symposium that happened recently in a magical setting of the 16th century Gavkushon Madrasa in one of my favorite cities in Central Asia. I was surrounded by artworks of my friends on slides and at the biennale.
priceless experience!
priceless experience!
October 19, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Got official photos from my talk at the Bukhara biennial symposium that happened recently in a magical setting of the 16th century Gavkushon Madrasa in one of my favorite cities in Central Asia. I was surrounded by artworks of my friends on slides and at the biennale.
priceless experience!
priceless experience!
The happiness of witnessing my artist friends with my little books - Medina Bazargali, Saule & Suinbike Suleimenov with my latest book for which I took their father's & husband's Kuanysh Bazargaliev superb artwork.
Plus, I wrote a text for Barsakelmes performance in that gorgeous brochure <3
Plus, I wrote a text for Barsakelmes performance in that gorgeous brochure <3
October 11, 2025 at 10:56 AM
The happiness of witnessing my artist friends with my little books - Medina Bazargali, Saule & Suinbike Suleimenov with my latest book for which I took their father's & husband's Kuanysh Bazargaliev superb artwork.
Plus, I wrote a text for Barsakelmes performance in that gorgeous brochure <3
Plus, I wrote a text for Barsakelmes performance in that gorgeous brochure <3
the happiness of experiencing the magic of Barsakelmes performance for 5 and 1/5 times (five performances and one rehearsal).
So grateful to the Tselinny team for this experience!
I have to find space/time to write a long text about my experiences during the performance.
So grateful to the Tselinny team for this experience!
I have to find space/time to write a long text about my experiences during the performance.
October 11, 2025 at 10:49 AM
the happiness of experiencing the magic of Barsakelmes performance for 5 and 1/5 times (five performances and one rehearsal).
So grateful to the Tselinny team for this experience!
I have to find space/time to write a long text about my experiences during the performance.
So grateful to the Tselinny team for this experience!
I have to find space/time to write a long text about my experiences during the performance.
the long awaited podcast with amazing curator, sound artist, DJ and public intellectual, Kamila Narysheva! Tune in to hear her fascinating story! <3
Follow YurtJurt on all major podcast platforms! We have more episodes coming up
Follow YurtJurt on all major podcast platforms! We have more episodes coming up
October 11, 2025 at 10:44 AM
the long awaited podcast with amazing curator, sound artist, DJ and public intellectual, Kamila Narysheva! Tune in to hear her fascinating story! <3
Follow YurtJurt on all major podcast platforms! We have more episodes coming up
Follow YurtJurt on all major podcast platforms! We have more episodes coming up
Yours truly also had another podcast released today, with Agnieszka Pilulicka and her Turan Tales.
This episode is about my latest book, What Does it Mean to be Kazakhstani.
The more podcasts the merrier 🙌
This episode is about my latest book, What Does it Mean to be Kazakhstani.
The more podcasts the merrier 🙌
October 2, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Yours truly also had another podcast released today, with Agnieszka Pilulicka and her Turan Tales.
This episode is about my latest book, What Does it Mean to be Kazakhstani.
The more podcasts the merrier 🙌
This episode is about my latest book, What Does it Mean to be Kazakhstani.
The more podcasts the merrier 🙌
This week is rich in terms of podcasts!
Tune in here for the new episode of YurtJurt w the one & only Asem Zhapisheva!!!
She’s the most inspiring political voices of the new generation in Kazakhstan. I think this is one of the best podcasts in our series. Tune in! It’s so rich!
Tune in here for the new episode of YurtJurt w the one & only Asem Zhapisheva!!!
She’s the most inspiring political voices of the new generation in Kazakhstan. I think this is one of the best podcasts in our series. Tune in! It’s so rich!
October 2, 2025 at 11:21 AM
This week is rich in terms of podcasts!
Tune in here for the new episode of YurtJurt w the one & only Asem Zhapisheva!!!
She’s the most inspiring political voices of the new generation in Kazakhstan. I think this is one of the best podcasts in our series. Tune in! It’s so rich!
Tune in here for the new episode of YurtJurt w the one & only Asem Zhapisheva!!!
She’s the most inspiring political voices of the new generation in Kazakhstan. I think this is one of the best podcasts in our series. Tune in! It’s so rich!
New episode of YurtJurt podcast on decoloniality! with Intizor! A multi-disciplinary Uyghur artist!
Tune in here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/y...
Tune in here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/y...
September 25, 2025 at 5:33 PM
New episode of YurtJurt podcast on decoloniality! with Intizor! A multi-disciplinary Uyghur artist!
Tune in here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/y...
Tune in here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/y...
New episode of YurtJurt podcast just dropped!
Listen to me talking to Aysulu Toyshibek & hopefully you’d get the sound of the Issy Kol shore where we recorded this superb conversation (and many more conversations to come).
Subscribe to YurtJurt!
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/y...
Listen to me talking to Aysulu Toyshibek & hopefully you’d get the sound of the Issy Kol shore where we recorded this superb conversation (and many more conversations to come).
Subscribe to YurtJurt!
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/y...
September 19, 2025 at 11:58 AM
New episode of YurtJurt podcast just dropped!
Listen to me talking to Aysulu Toyshibek & hopefully you’d get the sound of the Issy Kol shore where we recorded this superb conversation (and many more conversations to come).
Subscribe to YurtJurt!
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/y...
Listen to me talking to Aysulu Toyshibek & hopefully you’d get the sound of the Issy Kol shore where we recorded this superb conversation (and many more conversations to come).
Subscribe to YurtJurt!
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/y...
Aziza Kadyri artist talk!!!! In London!
September 18, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Aziza Kadyri artist talk!!!! In London!
New episode of Yurt Jurt podcast about decolonial thought in North and Central Asia just dropped! Here I talk with Prof Madina Tlostanova about decolonial future, her new book and the term “postsoviet”.
available for free on Spotify, Apple Podcast & other major platforms!
available for free on Spotify, Apple Podcast & other major platforms!
September 5, 2025 at 3:11 AM
New episode of Yurt Jurt podcast about decolonial thought in North and Central Asia just dropped! Here I talk with Prof Madina Tlostanova about decolonial future, her new book and the term “postsoviet”.
available for free on Spotify, Apple Podcast & other major platforms!
available for free on Spotify, Apple Podcast & other major platforms!
Went to see Askhat Akhmediyarov today to discuss a few things in the book I’m finalising now on protest art to check his old quotes.
Left his home after an 1.5h interview he told me to record thinking that I urgently need to write a new book.
The power of political art 🫡
Left his home after an 1.5h interview he told me to record thinking that I urgently need to write a new book.
The power of political art 🫡
September 4, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Went to see Askhat Akhmediyarov today to discuss a few things in the book I’m finalising now on protest art to check his old quotes.
Left his home after an 1.5h interview he told me to record thinking that I urgently need to write a new book.
The power of political art 🫡
Left his home after an 1.5h interview he told me to record thinking that I urgently need to write a new book.
The power of political art 🫡
It’s been a very spiritual summer. I think it was preparing me for smt grandeur and the forthcoming week with the coolest performances, my shaman friends & artists looks very promising as a last bit of the “spiritual awakening” (I’m Rukhani Kenguru ahahah).
So grateful to my aruakhs. And my steppe
So grateful to my aruakhs. And my steppe
August 31, 2025 at 11:59 AM
It’s been a very spiritual summer. I think it was preparing me for smt grandeur and the forthcoming week with the coolest performances, my shaman friends & artists looks very promising as a last bit of the “spiritual awakening” (I’m Rukhani Kenguru ahahah).
So grateful to my aruakhs. And my steppe
So grateful to my aruakhs. And my steppe
August 28, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Tomorrow my country will commemorate the victims of the Semipalatinsk nuclear weapons testing site, clearly a colonial project of the Soviet Union to test poisonous weapons in the sacred steppe. Today we release YurtJurt podcast with anti-nuclear activist Aigerim Seitenova ❤️
Tune in!
Tune in!
August 28, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Tomorrow my country will commemorate the victims of the Semipalatinsk nuclear weapons testing site, clearly a colonial project of the Soviet Union to test poisonous weapons in the sacred steppe. Today we release YurtJurt podcast with anti-nuclear activist Aigerim Seitenova ❤️
Tune in!
Tune in!
Excitement! Save the date! Tselinny Centre for Contemporary Culture in Almaty opens on 6-7th September with the superb “Barsakelmes” performance featuring the coolest artistic collaborations by some of my favourite people!!!!
August 23, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Excitement! Save the date! Tselinny Centre for Contemporary Culture in Almaty opens on 6-7th September with the superb “Barsakelmes” performance featuring the coolest artistic collaborations by some of my favourite people!!!!
Bishkeking ❤️
August 15, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Bishkeking ❤️
And highlighted the absurdity of this regime.
KGB-style apparatchiks wjth their pressures win this time but not in the long run.
Satire is not a crime.
Satira Qylmys Emes.
KGB-style apparatchiks wjth their pressures win this time but not in the long run.
Satire is not a crime.
Satira Qylmys Emes.
August 13, 2025 at 7:17 PM
And highlighted the absurdity of this regime.
KGB-style apparatchiks wjth their pressures win this time but not in the long run.
Satire is not a crime.
Satira Qylmys Emes.
KGB-style apparatchiks wjth their pressures win this time but not in the long run.
Satire is not a crime.
Satira Qylmys Emes.
Qaznews24 was a satirical public but sadly it predicted a lot of things like inflation, unlawfulness, and more.
But they made us laugh and as many write, their satirical critique made our days but above all, influenced the political attitudes.
But they made us laugh and as many write, their satirical critique made our days but above all, influenced the political attitudes.
August 13, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Qaznews24 was a satirical public but sadly it predicted a lot of things like inflation, unlawfulness, and more.
But they made us laugh and as many write, their satirical critique made our days but above all, influenced the political attitudes.
But they made us laugh and as many write, their satirical critique made our days but above all, influenced the political attitudes.
The end of an era: Kazakhstani public of political satire news announced their closure amid “pressure” from the security forces on authors and their families.
KZ Instagram is flooded with reposts about this news & words of regret for the loss of last hope and last resort for freedom of speech.
KZ Instagram is flooded with reposts about this news & words of regret for the loss of last hope and last resort for freedom of speech.
August 13, 2025 at 7:17 PM
The end of an era: Kazakhstani public of political satire news announced their closure amid “pressure” from the security forces on authors and their families.
KZ Instagram is flooded with reposts about this news & words of regret for the loss of last hope and last resort for freedom of speech.
KZ Instagram is flooded with reposts about this news & words of regret for the loss of last hope and last resort for freedom of speech.
Today at SSEES!
Come to Masaryk Room at 5 pm!
Come to Masaryk Room at 5 pm!
July 1, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Today at SSEES!
Come to Masaryk Room at 5 pm!
Come to Masaryk Room at 5 pm!