Tereza Hendl
@terezahendl.bsky.social
Philosopher / global (health) justice, critiques of East-West hierarchies of knowledge / anticolonial and CEE feminisms and art / she/they/Dr
RUTA Association (Board Member), CEE Feminist Research Network, IRG-GHJ
RUTA Association (Board Member), CEE Feminist Research Network, IRG-GHJ
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Tereza Hendl
@terezahendl.bsky.social
· Nov 26
🏆We are proud to announce the winner of the 2025 B. Brodie Prize: for their critique of “Westsplaining”+coloniality in dominant debates on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the work of
@terezahendl.bsky.social Olga Burlyuk, Mila O’Sullivan & Aizada Arystanbek was recognized by a jury from our EB
@terezahendl.bsky.social Olga Burlyuk, Mila O’Sullivan & Aizada Arystanbek was recognized by a jury from our EB
Honoured to have been awarded the 2025 Brodie Prize for our work, in which we problematise the persistent theorising of Europe's East and Central Asia through western-centric perspectives and russia-centric frameworks, calling instead for the re-centering of the knowledges of (de)occupied societies
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Last days to send us abstracts for our next conference of the RUTA Association for Central, South-Eastern, and Eastern European, Baltic, Caucasus, Central and Northern Asian Studies in Global Conversation, exploring the role of rooted and embodied knowledges as catalysts of change: apply by Nov 30
Our 2026 RUTA conference will be exploring the role of embodied knowledges and knowledges rooted in the places we conduct research about. We will discuss how the making of knowledge, art and cultural heritage changes when it is grounded in places and communities and which possibilities this opens
November 28, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Last days to send us abstracts for our next conference of the RUTA Association for Central, South-Eastern, and Eastern European, Baltic, Caucasus, Central and Northern Asian Studies in Global Conversation, exploring the role of rooted and embodied knowledges as catalysts of change: apply by Nov 30
There’s a need for more work that will closely trace and analyse distinct socialist patterns and legacies of gaslighting, especially in political philosophy and social epistemology where it is particularly lacking. But some work is on the way from us with transitional justice scholar Selbi Durdiyeva
"The socialist economy and socialist governance perpetuated the very inequalities and colonial oppression that they claimed to eliminate. ∎"
If you missed the talk, here’s a core text exploring the USSR as a colonial project and addressing the lack of critical engagement with Soviet settler colonialism and the historical interconnections of socialism and colonialism that ought to be dealt with
www.southsouthmovement.org/dialogues/ex...
www.southsouthmovement.org/dialogues/ex...
November 28, 2025 at 4:13 PM
There’s a need for more work that will closely trace and analyse distinct socialist patterns and legacies of gaslighting, especially in political philosophy and social epistemology where it is particularly lacking. But some work is on the way from us with transitional justice scholar Selbi Durdiyeva
If you missed the talk, here’s a core text exploring the USSR as a colonial project and addressing the lack of critical engagement with Soviet settler colonialism and the historical interconnections of socialism and colonialism that ought to be dealt with
www.southsouthmovement.org/dialogues/ex...
www.southsouthmovement.org/dialogues/ex...
November 27, 2025 at 6:58 PM
If you missed the talk, here’s a core text exploring the USSR as a colonial project and addressing the lack of critical engagement with Soviet settler colonialism and the historical interconnections of socialism and colonialism that ought to be dealt with
www.southsouthmovement.org/dialogues/ex...
www.southsouthmovement.org/dialogues/ex...
Can’t wait to hear Botakoz Kassymbekova’s talk, while wishing that her analysis would be less urgent - but that tragically is not the historical momentum we’ve reached yet, especially not much of the left. And I’m hearing from US colleagues that Stalinism is gaining traction among their students 1/2
A webinar on destalinization as decolonization: what does it mean to recognise the Soviet ‘Union’ and post-Soviet Russia as a colonial project and why is it essential to confront and overcome an ongoing imperial and not only an authoritarian legacy
Registration: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Registration: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
November 26, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Can’t wait to hear Botakoz Kassymbekova’s talk, while wishing that her analysis would be less urgent - but that tragically is not the historical momentum we’ve reached yet, especially not much of the left. And I’m hearing from US colleagues that Stalinism is gaining traction among their students 1/2
A predictably sobering report based on interviews with activists, legal and political analysis and case evidence across four pillars of repression of (solidarity with) Palestinians in Germany, including via policing, violence, censorship and economic pressure against activists and critical voices
‘Germany has become a laboratory for the criminalisation of solidarity with Palestine, testing how far it can go in suppressing free speech, banning protest, and bending the constitutional framework until it is almost unrecognisable.’
new report @tninstitute.bsky.social
www.tni.org/en/publicati...
new report @tninstitute.bsky.social
www.tni.org/en/publicati...
Solidarity under Siege | Transnational Institute
Since 7 October 2023, Germany’s unabating support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza is mirrored by a sweeping crackdown on Palestine solidarity at home. This report unpacks how over decades, authorities h...
www.tni.org
November 26, 2025 at 4:31 PM
A predictably sobering report based on interviews with activists, legal and political analysis and case evidence across four pillars of repression of (solidarity with) Palestinians in Germany, including via policing, violence, censorship and economic pressure against activists and critical voices
Last days to send us abstracts for our next conference of the RUTA Association for Central, South-Eastern, and Eastern European, Baltic, Caucasus, Central and Northern Asian Studies in Global Conversation exploring the role of rooted and embodied knowledges as catalysts of change and shifts in power
Our 2026 RUTA conference will be exploring the role of embodied knowledges and knowledges rooted in the places we conduct research about. We will discuss how the making of knowledge, art and cultural heritage changes when it is grounded in places and communities and which possibilities this opens
November 26, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Last days to send us abstracts for our next conference of the RUTA Association for Central, South-Eastern, and Eastern European, Baltic, Caucasus, Central and Northern Asian Studies in Global Conversation exploring the role of rooted and embodied knowledges as catalysts of change and shifts in power
Analysis by legal scholar of transitional justice Selbi Durdiyeva. The US-RU occupation plan for Ukraine is trying to secure an amnesty and continuous impunity for Russian imperialism and its crimes, including against humanity
Accountability and justice instead
theconversation.com/any-peace-de...
Accountability and justice instead
theconversation.com/any-peace-de...
November 26, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Analysis by legal scholar of transitional justice Selbi Durdiyeva. The US-RU occupation plan for Ukraine is trying to secure an amnesty and continuous impunity for Russian imperialism and its crimes, including against humanity
Accountability and justice instead
theconversation.com/any-peace-de...
Accountability and justice instead
theconversation.com/any-peace-de...
Crimean Tatar historian prosecuted by a current Russian occupier regime for speaking out about genocide against Crimean Tatars under Stalinist USSR
74-year-old Crimean Tatar historian detained and prosecuted over interview about the 1944 Deportation
khpg.org/en/1608815301
khpg.org/en/1608815301
74-year-old Crimean Tatar historian detained and prosecuted over interview about the 1944 Deportation
The uncle of three political prisoners is facing prosecution over the entirely accurate comment that the perpetrators of Soviet crimes were not held to account
khpg.org
November 26, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Crimean Tatar historian prosecuted by a current Russian occupier regime for speaking out about genocide against Crimean Tatars under Stalinist USSR
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I think of the Executed Renaissance, murderous Soviet purges of whole generations of intellectuals from Ukraine across Belarus, Georgia and Qazaqstan… and I think of how little this epistemicidal necropolitics bothered anyone outside the affected societies, including many leading decolonial thinkers
November 26, 2025 at 11:33 AM
I think of the Executed Renaissance, murderous Soviet purges of whole generations of intellectuals from Ukraine across Belarus, Georgia and Qazaqstan… and I think of how little this epistemicidal necropolitics bothered anyone outside the affected societies, including many leading decolonial thinkers
About thinkers from Europe’s East whose work is visionary: it was an honour to meet @avalaina.bsky.social, hear her talk and also get to discuss the reparative work we do with @associationruta.bsky.social in research on/with Europe’s East, Baltic, Caucasus, Central and North Asia in global dialogues
November 25, 2025 at 6:56 PM
About thinkers from Europe’s East whose work is visionary: it was an honour to meet @avalaina.bsky.social, hear her talk and also get to discuss the reparative work we do with @associationruta.bsky.social in research on/with Europe’s East, Baltic, Caucasus, Central and North Asia in global dialogues
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Tomorrow (Nov 25) is the UN's International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and the start of #16Days of Activism on Gender-Based Violence
I'm offering 2 FREE bystander intervention webinars to mark the date: 1 in English et un en français
Learn community care with me. Sign up! ⬇️
I'm offering 2 FREE bystander intervention webinars to mark the date: 1 in English et un en français
Learn community care with me. Sign up! ⬇️
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Come learn bystander intervention with me - It's free!
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November 24, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Tomorrow (Nov 25) is the UN's International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and the start of #16Days of Activism on Gender-Based Violence
I'm offering 2 FREE bystander intervention webinars to mark the date: 1 in English et un en français
Learn community care with me. Sign up! ⬇️
I'm offering 2 FREE bystander intervention webinars to mark the date: 1 in English et un en français
Learn community care with me. Sign up! ⬇️
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Latest episode of the YurtJurt podcast that will be of great interest to many RUTA members and communities
In the latest episode of YurtJurt podcast, I converse with three fascinating feminist/decolonial Central Asian researchers and authors - fellow sociologist Aizada Arystanbek, political historian Kamila Smagulova, and feminist author Aisulu Toyshibek abt VOCABULARY
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/y...
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/y...
Yurt Jurt
Government Podcast · Yurt Jurt - a podcast about decolonizing Central Asia and Beyond produced by Central Asian activists. Hosted by Dr. Diana Kudaibergen, Yurt Jurt dives deep into the decoloniality ...
podcasts.apple.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Latest episode of the YurtJurt podcast that will be of great interest to many RUTA members and communities
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While empires are ravaging Ukraine, think about donating to Ukrainians if you can. And consider de-centring these empires from your cultural consumption. There is fantastic music and literature in Ukraine that Russia is trying to destroy. Support it by learning about it. chapterukraine.com
Ukrainian literature in English translation – Chapter Ukraine
Build your own bookshelf dedicated to Ukrainian literature in English translation. | Chapter Ukraine
chapterukraine.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:32 PM
While empires are ravaging Ukraine, think about donating to Ukrainians if you can. And consider de-centring these empires from your cultural consumption. There is fantastic music and literature in Ukraine that Russia is trying to destroy. Support it by learning about it. chapterukraine.com
On the negotiating tactics of the Soviet empire that Russia continues: Demand something that has never been yours. Present ultimatums, threaten. Do not give one inch in negotiations because there will always be people in the West who will offer you something [that was not theirs to “give” either]
November 24, 2025 at 3:57 PM
On the negotiating tactics of the Soviet empire that Russia continues: Demand something that has never been yours. Present ultimatums, threaten. Do not give one inch in negotiations because there will always be people in the West who will offer you something [that was not theirs to “give” either]
No amnesty for Russian crimes: accountability and justice instead
⚡️ Ukraine is investigating a staggering 178,000 Russian war crimes as Trump’s peace plan raises fears it could grant amnesty to Russian troops.
Ukraine Probes 178,000 Russian War Crimes as US Peace Plan Sparks Amnesty Fears
Investigations into 178,000 alleged war crimes by Russian forces are ongoing in Ukraine amid discussions on a contentious US peace strategy.
united24media.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:34 PM
No amnesty for Russian crimes: accountability and justice instead
About the analogies: the Putin-Trump occupation plan is much worse than the Munich betrayal as it comes after 11 years of Russian occupation of Ukraine, with systemic killing, torture, sexualised violence, genocidal abduction and assimilation of children, settling of occupied land… all in the open
November 22, 2025 at 5:53 PM
About the analogies: the Putin-Trump occupation plan is much worse than the Munich betrayal as it comes after 11 years of Russian occupation of Ukraine, with systemic killing, torture, sexualised violence, genocidal abduction and assimilation of children, settling of occupied land… all in the open
About to start! We’ll look at how European East-West hierarchies turned necropolitical during the COVID-19 pandemic (not only) in Germany and what it means for reluctant accounting for “anti-Slavic racism” and its insufficiency for grasping and eliminating racial injustice toward Eastern populations
Here comes the PSA! With @schlawinerkreis.bsky.social we'll talk about the invisibility of East-European migrants in German health data. We've published on how the lack of data on racialisation maintains white ignorance about racism and next we'll look at the Western dimensions of white ignorance
The PSA Around the World 2025 series begins this Thursday, 6 Nov! 🔥🌈🎉
Join us online for sessions highlighting philosophy of science from and about Eastern & Central Europe.
Registration still open — fee waivers available!
👉
www.philsci.org/psa_around_t...
#philsci
Join us online for sessions highlighting philosophy of science from and about Eastern & Central Europe.
Registration still open — fee waivers available!
👉
www.philsci.org/psa_around_t...
#philsci
November 22, 2025 at 5:22 PM
About to start! We’ll look at how European East-West hierarchies turned necropolitical during the COVID-19 pandemic (not only) in Germany and what it means for reluctant accounting for “anti-Slavic racism” and its insufficiency for grasping and eliminating racial injustice toward Eastern populations
So many Syrians know
November 22, 2025 at 1:40 AM
So many Syrians know
That’s all because it was immensely inspiring to read your book. It is so rare to read work that captures what life in an authoritarian system is like, what it does to people on individual, societal and trans-generational levels, while doing justice to the insistence on and difficulty of resistance
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 21, 2025 at 12:46 PM
That’s all because it was immensely inspiring to read your book. It is so rare to read work that captures what life in an authoritarian system is like, what it does to people on individual, societal and trans-generational levels, while doing justice to the insistence on and difficulty of resistance
It is striking how much this is not understood, including by many who regularly weigh into discussions on global justice and from leftist positions
November 21, 2025 at 12:35 PM
It is striking how much this is not understood, including by many who regularly weigh into discussions on global justice and from leftist positions
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"cathartic reasons" is exactly right as i re-read it yet again, almost four years later
"Direct action right now would be log off, at least our timelines would be polluted less."
"Direct action right now would be log off, at least our timelines would be polluted less."
Periodically rereading Zosia Brom’s text for cathartic reasons. So tragically spot on
freedomnews.org.uk/2022/03/04/f...
freedomnews.org.uk/2022/03/04/f...
Fuck leftist westplaining - Freedom News
Earlier this week, the Polish parliamentary progressive left party, Razem, issued a statement in which they announce that they are cutting ties with two European organisations: Progressive Internation...
freedomnews.org.uk
November 20, 2025 at 1:04 PM
"cathartic reasons" is exactly right as i re-read it yet again, almost four years later
"Direct action right now would be log off, at least our timelines would be polluted less."
"Direct action right now would be log off, at least our timelines would be polluted less."
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One more week to apply for RUTA annual conference, 12–15 July 2026 in 🇺🇦Carpathian Mountains.
Having participated twice, I highly recommend applying—especially if you care about the region & epistemically just ways of producing knowledge.
#RUTA in solidarity with #Ukraine
Having participated twice, I highly recommend applying—especially if you care about the region & epistemically just ways of producing knowledge.
#RUTA in solidarity with #Ukraine
Due to numerous requests, we are pleased to announce that the abstract submission deadline has been extended by two weeks. We encourage all interested contributors to take advantage of this extra time to finalize their submissions. We look forward to receiving your contributions by Nov 30
Our 2026 RUTA conference will be exploring the role of embodied knowledges and knowledges rooted in the places we conduct research about. We will discuss how the making of knowledge, art and cultural heritage changes when it is grounded in places and communities and which possibilities this opens
November 20, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Always glad to spend time in conversations with Reza Bayat. Thus happily accepted his invitation to give a keynote in his team’s symposium on medical border making and talk about a vision for transformative technologies, designed in ways that will be able to foster equitable and just health outcomes
November 20, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Always glad to spend time in conversations with Reza Bayat. Thus happily accepted his invitation to give a keynote in his team’s symposium on medical border making and talk about a vision for transformative technologies, designed in ways that will be able to foster equitable and just health outcomes
Lots of work ahead for Merz to better integrate himself into the lived reality of Berlin, its surroundings and the wider world outside of Germany
November 20, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Lots of work ahead for Merz to better integrate himself into the lived reality of Berlin, its surroundings and the wider world outside of Germany
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Die Reaktionen zeigen: Einige stört es, dass gebildete Bürger mit Migrationsgeschichte sichtbarer werden, ihre Interessen und Sensibilitäten artikulieren und Teilhabe einfordern.
Das alte Bild des anspruchslosen migrantischen Arbeiters - malochen, schweigen, Projektionsfläche sein - ist vorbei.
Das alte Bild des anspruchslosen migrantischen Arbeiters - malochen, schweigen, Projektionsfläche sein - ist vorbei.
Das Bild einer Entfremdung: Die Stipendiaten der Deutschlandstiftung Integration verlassen bei der Rede des Bundeskanzlers den Saal.
Viele wollen es nicht verstehen oder wahr haben, aber die Äußerungen des Kanzlers haben enorme Kränkungen verursacht.
Viele wollen es nicht verstehen oder wahr haben, aber die Äußerungen des Kanzlers haben enorme Kränkungen verursacht.
November 20, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Die Reaktionen zeigen: Einige stört es, dass gebildete Bürger mit Migrationsgeschichte sichtbarer werden, ihre Interessen und Sensibilitäten artikulieren und Teilhabe einfordern.
Das alte Bild des anspruchslosen migrantischen Arbeiters - malochen, schweigen, Projektionsfläche sein - ist vorbei.
Das alte Bild des anspruchslosen migrantischen Arbeiters - malochen, schweigen, Projektionsfläche sein - ist vorbei.