Vincent E. 

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The Persistence of Settler Futures
Brand New Life Magazine
March, 2025
 As this article shows, Russia mimics the methods of normalizing colonial occupation and resource extraction practised by other empires while insisting on its uniqueness. A close reading of the exhibition «Russia» at the All-Russian Exhibition Centre allows for a deeper understanding of the intersections between visual culture and the material infrastructures of settler colonial occupation. 

Settler Colonialism, Visual Culture
Technologies of Russian Colonialism:
Occupation, Persistence, Implication
With Svitlana Matviyenko and Sitora Rooz

The Funambulist Magazine  № 55
Asian Imperialisms
September - October, 2024
To understand the Russian colonial project as a part of the international project of colonial expansion, we use the notion of “colonial technologies,” proposed by la paperson in “The Third University is Possible.” As la paperson writes, “technologies generate patterns of social relations to land”; they are logics and methods of enabling the settler occupations of land across several contexts. Thinking with la paperson and Indigenous and decolonial activists, resisting Russian settler colonialism, we apply the notions of colonial technologies to read the tactics and strategies of the Russian colonial project, where we identify technologies of occupation, technologies of persistence, and technologies of implication Settler Colonialism, Colonial Technologies, Infrastructures, Solidarity
Solidified Settler Perception
 With Anna Engelhardt 

Journal of Visual Culture Magazine
Extractivism Dossier
May, 2023 This article uses paintings by artists Konstantin Korovin and Alexander Deyneka as entry points to discuss how  Russian settler colonial occupation has been normalised by visual culture. Finally, using Mamut Churlu’s painting “Return. Maryino I.” as a starting point, we will discuss land reclamation as a spatial and temporal project.
Settler Colonialism, Visual Culture
Crimean Tatar Infrastructures of Decolonial Care
 With Anna Engelhardt

European Review
May, 2022 This article employs the framework of critical infrastructure studies to outline the settler–colonial oppression and decolonial resistance in the Crimean Peninsula. It shows how Soviet and Russian colonialism intertwined ongoing landscape destruction with forced displacements and colonial othering. In addition, it outlines the laborious process of decolonial nourishment to define infrastructure beyond settler terms, questioning what counts as such. The text counters Russian colonial understanding of infrastructure that could not comprehend indigenous Crimean Tatar irrigation systems, constructed through intimate relations with soil and water rather than large-scale geoengineering. The Crimean Tatar water infrastructures are considered, in line with other forms of resistance, as ones of decolonial care. They create the possibility of a future which goes against that imposed by the Russian state. 

Settler Colonialism, Infrastructures
The Heterogeneous Temporalities of Russian Colonialism

Parse Journal
On the Question of Exhibition, Part 2
Spring - Summer, 2021
 This article discusses the temporalities produced by museum representations of Indigenous people. I use three objects from the museum collection as “interscalar vehicles”—an amphibious plane, a bronze sculpture, and a carved tusk—to understand Russian settler-colonialism temporalities. Using objects as starting points allows me to connect museum representations with more comprehensive Russian colonial histories.
Settler Colonialism, Visual Culture
Anti-colonialism and Decolonisation. USSR and Palestine
With Anna Engelhardt       

Journal of Visual Culture
The JVC Palestine Portfolio
September, 2021 


 From where do you speak?
We are taking this key decolonial question as an anchor. It seemed to us an impossibility to trace one’s position when it is puzzled for those who operate within many political coordinates as we do. This May, 2021, the Russian-speaking information space we inhabit, our meticulously curated lefty-anarcho-feminist information bubble, was glitching and disintegrating. We witnessed, reacted, and commented on the split reality, trying to assemble it back together in direct messages. While we anticipated the pro-Israeli positions of the Russian liberal media (Meduza.io, 2021), the split we recall here came from within the hollow, present in the ‘neutrality’ of the left. 
Confusion and fear to take sides were haunting political statements: ‘Israel- Palestine conflict’, ‘the benefit for both sides’, and ‘antisemitism’ as a crux of Israeli aggression, stumped us.To answer the question ‘from where do we think?’, we reflect on past conversations and anticipate those that are yet to be had. Our positionality is entangled with Soviet colonial and anti-colonial politics. We look at USSR and soviet dissidents’ views on Palestine, Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), and the Zionist colonial project to see where we are today. Whose are the voices we should be attune to while listening to the space from which we speak?
Settler Colonialism, Solidarity

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