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