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Listen to podcast: Kitchen Conversation with scholar Aizada Arystanbek, a researcher and writer from Kazakhstan.

Is political theory essential to understand the undeniable influence of contemporary politics on our day-to-day lives?  NYC-based PhD candidate Aizada Arystanbek sees academic knowledge as a tool for understanding broader structures and systems of oppression, trying to make her work accessible to a broader audience. As a scholar from Kazakhstan, she aims to produce knowledge for local communities in post-socialist North and Central Asia. 

In the Kitchen Conversations podcast, she discusses her motivations for writing her latest paper ‘Decolonial Disruptions in Central Asia: Understanding Reactions to Russian Migrants in the Wake of Putin’s Mobilization’ published in South/South Movement in July 2023.

Aizada’s research revolves around gender, culture, nationalism, and decoloniality. With a Master of Arts degree in Gender Studies from Central European University and an on PhD ongoing pursuit at the Department of Sociology at Rutgers University, she views her work as a fusionof research and activism. Aizada is committed to actively contributing to the non-violent production of knowledge on Central Asia.

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About The Author

Patrycja
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Artist and writer. Studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and the Critical Studies Department at the Sandberg Institute. Her ongoing research relates the post-Soviet countries. In 2020, she launched a podcast series called ‘Kitchen Conversations.’

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