Indigenous & Soviet: Diamonds of Sakha w/ Sardana Nikolaeva

Sardana Nikolaeava joins this episode to discuss her recent study published through Ziibiing Lab "Indigenous Diamonds : Extractivism and Indigenous Politics in the Diamond Province of Russia." In our discussion we delve into the impacts extractivism has had on the people of the Sakha Republic before, during, and after the Soviet Union (USSR). Sardana, who is Sakha, also gives her own personal and community experiences of growing up both Indigenous and Soviet. 

Sardana Nikolaeva is a Postdoctoral Fellow with Ziibiing Lab (Global Indigenous Politics Collaboratory) at the Department of Political Science of the University of Toronto. Her work broadly centers on Indigenous politics, Indigenous classed and gendered experiences, geopolitical 'economy, economic sanctions, and extractivism.

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Sardana's study

Indigenous Diamonds :Extractivism and Indigenous Politics in the Diamond Province of Russia.

Sardana's appearances on other podcasts 

Indigenous diamonds w/ Sardana Nikolaeva

Indigenous People and the Soviet Union: a Sakha perspective w/ Sardana Nikolaeva (pt.1)

An Other's view of Russia w/ Sardana Nikolaeva