Francesca Chiarvesio

I wrote about how for decades, we've been conflating civil society support with achieving foreign policy ("geopolitical") goals, and how this has not made geopolitics better and has left civil society much worse off. Time for an audit. themoscowtimes.com/2023/12/29/cro…

Whereas Putin insists that "no Ukraine ever existed in the history of humankind," this was a postcard a Ukrainian living in places like St. Petersburg or Vladivostok could receive in the early 20th century. Its message serves as a reminder: "Don't forget your native Ukraine." 🧵

people asked me for the dystopic letter i read yesterday at #ASEEES23 Presidential Plenary: Decolonizing in Practice, so sharing it here: "DO NOT DESPAIR: a letter to a scholar whose homeland will be attacked by Russia next" daryatsymbalyuk.com/DO-NOT-DESPAIR

@jelena3121 @andreacossu75 And they list 'animazione' as their first activity!

On June 9, 2014, representatives of the Russia in the Donets'k occupation administration seized the territory of the #IZOLYATSIA Foundation in Donets'k and turned it into an illegal prison. For 9 years now, cultural infrastructure places used to enact crimes against humanity.

@MNakonechnyi Indeed, my fault! I understood the document but misunderstood your tweet)

@chiarvesiof Oh, I think now I understand the source of semantic confusion. In my original tweet, I meant "sanction" as in "cанкционировать" (to give effective or authoritative approval or consent), not "sanction" as "penalize".

Directive №31/593372 signed by the Gulag director Viktor Nasedkin (28 May 1941). It overtly sanctioned the concealment of starvation deaths in the GULAG camps from the "civilian" registration system and relatives of the dead prisoners. Source: GARF.

@kirlant Please no! You did not hurt anyone. I know what you meant. Sent you a DM

@chiarvesiof Sorry for hurting you, honestly, I had no clue what you meant because I don’t you.

What do you guys do in Naples? Can I find anything political here? Local communist movement bar, mafia clubs, intersectional environmentalist anti-gentrification pro-Iranian freedom exhibition or something like that?

@GuzelYusupova7 @EURUSCarletonU very happy to hear this!

As part of a special issue on implications for Russian Studies of war edited by @TomilaLankina, Post-Soviet Affairs published my short piece on political ethnography. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Nino Haratischvili at #Bozar in #Brussels: “Georgian society survived the 1990s only thanks to the improvisation and creativity of women.” I dare suggest all of the former soviet states’ societies survived thanks to women…

@SandraNoDuerme With due respect, DEI and top journals are an oxymoron. These journals reinforce exclusion and inequality in academia. I do understand the importance of these publications but still... (anyways, thank you for your inspiring tweets🌻)

@GuzelYusupova7 just to clarify, I know that the support provided is not enough and I am not comparing my situation to others' situation. And I know the sitaution is a way more complex than a tweet

@GuzelYusupova7 an answer to your tweets in general: also difficult for foreigners who used to work for RU universities and now are jobless and cannot even count on the support offered to RU scholars as they are not (no judgement/no criticism here, just a big WTF and a lot of understanding)

An article on sanctions by yours truly. If you need to read one article about sanctions, please read this one. posle.media/?p=217&lang=en

So it begins. We have launched a new bilingual left-wing, anti-war platform. It's called Posle (After). A short 🧵 on the first few texts that we have published. posle.media/?page_id=136&l…

Delighted to announce our new article (open access) with @alina_jasina Relational Area Studies: Russia and Geographies of Knowledge. Below are some of the main points so you don't even have to read it🤪(long 🧵warning) 1/ rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

*Job Alert* Come work with me on my project on “Decolonising Sexual and Gender Based Violence in Higher Education: Innovations in Theory, Policy and Practice". This post is full time, 35 hours per week and is fixed term for 2 years. vacancies.westminster.ac.uk/Hrvacancies/de…

Difficult conversations about gendered and racial dimensions of the Russian invasion of Ukraine should start now. In this ⁦@LSE_WPS⁩ post, ⁦@JulianaRSanin⁩ and I argue for reimagining the aftermath of war. | LSE Women, Peace and Security blog blogs.lse.ac.uk/wps/2022/05/10…