Yéléna Mac-Glandières
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As young scholars working on the Caucasus and Azerbaijan, we are with
@CesareBarberis
@SamadzadeSevinj
@lau_luciani
releasing a statement/call for action in support of Bahruz Samadov and other academics detained in Azerbaijan.
Please read/sign/share it!!
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RIP Jacques Chirac... je l’avais rencontré en 2015 à l’occasion des Journées de la mer Caspienne du Super U de Bort-les-Orgues 🙏 un grand homme
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@LuizaVanelli
Bonjour, hélas il ne s’agit pas de Mitterand mais bien de la princesse Diana !
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I’m in the hostel’s kitchen, I’m at the WWI word cloud, I’m at the combination hostel kitchen and WWI word cloud
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so i have been wanting to do this for a long time. As of today I will be keeping an excel file in which I rank all former+current post-Soviet heads of state by hotness
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@benjaminhaddad
J’espère que vous allez être élu parce qu’avec ce niveau d’analyse-là ça va être difficile de retrouver un poste après
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Je vous remets ce classique
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Hello Twitter ! After 2 years of waiting, Covid and several administrative mishaps, my dear friend from Baku Masud got accepted into a French uni to pursue his master's in engineering. If you can, please consider donating to help him pay for tuition
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I don’t know the first thing about military/security studies so never felt like I had anything remotely relevant to say re: Nagorno-Karabakh - despite working in part on Azerbaijan. Here, some emotions/thoughts :
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Eurasian connectivity is literally when the Kutaisi airport bus (a repurposed Polish coach) is stuck behind a Turkmen lorry on its way to Turkey in the middle of the China-led Rikoti highway roadworks in Imereti
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It is unbelievable that 9 months of siege have not warranted more international action but it makes sense in an era where authoritarian conflict management is becoming the norm. Feb. 2022 had an awful taste of Sep. 2020
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Plot twist : il propose de supprimer le SMIC
Comment éradiquer l'islamisme ?
Quelques idées, quelques pistes à proposer sans se compromettre avec nos valeurs.
#Thread
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Numerous far-right accounts (among others) are passionate about it. I thought I'd take the opportunity to make a megathread that nobody will read until the end, about the Chechen diaspora, collective responsibility, street fights and the far-right's search for virility 🍾
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Happy to announce we have successfully relocated to Bishkek for the coming academic year AND he only peed in his bag after passport control 🤜🤛
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Now my heart is with the 10ths of thousands of Karabakh Armenians forced to flee their homes, whose absence will be laundered through smart cities, highways, corridors and "win-win" regional connectivity
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There's the individual, then his immediate family, then his extended family, a few intermediate structures, then his teip (clan), then the teip's tukkhum (clan union), and then the Chechen people. This diagram (by M. Rechova w/ material from
@Vatchagaev
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Waited for three years and now this !! I’ve got almost all of Baku’s architecture in one view from the balcony. Pre revolutionary in the front, khruschevki on the side, early Soviet in the back, half-empty modern high-rises all around
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So much to say about this tiring thread, mostly that the babushka showing how to build a mud oven in her garden is not a state propagandist. (I've been a long-time fan of the aforementioned "Country Life Vlog")
How
#Azerbaijan
FOODwashes its dictatorial and criminal image.
Thread⬇️ We have seen how Azerbaijan’s regime is ARTwashing its image. Another trend is the FOODwashing. Top Facebook Cooking pages with millions of followers post cooking videos, from Azerbaijan. Almost daily. 1/
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It was very visible that ethnic cleansing was always the end game, that the post-2020 illiberal peace was no peace at all as it completely deprived Karabakh Armenians of any political and territorial agency.
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Nooon le perfecto synthétique Tropico à l’eau de source n’est pas réel il ne peut pas te faire de m😧
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People in Chechnya have asked me if we "were doing ok in France with all the Arab migrants-terrorists coming in" - because that's what's on Russian TV, because what Russian TV does best is exporting European far-right discourses for their domestic audiences.
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Ok je vais unir les Arméniens et Azerbaïdjanais contre Plantu et faire la paix au Karabakh
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Honte éternelle sur Laurence de Cock. En 2020, elle plagie copieusement la revue litt antillaise Zist - son fondateur
@ZakaToto
le relève, s'ensuivent de maigres explications et elle s'excuse pour "l'invisibilisation". Aujd, elle attaque en diffamation : aidez (et lisez) Zist !
Zist est en danger ! Aidez nous à lever 8000€ pour notre fond de défense !
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Final theoretical input after years of gathering empirical data : YES the post-soviet space EXISTS, it is where you cannot take a road trip without hearing at least ONCE You’re my heart You’re my soul on the radio
Here pictured on the Tbilisi-Qax line
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Now I don't want to sound too orientalist here, but that won't come as a surprise for anyone familiar with Chechnya. The Chechen society traditionally has a clanic/tribal structure, unfolding on different scales along patrilinear lineages :
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Bonjour Twitter, on recherche en grande urgence une personne russophone pour faire la traduction entre une dame sans-papiers et son avocat lors de leur entretien préalable à une audience au tribunal, c’est mercredi à 11h vers Réaumur. RT très très appréciés, dms ouverts !
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Late announcement : if you're in Bishkek tomorrow, come hear me speak at the IFEAC about the material geopolitics of the Middle Corridor ! I'll present recent findings and ethnographic observations from fieldworks in Baku/Astana/Aqtau/Quryk ⛴️
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Moment de grâce quand un élève de petite section a pété juste à temps pour que je puisse embrayer sur les ressources gazières de la Caspienne 💕
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Have asked for the куриное место instead of место для курения for the third time this month
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My opinion is that the diaspora in itself has become, not a structure per se, but at least a scale in which identity is performed and collective responsibility is exercised. Even though it is very diverse socially and politically (w/ prominent opponents and pro-Kadyrov Chechens)
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Getting incredible end-of-the-world vibes from Sumgait’s new bulvar
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Phd thesis : written 👊
You say Russia is between east and west. Actually, it's east and west that are right and left of Russia.
Vladimir Putin
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Ex : the Azerbaijani side voluntarily never defined what they meant by « corridor » (as in Zangezur corridor) in order to keep a casus belli within arm’s reach.
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It is sad to see Azerbaijani elites coopt Aliyev revanchism when they used to express milder thoughts in private. Pre-2020 their free-trade and connectivity-oriented beliefs, however criticizable, could maybe have been actionable levers against military intervention.
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Je vole des verres à chaque fois que je vais au ru et vous encourage à faire de même, stimulons la commande publique 🙏
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Quite charmed by how yurt diplomacy has become an intense thing in the past 2 months!!
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Je lis (enfin) le livre de
@lucieazm
de la manière dont Dieu l’a voulu càd au fond du Popeye’s du fond de Sabiha Gökçen entre les poubelles et la table de fuckbois koweïtiens
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With collective responsibility comes a string sense of honor : one must behave in a way that will honor his family, teip and nation, otherwise he will be disrespecting and bringing shame to all of these entities.
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This tweet is a good conclusion. This journalist mapped the tweets and RTs under the hashtags
#Dijon
and
#Tch
étchènes, and found out that they were essentially a monopoly of far-right accounts, which is not a surprise.
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So, collective responsibility is always the answer !!!
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Me : oh well my dissertation on the use of transportation infrastructure as geopolitical spectacle in Azerbaijan has been put on hold by the war
Azerbaijan :
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O(o)TD 5 years ago ! I was in Russia for the first time, then left my friends in Moscow and travelled to Grozny for fieldwork. I was quite young, alone, incredibly scared and spent the first two days prostrated at the hostel sleeping for 48h straight.
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Officially in the tsiganka (fake blonde) phase of my девушка!! индианка или цыганка?? era (living in Bishkek)
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The way ideals of rural modernity and connectivity have been performed in the « Rebuilding Karabakh » campaigns for the past 3 years have been meant to 1) delegitimize Karabakh Armenians’ claims to the land (look! they don’t invest petrodollars here like we do)
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So a few days ago in Dijon, 2-3 teenagers (incl. 1 Chechen) were attacked by a much larger group of older men, apparently Algerian, and apparently for stealing something. The Chechen boy suffered numerous injuries and is in a serious condition.
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sandrine rousseau archi vénère sur france 2 vient de lâcher un banger de dingue comme quoi tout est possible
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A propos, this very famous rapper Kaaris made a song called "Kadirov" (sic), the line goes "Kalashnikov, Ramzan Kadyrov", which pretty much sums the stereotypes about Chechens and the fear/fascination they exert
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@JackxParker
Sardines écrasées avec ail/oignons/jus de citron + avocat ou brebis frais ou autres, perso je tartine sur du pain à la semoule grillé mais ça marche aussi très bien sur de la baguette ou en sandwich. C’est goûteux, frais et grand max 10mn de préparation
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Aaand the one we've been waiting for, my personal favorite.
1: Almazbek Atambayev (Kyrgyzstan) : Probably escaped jail by cutting the bars with those cheekbones. Massive, classically masculine neck. Only person I know who looks good in a black shirt. Rocking a Kaljulaid haircut
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People are making fun of them saying they started by romanticizing Chechen vigilantes but stopped when they realized they were Muslims too. Then they move towards the "Muslim gang war on our French territory" side of the narrative.
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I’m appalled at how NK refugees who were forced to live in crass, overcrowded, unsafe housing for the past 30 years are made complicit of the current tragedy through narratives of ‘smart villages’, industrial parks and international airports. Their agency is also nowhere in this
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La famille qui pour me décal en urgence 6 points Clément Faugier secteur communauté de communes Comtal-Lot-Truyère
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Comme il est de coutume quand on perce je vous droppe mon @ Cairn pour que vous puissiez aller m'y poser des gros likes (prods souncloud à venir mais on est encore en studio)
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These social structures are the ones in which collective responsibility is exponentially exercised : the individual is responsible before his family, teip and people, but his family is also responsible for him before his teip, his teip before his people, etc.
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Alors j'avais... loupé sa diffusion (par excès d'humilité eh oui) mais c'est moi le "collaborateur scientifique" de ce DDC sur la mer Caspienne en partenariat avec l'
@IFRI_
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Un peu à l'est du Haut-Karabakh, mais tout de même partie de l'équation géopolitique, la mer caspienne. Enjeux politiques, militaires, énergétiques ou encore environnementaux décryptés dans Le Dessous des Cartes.
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I made it: half of my instagram recommendations are stand-up routines about Dagestanis drinking coffee
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Closer to my field of research, I see how Azerbaijan’s recent rebranding through connectivity (hubs!) was instrumental in its post-2020 approach to Armenia/Karabakh, as logistical knowledge and project-making is refocused through 'coercive bargaining' (cf
@LaurenceBroers
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It's time for my favorite Saakashvili fact : somewhere on the internet lies a terrible parody porn starring him and Timoshenko.
Pictured below : they're about to engage in intercourse and there's a rap version of the 9th symphony playing in the background (no joke)
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@masquedelapeste
ma théorie c'est qu'il est en pleine rébellion et c'est lui les leaks à mediapart
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Reciprocally, if someone behaved in a wrong way, it's up to the family, the clan and sometimes the whole nation to take responsibility for it and try and right the wrong. And if someone was hurt or disrespected, the same structures are entitle to seek reprisal or compensation.
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Turning 27 today !! In a year or less we’ll find out for good whether or not I was a rock star 😎🔪🤘🔪
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J’arrive dans mon auberge à Nour-Soultan je vois quoi ??? ❤️🔥
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and 2) seduce domestic audiences by crafting exceptionality around NK, boasting benevolent discourses and « making inequality enchant » as these projects channel money and focus away from the rest of underdeveloped underinvested rural Aze (cf N. Koch on geopolitical spectacle)
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But naturally, it is the ethnic component that gets the most publicity and is then diversely read and instrumentalized by far-right and alt-political whatever french twitter accounts ! Which leads me to part 2 : the framing of Chechens within our current political discourse
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My favorite one : "The Chechens behaved in Dijon like the French did in the 1950s-60s, before a dramatic degeneration in Virility" (with a capital V, and a Putin profile pic)
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Ironically enough, as the tensions in Dijon were rising tonight with the "Arabs" starting to gather weapons and the police on site, the Chechens in the end didn't come for the final confrontation, because their elders asked them not to.
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Given the Chechens' terrible history of uprooting, this tribal system, which initially had a strong geographic base, has lost a lot of its weight. The family of course remains primordial, and the teip somehow retains some relevance - but nothing too deterministic.
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As the public debate is on police brutality and disarming the police, they use this story in every aspect possible, from "Chechens do what the French and the police won't" to "there are men with machine guns on the streets so the police actually needs more weapons and power"
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Some are grateful for the help "they" provided during the Chechen wars, others blame them for the confessionalization of the conflict.
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And to each diasporan scale, its own features and problems. Kadyrov has repeatedly threatened the "Chechens in Europe" and has indeed carried on exactions on a European scale : opponents have been threatened, attacked and killed in Poland, Austria, France, etc.
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4 : Abulfaz Elchibey (Azerbaijan) : Failed 2nd world nationalist leader who looks like a successful 3rd world nationalist leader.
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This has been made increasingly visible the last few years with Kadyrov's instrumentalization of public humiliation combined to collective responsibility for governance/ population control purposes.
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Being non-Chechen and non-North African, I can only speak about what I read or was told. These are just examples that ofc shall not be essentialized or generalized.
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@Paugog
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Now I can't and won't elaborate as to the "why of these clashes or resentments. But each community suffers from a number of stereotypes that were attached to them, mainly in post-colonial contexts - whether French or Post-Soviet.
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Said rivalry acts as the background of events such as the clashes in Dijon in which (this is my point), the main drama was not really about Chechens v. Arabs but, about collective responsibility exercised in the (French) diasporan space and on the diasporan scale.
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I wish there was a methodology built around receiving niche merch from interviewees. Here’s what I got today at the Aktau Sea Port
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All while that same Zangezur corridor was aggrandized from « new transport link built to connect the NAR and the western regions of Azerbaijan » (art.9) to « a geopolitical project connecting Europe with Central Asia and China » (random TRT world article)
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Happy New year New me from this account to yours 📲😎🥂
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and we move on to the last 2 before the top 10 :
12 : Heydar Aliyev (Az) : the 1st time I visited Baku I was tired, saw this sunkissed face on a billboard and thought "why do they have a pic of a gorgeous Floridian pensioner?" and it took me 5 minutes to put two and two together
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Of course this representation is not always very politically informed and a lot of people easily associate Kadyrov with all Chechens and diaspora Chechens, even though most would oppose him.
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On a local scale, local problems unfold, and often along "ethnic" lines : I've heard of clashes between the Nice Chechens and the Marseilles Armenians, or of general resentment between Chechens and "Arabs" (meaning French ppl of North-African descent) in Strasbourg.
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From what I've seen on Twitter his mom then made a facebook post about it, which rallied members of the diaspora in France and beyond to come to Dijon in order to get revenge for the boy.
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Que la dame (
@debatdecole1
) ait gardé une crédibilité dans les cercles bobos militants de la capitale malgré la collection de casseroles qu'elle se traîne me dépasse
Laurence de Cock ne connaît pas de limites. Elle poursuit Zist en diffamation. Résultat, on vous révèle toutes les turpitudes de sa semaine fatidique en Martinique il y a deux ans !
#laffairedecock
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Ramazan Abdulatipov you have to stop. Your smoke too tough. Your hair too bicolor. Your 2013-2017 tenure as president of Dagestan sadly too tainted by your inability to durably fight ethnic patron-client networks. Your glasses too thin. Your swag too different. They'll kill you.
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Some personal news : new Tsereteli monument unlocked !!!
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So here we go for part 1 : Social structures and the diaspora
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On the other hand, Chechens have also a very complicated and stereotypical vision of the "Arabs", a denomination that will in their representation generally include both people from the Middle-East and from North Africa.
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