Indigenous Diamonds of Russia's Sakha Republic w/ Sardana Nikolaeva

Guerrilla History

Henry

Education, History

4.8 • 669 Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2025

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Guerrilla History, we bring on Dr. Sardana Nikolaeva to discuss her brilliant study Indigenous Diamonds: Extractivism and Indigenous Politics in the Diamond Province of Russia. We go over Sakha and the Sakha people, the history of diamond extraction in Sakha, and then went over the politics of indigeneity in Russia, how these diamonds were branded as "indigenous", and how sanctions on Russia impact the indigenous Sakha people. With so much in this conversation, you are sure to learn a lot, and we hope you will help by sharing this with your comrades!

Sardana Nikolaeva is a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Toronto, where she is an indigenous anthropologist studying indigeneity, indigenous methodologies, extractivism, and more. She cowrote the wonderful paper we discussed today, which you should read here: https://www.ziibiinglab.org/indigenous-diamonds

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1:00.9	We have a really fascinating conversation ahead of us today with a really great guest,
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