TYMSYY is a multi-lingual podcast on global Indigenous experiences that aims to bring forward and center Indigenous researchers, professionals, creators, activists and their stories. We hope to bring personal and communal stories to encourage critical conversations on Indigenous issues, promote Indigenous knowledges, build relationships, and enhance collaborations, contributing to the development and practice of Indigenous internationalism. Hosted by Sardana Nikolaeva and Masha Kardashevskaya
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Decolonizing Methodologies Podcasts
Welcome to «Thinking About Indigenous Religions», a podcast where scholars, activists, artists, practitioners, and students discuss their understandings and usages of the term indigenous religions. The ambition is to address questions that many of us think of when we are thinking about indigenous religions. Are they the religions of indigenous peoples or a distinct group of religions? Is it a method, a theory, or a research field? Who gets to define indigenous religions? Who has already been ...
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Inuit Sovereignties and the Global Arctic
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Patricia Johnson-Castle, Nunatsiavut Inuk, as well as of British and German descent, is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. In this wide-ranging discussion, Patricia more about her scholarly trajectory (spanning from Canada and the United States to South Africa), her work with Inuit communities …
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Indigenous Quechua Governance, Impact of Mining and Resistance, Migration and Migrants, and Indigenous Methodologies w/ Yojana Miraya Oscco
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This is our second episode continuing our conversation with Yojana Miraya Oscco, a Quechua scholar, activist, co-founder of a non-profit organization Kuskalla Abya Yala, co-founder and a co-host of the Kuskalla Podcast. She is currently a Ph.D. student in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on Ande…
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Refusing NATO in the Indigenous Arctic
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Masha and Sardana do a deep dive into an article from 2023 on "Indigenizing NATO" for a wider conversation on the militarization of the Arctic, the NATO expansion into the Indigenous Arctic spaces, racism and white supremacist attitudes towards Arctic Indigenous communities by academics based in the West, disregard for Indigenous self-determination…
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Decolonizing Film-Making and Indigenous Self-Representation in West Papua with Wensislaus Fatubun
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Wensislaus Fatubun is a PhD candidate at the University of Canterbury (New Zealand), focusing on media and Pacific studies. Since 2003, he has worked as a video maker, photographer, journalist, and human rights defender with Indigenous communities in West Papua, Kalimantan, Flores Islands, and North Sulawesi. From 2008 to 2012, he served as a progr…
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How Activists are Made: Indigenous Quechua Lives and Politics w/ Yojana Miraya Oscco
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Yojana Miraya Oscco is a Quechua scholar from the Andes of Peru and currently a Ph.D. student in political science at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on Andean politics, resource extraction, environmental justice, and rural livelihoods. Yojana is a Quechua language activist who has taught her native language at the University of Tor…
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Aboriginal Media and Politics of Representation in Australia w/ Amy McQuire
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Dr Amy McQuire is a Darumbal and South Sea Islander scholar from Rockhampton in Central Queensland. She is a Senior Lecturer at the Carumba Institute and has worked as a journalist in Aboriginal and independent media. Dr. McQuire's work focuses on the representation of Aboriginal communities and violence against Aboriginal women, men and children i…
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Indigenous knowledges and climate change in the Sakha Republic w/ Lena Popova
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Lena Popova is a Sakha scholar from the Churapcha Uluus (district) of the Sakha Republic and a PhD Candidate at the Department of Geosciences, the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. She studies traditional economies, the impact of climate change on Indigenous livelihoods, and Indigenous knowledges. Our conversation with Lena explores her experi…
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Food sovereignty, environment, and Indigenous politics w/ Jessica Penney
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Jessica Penney is a Nunatsiavut Inuk scholar from Iqaluit, Nunavut. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Toronto Metropolitan University and an Associate at the Yellowhead Institute in Canada. Dr. Penney's scholarly and activist work centers on the intersection of Inuit health, well-being, food sovereignty, and environmen…
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Welcome to TYMSYY! Нөрүөн нөргүй! Всем здравствуйте!
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Sardana Nikolaeva, a Sakha scholar, is a graduate of the University of Manitoba’s Department of Anthropology and currently holds a postdoctoral fellowship position at the University of Toronto. Masha Kardashevskaya, a Sakha scholar, is a graduate of the University of Manitoba’s Department of Peace and Conflict Studies and currently serves as an ind…
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Episode 8. Imagining Global Adivasi-ness with Arjun Rathva and Gregory D. Alles
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This episode concentrates on the translation - the transformation in performance - of the U.N.'s International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples (9th of August) into the World Adivasi Day (Vishwa Adivasi Divas or Din) in Gujarat, specifically in the town of Chhotaudepur. Professor Arjun Rathva from MC Rathva College and Professor Gregory D. All…
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Episode 7. Indigenous Futures: The Practice of Sovereignty in Nagaland with Arkotong Longkumer and Aheli Moitra
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How does ‘sovereignty’ play out in the Naga areas – on the borders of India and Myanmar – with their rich stories connected to land, and their struggles to survive? How can we think about notions of sovereignty beyond nation-state boundaries, territorial independence, common language, culture, and religion; instead look at the productive ways in wh…
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Episode 6. Sámi Activism from Alta to Standing Rock with Siv Ellen Kraft
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Former Sámi Parliament President Aili Keskitalo declared Standing Rock "is our common cause. It has become symbolic, one may rightly say that this is the world's Alta-case" (NRK Nyheter 07.11.2016) In this episode, we meet Professor Siv Ellen Kraft, who talks about the shift to 'indigeneity' and 'indigenous religions' among the Sámi, through a focu…
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Episode 5. The Alta Conflict. Hunger strike for Sámi rights with Jorunn Eikjok. Part Two
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"Norwegian Government did not just give us Sámi rights; we, the Sámi people, demanded our rights!" In Part Two of this two-part episode, we continue the conversation with Sámi anthropologist and activist Jorunn Eikjok, as she takes us through the protest site in Oslo, 1979 . The Alta Conflict is reported to be the largest Sámi protest, which was fo…
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Episode 4. The Alta Conflict. Hunger strike for Sámi rights with Jorunn Eikjok. Part One.
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This two-part episode is dedicated to the Alta Conflict, where Sámi activists led a series of protests in the 1970s and 1980s against the construction of a hydroelectric power plant on the Alta River in Northern Norway. The Sámi activists declared a hunger strike on the 8th of October, 1979, in front of the Norwegian Parliament in Oslo. The Alta Co…
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Episode 3. Translating Indigeneities with Bjørn Ola Tafjord
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How to do research in religious studies without being too preoccupied with finding religion? How to resist the temptation of translating things categorically into religion and indigeneity? How to take seriously practices that powerful institutions try to delegitimize as ‘false religion’ or ‘primitive religion’? How to do critical research without r…
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Episode 2. Putting Sápmi on the Map. Sámi Activism through Art with Elle-Hánsa/Hans Ragnar Mathisen
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In this episode we have the privilege to be joined by Elle-Hánsa, a Sámi artist, cartographer, and indigenous activist, to talk about how, through his art, he became a Sámi activist. Elle-Hánsa is also known as Hans Ragnar Mathisen (his Norwegian name), and Keviselie (a name given to him by his Naga friends and relatives). Elle-Hánsa's first map of…
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Episode 1. Introduction to Indigenous Religions with Siv Ellen Kraft and Bjørn Ola Tafjord
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What counts as indigenous religions? Who uses this term? How are their claims connected to indigenous movements and struggles for recognition, rights and sovereignty? Who opposes and problematizes the category of indigenous religions, and why do they do that? To address these questions and introduce the study of indigenous religions we are joined b…
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