Madina Tlostanova is a feminist thinker and fiction writer, professor of postcolonial feminisms at Linköping University, Sweden. Her research interests focus on decoloniality, particularly in epistemic and aesthetic spheres, feminist social movements and theories of the Global South, the postsocialist human condition, fiction and art, critical future inquiries and critical interventions into complexity, crisis, and change. Tlostanova`s numerous articles, book chapters and monographs have been translated into many languages. Her most recent books include What Does it Mean to be Post-Soviet? Decolonial Art from the Ruins of the Soviet Empire (Duke University Press, 2018), A new Political Imagination, Making the Case (co-authored with Tony Fry, Routledge, 2020), Decoloniality of Knowledge, Being and Sensing (Centre of Contemporary Culture Tselinny, Kazakhstan, 2020, Kazakhian translation published in 2023), the co-edited volume Postcolonial and Postsocialist Dialogues. Intersections, Opacities, Challenges in Feminist Theorizing and Practice (with Redi Koobak and Suruchi Thapar-Björkert, Routledge, 2021) and the most recent experimental book of essays and speculative fiction Narratives of Unsettlement. Being Out-of-joint as a Generative Human Condition (Routledge, 2023). Currently she is working on a book on the stateless future.
