Dinara Yangeldina

Position

Postdoctoral Fellow

Affiliation

Research groups

Short info

I am a researcher of post-socialist cultures and politics, with a special interest in feminist, queer, decolonial, and anti-racist activisms and popular culture.
I am a principal investigator of the Research Council of Norway project RUMEX: TO KILL AN EMPIRE? RUSSIAN MUSICAL EXILE IN TIMES OF WAR
Outreach
Teaching

At the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH)

  • 2025  Sustainability and Ethical Challenges ENE452 (Master's level seminar). Gender, Power and Climate: Feminist, Intersectional and Decolonial Approaches to Climate Change

At the NYI Global Institute of Cultural, Cognitive, and Linguistic Studies

  • 2024-2025 Summer Course: Politics of Protest and the Dynamics of Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Ongoing Russian Musical Exile (designed and taught in 2024 and 2025)

At the University of Bergen, Norway

  • 2024-2025 KVIK206 Course, Masculinity in Contemporary Literature and Music, Gender, and Sexuality in a Global Context (designed and taught a 12-hour module on masculinity in popular music)
  • 2023 KVIK 101 Course, Kjønn i det moderne (Gender in the Modern World)
  • 2020 KVIK 206 Course, The #MeToo Moment: Gender, Sexuality, and Violence in a Global Context 
  • 2020 KVIK 101 Course, Kjønn i det moderne (Gender in the Modern World)
  • 2019 KVIK 101 Course, Kjønn i det moderne (Gender in the Modern World)
  • 2017 KVIK 206 Course, Gender, Migration and Time: Gender, Sexuality and Violence in a Global Context 
Publications

Yangeldina, Dinara (2025) Imaginary Brooklyn in Post-Soviet Anywhere: Nostalgia, Heterotopia and Affective Circulations of the ‘Russian hip-hop, book chapter in Music Video and Transcultural Imaginaries: Media – Aesthetics – Social Utopia, Waxmann, Popular Culture, and Music series.

Yangeldina, Dinara (2024) Going Native/Viral in Russian Popular Music: Aesthetic Populism, Patriotic Anti-Racism, and the Quest for Hip-Hop Authenticity in Timati’s Teymuraz Music Video Trilogy.” IASPM Journal 14 (2): 94–118.

Yangeldina, Dinara (2023) Generations of Feminist Translations: Connecting Russophone Academic and Activist Feminist Translation Debates Across the 2000s and 2010s, in Sätre, Ann-Mari, Gradskova, Yulia & Vladimirova, Vladislava (2023) Post-Soviet Women: New Challenges and Ways to Empowerment. Springer International Publishing.

Yangeldina, Dinara (2023) Beautiful Diversity? Diversity Rhetoric, Ethnicized Visions, and Nesting Post-Soviet Hegemonies in the Multimedia Project The Ethnic Origins of Beauty, in (eds.) Lykke, Nina; Koobak, Redi; Bakos, Petra, Arora, Swati & Mohamed, Kharnita (2023) Pluriversal Conversations on Transnational Feminisms. And Words Collide from a Place. London: Routledge.

Yangeldina, Dinara (2020) #Russianrapisracist vs #RussianNaziPurgeParty: On Geopolitics, Trolling and the Mistranslation of Race in a Twitter Controversy, in The Cultural is Political: Intersections of Russian Art and State Politics. Bergen: Dept of Foreign Languages, University of Bergen.

Projects

I am the author and project leader of a three-year FRIPRO research project, RUMEX: To Kill an Empire? Russian Musical Exile in Times of War, funded by the Research Council of Norway (2026–2029)

RUMEX explores Russian popular music in exile. The project’s overarching goal is to explore the shifting relationship between music, politics, and anti-war protests by studying Russian musical exile following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022. RUMEX combines an ethnography of the infrastructures sustaining Russian musical exile in seven urban hubs and on digital platforms with a cultural analysis of cultural productions in exile. The project employs an innovative interdisciplinary theoretical framework that combines postcolonial Russian studies, gender studies, and popular music and media research.

Read more about the project on the website:

https://www4.uib.no/en/research/research-projects/to-kill-an-empire-russian-musical-exile-in-times-of-war-rumex

And follow the project on Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/rumex_project/