Lucia Direnberger

Lucia Direnberger is a  fellow researcher at the CNRS in sociology at the French Institute for Central Asian Studies (IFEAC). She works on power relations and imperialism, particularly in Central Asia. She is particularly interested in minority practices and knowledge production in different social spaces (work, reproductive health and the arts). https://cv.hal.science/lucia-direnberger

Project

Title: Memories, Arts, and Social Justice in Central Asia (MAJIC)

The MAJIC project explores the powerful connections between art, memory, and social justice in Central Asia, with a focus on fostering dialogue between researchers involved in artistic practices and artists from Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Kazakhstan. Over the past decade, artistic practices in the region have emerged as vital spaces for reflecting on social inequalities, marginalized histories, and envisioning futures rooted in social justice.

The project is organized around three key themes:

1. Artists, Memory, and Imaginaries;

2. Arts and Social Movements;

3. International Exchanges and the Intersection of Academic Research and Artistic Creation

Through this initiative, MAJIC aims to bridge the gap between the artistic and academic worlds by:

• Valuing knowledge drawn from artistic practices (including music, visual arts, literature, and performance);

• Expanding the ways academic knowledge is shared and disseminated;

• Creating collaborative spaces for collective reflection on social justice, bringing together artists, researchers, and cultural mediation professionals.

Institution : CNRS

Select publications

• Lucia Direnberger, Sahar Aurore Saidnia, 2023, « Minoritaires en Iran. Décentrer l’analyse des rapports sociaux », Genre, sexualité et société, hors-série n°4,  https://journals.openedition.org/gss/7860

• Negar Elodie Behzadi et Lucia Direnberger « Gender and ethnicity in the Soviet Muslim peripheries: a feminist postcolonial geography of women’s work in the Tajik SSR (1950–1991) », Central Asian Survey, 2020, n°38, vol.2, p.202-219.

• Negar Elodie Behzadi et Lucia Direnberger, 2022, « Inégalités socio-spatiales et imbrications des rapports de pouvoir », dans Cottineau Clémentine et Julie Vallée (dir.), Les inégalités dans l’espace géographique, Croydon, ISTE Edition, p. 57-92

• Lucia Direnberger, 2016, « “En tant que femme musulmane… ” : Minorisation et subjectivité politique au Tadjikistan post-soviétique », dans Marta Roca i Escoda, Farinaz Fassa et Eléonore Lépinard (dir.), L’intersectionnalité : enjeux théoriques et politiques, Paris, La Dispute, p. 249-278.