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Tereza Hendl

@terezahendl.bsky.social

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Philosopher / global (health) justice, East-West inequalities and hierarchies of knowledge / anticolonial & CEE feminisms and art / she/they/Dr RUTA Association (Board Member), CEE Feminist Research Network, IRG-GHJ

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Tereza Hendl @terezahendl.bsky.social · Nov 26

Honoured to have been awarded the 2025 Brodie Prize for our work, in which we problematise the persistent theorising of Europe's East and Central Asia through western-centric perspectives and russia-centric frameworks, calling instead for the re-centering of the knowledges of (de)occupied societies

Contemporary Security Policy journal @cspjournal.bsky.social · Nov 26

🏆We are proud to announce the winner of the 2025 B. Brodie Prize: for their critique of “Westsplaining”+coloniality in dominant debates on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the work of
@terezahendl.bsky.social Olga Burlyuk, Mila O’Sullivan & Aizada Arystanbek was recognized by a jury from our EB

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Tereza Hendl @terezahendl.bsky.social · 14h

Podepsáno!

A na cestě dál je třeba rozpoznat rasismus a sexismus nejen v rovině “postoje”, ale i v jeho strukturálních a institucionálních dimenzích: a to je urgentní důvod, proč krajní pravice nemá být ve vládě, neb nelze čekat, že nebude dělat politiku zvýhodňující bílou a mužskou část populace

ROMEA @romeacz.bsky.social · 15h

🖊️ Více než 4 000 podpisů za dva dny. Romové i většinová společnost říkají NE Turkovi ve vládě.
📰 Celý článek čtěte na ➡️ 1url.cz/@petice-rome...
🟡 Zároveň vyjadřujeme plnou podporu redakci Deniku N, která čelí výhrůžkám kvůli informování o Turkovi. Svobodná žurnalistika není zločin!

Petici Romů proti jmenování Filipa Turka ministrem zahraničí podepsalo během dvou dnů přes 4 000 lidí. ROMEA vyjadřuje podporu Deníku N

Organizace ROMEA spustila v sobotu ráno petici „Odmítáme, aby Filip Turek zastupoval Českou republiku v zahraničí“. Vyzývá v ní předsedu hnutí ANO Andreje Babiše, aby Turka nenavrhoval do funkce minis...

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Tereza Hendl @terezahendl.bsky.social · 16h

Další otázka je z jakých důvodú

Tereza Hendl @terezahendl.bsky.social · 19h

...and to put the latest findings into a much-needed broader historical and socio-political context, it is highly useful to read this text by historian Bernhard Bayerlein on the Stalin-Hitler Pact reloaded and German-Russian collaboration in the 20th-21st centuries geschichtedergegenwart.ch/20643-2/

Stalin-Hitler-Pakt reloaded. Deutsch-russische Kollaborationen im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert

Der Hitler-Stalin-Pakt erhält in der gesamteuropäischen Erinnerungspolitik immer noch zu wenig Aufmerksamkeit. Dabei besiegelte er die folgenschweren Pläne zur Aufteilung Ostmitteleuropas zwischen den...

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Tereza Hendl @terezahendl.bsky.social · 20h

The lengths of co-responsibility: Spiegel reports that before the 2014 Russian occupation of Crimea and under Merkel’s leadership, Germany was training the Russian army in combat tactics, all while Merkel was opposing the entry of Georgia and Ukraine into NATO. Russia then invaded both countries

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Tereza Hendl @terezahendl.bsky.social · 2d

Our next RUTA will focus on the role of embodied and rooted knowledges as catalysts of change and drivers of shifts in power. Deadline for submissions is on Nov 15. We welcome a wide range of presentation and art formats, while prioritising transregional and global panels, discussion and dialogues

The RUTA Association @associationruta.bsky.social · 2d

Our 2026 RUTA conference will be exploring the role of embodied knowledges and knowledges rooted in the places we conduct research about. We will discuss how the making of knowledge, art and cultural heritage changes when it is grounded in places and communities and which possibilities this opens

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Tereza Hendl @terezahendl.bsky.social · 3d

Good to see in print this text that Maria Sonevytsky read at our RUTA conference in Ukraine this Summer, on the meaning of house keys for Crimean Tatars following 1940s Soviet deportations and genocide under Stalin, and the Palestinians since the Nakba www.londonukrainianreview.org/posts/everyd...

Everyday Amulets: On House Keys from Crimea to Palestine and Beyond

House keys recur in the family stories of both Crimean Tatars and Palestinians displaced from their respective homelands in the 1940s, and in accounts of Ukrainian citizens fleeing Russian invasion si...

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Tereza Hendl @terezahendl.bsky.social · 3d

This work will build on my stays at the Warsaw Center for Bioethics and Biolaw, where I studied the impact of Russian-Soviet and German imperialism and extractivism on CEE health and wellbeing, and the Lviv Center for Urban History, where I focused on Ukrainian knowledges of refusal and resistance

Tereza Hendl @terezahendl.bsky.social · 3d

Glad to share that I was awarded the Visegrad Scholarship to conduct research in the Open Society Archives for my book-in-progress Nothing About Us Without Us: Refusal as Theory and Praxis, that aims to recenter dissent knowledges and scholarship from Europe’s East in debates about Europe’s East

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Tereza Hendl @terezahendl.bsky.social · 3d

Very agreeing that bioethics needs to engage with politics and take a clear stand against authoritarian, oppressive and genocidal forces and their socio-political and material impact: how else it would want to continue presenting itself as a field concerned with the protection of life and wellbeing?

Gabriela Arguedas @gabyarguedas.bsky.social · 4d

My brief essay on bioethics and global health in this anti-democratic global context. Thanks to the editors of the JME blog.
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Global Bioethics and Global Health in the Context of a New Antidemocratic Era - Journal of Medical Ethics blog

by Gabriela Arguedas-Ramírez Five years ago, I wrote an editorial arguing that authoritarian and right-wing populism were a threat to global health and bioethics. Early this year, with colleagues from...

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Tereza Hendl @terezahendl.bsky.social · 3d

An excerpt from our chapter Metamorphic Necropolitics: Deadly Othering in the European East-West Power Relations, that we wrote with Magdalena Górska and Ewa Majewska for the soon to be published Routledge Handbook of Queer Death Studies, edited by Nina Lykke, Marietta Radomska and Tara Mehrabi

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Tereza Hendl @terezahendl.bsky.social · 3d

A much needed investigation of far-right mainstreaming in Germany since 1990s

"Political communication by mainstream parties plays a central role in the electoral success of the far right. When mainstream parties adopt far-right issues, they help to disseminate far-right ideas and legitimise them."

Teresa Völker @tevoelker.bsky.social · 6d

New paper out with @dasalgon.bsky.social: “Far-Right Agenda Setting: How the Far Right influences the Political Mainstream” doi.org/10.1017/S1475676525100066 #openaccess in @ejprjournal.bsky.social🧵

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Szabolcs Panyi @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social · 3d

An extremely proud day for Hungarians. I just really hope Orbán’s proxies won’t launch a smear campaign, since Krasznahorkai is an outspoken critic of contemporary fascism, far-right politics, and Viktor Orbán himself.

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Bob Čáp 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @bobcap.cz · 3d

Hey, @ec.europa.eu, why don't you add pronunciation in IPA standard (or audio) of the European Commissioners to your website?
I'm getting tired of butchered pronunciation of Ševčovič's name e. g.

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Tereza Hendl @terezahendl.bsky.social · 4d

Skautský Institut is a wonderful place for an important discussion on the liberation and deoccupation of Crimea

Lina from Crimea @linafromcrimea.bsky.social · 4d

Tomorrow at 7 PM, I'll be at Skautský Institut in Prague 🇨🇿 to discuss Crimea – the current situation and our history.

We'll also screen Rooted, a documentary about Ukraine's national communities filmed by Post Bellum Ukraine.

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Tereza Hendl @terezahendl.bsky.social · 4d

Here’s a link to a free e-copy!
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Indigenous Vision 2024–25

Indigenous Vision

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Tereza Hendl @terezahendl.bsky.social · 4d

Here’s a link to a free e-copy!
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Indigenous Vision 2024–25

Indigenous Vision

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Tereza Hendl @terezahendl.bsky.social · 4d

At a book launch 🔥

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Tereza Hendl @terezahendl.bsky.social · 5d

Much appreciated updates! ❤️

Tereza Hendl @terezahendl.bsky.social · 5d

During the trial, Horáková showed so much defiance that the regime killed her in an excessively cruel manner. She was hanged in a way that she was suffocating for over 13 minutes. Her body was burned and her ashes never returned to her family. In the letter to Jana she wrote “Decide to fight.”

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Tereza Hendl @terezahendl.bsky.social · 5d

Horáková was a politician (National Social Party), feminist, member of the Czechoslovak resistance movement against Nazi Germany and then one of the leading critics of the Communist Party. Shortly after the 1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état, she resigned from parliament in protest and was arrested…

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Tereza Hendl @terezahendl.bsky.social · 5d

“Walk through the world with your eyes open and listen not only to your pain and concerns, but also the pains, concerns and desires of others.”

A letter to daughter Jana from a communist prison, ahead of Milada Horáková’s execution ordered by a 1950 sham trial. About her…

Tereza Hendl @terezahendl.bsky.social · 7d

Paying my respects, rain or hail

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Tereza Hendl @terezahendl.bsky.social · 6d

On how Merkel sounds like a Russian propagandist 👇

Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 6d

While people split hairs abt whether Merkel blamed Poland/Baltics for a missed negotiation opportunity in 2022 or only implied it, the worst part of her statement was repeating the lie that the Minsk Agreements were *meant* to give Ukr an opportunity to become stronger when, in fact...

Tereza Hendl @terezahendl.bsky.social · 6d

Meanwhile, a telling illustration of Merkel’s own outlook on East-Central Europe is this interview from ‘22. She tries to posit herself as a benevolent saviour, while expressing a remarkably colonial perspective on societies historically occupied by Russia/USSR and Germany

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Tereza Hendl @terezahendl.bsky.social · Aug 4

And indeed, here’s Merkel in a 2022 interview admiring Chamberlain for ‘giving his country the buffer‘ in 1938. Isn’t that a remarkable way of referring to the sacrificing of Czechoslovakia to a German Nazi occupation, and more broadly of relating to East-Central Europe as a German ex-chancellor

Tereza Hendl @terezahendl.bsky.social · 6d

Merkel continues to blame others instead of herself. In this case, she shifts blame onto the Baltic states and Poland for refusing EU ‘negotiations’ with Putin, after the historical experience that the Baltic and East-Central Europe have made with Russia… but also, with Germany

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Tereza Hendl @terezahendl.bsky.social · 7d

Paying my respects, rain or hail