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Dr Iuliia Gataulina is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Politics department at Tampere University, Finland. Her research and artistic interests span (post)socialism and global capitalism, planetary extractivism, and research-art collaboration
She is a member of the International Political Economy and Ecology research group (IPE2)
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Iuliia Gataulina
Place of birth: Ulyanovsk, Russia
Current residence: Tampere, Finland
Current employment
Postdoctoral researcher and the principal investigator in the research project “Pluriversal waters: Tracing hydro-ontologies across colonial-extractivist assemblages” funded by Kone Foundation and hosted by the Politics department, Tampere University. 01.07.2024–30.06.2028.
Degrees
Doctor of social science, Tampere University, Finland 12.01.2024
Master of Social Sciences; Master’s programme in Russian and European Studies; University of Tampere, Finland. 28.06.2017
Master; Master’s programme in Studies of Baltic and Nordic States; St Petersburg State University; St Petersburg, Russia. 17.07.2017
Bachelor; Bachelor’s programme in International Relations; Ulyanovsk State University; Ulyanovsk, Russia. 11.07.2015
Other education
Academic leadership training, Tampere University. February–April 2025.
Academic videography workshop, Aalto University. May 2023.
International School of Human Rights and Civic Actions; St Petersburg Open School of Human Rights; St Petersburg, Russia. June 2017.
Previous work experience
Postdoctoral researcher in the research project “Assembling Postcapitalist International Political Economy” (PI: Anni Kangas), Tampere University. 01.02.2024 – 30.06.2024.
Doctoral researcher in the research project “Assembling Postcapitalist International Political Economy” (PI: Anni Kangas), Tampere University. 2.09.2019 – 31.01.2024.
Doctoral researcher on a personal working grant, Tampere University. 01.02.2022 – 31.05.2023
Doctoral researcher in the research project “Towards good neighbourliness with higher education cooperation” (PI: Sirke Mäkinen), Tampere University. 02.01.2018 – 30.06.2021.
Research coordinator in the research project “Spaces of Justice Across the East-West Divide. A Research Project on Migration and Politics of Sexuality”, Tampere University. May and September 2018.
Coordinator of translations and international communications. Queerfest international festival. St Petersburg, Russia. 1.09.2015 – 30.04.2019
Publications
Peer-reviewed publications
Gataulina, I. (2025). Neoliberal Authoritarianism. An ethnography of Russian universities. Palgrave McMillan.
Kangas, A., Gataulina, I., Poutanen, M., Rajala, A., & Ventovirta, H.E. (eds) (2025). Retheorizing Capitalism. Tampere University Press.
Gataulina, I. (2025). Porous boundaries of resistances: Translating authoritarian-neoliberal university. In A. Kangas, I. Gataulina, M. Poutanen, A. Rajala, & H.-E. Ventovirta (eds), Retheorizing Capitalism. Tampere University Press.
Kangas, A., Gataulina, I, Poutanen, M, Rajala, A, & Ventovirta, H.-E. (2025). Introduction. Retheorizing capitalism: Getting hands dirty with it. In A. Kangas, I. Gataulina, M. Poutanen, A. Rajala, & H.-E. Ventovirta (eds), Retheorizing Capitalism. Tampere University Press.
Gataulina, I., Kangas, A., Poutanen, M., Rajala, A, Vattinen, T. (2025). Postcapitalist translations in four capitalist worlds: an experiment with scissors, clippings and glue. In A. Kangas, I. Gataulina, M. Poutanen, A. Rajala, & H.-E. Ventovirta (eds), Retheorizing Capitalism. Tampere University Press.
Gataulina, I. (2025). Political materialities of status-making and unmaking: Universities in the imperial cityscape of St. Petersburg. Baltic Worlds, 2025(1), 98—108.
Other publications in academic journals
Gataulina, I., & Batrakova, N. (2026). Unearthing the Earth: Artistic Research on Socio-Ecological Contentions of Extractivism. Alue Ja Ympäristö, 00-00.
Gataulina, I., & Maazaz, I. (2026). The ‘Vitality of Water: Rethinking Modernist Hydropolitics and Ontologies’ International Symposium: 27-28 May 2025, Tampere University. Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society, 50(1), 262-267.
Gataulina, I. (2024). Autoritarismin ja uusliberalismin sommitelmat venäläisyliopistoissa. Kosmopolis, 54(1-2), 103-109.
Gataulina, I., & Lukinmaa, P. (2021). Tartu2021: poikkitieteellisiä keskusteluja online-ympäristössä. Idäntutkimus, 28(3), 104–106.
Theses
Gataulina, I. (2024). De/re/composing authoritarian-neoliberal assemblages. Ethnography of Russian universities and beyond (doctoral dissertation). Tampere University.
Gataulina, I. (2017). Translating gender equality: Nordic initiatives in the Russian context (master’s thesis). University of Tampere. https://trepo.tuni.fi/handle/10024/101607
Essays, blog posts, poetry
Gataulina, I. (2025). The rise of mining in Finland. Alusta! Available at: https://blogs.tuni.fi/alustalehti/2025/05/26/the-rise-of-mining-in-finland
Gataulina, I. (2025). Nepokornye resursy [Untamed Resources]. Syg.ma. Available at: https://syg.ma/@experimentalwriting/yuliya-gataulina-nepokornye-resursy
Batrakova, N., & Gataulina, I. (2025). Kevitsa Zine. Self-published. Available at: https://projects.tuni.fi/app/uploads/sites/2208/2025/12/kevitsa.pdf
Gataulina, I. (2024, October 17). Universitety “vne politiki”. Kak neoliberal'nye reformy sdelali akademiju nesvobodnoj. [Universities “outside politics”. How neoliberal reforms made academia unfree]. Discourse. Available at: https://discours.io/articles/theory/neoliberal-uni
Gataulina, I. & Shahmoradi, M. (2024, May 7). Interconnectedness of Political Struggle: Iranian-Russian Political Resistance in Conversation. LeftEast. Available at: https://lefteast.org/iranian-russian-political-resistance-in-conversation
Gataulina, I. (2024, February 13). Reimagining political protest: Russian-speaking demonstrations against the closure of the Finnish eastern border. RASTER (Anti-racist research network). Available at: https://raster.fi/2024/02/13/reimagining-political-protest-russian-speaking-demonstrations-against-the-closure-of-the-finnish-eastern-border
Gataulina was a writer and editor of the blog “Charting the Turning Discipline: International Relations Reading Group” in 2023–2024: https://blogs.tuni.fi/irregu
Artistic exhibitions and residences
Artistic-research exhibition “Frontiers and Temporalities of Extractivism”. Hirvitalo – Pispala Center for Contemporary Art, Tampere, Finland — September–October 2025
Artistic-research exhibition “Frontiers and Temporalities of Extractivism”. Tampere University, February 2026 (organized with the support of the TAPRI Peace Research Institute and presented within the course “Nature, Conflicts and Peacebuilding”, part of the PEACE MA programme)
Old Mine Residency, Outokumpu, Finland — August 2025
Research supervision and leadership experience
Master’s thesis supervisor, Politics department, Tampere University. Topic of the master’s thesis: “Refugees and Nonhuman Animal Exports at the Mediterranean”. 2025–ongoing.
Master’s thesis supervisor, Politics department, Tampere University. Topic of the master’s thesis: “The Impact of EU Conditionality on Democratization in Kosovo”. 2024–2025.
Leadership in the research project “Pluriversal waters” (funded by the Kone Foundation). Supervising the work of the artist-collaborator and two research assistants, 2024–2026.
Teaching experience
Guest lecture in the course “Decentering the global: Authoritarian logics in motion”, Tampere University. April 2026.
“Political ecologies of the Global East: State Capital, Resources”, master’s course, Politics department, Tampere University. August – October 2025. (Role: Designed the guest lecture series course, secured funding, delivered one lecture, and evaluated student assignments)
“Political economies in/of Global East”, master’s course, Politics department, Tampere University. August – October 2024. (Role: Designed the guest lecture series course, secured funding, delivered two lectures, and evaluated student assignments)
“International Political Economy”, bachelor’s course, Politics department, Tampere University. October – December 2023. (Role: Organizing the course with pre-developed materials and evaluating student assignments)
“Charting the turning discipline. International Relations reading group”, doctoral seminar in the field of International Relations, Politics department, Tampere University. September 2023 – May 2024. (Role: Organizing the seminar)
“Urban political economy”, master’s course, Faculty of Management and Business, Tampere University. Autumn 2022. (Role: Evaluating the student assignments)
Academic coordinator at the master’s programme “Leadership for Change”, Faculty of Management and Business, Tampere University. 2019–2021.
Pedagogical training
University pedagogy studies, 20 ECTS. Tampere University, Faculty of Culture and Education.
Research funding
378300€, Kone Foundation, research project “Fantasies and Geopolitics of Critical Raw Materials and Just Transition in the North of Europe” (PI Anni Kangas), role in the application: member of the research team co-writing the application. 2026–ongoing.
217500€, Kone Foundation, postdoctoral research project “Pluriversal waters: Tracing hydro-ontologies across colonial-extractivist assemblages” (Pi Iuliia Gataulina). 01.07.2024–30.06.2028.
30000€, Kone Foundation, doctoral research project “Assembling postsocialist university: Politics of higher education in Russia”. 01.02.2022 – 31.05.2023
Research Council of Finland, research project “Assembling Postcapitalist International Political Economy” (PI Anni Kangas), role in the application: member of the research team. 2019–2024.
Kobe Foundation, research project “Towards good neighbourliness with higher education cooperation (PI Sirke Mäkinen), role in the application: member of the research team. 2018–2022.
Teaching funding
2000€, ExpREES (Expertise in the Russian and Eastern European studies), teaching grant for the course “Political ecologies of Global East: State, Capital, Resources”. 2025.
2000€, ExpREES (Expertise in the Russian and Eastern European studies), teaching grant for the course “Political economies in/of Global East”. 2024.
Positions of trust
2023–2025. Board member of Tampereen yliopiston tieteentekijät (Tampere University Association of Researchers and Teachers).
2023–2024. Member of the Early Career Researchers Committee at Tieteentekijät (Finnish Union of University Researchers and Teachers).
2024. Board Member of the Vastavalo Photography Association. Tampere, Finland.