Conclusion

Abstract

Let us take a look at contemporary gender discourses in Central Asia and Caucasus, briefly trace their links and differences, and point at possible parallels and future intersections with non-Western and particularly decolonial gender discourses. Central here will be the phenomenon of the colonial gender tricksterism touched upon in the second part of this book. But this time it will be regarded as a possible ground for decolonial gender discourses and activism in Eurasian borderlands. (De)colonial gendered tricksters try to restore and construct their multiple identities, resistance, and reexistence as an other way of being, around the Russian, the Soviet, and today, the post-Soviet (national) and global gender discourses, all of which invariably retain a simplified set of social roles for these subjects, based on a stereotypical interpretation of the non-West through assimilation or negation.