Iuliia Gataulina

I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at Tampere University, Finland. My current work examines emerging socio-material planetary conditions shaped by extractivist regimes—such as the enclosure and alienation of planetary matter—with a particular focus on Earth’s subterranean layers and waters. My previous research examined the workings of neoliberal capitalism in post-socialist Russia, specifically its role in reinforcing authoritarian governance.

I am a member of the International Political Economy and Ecology research group and an adjunct research fellow at the Space and Political Agency Research Group (SPARG).

2023 – 2025. Board member of Tampere University Association of Researchers and Teachers (Tampereen yliopiston tieteentekijät).

international political economy, political ecology, workings of global capitalism and neoliberalism in the Global East, extractivism, new materialism, ethnographic methods, collaboration between research and art