Ivan Peshkov

Ivan received his PhD degree in Development Studies from Poznań University of Economics, Poland, and his MA in Intellectual History from the Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland. His current research focuses on the politicization of quasi-indigenousness in the Russo-Chinese border areas, frontier biopolitics in Eurasia, and memory work in Inner Mongolia and Transbaikalia. He carried out research on the Chinese, Russian, and Mongolian border triangle and investigated the main economic and historical processes that characterize the area.  He is the author, co-author, or editor of five books, including The Hulunbuir and Transbaikalia Playground. Microphysics of Power on the Sino-Russian Border, (WNPiD, Poznan, 2019), and Facing Challenges of Identification: New Approaches to Identities of Buryats and Their Neighbor Peoples, co-authored with Kamil Wielecki (UW Press, 2020). His current project focuses on Indigenous Cosmopolitanism in Inner and Central Asia.