Decolonial Spatial Strategies

oi publishing is a publishing initiative by the de_colonialanguage collective (Berlin). We have been publishing books since 2022. This self-publishing endeavor is inspired by Lumbung Press and other self-publishing projects, where the editor’s role is functional and organizational rather than hierarchical. We are interested in publishing OtherArchives, in forms of knowledge production and distribution that are alternative to academic ones. We practice a critical institutional approach, while also creating alternative forms of institutionality. Our focus is on decolonial solidarity, on investigations of hidden forms of colonialism and façade “humanistic” projects and power relations within it. Geographically, our focus is on the regions of Central and North Asia, the Caucasus, and Eastern Europe.

de_colonialanguage and Others, VOICES OTHERWISE, oi publishing, 2025 © de_colonialanguage and Others

This is the second book about the Open Air Museum of Decoloniality. The project, launched in September 2023 by de_colonialanguage collective with the support of various communities, friends and their friends, enthusiasts, and artists, has been running for two+ years now right on Alexanderplatz (Berlin). It began as research and protest, and we thought about occupying a space that belonged and still belongs to ideas that we consider controversial and necessary for critical discussion (Russian imperialism, unbridled capitalism, total control). Now, our presence in this huge space has transformed into a regular presence and an invitation to many Others to join us. People come to us with a desire to show their work at the Open Air Museum of Decoloniality. It is still just a huge square without walls and with its own characteristics, but the operational activities of many artists have already contributed to this space are strongly changing this space.

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Indigenous decolonial activists, the current state of Indigenous peoples in russia and their struggle against Russian colonialism and war, oi publishing, 2025 © Indigenous decolonial activists

Summary report, written by Independent Indigenous and Decolonial activists, researchers and members of anti-war initiatives as part of a roundtable discussion at the German Foreign Ministry in 2024.

This book is the result of collective volunteer work of Indigenous and decolonial activists, researchers, and participants of ethnic organisations, migrant diasporas and anti-war initiatives from Russia. They belong to peoples who, at different times, have experienced Russian colonization and its consequences, and they are united by one task: to tell the world the truth about our state in Russia and to work towards a future free from colonialism, authoritarianism and war.

These texts briefly summarises the main theses of the reports, which can be seen as recommendations for supporting decolonial policies towards Russia for foreign political leaders, NGOs, activists, experts, academics, cultural actors and other representatives of democratic countries interested in the prospects for a sustainable and just peace in the region.

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“Who is a human in Human Rights?” – asked Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.

The nation-state gives a very very very weird answer to this questioning - males, documented, true-local, people who are People etc. Such human beings in nation-states are eligible to have rights or discussit.

This pamphlet infiltrates the Universalism that became the Declaration of the Human Rights. It is a critical perspective from within the reality of nation-states on Universalisms.

We give here the full text of the declaration, published on December 10, 1948 and since translated into more than 500 languages. No words have been deleted from this official universalist text. The changes we have made carefully highlight and emphasize those parts of the declaration to which it is important to pay attention.

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