Manon Madec
Journaliste
Paris / Almaty, France / Kazakhstan
Paris / Almaty, France / Kazakhstan
Presentation
Journaliste-pigiste économie et société pour Libération et Alternatives Économiques.Experience
Holiday Magazine
The Times of Central Asia
Dazed & Confused
Novastan





Education
Université Paris Dauphine
Projects
Planting Trees to Heal Old Wounds: Can a Desert Forest Save the Aral’s Last Residents?
26-11-2025
In the Aralkum Desert, afforestation campaigns have multiplied since the early 2000s. They are meant to slow the sandstorms, temper a rapidly warming climate, and protect the health of those still living in the shadow of the Aral Sea. But the promised results have not appeared yet.
Avec la Q-pop, le Kazakhstan se désoviétise et se dévirilise en musique
01-11-2025
Le pays enterre le passé soviétique en redéfinissant son identité kazhake, notamment avec l’apparition de groupes pop. Adulés par la jeunesse, ils sont aussi accusés d’offrir une image éloignée de l’archétype du «guerrier des steppes».
Ghosts of the Gulag: Kazakhstan’s Uneasy Dance With Memory and Moscow
29-07-2025
In 2025, the authorities in Moscow unveiled a life-size sculpture of Josef Stalin in the Taganskaya metro station. The next month, a statue of Lenin was pulled down in Osh, Kyrgyzstan. Between these two symbolic acts lies Kazakhstan, caught in a tug-of-war over the memory of Soviet-era repression.