The process of forming modern nation-states is the nationalization belief and consciousness through secularization. Azerbaijan has experienced modernity under Tsarist colonialism. Due to colonialism, modernization started without national policy. This article aims shed light on research related first Republic Azerbaijan. In this respect, first, a theoretical background was formed, then addresse...

This paper emphasises the decolonial importance of geographical engagement with materiality language as an embodied and embedded relation. It shows how abstractions language(s) discrete, codified possessable objects participate in a ‘coloniality language’ that risks obscuring alternative geographies within, against beyond territorialised monolingualism colonial nation-state. Through considering...