Conversation with Oleg Pachenkov
Podcast: Urban Political Podcast
Erschienen: 22.05.2023
Dauer: 01:51:11
Meet urban scholar Oleg Pachenkov who left Russia few weeks after the invasion of Ukraine. Oleg talks about his personal and professional trajectory as a critical scholar bringing him to Berlin. The conversation covers the breakdown of the public sphere within weeks after the war and Oleg's personal confrontation with a repressive system ready to crack down on critical voices. Self-censorship, Aesopian language and the retreat to the private sphere are aspects that now characterize dynamics of discussion in the attempt to cope with the authoritarian reality in the country. Oleg talk to us about the institutionalization of Urban Studies and the discrepancy between those parts who have arranged themselves within the regime, and those that didn't, between those actors who have stayed in the country and those who have fled. We hear Oleg reflect on these divisions and what needs to be learned for the future - for scholars both in Russia as well as beyond.
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