Team
Project Supervisor
As empirical cultural studies urban researcher, I have always dealt with urban lifestyles and networks, especially with counter- and sub-cultures in various cities (including Berlin and Chicago), with their urban practices and ideas of the urban. What interests me in particular is how these relate to issues of social inequality – and to what extent actors are able to conceive of other, better, fairer, more beautiful lifestyles. To what extent ethics is a resource and to what extent couching these issues ethically may also have problematic effects are for me exciting questions, which are pursued in this research. The project was born from the collaboration with Olja Reznikova, who brings her own research interests and approaches to the city of Moscow.
Projekt Manager
Since 2010, I have been investigating the continuities, ruptures and effects of a newly emerged racism in Russia. After three years of research in Grozny, I analysed perception and memory in and around the city, and in particular the impact of anti-Chechen racism and Russian colonialism. Since then I have sought to reconsider postcolonial studies in the context of Russian colonialism and to apply the approach critically and productively to the feminist discussions in Russia. My approach to fieldwork is mostly dialogic and collaborative; the research process interests me not only as a means of collecting material which should lead to knowledge, but also as a field and a practice of critique. I hope to use scientific framework of the project to question, among other things, my own political practice