A podcast with Luke Cooper and Masha Shynkarenko
In the first podcast in our Ukraine and the World series, Luke Cooper talks to Masha Shynkarenko, a Research Associate with the Ukraine in European Dialogue programme at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna and an expert on the Russian colonisation of Crimea and the Crimean Tartar national movement.
Credit: Dmitry Vetrov
They discuss the long history of Russian and Soviet imperialism in the Crimean peninsula, life under Russian occupation, and the need for nuance and complexity in discussion of what decolonisation of Crimea should look like in practice.
The Ukraine and the World series is an initiative taken in collaboration with Foreign Policy in Focus – Institute for Policy Studies in the United States and our longstanding partner, Another Europe Is Possible.
Luke Cooper is an Associate Professorial Research Fellow in International Relations at the LSE and the Director of PeaceRep’s Ukraine programme. He is the author of Authoritarian Contagion (Bristol University Press) and a co-founder of Another Europe Is Possible.
Mariia Shynkarenko is a Research Associate at the Institue for Human Sciences working on the Ukraine in European Dialogue program. She is a political scientist, who specializes on questions of resistance, nationalism, and identity. Specifically, her research focuses on identity and resistance of the Crimean Tatars both historically and contemporary. She is interested in instrumentalization of identities, indigeneity, people’s power, and resistance in contexts of occupation and authoritarian regimes.