Decolonizing Ukraine, with David Dube
On the latest episode of “Loosely Eastern Europe,” I talk to David Dube, a Ph.D. student in Political Science at McGill University and a member of the Centre for International Peace and Security Studies.
His research interests revolve around Central, Eastern European and Eurasian political trajectories, democratization, and the development of computational methods and artificial intelligence as tools of social inquiry.
Incidentally, David and I took a seminar together at McGill, where I greatly benefited from David’s insights on the region, so I thought he would be an excellent guest on the podcast. I was not wrong!
Here is a link to the interview on Spotify; and here is a link on Substack. Please let me know in the comment section if you are having difficulties accessing it.
Summary of Podcast Episode
In this episode, we first address why academics and analysts use colonialism to depict Soviet Russia’s relationship with Soviet Ukraine.
Then we talk about whether there is validity to looking at history or political science through nationalist perspectives.
We further discuss some examples where there is a tendency to revise the history of the region.
