Care, Solidarity, and Academic Life in Exile: A Conversation with Volha Davydzik
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The episode features a conversation with Volha Davydzik about her experiences and research related to academic life in exile and the Belarusian protest movement.
In this episode of the Protecting Academia at Risk podcast, we speak with Volha Davydzik, a Belarusian researcher working at the intersection of social and political philosophy, feminist theory, and protest studies.Drawing on her experiences across Belarus, China, and Germany, Volha reflects on academic displacement, mobility, care, solidarity, and the challenges of rebuilding an academic life in exile. The conversation explores the hidden labour of migration, the tensions between academic mobility and personal stability, and the ways in which gender and caregiving shape academic careers.The discussion also delves into Volha’s research on the 2020 Belarusian protest movement, examining infrastructures of care and solidarity, affective politics, protest art, and forms of collective resistance under authoritarianism. Together, we reflect on how care can function not only as a response to violence, but also as a political practice capable of sustaining collective life and imagining alternative futures.Volha Davydzik is a Belarusian researcher working in the fields of social and political philosophy, feminist theory, and protest studies. Her research focuses on the 2020 Belarusian…
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