Д.В. Волков принял участие в конференции Британской ассоциации ближневосточных исследований

С 5 по 9 июля 2021 года в Кентском университете (г. Кентербери, Великобритания) прошла конференция Британской ассоциации ближневосточных исследований (BRISMES) «Knowledge, Power and Middle Eastern Studies». В конференции приняло участие около 400 исследователей из более чем 30 стран мира.

Ведущий научный сотрудник, доцент Д.В. Волков выступил на секции «The role of Academia in Activism and Critical Pedagogy» с докладом «Power/Knowledge, the Habitus and the Field: Russian Emigré Orientalists during the Interwar Period». В докладе были представлены результаты дискурс-анализа деятельности таких исследователей Большого иранского мира, как В.Ф. Минорский (1877-1966), В.П. Никитин (1885-1960) и Л.Ф. Богданов (1881-1945), в рамках концепций «власть-знание» Мишеля Фуко и «габитус» Пьера Бурдье.

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Title: ‘Power/Knowledge, the Habitus and the Field: Russian Emigré Orientalists during the Interwar Period

Abstract:

Contemporary scholarship (Tolz, Schimmelpenninck, Volkov) holds that the intellectual mainstream of pre-1917 Russia’s Oriental Studies (the core of which was Iranian Studies) subscribed to a particular view of their discipline. This attitude is encapsulated in the renowned Russian orientalist Viktor von Rosen’s dictum that ‘scholarship should serve the interests of a nation to which a particular scholar belonged’. Thus, aiming to make their scholarship useful for their motherland Russian scholars of Iran engaged actively in imperial politics and got directly involved in Russia’s pursue of its national interests in the Orient against Western European powers. However, after 1917, many of them, unhappy with the social and political changes brought about in Russia by the new regime, went into exile – some to Western Europe, others to Iran, Afghanistan and British India. There most of them continued their professional/scholarly activities, also cooperating with their host governments and/or that of the USSR. Given the strategic role that Iran had been playing in the relations of Western countries with Russia since the late 18th century, Western governments, especially those of Britain and France, were keen to tap into those émigré orientalists’ high-calibre and internationally acknowledged expertise of Iran. Conceptually inspired by Foucault and Bourdieu and based on archival research (Iran, Russia, UK, and France), this paper explores how these influential fiercely patriotic orientalists responded to the challenge of crafting a new understanding of their selves within the power/knowledge nexus in exile.

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