This forum, published in the New Perspectives journal, is a contribution to debates over the (im)possibility of cooperating with the Russian academic community while Russia’s war against Ukraine continues. After briefly reviewing previous studies on the effectiveness and morality of academic sanctions, the forum continues to assess the politics and effectiveness of the academic boycott in changing the belligerent behaviour of the Russian regime. For this purpose, it introduces the idea of ontological (in)security and moves on to discuss, from different perspectives, whether sanctions and boycotts may lead to policy change by way of destabilizing the ontological security of Russia, or whether the academic boycott contributes to strengthening the ruling authoritarian regime. The forum has been co-authored by Anni Kangas together with Sirke Mäkinen, Dmitri Dubrovskiy, Judith Pallot, Svetlana Shenderova, Gelb Yarovoy and Oksana Zabolotna.
Postcape publication: Debating academic boycotts and cooperation in the context of Russia’s war against Ukraine
