How does childhood in one country shape adulthood in another - particularly when the values and cultures of those countries seem in total opposition?
Karina Carter was born and raised amongst the wreckage of a fallen Soviet Union, before moving to the Netherlands as a teen.
Raised by a single mother in the house of a grandmother who had taken her own life, Karina describes the world she was born into as one of violence and loss.
Together, we retrace the paths of her early life, from Russian ‘soulfulness’ to Dutch ‘sobriety’, and untangle the traumas and nostalgias that form her memory of it. We discuss the idea of ‘unlearning’, and examine how collective wounds can often mask individual ones.
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