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Audio Archive Podcast – Go against the Grain is a long-term journalistic project and digital archive for conversations, interviews, reports, and essays on politics, society, and culture. Two to four new podcast episodes are released each month.
For more than three decades, we have been conducting interviews with philosophers, authors, activists, and scientists worldwide. Our interviewees explain the complex developments of our time and place them in an easily understandable and contemporary context within the global framework.
The Audio Archive Podcasts focus neither on mass media uniformity nor on unreflective pack journalism, but on differentiating insights: enlightening, knowledgeable and free from economic interests.
All Audio Archive podcasts are free. No revenue is generated through advertising. No AI support.
More details about the project, background informations, articles, video shorts, essays and more you'll find on our webpage www.audio-archiv.com
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Aug 29, 2025
Aug 29, 2025
39 min
🎓 Michael Briefs (Kulturjournalist) im Gespräch mit Michael Daxner (geb. 1947). Der deutsch-österreichische Soziologe Michael Daxner war schon seit den 70er Jahren des vergangenen Jahrhunderts in Afghanistan aktiv. Nach Jahren des Engagements für Afghanistan nach der Befreiung von den Taliban wird die Frustration über die Internationale Staatengemeinschaft in diesem Gespräch überdeutlich. Afghanistan mutierte nach dramtischen Fehleinschätzungen zu Beginn der Besetzung später zum operativen Versuchsfeld neuer Waffentechnologien wie Drohnen und Uranminition. Insbesondere die Bundeswehr profitierte logistisch und sammelte Kampferfahrung in der jahrlangen Besetzung. Nach dem Abzug der Besatzungsarmeen hatten die Afghanen ihre Schuldigkeit getan. Heute warten Zehntausende auf den versprochenen Flüchtlingsstatus besonders in Deutschland. Pakistan hat 2025 damit begonnen, diese Flüchtlinge wieder zurück zu den Taliban nach Afghanistan abzuschieben.
/ 🎓 Michael Briefs (cultural journalist) in conversation with Michael Daxner (born 1947). The German-Austrian sociologist Michael Daxner has been active in Afghanistan since the 1970s. After years of commitment to Afghanistan following its liberation from the Taliban, his frustration with the international community becomes abundantly clear in this conversation. After dramatic misjudgements at the beginning of the occupation, Afghanistan later mutated into a testing ground for new weapons technologies such as drones and uranium ammunition. The German Armed Forces in particular benefited logistically and gained combat experience during the years of occupation. After the occupying armies withdrew, the Afghans had done their duty. Today, tens of thousands are waiting for the promised refugee status, especially in Germany. Pakistan began deporting these refugees back to the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2025.
مایکل بریفس (ژورنالیست کلتوری) در گفتگو با مایکل داکسنر (متولد 1947). مایکل داکسنر، جامعه شناس آلمانی- اتریشی از دهه هفتاد خورشیدی در افغانستان فعالیت داشته است. پس از سالها تعهد به افغانستان در پی رهایی آن از دست طالبان، نا امیدی او از جامعه جهانی در این گفتوگو به وفور آشکار میشود. به تعقیب محاسبات نادرست دراماتیک در آغاز اشغال، افغانستان بعداً به یک میدان آزمایشی عملیاتی برای تکنالوژی های جدید تسلیحاتی مانند هواپیماهای بدون سرنشین و مهمات یورانیم جهش یافت. بوندسویر، به ویژه، از نظر لوجستیکی بهره مند شد و در جریان سال های اشغال تجربه جنگی را بدست آورد. بعد از خروج قوای اشغالگر، افغان ها وظیفه خود را انجام داده بودند. امروز، ده ها هزار نفر منتظر وضعیت پناهنده وعده داده شده، به ویژه در آلمان هستند. پاکستان در سال 2025 شروع به اخراج این پناهندگان به طالبان در افغانستان کرد. وضعیت پناهنده وعده داده شده توسط سیاستمداران حاکم از آنها رد می شود.
📚 Veröffentlichungen u.a. / publications a.o. / نشریات بشمول::
- Michael Daxner / Hannah Neumann (Hg.): "Heimatdiskurs - Wie die Auslandseinsätze der Bundeswehr Deutschland verändern." Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2012.
- Michael Daxner: "A Society of Intervention." BIS Verlag, Oldenburg 2017.
- Michael Daxner / Marion Näser-Lather / Silvia Nicola (Hg.): Conflict Veterans." Cambridge Scholars, Newcastle 2018.
- Michael Daxner: "Flanieren im Mythos - Sexualität und Gewalt." Edition Splitter, Wien 2023.
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