Contact

DFG Research Training Group 2686: Contradiction Studies
University of Bremen, „Worlds of Contradiction“
Grazer Straße 2, 28359 Bremen
Germany

Accessibility: Grazer Straße 2

E-Mail: grk2686@uni-bremen.de

    earthing

    “Geography as a discipline stands for a certain worlding, if not earthing, of contradiction, in both theoretical and pracitcal respect.”

    Julia Lossau
    power and resistance

    “Michel Foucault says: “Where there is power, there is resistance, and […] this resistance is never in a position of exteriority in relation to power” (History of Sexuality I, The Will to Knowledge, 1976, p. 95)”

    Gisela Febel
    Bhabha on enlightenment and coloniality

    “Homi Bhabha says about the contradiction between the ideals of the enlightenment, claims to democracy and solidarity and simultaneous colonization and ongoing coloniality: ‘That ideological tension, visible in the history of the West as a despotic power, at the very moment of the birth of democracy and modernity, has not been adequately written in a contradictory and contrapuntal discourse of tradition.’”

    Kerstin Knopf
    coherence in thought

    “The imperative of non-contradiction generally produces a coherence in thought that is often at odds with social complexities.”

    Yan Suarsana
    decolonial scholarship

    “Creating decentralizing and decolonizing scholarship on contradiction, contradictory phenomena, and contradicting processes is a challenging task.”

    Kerstin Knopf