Events

This collaborative workshop will engage in a close reading and critical analysis of primary source documents (in English translation) from 4 key moments in post-World War II German history: an excerpt of a transcript from a focus group discussion among working-class women held in 1950 in Frankfurt/Main, in which themes of Nazi sexual politics and the tenacious persistence of antidisability animus and “eugenic” propaganda are evident; excerpts from the testimony of coercive sterilization survivors and a historian advocating on their behalf at a session of the Bundestag in 1987; politicians’ cross-party motion of 2011 calling for a federal memorial to the victims of the Nazi “euthanasia” murders; and AfD and CDU campaign posters expressing opposition to inclusion of children with disabilities in mainstream schools. […]

Entanglements of Science and Religion in making sense of Obstetric Violence: How 18th-century imperial religion perspectives on the black female shaped, and continue to shape healthcare practices towards black women in postcolonial South Africa. The research argues that the current lack of persistently decent obstetric […]

Ethnographic researchers can find themselves confronted with a deceptively simple question: What am I doing here? In the field, researchers regularly encounter moments of uncertainty, ethical tension, and contradiction, particularly when working from feminist and intersectional perspectives that foreground questions of power, positionality, and responsibility. […]

What does care look like when harm cannot be undone? On the night of December 2–3, 1984, a leak from the Union Carbide pesticide plant in the central Indian city of Bhopal released over forty tonnes of methyl isocyanate gas, exposing more than half a […]

Radicalization is class-related and racialized. Using the example of the Grey Wolves, the event explores how notions of masculinity are politicized in diasporic realities. The focus is on the interrelationships between masculinity politics, right-wing authoritarian patterns of radicalization, racializing structures, and prevention approaches.

We are once again witnessing an intense authoritarian and far-right radicalization. It exhibits pronounced masculinity-ideological dimensions, through which authoritarian and fascist models of masculinity are normalized or even promoted as ideals. In this event, Markus Theunert offers both theoretical and practical insights into the factors driving masculinity-ideological radicalization: How can it be recognized? Most importantly, how can it be prevented?