Working with Concepts as ›Tools‹ (Werkzeug / Mittel / Instrument) and ›Devices‹ (Gerät / Vorrichtung / Apparat) – Towards a Mixed Bag Theory for Contradiction Studies?

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Michi Knecht (RTG Contradiction Studies)

06/09/2022 5:45 pm –7:00 pm

U Bremen GRA2 0030

Wählen und lesen Sie einen der drei Titel | Chose and read one out of three

Bal, Mieke. 2009. Working with Concepts. In European Journal of English Studies 13(1), 13–23.

Ruppert, Evelyn S. 2012. Category. In Celia Lury & Nina Wakeford (eds.), Inventive Methods. The Happening of the Social,36–47. London/New York: Routledge.

Leigh Star, Susan & James R. Griesemer. 1999. Institutional Ecology, »Translation«, and Boundary Objects. Amateurs and Professionals in Berkeley’s Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 1907–39. In Mario Biagioli (ed.). The Science Studies Reader, 505–524. London/New York: Routledge. [focus on 509–520]

Weiterführende Literatur | Supplementary Readings

Bickham Mendez, Jennifer. 2008. Globalizing Scholar Activism. Opportunities and Dilemmas through a Feminist Lens. In Hale, Charles R. (ed.), Engaging Contradictions. Theory, Politics and Methods of Activist Scholarship, 136–163. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Rapport, Nigel & Joanna Overging. 2000. Contradiction. In Rapport, Nigel & Joanna Overging (eds.), Social and Cultural Anthropology – The Key Concepts, 79–88. London/New York: Routledge.

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Afterlife of colonialism

“Contradiction comes in many different forms. None is so debilitating than when the coloniser transitions, textually not politically, to decoloniality without taking the responsibility for the afterlife of colonialism, which they continue to benefit from. Self-examination and self-interrogation of the relations of coloniality, a necessity, seem nearly impossible for the coloniser who continues to act as beneficiary, masked in the new-found language of White fragility, devoid of an ethical responsibility of the very system of White domination they claim to be against.” (Black Consciousness and the Politics of the Flesh)

Rozena Maart
earthing

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

Julia Lossau
problem to be solved

“Contradiction is not primarily a problem to be solved but a motor we cannot do without.”

Martin Nonhoff
diversity and plurality

“Join us to create more diversity and plurality in knowledge production.”

Gisela Febel
interstice

“The contradiction of law in Derrida lies in the interstice that separates the impossibility of deconstructing justice from the possibility of deconstructing law.”

Andreas Fischer-Lescano