2–3 PM | Thomas Itsuo Fujishima
—Imaginaries of More-than-human Resistance: Life, Farming, and Posthuman Politics in Japan
Discussants: Prof. Dr. Yoshida Mariko
3–4 PM | Yash Gupta
— Of मिर्ची in Our Blood: Intergenerational Dis/abilities and Toxic Contra-dictions of Postcolonial Care in the Survivor Narratives of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy
Discussants: PD Dr. Marlena Tronicke | Prof. Dr. Robel Afeworki Abay
“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
“Contradiction is not primarily a problem to be solved but a motor we cannot do without.”
Martin Nonhoff
“Creating decentralizing and decolonizing scholarship on contradiction, contradictory phenomena, and contradicting processes is a challenging task.”
Kerstin Knopf
“If you think that acts of contradicting someone always need to point to better solutions, you haven’t really understood the idea of democratic critique.”
Martin Nonhoff
“Foucault speaks of contradiction as l’illusion d’une unité.”
Ingo H. Warnke