Democratic Impertinence? Feminist and Crip Perspectives on Democracy in Times of Crisis

Carolin Zieringer (GRK Contradiction Studies & InIIS)

07/10/2024 07/10/2024

U Gent

Panel presentation at the ECPG (European Consortium on Politics and Gender) 2024.

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driver

“Contradictions are an important driver of scientific practice and knowledge.”

Norman Sieroka
paradox

“The basis of law is not an idea as a systematic unified principle but a paradox.”

Andreas Fischer-Lescano
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
idea of democratic critique

“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
relational

“At first I thought contradiction was always a relational thing; but the more I ponder it, the more I think contradiction creates relation.”

Ingo H. Warnke