Democratic Impertinence? Feminist and Crip Perspectives on Democracy in Times of Crisis
Panel presentation at the ECPG (European Consortium on Politics and Gender) 2024.
Panel presentation at the ECPG (European Consortium on Politics and Gender) 2024.
“Contradictions are an important driver of scientific practice and knowledge.”
Norman Sieroka
“The basis of law is not an idea as a systematic unified principle but a paradox.”
Andreas Fischer-Lescano
“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
“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
“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