RTG Contradiction Studies

Reading the Present with History. Reading the Past with Anthropology

Andrea Rueda Herrera (Universidad Pablo de Olavide | Doctoral Visitor at RTG 2686)

11/26/2024 2:15 pm 3:45 pm

U Bremen GRA 2 0030 & online

This talk focuses on an afro-diasporic community located in an Andalusian town (Southern Spain). It concerns a series of families whose identity is linked to the early modern slave trade, while Spanish mainstream society tends not to remember this period of its history. During the session, we will reflect on the boundaries between history and social experience in this specific context.

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city

“The city is a laboratory not only of modernity, but also of contradiction.”

Julia Lossau
name contradiction

“Contradiction becomes real where someone names contradiction.”

Ingo H. Warnke
hierarchy of norms

“If social contradictions are reflected in law, law cannot form a hierarchy of norms free of contradictions.”

Andreas Fischer-Lescano
problem to be solved

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

Martin Nonhoff
every day

“Living in contradictions is what we experience every day. Why do we know so little about it?”

Gisela Febel