Fatou Sillah | Fachgebiet Just Transitions, U Kassel
Lilli Hasche | RTG Contradiction Studies
Panel Initiativen im Land Bremen
Tagung Der Elefant im Raum, organisiert von Bremen’s Colonial History Working Group.
“If social contradictions are reflected in law, law cannot form a hierarchy of norms free of contradictions.”
Andreas Fischer-Lescano
“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
“Contradictions need to be articulated in order to exist.”
Martin Nonhoff
“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
“Is contradiction a eurocentric concept, operational phenomenon, and instrument of power?”
Kerstin Knopf