Samoa – “Jewel of Germany’s Pacific?”
This Expert Talk is part of the lecture series “Bremer Denkanstöße” by the Institut für postkoloniale und transkulturelle Studien (INPUTS), U Bremen.
This Expert Talk is part of the lecture series “Bremer Denkanstöße” by the Institut für postkoloniale und transkulturelle Studien (INPUTS), U Bremen.
“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
“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
“Creating decentralizing and decolonizing scholarship on contradiction, contradictory phenomena, and contradicting processes is a challenging task.”
Kerstin Knopf
“The basis of law is not an idea as a systematic unified principle but a paradox.”
Andreas Fischer-Lescano
“Living in contradictions is what we experience every day. Why do we know so little about it?”
Gisela Febel