Contradiction Studies

»The danger of a single story« (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie). How to decolonize contradiction»

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Gisela Febel (RTG Contradiction Studies), Michi Knecht (RTG Contradiction Studies)& Kerstin Knopf (RTG Contradiction Studies)

06/30/2022 4:15 pm –5:30 pm

U Bremen GRA 2 0030

Readings

Da Costa Marques, Ivan. 2021. Decolonizing Knowledge Devices. In Andrea Ballestero & Brit Ross Winthereik (eds.).Experimenting with Ethnography. A Companion to Analysis, 219–234. Durham: Duke University Press. https://andreaballesterodotcom.files.wordpress.com/2021/06/ballesterowinthereik-2021-experimenting_with_ethnography.pdf (25.05.2022).

Maart, Rozena. 2020. Introduction – Decoloniality and Decolonial Education: South Africa and the World. In Alternation 33, 15– 44.

Mignolo, Walter D. 2007. DELINKING. The Rhetoric of Modernity, the Logic of Coloniality and theGrammar of De- coloniality. In Cultural Studies 21(2), 449–514.

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