The academic coordinator and the office manager form with the spokesperson-duo the RTG leadership team. They are responsible, respectively, for the strategic and conceptual coordination as well as the administration of the RTG. For the doctoral and post-doctoral fellows they are always the first persons to contact with any question that may come up.
“Contradictions need to be articulated in order to exist.”
Martin Nonhoff
“Michel Foucault says: “Where there is power, there is resistance, and […] this resistance is never in a position of exteriority in relation to power” (History of Sexuality I, The Will to Knowledge, 1976, p. 95)”
Gisela Febel
“Creating decentralizing and decolonizing scholarship on contradiction, contradictory phenomena, and contradicting processes is a challenging task.”
Kerstin Knopf
“Join us to create more diversity and plurality in knowledge production.”
Gisela Febel
“Contradiction comes in many different forms. None is so debilitating than when the coloniser transitions, textually not politically, to decoloniality without taking the responsibility for the afterlife of colonialism, which they continue to benefit from. Self-examination and self-interrogation of the relations of coloniality, a necessity, seem nearly impossible for the coloniser who continues to act as beneficiary, masked in the new-found language of White fragility, devoid of an ethical responsibility of the very system of White domination they claim to be against.” (Black Consciousness and the Politics of the Flesh)
Rozena Maart
