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DFG Research Training Group 2686: Contradiction Studies –
Constellations, Heuristics, and Concepts of the Contradictory
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Constellations, Heuristics, and Concepts of the Contradictory
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Mercator Fellows

Among several international scholarly guests and cooperation partners, three distinguished international researchers cooperate closely with the RTG in their role as Mercator-Fellows.

  • Portraitfoto Prof. Rozena Maart
    Prof. Rozena Maart
    Mercator-Fellow
    Centre for Critical Research on Race and Identity, U of Kwa Zulu Natal
  • Portraitfoto Prof. Graham Priest
    Prof. Graham Priest
    Mercator-Fellow
    Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, CUNY
  • Portraitfoto Prof. Banu Subramaniam
    Prof. Banu Subramaniam
    Mercator-Fellow
    Professor and Chair of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies, U of Massachusetts Amherst
space

“According to Niklas Luhmann, space is a ‘special facility to negate contradictions’”.

Julia Lossau
power and resistance

“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
idea of democratic critique

“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
articulate

“Contradictions need to be articulated in order to exist.”

Martin Nonhoff
earthing

“Geography as a discipline stands for a certain worlding, if not earthing, of contradiction, in both theoretical and pracitcal respect.”

Julia Lossau