Political Theory in Times of Uncertainty
Poster WoC Event: Widersprüche in der Erinnerungskultur mit Max Czollek
Widersprüche der Erinnerungskultur. Die Realität der postmigrantischen Gesellschaft anerkennen?

Die deutsche Gesellschaft ist stark von Migrationsbewegungen und dadurch von einer Vielstimmigkeit an Vergangenheits- und Erinnerungsnarrativen geprägt und die hier lebenden Menschen stützen ihre Identitäten auf unterschiedliche kulturelle Praktiken des Erinnerns. Das sog. Kollektive Gedächtnis…

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30.08.2023 . The Research Training Group 2686 Contradiction Studies is looking for several student assistants as soon as possible:
Widerspruchsresponsive Nachhaltigkeit

Das Freihandelsabkommen der EU mit Neuseeland verpasst die Etablierung eines kritischen Nachhaltigkeitsbegriffs.

Contribution
Nils Kohlmeier
2023
Cover der Sonderausgabe von Research in African Literatures
State of the Planet. Homi Bhabha and Namwali Serpell in Conversation

After explaining the rationale for bringing the author of The Old Drift, Namwali Serpell, and critical theorist Homi Bhabha into conversation, this interview with both of them explores some of the key themes of Serpell’s…

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Deborah Nyangulu
2022

Welcome to the DFG Research Training Group Contradiction Studies

The international and interdisciplinary Research Training Group (RTG) “Contradiction Studies” at the University of Bremen, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG),  has been exploring the formation, negotiation, and explanatory limitations of contradiction. We start from the assumption that the ordering figure of contradiction which includes the imperative of resolving contradiction often stands in a relationship of tension to experiences of the contradictory in everyday life. read more

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The Research Training Group is run by twelve faculty members of the University of Bremen and is a place of interdisciplinary exchange of empirical cultural studies, social and cultural anthropology, German and interdisciplinary linguistics, literary studies (Romance literary and cultural studies, North American and postcolonial literary and cultural studies, Medieval and Early Modern German literary studies), law, human geography, political science, history of Eastern Europe, philosophy, and religious studies.

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Afterlife of colonialism

“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
hierarchy of norms

“If social contradictions are reflected in law, law cannot form a hierarchy of norms free of contradictions.”

Andreas Fischer-Lescano
limits

“Resistance is a democratic right, sometimes a duty. With literature we can find models for this right and think about its limits.”

Gisela Febel
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
name contradiction

“Contradiction becomes real where someone names contradiction.”

Ingo H. Warnke