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Decolonization Through Decolonial Reforming

The need for reform of the global health system is openly on the table. Many stakeholders agree that the WHO has not been able to adequately address the political and social problems, global health emergencies…

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Lilli Hasche

2024
Declarative Speech Acts as a Discursive Practice of Disruption. An Analysis of Same-Sex Marriage and Blessings in German Church Discourse.

This paper discusses how the category of declarative speech acts can be used in the context of discourse analysis. For this purpose, similarities as well as differences between the works of Searle and Foucault are…

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Jonas Trochemowitz

2025
Disruptive und diskursive Ereignisse. Ein Vorschlag zur Ausdifferenzierung mit Beispielen aus dem feministischen Abtreibungsdiskurs Disruptive und diskursive Ereignisse

Against the backdrop of the notion of disruption, this article scrutinises cur-rent concepts of discursive events and places them in relation to one another. The disrup-tive events derived from this are understood as a subcategory…

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Fiona Makulik

2025

DFG Research Training Group 2686: Contradiction Studies –

Constellations, Heuristics, and Concepts of the Contradictory

DFG Research Training Group 2686: Contradiction Studies –

Constellations, Heuristics, and Concepts of the Contradictory

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earthing

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

name contradiction

“Contradiction becomes real where someone names contradiction.”
Ingo H. Warnke

ideal of a contradiction-free world

“Science has long been animated by the ideal of a contradiction-free world in which logical orders could merge with society, politics, culture and language. In the GRC Contradiction Studies we are working on ways of describing the multiplicity and complexity, the danger and beauty of our worlds that clearly go beyond concepts of freedom from contradiction.”
Michi Knecht

prison of difference

“‘Contradiction is the prison of difference‘ writes the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze. Worlds of Contradiction asks: how can we explain and describe the world without making it more coherent and systematic than it is?”
Michi Knecht

articulate

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