Review of the edited volume Nationsbildung und Außenpolitik im Osten Europas. Nationsbildungsprozesse, Konstruktionen nationaler Identität und außenpolitische Positionierungen im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert (ed. Bianka Pietrow-Ennker).
In Zeitschrift für Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung 73 (2).
“Geography as a discipline stands for a certain worlding, if not earthing, of contradiction, in both theoretical and pracitcal respect.”
Julia Lossau
“At first I thought contradiction was always a relational thing; but the more I ponder it, the more I think contradiction creates relation.”
Ingo H. Warnke
“Resistance is a democratic right, sometimes a duty. With literature we can find models for this right and think about its limits.”
Gisela Febel
“Contradiction is not primarily a problem to be solved but a motor we cannot do without.”
Martin Nonhoff
“According to Niklas Luhmann, space is a ‘special facility to negate contradictions’”.
Julia Lossau