This talk focuses on an afro-diasporic community located in an Andalusian town (Southern Spain). It concerns a series of families whose identity is linked to the early modern slave trade, while Spanish mainstream society tends not to remember this period of its history. During the session, we will reflect on the boundaries between history and social experience in this specific context.
„Widerspruch ist ein wichtiger Motor wissenschaftlicher Praxis und Erkenntnis. Ihn besser zu verstehen kann helfen, unsere Realitätsfähigkeit zu steigern.“
Norman Sieroka
„Leben in Widersprüchen ist das, was wir täglich erleben. Warum wissen wir darüber so wenig?“
Gisela Febel
„Mit Niklas Luhmann kann man Raum als ‚Sondereinrichtung zur Negation von Widersprüchen‘ begreifen.“
Julia Lossau
“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
„Widerspruch ist oft nicht primär ein (aufzu)lösendes Problem, sondern eine Antriebskraft, ohne die es nicht geht.“
Martin Nonhoff