Toolbox #3a | »The danger of a single story« (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie) – How to decolonize Contradiction (Gisela Febel & Kerstin Knopf)
Toolbox #3b | Resistance and Counterhegemony (Gisela Febel)
earthing
“Geography as a discipline stands for a certain worlding, if not earthing, of contradiction, in both theoretical and pracitcal respect.”
Julia Lossau
sustained engagement
“The history of Western philosophy can be understood as a sustained engagement with contradiction.”
Norman Sieroka
city
“The city is a laboratory not only of modernity, but also of contradiction.”
Julia Lossau
every day
“Living in contradictions is what we experience every day. Why do we know so little about it?”
Gisela Febel
decolonial scholarship
“Creating decentralizing and decolonizing scholarship on contradiction, contradictory phenomena, and contradicting processes is a challenging task.”
Kerstin Knopf