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Itai Katz // Where do one start with such a meaningful and transformative experience, maybe by seeing the learning as a journey of self discovery. For me it requires inner reflection and witnessing my journey over many years, a journey that deepen my connection to nature and the knowing that I am embedded
Jaana Kretzschmar // The Kontrapunkte Podcast is back with a new episode in english. The guest for this episode is Dr. Reinekke Lengelle. She is a researcher, poet, and associate professor with Athabasca University, Canada and The Hague University, The Netherlands. Her area of expertise is writing for personal developement…
Anna & Jacques // Border thinking is an important resource to overcome colonialism and hegemony. The first article introduced border thinking as a `method´ of decolonial thinking. The second part concentrates on practicing border thinking, focusing on the reflection of geo- and body-politics and subversive listening…
Anna Pfaffenstaller & Jacques Zannou // Our articles focus in two parts on border thinking to decolonize the humanities and social sciences. As border thinking is complex, the two articles are intended to give fundamental and reflective approaches to encourage further exploration of border thinking …
Itai Katz // My heart is so full with sadness, it weighs heavy on me as I feel for all the senseless death that have happened already and for the ones yet to come. Is it possible for a broken heart to bring opposing sides together? The pain is universal, we all feel it …
María Belén Garrido // Since the beginning of the third wave of democratization in Latin America (1978), 15 Latin American presidents have not completed their term for various reasons such as impeachment, overthrow, or resignation. Most of the overthrows that took place in Latin America were accompanied by street protests and nonviolent mobilizations that demanded…
Noémie Hermeking // I vividly remember arriving at Incheon airport Seoul South Korea in 2000, taking the subway to the basement flat where I was going to live during my six months’ stay. The permeating scent of kimchi (fermented cabbage) and garlic wafting through the subway carriages was sensorially distinct to what I was …
Christina Lledo Gomez // I recently met a Lakota man who simply calls himself “Johnny.” He is part of the Indigenous peoples of what is known as the North and South Dakota lands of the United States of America. This past June, I saw Johnny at a conference surrounding the theme of “Decolonizing Churches.” Johnny thought it was …
Namita Herzl // The conference Non-Canonical Women in the Histories of Philosophy is the second part of our conference series on women philosophers in a global perspective. Priyanka Jha from the Banaras Hindu University talks about Indian women thinkers and the quest of reshaping intellectual histories, Un-Sunn Lee from Sejong University presents critical perspectives…
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Sophie Elixhauser // Social scientists and humanities scholars increasingly become involved in interdisciplinary projects about climate and environmental change. Priorities of regional, national and transnational funding agencies will likely keep going in this direction. To collaborate closely with scholars from other disciplines as well as non-academic research partners is an important, timely and challenging
Noémie Hermeking // Anthropology’s understanding of cultural diversity is key to strengthening diversity, equity and (social) inclusion (DEI) strategies. Anthropology as the study of humankind tries to understand patterns of behavior, values and beliefs. Overall in this scenario, culture is what people “do” and the overarching “glue“ that holds together all of the …
Jonathan Schorsch // Just before the Covid pandemic hit, I founded the Green Sabbath Project. This campaign seeks to adapt the ancient biblical concept of shabbat to serve as one remedy for our collective environmental crises. The idea is to create a mass movement that revolves around a ritualized weekly vehicle for ecological …
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Barbara Schellhammer //Over and over again Pope Francis highlights the importance of proximity for the creation of new social ties and cultural bonds – particularly in light of interreligious and intercultural challenges. For me this call for “proximity” means above all that we need to experience each other – “knowing” about each other is …
Barbara Schellhammer // How do we philosophize in the face of what people in Ukraine – but also in Syria, Afghanistan, Yemen and in so many other places around the world – experience and suffer? Every explanation and every attempt to understand recoils at the inhuman and fear-filled reality of war. In an interview, a …
Indigegogy stands for „Indigenous Pedagogy”. Yet it is a placeholder signifying the importance of culturally sensitive concepts of teaching and learning. The term is coined by the Opaskwayak Cree Elder and retired Professor Stan Wilson. Having gone through a pedagogical system that strategically set out to kill the “Indian in the child”, he invited not only his co-author Barbara Schellhammer, but every reader of this book into a journey of…
Ein Blog des Zentrums für Globale Fragen zu Themen der Transformation, globalen Entwicklungen und Fragen der gesellschaftlichen Solidarität.
In this blog, the Center for Social and Development Studies is writing about issues of transformation, global developments and problems of social solidarity.
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