In her lecture “Solidarity under Postcolonial Conditions. Dealing with ambiguous realities in a globalized world”, Astrid Messerschmidt uses a historical examination of colonialism and racism to derive conditions for solidarity work today, but also describes which dilemmas and pitfalls exist. Astrid Messerschmidt2006: Solidarity under Postcolonial Conditions. Dealing with ambiguous realities in a globalized world. Lecture at the ESG Jena. Another text by Astrid Messerschmidt on the topic, entitled “Critique and Engagement in the Ambiguities of Liberation, Oppression, and Appropriation,” can be found in Anne Broden / Paul Mecheril (eds.) 2014: Solidarity in the Migration Society. Questioning a normative foundation. Bielefeld:…
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As part of its funding line “Development Policy Means Consistent Antiracism,” the North-South Bridges Foundation has compiled “Seven Tips for Better Cooperation” on how supporting refugees can prevent paternalistic behavior and reproductions of racism.
In his basic article “The VOICE of the DEAD and those still going to DIE” Yufanyi Movuh Mbolo from THE VOICE Refugee Forum describes why self-organizations of refugees are important and which demands for example THE VOICE and KARAWANE have.
feminIEsta is a project from the environment of the Institute for International Development at the University of Vienna. The blog informs about activities of the working group, refers to current events and materials around the topic of queer-feminist critique of development cooperation.
In this brochure, Keith Hamaimbo and Serge Palaise describe current challenges in cooperation between white development organizations and migrant-diasporic organizations and provide an outlook for further cooperation.
In this book, David Featherstone addresses the question of how transnational resistance movements can emerge and be founded in neoliberal times and what role space and power have in them.
In this book, David Featherstone describes the history of solidarity movements and internationalism.
The activists of the International Woman Space of the Gerhard Hauptmann School blog about self-organization, feminism in the refugee struggle and the current state of negotiations about a refugee center in Berlin Kreuzberg.
Activists from Berlin’s O-Platz and the Gerhard-Hauptmann School talk about self-organization, the refugee movement in Berlin and German asylum policy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhkD9IPTnnI Enrique Dussel, argentinischer Philosoph und Historiker spricht über Dekolonisierung. Spanisch mit englischen Untertiteln.
The anthology Myths, Masks, and Subjects provides a good and broad introduction to the theory and fields of application of critical whiteness studies in Germany. Maureen Maisha Eggers, Grada Kilomba, Peggy Piesche, Susan Arndt (eds.) 2005: Myths, Masks and Subjects. Critical Whiteness Research in Germany. Münster: Unrast. If you don’t have a bookstore worth supporting near you, you can also buy the book from the alternative non-profit online bookstore links-lesen.de, which supports political projects with the profits. The link to the book can be found here.
In October 2015 in Berlin Neukölln. More pictures and info at linksunten.