Japanese and US-American rhythm machines of the 50s and 60s, products of the so-called “China trade” or the colonial phantasm of a railroad line between Hamburg and Baghdad – these are only three examples of discourses, things and narratives that the “Museum of our Transcultural Present” gathers in an exhibition and tries to relate to each other.
Author: glokal e.V.
Two Canadian sisters with disabilities, who constantly find themselves in weird and absurd situations in a world dominated by non-disabled people, share their everyday experiences in this blog. And this mainly in the form of their own comics.
The reader from 2017 is aimed at multipliers in youth and education work and was commissioned by the Informations- und Dokumentationszenrum für Antirassismusarbeit e.V. from Düsseldorf.
Once a month, südnordfunk goes on air: The podcast project of the magazine iz3w (of the Information Center 3.Welt) broadcasts debates and perspectives from the global south.
Since May 2013, the so-called “NSU trial” against five defendants from the right-wing extremist scene has been underway at the Munich Higher Regional Court. A racist, brutal series of murders with a total of ten people killed is being tried.
Hospitals have become businesses, and thus people’s health has become a commodity.
Although Germany was one of the central colonial powers in Africa and is today the second largest donor of development aid, there is a lack of comprehensive work on the postcolonial constitution of contemporary German development policy.
The GG/BO, the Prisoners’ Union/Federal Organization, was founded in December 2014 at Berlin Tegel Prison.
A multi-faceted compilation of texts that address African urbanity from a variety of perspectives in academic, artistic, activist, poetic ways.
The publication from the series “Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte” (From Politics and Contemporary History), published by the Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (Federal Agency for Civic Education), brings together contributions on Afrofuturism, enslavement and the cotton industry, the history of the racist “White Supremacy” movement in the USA or the novel “Underground Railroad” by the US writer Colson Whitehead, among other topics.
“Struggles for Reparations for Colonialism and the Enslavement Trade.” Under this motto, the blog gathered contributions in the form of texts, videos, links or event notes from October 2015 to December 2016.
Frantz Fanon, born in Martinique in 1925, is considered one of the most analytically incisive anti-colonial thinkers and activists. This portrait of his companion Alice Cherki, a psychotherapist and psychiatrist from Algiers, paints a contoured picture of Frantz Fannon-dense and fact-filled writing, light on its feet and narrative like an essay.