Offensive, discursive, narrative: just three of the attributes that could be mentioned in the context of publicist Mely Kiyak’s weekly column on the website of Berlin’s Maxim Gorki Theater.
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Workshop series, critical city walks, publications or research workshops – the registered association, which in its subtitle describes itself, refreshingly laconic, as “Just another Critical Geography Group”, works in various formats and is a free association of activists, geographers, social scientists and others.
In this literary essay, Kenyan writer Binyavanga Wainaina, drawing on an interview with Senegalese musician and politician Youssou N’Dour, tells of colonialism and learning to swim, of politics and poetry, of music and essentialist understandings of culture and identity.
A sigh, two quenched eggs, the bubbling of boiling water: this is how Sharon Dodua Otoo’s text begins, for which she was awarded the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize at the 2016 “Days of German-Language Literature” in Klagenfurt.
This interview by Annie Goh with Alexander G. Weheliye is subtitled “Untuning the Historiography of Berlin Techno” and asks questions about the genesis of the history of the Berlin techno scene in the 1990s and its (claimed) heterogeneity.
The Rosa Luxemburg Foundation’s online dossier deals with issues of housing, rising land prices and rents, and examples of resistance in (video) interviews, articles, studies, and further reading references.
The independent cooperative, based in London, has been working in the fields of critical reporting, research and education since 1996. The focus is on the question of what serious effects the capitalist management of large companies has on people and the environment.
This independent online portal focuses on the countries of the Middle East and North Africa. The explicit goal here is to produce reporting that reflects a broad spectrum of opinions and thus takes on perspectives that are rarely if ever represented by large Western media companies.
In his study published in 2017, the music sociologist Johannes Ismaiel-Wendt examines techniques and technologies of judging – using the example of miking in the so-called NSU trial at the Munich Higher Regional Court.
The publication of the DGB-Jugend (youth organization of the German Trade Union Confederation) from 2012 shows central argumentation patterns of anti-Muslim racism, names corresponding counter-arguments/strategies and gives references to further literature. In addition, some anti-racist youth projects and initiatives are presented.
In 2015, the first issue of the literary magazine PS – Politisch Schreiben was published under the theme “Competition & Canon”. On the newspaper’s website, in addition to articles from the various issues, there is also an extensive list of links to friendly (art) projects and people.
“Young, Gifted and Black” by Jamia Wilson, illustrated by Andrea Pippin, is a book for children that features 52 influential Black people and their accomplishments.