To mark the United Nation’s World Humanitarian Day 2016, writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie delivered a pointed and meaningful speech. She pleads for more humanity and a more open approach to refugees.
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In the poem “Academic Indian Job Description: Have To Know,” Cree scholar Cash Ahenakew describes his difficulties (and those of others) in adapting to the academic context and its expectations with his Indigenous subjectivity and corresponding values.
Since the end of 2016, the multiple award-winning novel “Riwan oder der Sandweg” by Senegalese author Ken Bugul has also been available in German.
On the topic of “Flight, Sex, Discourse,” the educationalist Paul Mecheril gave a guest speech at the New Year’s Reception of the City of Bremen on January 13, 2016.
The brochure Bon Voyage! of the Berliner Entwicklungspolitischer Ratschlag (BER) would like to show racism-critical ways in development education and project work.
With the brochure “We take racism personally” Amnesty International has published important and informative material on the topic of everyday racism in cooperation with self-organizations of people with experience of racism as well as experts on anti-discrimination.
It is a stubborn and uncomfortable protagonist who leads the reader as a first-person narrator through NoViolet Bulawayo’s novel “We Need New Names” and thus through the postcolonial realities of the world at the beginning of the 21st century.
A new brochure from the Austrian Quix – Collective for Critical Educational Work is dedicated to the topics of “Gender, Sexuality and Desire” in educational work. The focus is on educational work in the context of development policy, especially international voluntary services.
“The NSU murders were followed by a racist media controversy and one-sided, discriminatory investigative work. The play ‘Judgments’ by Christine Umpfenbach and Azar Mortazavi […] counters this racism with the perspective of those left behind.”
In the third volume of the border regime series, the authors deal with ongoing migration to Europe as well as with policies of control and regulation in about 20 contributions. The focus is on the struggles of refugees and activists in the summer of 2015 in different places.
This anthology by Sara Lennox contains 13 texts that trace the lives and work of Black people and associations in Germany at different times and cultural-historical periods.
Exit Racism by Tupoka Ogette is a volume that aims to accompany its readers in their first confrontation with racism. The book focuses on developing a critical perspective on racism and concrete options for action that can be used fruitfully in everyday life.