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For thirty years, Berlin was the metropole of the German colonial empire. For most German citizens, however, this statement is relatively unknown. Even though there is an increased interest in decolonial praxis within Berlin-based cultural and educational settings, the persistence of such efforts and their implications within larger society is hard to assess in advance. In response, this text proposes a walking tour through Berlin, highlighting places related to this part of German history. In doing so, it demonstrates the presence of many references to colonialism spread through the city and, more significantly, many initiatives and projects seeking to make this past more visible. By offering an overview of four specific locations within the city, this chapter hopes to critically reflect on the extensive trajectory of the ongoing struggles for historical reparations.
Invitation, to exi(s)t
(2024)
This joint piece aspires to be a dialogue. In a dialogue, people speak and, most importantly, listen, from their respective positions. Drawing from Trinh T. Minh-ha's notion of speaking nearby, Dulley and Streva reflect on the relationship between authorship, authority, and authoritarianism; the parallel between listening and reading, on the one hand, and speaking and writing, on the other hand; the entanglement between disciplinary systems of knowledge and colonial structures of power; the opacity of others and the imperialistic drive to reduce them to transparency; the supposed subject of knowledge and the void. As they converse on these matters, they speak nearby authors from both the so-called Global South and the so-called Global North who are thus juxtaposed, further developed, and displaced towards a politics and ethics of fugitivity. What follows is an invitation to exi(s)t.
Umut Yıldırım's introduction combines the genres of literature review and commentary. It re-examines contemporary works on posthuman life to articulate ecological life-and-death politics within the context of colonial, imperial, and genocidal mass violence, and their entangled environmental legacies and actualities. A dissident repertoire of anthropological and artistic research is offered, which examines the ecological impact of war through the perspectives of human and more-than-human actors whose racialized and geographically regimented lives endure and counter ongoing environmental destruction.
In der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts ereignete sich eine historisch besondere, womöglich einzigartige Konstellation zwischen Dichtung und Ethnologie, ermöglicht dadurch, dass sich avantgardistische Dichter wie Robert Müller, Alfred Döblin oder Michel Leiris ethnologischen Erfahrungsbereichen öffneten, andererseits eine "strukturale" Ethnographie entstand, die mit den metaphysischen Traditionen des westlichen Denkens ebenso brach wie mit der eurozentrischen Perspektive und der Geschichtsphilosophie der Aufklärung, lange bevor der
Postcolonial Turn ausgerufen wurde.
Lange Zeit schien der Kolonialismus im Geschichtsbewusstsein der Deutschen eine nebengeordnete bzw. beiläufige Rolle zu spielen und die Beteiligung Deutschlands am Kolonialprozess wurde wenig Achtung geschenkt. Erst die Entstehung einer schwarzafrikanischen postkolonialen Literatur in Deutschland hat dazu beigetragen, die Kolonialerfahrung als gemeinsames Erbe zwischen Deutschen und Afrikanern sichtbar zu machen. Im Mittelpunkt von Texten afrikanischer Autoren in deutscher Sprache steht das Zurückschauen auf vergangene Ereignisse, die aus verschiedenen Perspektiven thematisiert werden. Der vorliegende Beitrag untersucht am Beispiel von zwei kamerunischen Texten die Erinnerung an die deutsche Kolonialvergangenheit. Diese postkoloniale Aufarbeitung der Kolonialerinnerung, wie sie von Daniel Mepin und Philomène Atyame dargestellt wird, kreist um Vergangenheitsbewältigung und gegenseitige Kulturannäherung. Um dieses Ziel zu erreichen, bieten Jan und Aleida Assmann mit dem Begriff "Kulturgedächtnis" theoretische Grundlagen, die meine Überlegung plausibler machen können.
This chapter argues that paying attention to the weather and its associated processes of geological, biological, and social weathering can destabilize knowledge traditions that insist on dichotomies. Looking to specific histories and current conditions in Guyana and Suriname, this chapter shows how notions of weathering can accommodate a wide range of referents, ranging from the weathering of rock to socio-political and historical afterlives of violent colonial displacements.
Giovanna Trento's article 'Pier Paolo Pasolini and Panmeridional Italianness' engages Pasolini's aesthetic, poetic, and political approach in terms of the complementary dichotomy of national and 'local' issues, on the one hand, and transnational and panmeridional topoi, on the other. Trento argues that despite his 'Third World' and Marxist sympathies, Pasolini showed strong poetic and political attention to national narratives and the building of Italianness. But Pasolini's 'desperate love' for Italy and Italianness, Trento argues, can be fully grasped only if we read it in the light of his fluid, transnational and panmeridional approach marked by different - and at times antithetical - factors, such as the pan-Africanist perspective and the colonial memory. Pasolini was indeed able to build a deterritorialized and idealized never-ending South: the Pan-South (Panmeridione) - that is, a fluid, non-geographical topos where 'traditional' values are used in non-traditional and subversive ways with the goal of resisting industrialization, mass media, and late-capitalist alienation.