Postkoloniale Selbstbilder in der postnationalsozialistischen Gesellschaft

This article suggests a double perspective on postcolonial and post-NS images of the self and the other. Racism as well as anti-Semitism will be analyzed with regard to their connection to colonialism and National Socialism respectively. The historical analysis points out the differences between these two forms of discrimination and looks more closely at their present-day manifestations by reflecting the practices of othering. Asking for a concept of postcolonial memory after the Holocaust, presumptions for a critical approach in education related to a history of crimes are developed. How can the commemoration of colonialism and National Socialism consider their discontinuities and crossovers without neglecting the specificities of each complex in regard to power and persecution

Christina Isabel Brüning / Lars Deile / Martin Lücke (Hrsg.): Historisches Lernen als Rassismuskritik. Reihe: Forum Historisches Lernen. Schwalbach: Wochenschau 2016 (272 S.) [Rezension]

Rezension von: Christina Isabel Brüning / Lars Deile / Martin Lücke (Hrsg.): Historisches Lernen als Rassismuskritik. Reihe: Forum Historisches Lernen. Schwalbach: Wochenschau 2016 (272 S.; ISBN 978-3-7344-0342-2; 29,80 EUR)

Migrationsgesellschaftliche Geschichtsbeziehungen zum Nationalsozialismus

This contribution sketches societal conditions for an up-to-date work of remembrance in the context of our current experience in migration societies, and analyses self-images of migration society in the sense of a construction of an ‘us’ as well as phenomena of secondary antisemitism. Also, the memorial practices within a European remembrance of the history of National Socialism are examined within this context. Memorial practices in migration societies are understood as multi-perspective constructs of relational history. The author argues from her own West German context; similarities and differences to the Austrian situation remain to be discussed

Abseits der Assimilation: Konturen non-affirmativer, subjektorientierter Migrationsforschung

Der Beitrag problematisiert Tendenzen assimilationistischer Migrationsforschung und diskutiert Bedingungen für eine kritische, an den Subjekten der Migrationsgesellschaft ausgerichtete Praxis des Forschens, die den Anspruch emanzipatorischer Selbstbestimmung nicht aufgibt und zugleich die Subjekte in ihren Abhängigkeitsverhältnissen thematisiert. Mit der Subjektorientierung wird eine Gegenposition zu dominierenden Assimilationsforderungen und zu einer gegebene gesellschaftliche Bedingungen affirmierenden Integrationsforschung eingenommen. Die Umrisse einer Forschungspraxis werden vorgestellt, die ihre Beteiligung an Herrschaftsverhältnissen kritisch zum Gegenstand macht, ohne dabei die Illusion zu befördern, Forschung könne ihre Involviertheit transzendieren und von einem Ort außerhalb der gesellschaftlichen Verhältnisse, die es zu untersuchen gilt, agieren.The article discusses tendencies in migration research by reflecting conditions of being acknowledged as a subject. The text is developing perspectives for a practice of research that does not give up the claim of emancipation and self determination. At the same time the subject is reflected in its dependent positions which are limiting autonomy. How can a research practice in awareness of the involvement in power structures become relevant? Subject-orientation is seen as a critical opposition to assimilation and concepts of integration without carrying the illusion that research can be articulated from a location outside of the dominant tendencies in society

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Towards Our Common Digital Future. Flagship Report.

In the report “Towards Our Common Digital Future”, the WBGU makes it clear that sustainability strategies and concepts need to be fundamentally further developed in the age of digitalization. Only if digital change and the Transformation towards Sustainability are synchronized can we succeed in advancing climate and Earth-system protection and in making social progress in human development. Without formative political action, digital change will further accelerate resource and energy consumption, and exacerbate damage to the environment and the climate. It is therefore an urgent political task to create the conditions needed to place digitalization at the service of sustainable development

Rethinking Land in the Anthropocene: from Separation to Integration

Nur wenn sich unser Umgang mit Land grundlegend ändert, können die Klimaschutzziele erreicht, der dramatische Verlust der biologischen Vielfalt abgewendet und das globale Ernährungssystem nachhaltig gestaltet werden. Der WBGU schlägt fünf exemplarische Mehrgewinnstrategien vor, um Konkurrenzen zwischen Nutzungsansprüchen zu überwinden. Diese sollten durch fünf Governance-Strategien vorangetrieben werden, darunter insbesondere die Setzung geeigneter Rahmenbedingungen, eine Neuorientierung der EUPolitik und die Errichtung von Gemeinschaften gleichgesinnter Staaten.Only if there is a fundamental change in the way we manage land can we reach the targets of climate-change mitigation, avert the dramatic loss of biodiversity and make the global food system sustainable. The WBGU proposes five multiple-benefit strategies illustrating ways of overcoming competition between rival claims to the use of land. These should be promoted by five governance strategies, especially by setting suitable framework conditions, reorienting EU policy and establishing alliances of like-minded states

Cross-Fadings of Racialisation and Migratisation: The Postcolonial Turn in Western European Gender and Migration Studies

Looking at feminist and anti-racist approaches situated in or focused on Western Europe, especially Germany, this article investigates how racism and migration can be theorised in relation to each other in critical knowledge production. Rather than being an article ‘about Germany’, my intervention understands the German context as an exemplary place for deconstructing Europe and its gendered, racialised and sexualised premises. I argue that a ‘postcolonial turn’ has begun to emerge in Western European gender and migration studies and is questioning easy assumptions about the connections between racism and migration. Discussing examples from academic knowledge production and media debates, I suggest to think of migratisation (the ascription of migration) as performative practice that repeatedly re-stages a sending-off to an elsewhere and works in close interaction with racialisation. In particular, drawing on postcolonial approaches, I carve out the interconnection of racialisation and migratisation with class and gender. I argue that equating racialisation with migratisation carries the risk of whitening understandings of migration and/or reinforcing already whitened understandings of nation and Europeanness. To make discrimination ‘accessible’ to critical knowledge production, I engage in an epistemological discussion of the potentials and challenges of differentiating analytical categorisations. With this, this article engages with ascriptions, exclusions and abjectifications and attempts to formulate precise conceptualisations for the ever shifting forms of resistance we urgently need in transnational feminist activism and knowledge productio