Decolonising Political Concepts
Decolonising Political Concepts
We cordially invite you to the panel discussion "Decolonising Political Concepts". The event will take place on April 26, 2024, from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m., in the main building at Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, Lecture Hall C.
On the panel, Jonas Bens (UHH), Abosede P. Ipadeola (The New Institute), and Stephan Schmid (UHH) will discuss with the organizers Marie Wuth (UHH) and Valentin Clavé-Mercier (ICEI, Madrid).
Despite the waves of decolonisation in the twentieth century, coloniality still remains in subtle and obvious practices, in visible and invisible mechanisms of power, in the privileging of certain knowledges and the dismissal of others. This becomes drastically apparent with regard to political concepts, which, contrary to their frequent claims to neutrality and universality, are nodes of power, knowledge and, often, coloniality. Political concepts crystallise past and present histories of violence and structures of oppression, but also struggles for freedom and the promise of change.
The panel will discuss the theoretical constructs and notions by which we understand the world and the political practice that derives from them.
The book Decolonising Political Concepts (ed. by Clavé-Mercier & Wuth) is available Open Access.