Suchergebnisse

Grada Kilomba gelingt eine Gradwanderung aus persönlichen Erfahrungen als schwarze Wissenschaftlerin in Deutschland und den rassistischen Implikationen von weißer, eurozentristischer Wissensproduktion, die zunächst als Tatsache festgestellt wird. Da Wissen jedoch immer eine bestimmte politische Implementation aufweist, auch wenn es noch so sehr nach objektivierenden Kriterien produziert zu sein scheint, lässt sich die in ihm aufzeigbare Perspektivität nach Kilombas Ansicht auch anders besetzen. Bereits an gewählten Forschungsfeldern bzw. ihren Rahmenbedingungen, Begriffen oder auch Ausdrucksweisen oder vom unberücksichtigt Bleiben nicht-weißer WissenschaftlerInnen bzw. ihrer Publikationen, zeigen sich ausgrenzende Praktiken. Damit fängt der Rassismus im Feld der Wissenschaft weder an, noch hört er dort auf, wie Kilomba fortführt.

'No country can ever be held in just estimation', proclaimed Arthur Young in 1780, 'when the rental of it is unknown': and Young , in his Tour in Ireland, proceeded to estimate the rental of this country. His was the rhetoric of the political arithmetician, but he was neither the first nor the last to embark on aggregate calculations. Several of the best-known past observers of the Irish scene, from Sir William Petty to the elder Wakefield, also left their o w n estimates. Some, like Wakefield's, were carefully worked out; others, such as Dean Swift's, were based almost totally on hearsay or speculation.

Avant la grande famine de 1847 la population de l'Irlande subit une très grande poussée démographique due au mariage précoce, à une natalité forte et à une mortalité en baisse. Les Irlandais se nourrissaient essentiellement de pommes de terre. Les composantes démographiques de l'île se modifièrent dès 1820 car l'émigration s'accentua, touchant aussi bien l'Est que l'Ouest du pays. La grande crise de la pomme de terre fit périr des milliers de personnes de faim et de maladie et augmenta l'émigration vers l'Angleterre et l'Amérique. Le célibat définitif devint important après la crise et l'âge au mariage s'éleva fortement signe d'un changement social et culturel.

'Yesterday, Tomorrow' is based on Nuruddin Farah's book, Yesterday, Tomorrow: Voices from the Somali Diaspora. It is a portrayal of the personal stories of people who, due to political instability in postcolonial Somalia, find themselves forced to flee their homes, cross borders and become refugees. Loss, borders and politics are at the very centre of this piece. This staged reading brings to mind the 125th anniversary of the Berlin Conference, where Bismarck invited 13 other European governors to divide the African continent into a series of colonial states and illogical borders, laying the framework for more than a century of civil strife. The individual stories and subtle portraits of the countries of exile create a moving image of life between different worlds.Playwright Amy Evans seeks through her work to critically examine the impact of displacement, alienation and political violence on the human spirit. Her first play, Achidi J's Final Hours, was inspired by the true story of Mareame N'Deye Sarr, a young woman who was killed in a confrontation with German police in Aschaffenburg in July 2001. Her newest play, The Most Unsatisfied Town, based on the death-in-custody of Oury Jalloh, was completed while in residency at the ICI Berlin earlier this year. Grada Kilomba's literary works explore the fields of memory, trauma and post-colonialism. Among others, she is the author of Plantation Memories (2008) a compilation of episodes of everyday racism written in the form of short psychoanalytical stories. Currently she is a fellow at the ICI Berlin, where she is writing her new book Kalunga based on the Orishas and the post-transatlantic experience of fragmentation, loss and colonial convalescing. Michael Edode Ojake (actor) was born in 1961 in Lagos, Nigeria. He was a production assistant at the National Theatre in Lagos and studied Acting at the Academy of Theatre and Film in Sofia, Bulgaria. Since 1990 he lives and works in Berlin as an actor, director and author in film and theatre. Araba Walton is a German ...