Authoritarian and populist leaders have been rising on a global scale for some years now. While Egypt and Turkey slid into dictatorship after considerable public mobilization and revolutionary protests in 2011 and 2013 respectively, seemingly consolidated democracies also experienced substantial political shifts. From India to Hungary, from Russia to Brazil, the number of authoritarian policies, … weiterlesen
The series “Vietdeutsche(s) Leben” (Viet German Life) aims to provide insight into the diversity of Viet German life realities. In this context, Birgitt Röttger-Rössler has already reported in an article of April 24, 2021 on the anthology “Ist Zuhause dort, wo die Sternfrüchte süß sind? “(2020), published by Vlab, a non-profit organization that promotes German-Vietnamese encounters and cultural exchange. … weiterlesen
The series „Vietdeutsche(s) Leben“ (Viet German Life) aims to provide insight into the diversity of Viet German life realities. In this context, Birgitt Röttger-Rössler has already reported in an article of April 24, 2021 on the anthology “Ist Zuhause dort, wo die Sternfrüchte süß sind? “(2020), published by Vlab, a non-profit organization that promotes German-Vietnamese encounters and … weiterlesen
For my master thesis I am working on two albums of colonial photographs from the collection of Weltmuseum Wien. The photographs were taken by Max Schoeller, a German entrepreneur and hobby anthropologist. Between 1896 and 1897 he traveled East Africa and collected several thousands of ethnographic objects and took photographs of people, infrastructure, animals, and … weiterlesen
Im Dezember 2019 kam ich während eines Themenabends zur vietnamesisch-deutschen Geschichte erstmalig mit meinem heutigen Forschungsfeld in Kontakt. An dem Abend sollte unter anderem der Film „Bruderland ist abgebrannt“ von Angelika Nguyen gezeigt und besprochen werden. Im Lichte der Feierlichkeiten zum 30-jährigen Jubiläum der Friedlichen Revolution stellt dieser Dokumentarfilm ein wichtiges Zeitzeugnis des rassistischen Alltags … weiterlesen
As researchers at a Western university, we are working in an environment that is deeply structured by hierarchies, by neoliberal economic logics and an unequal distribution of possibilities. This situation is also a direct result of colonialism and its legacies – a fact that is often overlooked and therefore remains a blind spot in much … weiterlesen
In the current moment we are bearing witness to a rising tide of negative affect among academics. #Ichbinhanna comprises just one example of a wider global movement that has been swept to the fore by increasingly competitive, exploitative, and precarious working conditions; conditions which are encouraged under the corporate university model, and which university administrators … weiterlesen
Diversity, as a concept, as a keyword, and as a buzzword, has gained momentum in the last decades. Rooted in civil rights and resistance movements of the 1960s in the US, the concept started off as a means to fight racism, exclusion and discrimination, and as a demand for equal rights. It bears strong connections … weiterlesen
Neuerschienener Sammelband „Ist Zuhause da, wo die Sternfrüchte süß sind?“ („Quê hương có là chùm khế ngọt?“ / „Is home where the star fruits are sweet?„) Dieser Text liegt in deutscher, vietnamesischer und englischer Fassung vor. Für die vietnamesische und englische Übersetzung bitte je nach unten scrollen. The text is available in German, Vietnamese and … weiterlesen
Das ist irgendwie eine Traumwelt, das sind wunderschöne Orte, wo wir hinfahren. Es sind tolle Locations, es sind tolle Dates, die man erlebt. Und da will man tolle Menschen sehen und tolle Küsse erleben und tolle Rosen, also so eine, es ist alles schön. (Interview mit einer Produzentin von Reality TV-Formaten, 2016) If the same … weiterlesen
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