Challenging research, disrupting insights: Taking stock of the project beyond „results“ (19. May 2025)
The project started with questions about the effect of historically grown postcolonial hierarchies on contemporary conflicts, the legacy of postcolonial hierarchies in peace initiative and ways to transform these, as well as postcolonial hierarchies in peace epistemologies. Three years into the project, multiple insights and answers to those questions have emerged or are currently taking […]
Dissident Genders and Sexualities in the Andes: Interventions in Transitional Justice
https://youtu.be/I49AYxhR73U?si=KrMQgURXdhmvaXxA n this video, Prof. Dr. Pascha Bueno-Hansen explores key insights from their book project „Dissident Genders and Sexualities in the Andes.“ Drawing on a qualitative approach termed „Activist Interpretive Protagonism“, the book examines how people of non-normative genders and sexualities in Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia have resisted armed conflict, political repression, and authoritarianism. Through the […]
Biruk Terrefe
Biruk’s research lies at the intersection of Political Science, Development Studies, and Geography with a focus on how infrastructure projects and urban spaces relate to the politics of statecraft in Africa. His current research agenda investigates the relationship between infrastructure and state-building, particularly how large energy, transport, and logistics systems have shaped (and are shaped […]
Nessim Znaien
is Professor of Colonial/Postcolonial Maghreb at Phillips-Universität Marburg, attached to the History Department and the Centre for the Near and Middle East (CNMS). He studied history in Lyon and Paris, and Arabic, Italian and Turkish at the University of Aix-Marseille.
Martine Toppenberg Dahl
is a student assistant helping to develop the Virtual Encyclopaedia in the Postcolonial Hierarchies network at the Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institute (ABI) Freiburg. She is currently pursuing her M.A. in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Freiburg. She obtained her B.A. in International Relations at Malmö University in Sweden.
Freiheitskämpfe, aber wo? Über Aktivismus im Lokalen und Globalen
Wann: 6.11., 18:00-20:00Wo: Deutschhausstraße 12, Raum 00A26Referenten: Armin Djamali, Tarek Shukrallah, Tareq SydiqModeration: Thorsten Bonacker Weltweit streiten Menschen für ihre Rechte, mal mit mehr und weniger Erfolg. Drei Bücher setzen sich mit diesen Kämpfen aus unterschiedlichen Blickwinkeln auseinander: In „tofan (sturm)“ (edition assemblage) gehen literarische Interventionen an die Grenzen des geschriebenen Wortes, widmen sich […]
(Dis)Arming Responsibility – An interdisciplinary workshop
Oktober 25 – 26, 2024 The workshop brings together an interdisciplinary team of European scholars, practitioners, and activists engaged in studying international arms production and transfer, with a particular focus on European arms companies. While there has been significant scholarly attention devoted to the responsibilities of states in managing the trade in arms, much less […]
Public Lecture by Prof. Manuela Boatcă, „We Have Never Been Postcolonial. Notes on Theoretically (In)Convenient Times“
https://youtu.be/OOmTPyWU-M4?si=dloKLnU9ScWzcSYW With an introduction by Prof. Annika Oettler and Prof. Susanne Buckley-Zistel. Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace & Conflict Network and one of its member-institutions, Center for Conflict Studies at Philipps University Marburg is hosting a Public Lecture by Prof. Manuela Boatcă, „We Have Never Been Postcolonial. Notes on Theoretically (In)Convenient Times.“ The event is held as part of […]
TEMPORALITIES OF RUPTURE AND CONTINUITY
TEMPORALITIES OF RUPTURE AND CONTINUITY October, 16-17 2024 Marburg After exchanging and engaging with each other’s work for our 4th Think Lab held in Frankfurt, we continue to explore themes and concepts under the umbrella of PostColonial Hiearchies in Peace and Conflict. This time we will be convening to discuss a theme of temporality and […]
Keynote Opening Panel: ‚Queer, Feminist, and Relational Perspectives on Time and Temporality‘
Speakers: Emma Pritchard, University of Oxford; Alvaro Okura, State University of Londrina (UEL/Brazil); Juliana González Villamizar, Giessen University Moderated by Prof. Susanne Buckley-Zistel Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace & Conflict Network and one of its member-institutions, Center for Conflict Studies at Philipps University Marburg, is hosting an Opening Panel on ‚Queer, Feminist, and Relational Perspectives on Time and Temporality.‘ The […]
