On September 15, 2008, the bankruptcy of the U.S. investment bank “Lehmann Brothers” symbolically marked the beginning of the “Great Crisis”, which is symptomatic of the fragility and the so-called “systemic relevance” of the globalized, capitalist financial economy.
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Queer education since 1980 – the educational initiative “Queerformat” is a supporting association of the educational institutions ABqueer and KomBi and works in the fields of diversity and anti-discrimination with a focus on sexual orientations and gender identities.
Dissens – Institut für Bildung und Forschung (Institute for Education and Research) is an educational, consulting and research institute, a recognized youth welfare organization in Berlin and active in consulting for organizations and individuals.
The reader from 2017 is aimed at multipliers in youth and education work and was commissioned by the Informations- und Dokumentationszenrum für Antirassismusarbeit e.V. from Düsseldorf.
Since the so-called summer of migration in 2015, the topics of migration and flight have increasingly become the focus of attention for society as a whole. Across Europe, many new groups formed to support and facilitate the reception of people fleeing their homes.
The album by the Belgian-British musician Natacha Atlas is a frequently cited example of an attempt to sonify existential experiences of (post-)colonial life worlds.
Workshop series, critical city walks, publications or research workshops – the registered association, which in its subtitle describes itself, refreshingly laconic, as “Just another Critical Geography Group”, works in various formats and is a free association of activists, geographers, social scientists and others.
The Rosa Luxemburg Foundation’s online dossier deals with issues of housing, rising land prices and rents, and examples of resistance in (video) interviews, articles, studies, and further reading references.
The independent cooperative, based in London, has been working in the fields of critical reporting, research and education since 1996. The focus is on the question of what serious effects the capitalist management of large companies has on people and the environment.
In his study published in 2017, the music sociologist Johannes Ismaiel-Wendt examines techniques and technologies of judging – using the example of miking in the so-called NSU trial at the Munich Higher Regional Court.
In his dissertation published in 2011, musician and music sociologist Johannes Ismaiel-Wendt explores the extent to which popular music contains, transports, and negotiates (post-)colonial knowledge.
Author, scholar and activist Sara Ahmed resigned from her professorship at Goldsmiths College (University of London) in late 2016, in protest of the institution’s handling of sexual harassment. In her 2017 book, she explores questions of institutional power, personal agency, and feminist practice.