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AUTONOME STUDENTISCHE VORHABEN AN DER UDK SEIT 1989

Decolonize BerlinDecolonize Berlin

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A lecture and discussion with Noa Ha & Nika Zablotsky

(in English but with possibility of questions in German)

Contemporary Berlin fashions itself to be a “European metropolis”. In 1884, Berlin was host to the so called “Berlin Africa conference”. Colonialism is over? Coloniality is deeply engrained in Berlin. Informed by their experience as co-organizers of the “Decolonize the City!” conference in Berlin in September 2012 Noa Ha and Nika Zablotsky will discuss processes of Decolonization as a sustained political practice. Departing from the position that discussions of the city have so far only insufficiently addressed who is being displaced, controlled and marginalized, they foreground an queer anti-racist analysis which emphasizes the everyday struggles and resistance of postcolonial immigrants and people of color who are most affected by racist police violence, deportation, exploitation and discrimination in the education system, which they fight back since many years. This lecture will point to prospects of Decolonization of and in Berlin.
Heute begreift sich Berlin als ‚europäische Metropole’, 1884 war Berlin Gastgeber der sog. „Berliner Afrika-Konferenz”. Kolonialismus war gestern? Kolonialität hat sich in Berlin eingeschrieben. In ihrem Vortrag werden Noa Ha und Nika Zablotsky über ihre Analyse zur Kolonialität von Macht, als auch über den Prozess der Dekolonisierung als [politischer] Praxis sprechen. Als Teil einer Gruppe von Frauen of Color organisierten sie im September 2012 die Konferenz „Decolonize the City!”, da Perspektiven auf die Stadt bislang nur oberflächlich adressierten, wer verdrängt, kontrolliert und ausgegrenzt wird. Sie fragen aus einer queeren rassismuskritischen Position nach dem Alltag von postkolonialen Migrant_Innen und People of Color und thematisieren ihre Kämpfe in der Stadt, denn es sind diese, die von erhöhten und rassistischen Polizeikontrollen (racial profiling), Deportation, prekarisierter Arbeit und Diskriminierung im Bildungssystem betroffen sind, und zugleich organisieren sie seit vielen Jahren ihren Widerstand in unterschiedlichen Kontexten. Noa Ha und Nika Zablotsky werden in ihrem Vortrag verschiedene Horizonte der Dekolonisierung von/in Berlin aufzeigen.

Noa Ha | is a Ph.D. student in Architecture at the Technical University Berlin. Her research focuses on the practices of street vending in the historical district of Berlin analyzing from a decolonial, and critical race theory perspective. Deriving from different forms of self-representing, empowering and anti-racist activism her academic work is informed by these theoretical strands which aims to a decolonizing practice of knowledge production.
She is a scholarship holder of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Foundation, was an associate fellow at the Centre for Metropolitan Studies (Berlin), and is an active member of korientation e.V. (an asian-german network).

Veronika Zablotsky | is a graduate student at the Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science of the Free University Berlin. She was a visiting student in Feminist Studies and History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Her academic interests range from questions of racialization, desire and space_time of memory to cultural, legal and political legacies of genocide in Germany and elsewhere.

Linksammlung:

Homepage der Konferenz “Decolonize the city”

http://www.decolonizethecity.de/

Text von Koray Yilmaz-Günay über Rassismus und Stadtpolitik

http://yilmaz-gunay.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=63%3Aldie-effektivste-verhinderung-sozialer-integration-ist-die-ethnisierung-des-sozialenr&catid=14%3Aaktuell