Episode 1 (Part 2) – Coloniality, Peace & Conflict – An introduction with Susanne Buckley Zistel & Siddharth Tripathi

In Episode 1, part 2 we discuss the Postcolonial Hierarchies Competence Network (which this podcast is a part of)  and the network’s project of confronting coloniality/modernity dynamics in peace and conflict studies with....

Siddharth Tripathi - Senior Research Fellow at University of Erfurt. As part of his research at the doctoral and postdoctoral levels, he has conducted extensive fieldwork in Afghanistan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Berlin and Brussels. He edited the Rowman and Littlefield Handbook on Peace and Conflict Studies: Perspectives from the Global South (s) which is a collaborative endeavour of scholars from the Global North and the Global South

...and Susanne Buckley-Zistel - Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies and Executive Director of the Center for Conflict Studies at the Philipps University Marburg. Her main interests lie in (transitional) justice, memory, gender, space and post-colonialism.

Links:

Achille Mbembe in Decolonizing Knowledge and the Question of the Archive https://wiser.wits.ac.za/system/files/Achille%20Mbembe%20-%20Decolonizing%20Knowledge%20and%20the%20Question%20of%20the%20Archive.pdf 

Agenda of Peace by Boutros Boutros Ghali (1992) as the foundation of the understanding of liberal peace (and development etc.)

An agenda for peace : (un.org)

Johan Galtung’s concepts of structural, cultural, and direct violence

Short video of Johann Galtung explaining his concepts of violence - YouTube

Stuart Hall: West/Rest-Dichotomy

https://globalsocialtheory.org/thinkers/hall-stuart/

Stuart Hall (1992): The West and the Rest: Discourse and Power

hal1995-westa (wordpress.com)

Edward W. Said, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Homi Bhaba as scholars of Postcolonialism Postcolonialism – GLOBAL SOCIAL THEORY

World Systems and Dependency Theory

Development theory - Dependency, World Systems, Theories | Britannica Money

Aníbal Quijano, Maria Lugones and Walter D. Mignolo as scholars of Decoloniality

Decoloniality – GLOBAL SOCIAL THEORY

Gurminder Bhambra (2011) (Gurminder K Bhambra – Gurminder K Bhambra (gkbhambra.net)) on postcolonial and decolonial dialogues Full article: Postcolonial and decolonial dialogues (tandfonline.com)

“Theory is always for someone and for some purpose” - Robert W. Cox: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/03058298810100020501 

“Dealing with the Past and Reconciliation (Transitional Justice)” (2019) 

https://transitionaljusticehub.org/glhimages/content/Interministerial-Strategy.pdf 

Prof. Cori Wielenga from university of Pretoria who is working on an archive by female mediators

Prof Cori Wielenga | University of Pretoria (up.ac.za)

Paulo Freire on everybody’s responsibility to create a more just world

Pedagogy of the Oppressed - Zinn Education Project (zinnedproject.org)

Paulo Freire (1970), Pedagogy of the Oppressed 

[Paulo_Freire]_Pedagogy_of_the_Oppressed(BookFi.org).pdf (amu.edu.et)

Paulo Freire (1992), Pedagogy of Hope: Reliving Pedagogy of the Oppressed.

Paulo Freire · Pedagogy of Hope · Pedagogy for Change (pedagogy4change.org)+

Gloria Anzaldúa as a theorist of hope

ANZALDÚA, Gloria E. – GLOBAL SOCIAL THEORY

The episode was moderated by Abdul Karim Ibrahim  from the institute of African Studies, University of Ghana.

We also want to thank our team behind the scenes for the collaboration and contributions. We want to thank Abdul Karim Ibrahim for the introduction to this episode, Aurelio Cossar for the illustration of the cover and Harry and Tom Parfitt for the Jingle. It was inspired by Sheriff Ghale’s piece called “Nni Yeli”. 

For the preparation and recording of the podcast, we want to thank Miriam Bartelmann and Harry Parfitt. Furthermore we want to express our gratitude for the assistance on this podcast to Nora Wolf.

The equipment was provided by the media center of the University library in Freiburg, while Florian Laurösch from Radio Dreyeckland postproduced the podcast - thank you for the help and collaboration.