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Confronting Hierarchies: A Podcast on Decoloniality, Peace, and Conflict

Confronting Hierarchies: A Podcast on Decoloniality, Peace, and Conflict

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 Peace and conflict studies is a burgeoning field. Yet, it still needs to tackle the legacies of colonialism and its hierarchies; the historical trajectories of conflicts and their embeddedness in global entanglements. In the six episodes of the podcast, we question dominant narratives in dialogue with a diversity of voices within and beyond academia and critically engage with theories and research practices. Join us in our journey of confronting hierarchies.Arnold Bergstraesser Institute / Postcolonial Hierarchies Project Scienza Scienze sociali
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  • Episode 6 - Confronting Genocide. German Colonialism and African Struggles for Justice

    Episode 6 - Confronting Genocide. German Colonialism and African Struggles for Justice
    Oct 16 2025

    In Episode 6, we talk with transnational activist and poet, Jephta Nguherimo about his work for restorative justice and reparations for the German genocide against the Ovaherero and Nama peoples in today’s Namibia. Jephta is part the Ovaherero tribe and will throughout the conversation share insights from decades of fighting for justice both through court rooms, art and poetry. Together, we will touch upon the historical trajectories of reparations, the bigger and smaller success, and everything there still is to fight for. The challenges are still many, and up until today only some people are invited to the table of negotiations meanwhile, German civil society’s awareness of the country’s colonial past remains small. Staytuned to hear why Jeptha nevertheless continues to fight with optimism for what the future and new generations have to bring.


    Bio

    Jephta U. Nguherimo is a reparation activist, poet and a former professional labor negotiator of Herero-descent based in Washington D.C. Jephta Nguherimo has been instrumental in the reparation movement for the OvaHerero and Nama genocides, over the last three decades. He was the co-founder of the OvaHerero, Ovambanderu, and Nama Genocide Institute in the US. He organized conferences and other platforms that eventually forced the German government to confront and acknowledge the Genocide of 1904-08.


    Mentioned in Podcast

    • News article about German Gov. Official apology and reparations (Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/germany-officially-calls-colonial-era-killings-namibia-genocide-2021-05-28/
    • African union – 2025 year of reparations https://au.int/en/theme/2025

    Further material

    • Article (documentary inside article) with Al-Jezeera https://www.aljazeera.com/features/longform/2022/11/6/reckoning-with-genocide-in-namibia
    • “unBuried-unMarked” book by Jephta https://www.buecher.de/artikel/buch/unburied-unmarked/57792151/
    • Germany’s colonial history with Namibia Time-line https://www.dw.com/en/namibia-a-timeline-of-germanys-brutal-colonial-history/a-57729985
    • General history of Namibia: https://www.britannica.com/place/Namibia/The-South-African-conquest
    • European Center for Constitutional Human Rights – “Colonial Repercussions: Namibia”: 115 years after the genocide: https://www.ecchr.eu/fileadmin/Publikationen/ECCHR_NAMIBIA_DS.pdf
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  • Episode 4 – Interrogating the Potential of Resistance.

    Episode 4 – Interrogating the Potential of Resistance.
    Aug 21 2025

    Together with Hanna Al-Taher and Firoozeh Farvardin, this episode explores a wide range of topics, including authoritarianism, collective mobilization, epistemic hierarchies, and the relationship between resistance, praxis, and academia. Drawing on the fascinating work of our guests, we highlight insights from decolonial and critical feminist perspectives.


    Further Information & Reading:

    Al-Taher, H., & Younes, A.-E. (2023). Lebensraum, geopolitics and race—Palestine as a feminist issue in German-speaking academia. Ethnography, 25(2), 142-168. https://doi.org/10.1177/14661381231216845

    Al-Taher, H. (2024). Deutsche Staatsräson und die Verunmöglichung palästinensischer Realität. PERIPHERIE – Politik • Ökonomie • Kultur, 44(2–2024), 250–259. https://doi.org/10.3224/peripherie.v44i2.08

    Farvardin, F. (2024). Other Feminisms: A Subversive Gift to the World. In International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counter-Strategies & kollektiv orangotango (eds.), Beyond Molotovs – A Visual Handbook of Anti-Authoritarian Strategies (S. 286–295). transcript Verlag. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839470558-045

    Farvardin, F. & Talebi, N. (2024). Challenges of Southern Knowledge Production. In I. Dulley & Ö. E. İşcen (eds.), Displacing Theory Through the Global South (S. 57–77). ICI Berlin Press. https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-29_05

    Video: [Round Table] Coloniality in the City // 8 July 2024 // Universität Freiburg
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  • Episode 5 - Postcolonial Europes.

    Episode 5 - Postcolonial Europes.
    Apr 22 2025
    Episode 5 is an invitation to shift the gaze and think about Europe as a postcolonial space. Together with Miguel Cardina and Gerlov van Engelenhoven, we delve into the implications that colonialism has had (and continues to have) on Europe’s identities and current realities, as well as contestations thereof. We also address the issue of (post)colonial memory, exploring both its meaning and its relevance for what is commonly assumed to make Europe “Europe”.Bios: Miguel Cardina is a historian and a researcher at the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra, Portugal. He was an European Research Council (ERC) Grantee - project: «CROME - Crossed Memories, Politics of Silence. The Colonial-Liberation Wars in Postcolonial Times» (2017-2023). He is the author or co-author of several books, book chapters or papers on colonialism, anticolonialism and the colonial wars; political ideologies in the sixties and seventies; and the dynamics between history and memory. Gerlov van Engelenhoven is an assistant professor at Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS). His research concerns postcolonial memory and heritage, law and culture, and cultural interaction. He also teaches various courses on these topics. His research methodology combines participatory research with discourse analysis and (auto)ethnography.Further Information & Readings:12:00 Postcolonial Memory-Cultural/Collective Memory StudiesTalk by Sakiru AdebayoPostcolonial Memory – Frankfurt Memory Studies Platformalso see below: Book by Gerlov 16:00 Former Holocaust Transit Camps in the Netherlands being used as “Repatriation camps”: Repatriation Camp – Kamp Westerbork 20:00 Activism-removal Debate about the Jan Pieterszoon Statue in Hoorn. Netherlands: Statue of Jan Pieterszoon Coen in Hoorn 24:00 Amílcar Cabral’s impact on Portuguese democracyInterview with Peter Karibe Mendy on Amílcar Cabral, The Socialist Agronomist Who Helped End Portuguese ColonialismMaria Poblet on Revolutionary Democracy, Class-Consciousness, and Cross-Class Movement Building: Lessons from Amílcar Cabral 25:45 The term Slow Violence was coined by Rob Nixon in 2011: Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor. Definition: “a violence that occurs gradually and out of sight, a violence of delayed destruction that is dispersed across time and space, an attritional violence that is typically not viewed as violence at all” 31:00 Banda Islands GenocideKatharine McGregor and Ana Dragojlovic (2024): Songs from another land: Decolonizing memories of colonialism and the nutmeg tradeMultimedia journal: https://thebandajournal.org/ 34:05 Gloria Wacker (2016): White Innocence: Paradoxes of Colonialism and Race 36:45 Herbert Marcuse (1969): Repressive Tolerance 46:45 Notion of the Combatant. Book from Inês Nascimento Rodrigues and Miguel Cardina (2023): Who is the combatant? A diachronic reading based on Cape Verde and São Tomé and Príncipe 50:00 Gerlov on Silence: ‘There’s a great deal to be said about silence’See also Book (2023): Postcolonial Memory in the Netherlands: Meaningful Voices, Meaningful Silences 1:01:00 Museum on the History of Dutch Slavery
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