Vorträge und Lesungen
Unmasking Uncertainty and Rising Fascism
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- Mi, 29. April 2026, 20:15 Uhr
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Freiburg
Horst-Weitzmann-Hörsaal (KG I, Hörsaal 1098)
Dr. María Cárdenas (Goethe University Frankfurt):
Is This New? Unmasking 'Uncertainty' and Rising Fascism through Knowledge and Worldings from the Americas.
Amid multiple, accelerating, more-than-human but human-made crises and the threat of escalating violence on the local and global levels, current political and academic debates in the Global North have been dominated by the felt need to deal with 'uncertainty' under a fatalist and survivalist panorama, furthering fascism and authoritarianism.
The lecture interrogates this pervasive pessimist panorama. In contrast to the fatalist and survivalist perspectives in the Global North, Afrolatinx, Indigenous and cross-sectorial movements in the Americas have long practiced more-than-human and relational 'pervivencia' (remaining) and collective life-making, resisting the politics of death. In many cases, ancestral communities have also entered the state, destabilizing the frameworks that enable extractivist and exploitative racial capitalism. Through embedding dynamics in the Global North in a broader context, that is through a) the recognition of decades of racism-critical, anti-colonial, and decolonial research and practice, b) the establishment of pluriversality as both an academic concept and as an empirical reality, and c) the unsustainability and increased threat of extractivist racial capitalism to formerly privileged populations and territories, current 'uncertainties' in the Global North become apparent as less indicative of the absence of adequate responses to the crises, but rather of what racism critical scholars have called white ignorance (Mills 2008) or white (settler) moves to innocence. Drawing on anti- and decolonial thought from the Americas and employing a long-memory perspective attentive to colonial continuities, the talk suggests thinking of contemporary dynamics in the Global North as attempts of maintaining extractivist racial capitalism even as it turns towards the 'self'.
About the speaker:
Dr. Mariá Cárdenas is researcher and lecturer at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Goethe University Frankfurt and an associate researcher at Peace Research Institute Frankfurt. Since 2017, she works closely with diverse Indigenous and Afro-Colombian organizations in Colombia and accompanies them in their activism to decolonize peace- and statebuilding. She has also worked as a consultant for context-sensitive peacebuilding in East Timor, Colombia, and Germany.
Veranstaltung in englischer Sprache in der Reihe "ALMA LECTURE SERIES 2026. Global Ruptures or New Beginnings? Southern Perspectives on World Politics" des Colloquium politicum in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institut und der De/Coloniality Now Collaborative Research Initiative der Universität Freiburg.
Mehr Informationen unter: https://www.studiumgenerale.uni-freiburg.de/cp/sose%2026%20reihen Quelle: Veranstalter
Is This New? Unmasking 'Uncertainty' and Rising Fascism through Knowledge and Worldings from the Americas.
Amid multiple, accelerating, more-than-human but human-made crises and the threat of escalating violence on the local and global levels, current political and academic debates in the Global North have been dominated by the felt need to deal with 'uncertainty' under a fatalist and survivalist panorama, furthering fascism and authoritarianism.
The lecture interrogates this pervasive pessimist panorama. In contrast to the fatalist and survivalist perspectives in the Global North, Afrolatinx, Indigenous and cross-sectorial movements in the Americas have long practiced more-than-human and relational 'pervivencia' (remaining) and collective life-making, resisting the politics of death. In many cases, ancestral communities have also entered the state, destabilizing the frameworks that enable extractivist and exploitative racial capitalism. Through embedding dynamics in the Global North in a broader context, that is through a) the recognition of decades of racism-critical, anti-colonial, and decolonial research and practice, b) the establishment of pluriversality as both an academic concept and as an empirical reality, and c) the unsustainability and increased threat of extractivist racial capitalism to formerly privileged populations and territories, current 'uncertainties' in the Global North become apparent as less indicative of the absence of adequate responses to the crises, but rather of what racism critical scholars have called white ignorance (Mills 2008) or white (settler) moves to innocence. Drawing on anti- and decolonial thought from the Americas and employing a long-memory perspective attentive to colonial continuities, the talk suggests thinking of contemporary dynamics in the Global North as attempts of maintaining extractivist racial capitalism even as it turns towards the 'self'.
About the speaker:
Dr. Mariá Cárdenas is researcher and lecturer at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Goethe University Frankfurt and an associate researcher at Peace Research Institute Frankfurt. Since 2017, she works closely with diverse Indigenous and Afro-Colombian organizations in Colombia and accompanies them in their activism to decolonize peace- and statebuilding. She has also worked as a consultant for context-sensitive peacebuilding in East Timor, Colombia, and Germany.
Veranstaltung in englischer Sprache in der Reihe "ALMA LECTURE SERIES 2026. Global Ruptures or New Beginnings? Southern Perspectives on World Politics" des Colloquium politicum in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institut und der De/Coloniality Now Collaborative Research Initiative der Universität Freiburg.
Mehr Informationen unter: https://www.studiumgenerale.uni-freiburg.de/cp/sose%2026%20reihen Quelle: Veranstalter
Veröffentlicht am Mo, 13. April 2026 um 15:52 Uhr
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