Meldungsdetails
The online workshop brought together young researchers from different disciplines and different universities to assess the individual and collective strategizing of actors in crises. "Future-making practices in times of crises reveal a paradox: they can either fuel or erase hope and utopian imaginaries for alternatives and improvement." This phenomenon was discussed and negotiated in a total of six panels at the workshop.
The results were written up in a report by Norina Fischer, Shaden Sabouni & Tom Scheunemann.
Workshop schedule
Panel 1: Hope and Transformation in Everyday Struggles Anna-Sophie Hobi (Norwegian University of Life Sciences): Recharging for Tomorrow: On Building Norway’s Battery Futures Thembi Luckett (Newcastle University): Reproductive and Transformative Hopes in Everyday Life in a Coal Frontier Corinna Land (Fulda University of Applied Sciences and Ruhr University Bochum): Hope and the Neoliberal State: Struggles over Rural Futures |
Panel 2: Hope and Transformation in Struggles over Migration Stephan Liebscher (Freie Universität Berlin): From Hope to Transformation. Platform Politics in the Movements of Solidarity City and Safe Habour Jasmin Behrend (Goethe University Frankfurt): Activism in the Contested Border Area between France and Italy: Care-Practices and their Transformative Potential |
Panel 3: The (Un)making of Belonging in the Past, Present and Future Andrea Priori (Fulda University of Applied Sciences): Conservative Utopias: Prefigura-tion and Islam among Italian-Bangladeshi Youth Prajwal Gaikwad (University of Hyderabad): Envisioning Future: The Forms of Hijra Identity Assertion in Contemporary India |
Panel 4: Decolonial Utopias in the Anthropocene Anja Habersang (Fulda University of Applied Sciences, Ruhr University Bochum, and University of Kassel): Decolonising Utopia - Indigenous Women Struggling for the Art of Living Friederike Teller (University of Applied Arts Vienna): Which Narratives help us en-counter and challenge the Anthropocene within the Pluriverse? Andrea Silva-Tapia (Justus Liebig University Giessen) and Sebastian Garbe (Fulda University of Applied Sciences): With Dignity towards a Plurinational Chile - Struggles for Hope beyond Coloniality and Neoliberalism |
Panel 5: Student’s Life Projects in Times of Crisis Norina Fischer (Fulda University of Applied Sciences): The Dynamics of Imagined Futures in Face of Crises: The Case of German-Jordanian University Students Elis de Aquino (Freie Universität Berlin): Suspended Futures? Building Life Projects in Times of Crisis: The Case of University Students from Rio de Janeiro’s outskirts |
Panel 6: Children’s Struggles over Rights and Recognition Sannaki Munna (University of Hyderabad): Between Struggle and Hope: Orphan Rights in India Nadine Benedix (Technical University of Darmstadt): Between Normative Disputes and Struggle for Recognition: The Agency of Organised Working Children |
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