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Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict @postcolh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

7 Oct, 6:15pm: Keynote by Antje Daniel (University of Vienna), "Confronting the Coloniality of Time through Afrotopias", part of the Think Lab "Contesting Hierarchies." Raum 101, Pilgrimstein 12, Marburg. More info: www.postcolonial-hierarchies.net/utopien-by-a...

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Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict @postcolh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

5 Oct, 2pm: Keynote by Anya Heise-von der Lippe on "Contested Utopia(s) in African Afrofuturism: Wanuri Kahiu's Pumzi" at the Think Lab "Contesting Hierarchies." Registration required: tareq.sydiq@uni-marburg.de More info: www.postcolonial-hierarchies.net/contested-ut...

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Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict @postcolh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

5 Oct: Book Talk by Lea Ebeling, "Nowhere, No-Place, and A World Without Borders", opening this year's Think Lab "Contesting Hierarchies: Utopia and Future-Making in a Postcolonial World." 6:15pm, Raum 101, Pilgrimstein 12, Marburg. www.postcolonial-hierarchies.net/nowhere-no-p...

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Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict @postcolh.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

New chapter: "Political Mobilization in Arab Countries: Grievances, Efficacy, and Identity" Our network member Tareq Sydiq, together with Miquel Pellicer, contributes to The I.B. Tauris Handbook of Authoritarianism in the Arab World, ed. Dana El Kurd. www.bloomsburycollections.com/encyclopedia...

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Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict @postcolh.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

The new entry “Memory and Justice in a Postcolonial World” explores how memory can become a driver of justice by connecting past injustices,present inequalities and future possibilities.Drawing on perspectives from memory studies, it approaches colonial legacies. #memory #coloniality #justice#utopia

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Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict @postcolh.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

On the 06.07 Marburg hosted the first event of the Short Speaker Series. The topic of the lecture was „Community Archives as Sites of Memory and Justice: Insights from the Middle East and its Diasporas“.

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Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict @postcolh.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

The new entry “Youth Perspectives on Peace” explores how young people understand peace, violence and social change in their everyday lives. Drawing on conversations with Brazilian students, it shows that peace is not only the absence of conflict. #brazil #youth #peace #power #empowerment

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Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict @postcolh.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

The new entry “Decolonial Solidarity” examines how solidarity can be rethought across unequal power relations. It highlights the tensions of acting “in solidarity” while calling for ethical and political commitments that challenge structures of domination. #solidarity #decolonisation #inequality

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Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict @postcolh.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

The new entry “Postconflict” explores how the concept of ‚post-conflict‘ can be reimagined beyond the end of war. It argues that lasting peace depends on confronting structural inequalities, epistemic violence and colonial legacies. #postconflict #pluriversality #coloniality #peacebuilding #justice

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Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict @postcolh.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Through case studies from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Ukraine, it highlights how mapping can be used to support resistance, visualize marginalized perspectives and produce alternative forms of spatial knowledge in conflict settings. #mapping #critical #cartography #conflict #resistance

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Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict @postcolh.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

The new entry “Counter - Mapping in Peace and Conflict Research: Reflections from (South)Eastern Europe” explores counter-mapping as a critical approach to challenging dominant spatial narratives and exposing the power relations embedded in cartographic practices.

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Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict @postcolh.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Dr. Mina Ibrahim talks on community-driven archives, memory work and justice in the Middle East and its diasporas. Drawing on digital archives, oral histories and ethnographic research,it explores how communities preserve and narrate histories shaped by violence, displacement and authoritarian rule.

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Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict @postcolh.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

The Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict Network cordially invites you to the first Short Speaker Series on „Community Archives as Sites of Memory and Justice: Insights from the Middle East and Its Diasporas“.

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Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict @postcolh.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Against the backdrop of colonial legacies and Eurocentric migration frameworks, it examines how African-centered perspectives can reshape understandings of mobility, agency and belonging.The entry also reflects on the relationship between Pan-Africanism, migration regimes and postcolonial realities.

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Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict @postcolh.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

The new entry “Afrocentrism as a postcolonial approach to understanding migration” explores Afrocentrism as a decolonial approach to migration studies.

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Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict @postcolh.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

If you missed it, you can look forward to a visit it again in Marburg on Saturday, June 20! More information to follow.

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Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict @postcolh.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

The exhibition highlighted the impacts on land, water, and communities — and how people confront these challenges in their daily lives through diverse forms of resistance.

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Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict @postcolh.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

On April 24 and 25, the exhibition “Extractivism & Resistance in the Ecuadorian Andes and Beyond” in Marburg offered visitors insights into global commodity supply chains, tracing them all the way to a community in northern Ecuador.

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Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict @postcolh.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

The Think Lab featured an input by Dr. Jannis Julien Grimm, on the topic “Trial by Fire - Gaza as a Stress Test for Academic Integrity”, which encouraged participants to reflect on questions of academic integrity, solidarity and the reproduction of power hierarchies within academia.

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Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict @postcolh.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Under the title “Researching Postcolonial Hierarchies in Conflictive Times: Entanglements, Power Hierarchies and Academic Integrity in German Institutions”, participants discussed the challenges of conducting postcolonial and critical research.

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Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict @postcolh.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

On 20 May 2026, the research network Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict held its first Virtual Think Lab of the second funding phase.

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Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict @postcolh.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Five contributions will be selected from the submitted proposals. You can find the registration form as well as further information here: rewritingpeaceandconflict.net/call-miasa-t.... Please apply until the 15.08.2026.

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Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict @postcolh.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

The thematic focus is on methodological innovations and alternative formats of knowledge production and circulation.

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Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict @postcolh.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

The research network “Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict Studies”, the Maria Sibylla Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA) and the Forum Transregionale Studien open the call for contributions.

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Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict @postcolh.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

The researchers featured in the video present their take on postcolonial approaches to Peace and Conflict. Understanding the postcolonial trajectories of peace and conflict in Asia is particularly complex, as it encompasses a plurality of historical colonial projects.

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Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict @postcolh.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

New milestone for the Virtual Encyclopaedia reached ! The Regional Video N°2: Plural Perspectives on Peace and Conflict in Asia was just released and is part of the video-series of the Virtual Encyclopaedia "rewriting peace and conflict".

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Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict @postcolh.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

In this post we highlight a selection of publications from 2025 by the Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict network. You can find an overview of all our publications on our website: www.postcolonial-hierarchies.net/publications/

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Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict @postcolh.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Herzliche Einladung zur Ausstellung "Extraktivismus & Widerstand in den Anden Ecuadors und darüber hinaus" in Marburg! Wir freuen uns auf alle, die am 24. April zur Eröffnung und anschließendem Austausch oder am 25. April zur offenen Ausstellung kommen.

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Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict @postcolh.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

A wide range of forms of resistance is considered, from artistic and aesthetic interventions and civil society engagement to journalistic and legal work in repressive contexts.

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Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict @postcolh.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

The policy workshop examines how different forms of resistance can counter processes of autocratisation. It focuses on artistic, journalistic, academic, and legal perspectives on practices of resistance under conditions of shrinking civic space.

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Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict @postcolh.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

We would like to invite you to a guest lecture next week with Filipp Semyonov. We look forward to seeing you there, and feel free to share this widely !

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Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict @postcolh.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

In the next funding phase it will advance interdisciplinary research, consolidate partnerships – particularly with colleagues from the Global South – and further develop structures such as the Virtual Encyclopaedia.

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Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict @postcolh.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Hierarchies examines how historically rooted postcolonial power structures shape contemporary conflicts and influence sustainable conflict transformation.It contributes to debates on global peace and security while analysing international peace architectures,strengthening Peace and Conflict Studies.

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Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict @postcolh.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

We are happy to announce that the competence network Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict(Hierarchies) has been granted a two-year extension by the BMFTR, beginning 1 April 2026.

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Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict @postcolh.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Bayreuth Peace Talk with Lina Benabdallah It will be discussed whether in today's geopolitical moment South-South cooperation is truly a path of alterity for Global South states or if it is indelibly caught in extractive and exploitative competition over resources and markets

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Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict @postcolh.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

This handbook is the first of its kind with a comprehensive and inclusive agenda for the field of peace and conflict studies: Several of our Network's members engage in a thorough academic discussion not only about, but also including perspectives from the Global South(s).

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Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict @postcolh.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Out now! We are very happy to share our newest publication: the "Handbook of Peace & Conflict Studies. Perspectives from the Global South", edited by our Siddharth Tripathi and Solveig Richter. Check out the book here - it's open access! www.bloomsburycollections.com/encyclopedia...

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Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict @postcolh.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Last week, our research network had the honor of inviting scholars from all around the world to our concluding conference in Tunis, from 10.-11.10.2025. Grateful to all inputs, discussions and support, especially from our partner MECAM!

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Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict @postcolh.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Part 2: Some other highlights include our Thinklab and very insightful public lectures we hosted in Freiburg and Marburg. We are also very much looking forward to our final conference! Make sure to check our website to stay updated throughout the year. postcolonial-hierarchies.net

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Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict @postcolh.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Part 1: Take a look at some of the things we have done this 4th year of the Postcolonial Hierarchies project - and what is yet to come. Our highlights include the Virtual Encyclopaedia with written, audio and audiovisual content. postcolonial-hierarchies.net/encyclopedia/

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Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict @postcolh.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

We are excited to invite you to our next public lecture by Rirhandu Mageza-Barthel at the Center for Conflict Studies in Marburg next week. Date and time: May 26th, 6pm Venue: Pilgrimstein 12, Room 305, Marburg

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Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict @postcolh.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Last night, we had the pleasure of listening to Pascha Bueno-Hansen talk about resistance practices and interventions in TJ processes of people of non-conformative genders and sexualities in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. We also videotaped the lecture and will upload it to our YouTube account soon.

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Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict @postcolh.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

We are excited to invite you to our next public lecture by Pascha Bueno-Hansen at the Center for Conflict Studies in Marburg in cooperation with University Gießen. Date and time: May 14th, 6pm Venue: Pilgrimstein 12, Room 305, Marburg For more information, see the Center's Website.

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Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict @postcolh.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Have a look at the entry “Security. Speaking with Fanon?” written by @mariaketzmerick.bsky.social in our Virtual Encyclopaedia: rewritingpeaceandconflict.net/2024/10/08/s...

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Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict @postcolh.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

“Decolonial and postcolonial perspectives have come to mirror each other’s incompleteness.” Read F. Richard Georgi’s entry on “Postcolonial and decolonial differences” in our Virtual Encyclopaedia: rewritingpeaceandconflict.net/2024/03/01/p...

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Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict @postcolh.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Neue Publikation von unserem Netzwerkkoordinator Tareq Sydiq über "Wissensproduktion zum Iran im Kontext der Proteste 2022: Dilemma der Protestforschung". #protestforschung #protest #iran

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