Dynamics of global inequalities begin in mind: in the ideas, concepts, assessments, inclusions and exclusions that we make with regard to „others“ and that range from personal encounters to political confrontations and global relations.
In our interactive workshop, we will approach the following complexities from philosophical and development-critical perspectives, seeking not only to build interdisciplinary bridges but also to engage in dialogue between theory and practice:
- Global justice struggles vis-à-vis global inequality: what do alternatives (to development) look like?
- Tensions and (unequal) power relations between traditional forms of knowledge and (Western) modernization processes: What does „progress“ and „good living“ mean in this context?
- What kind of knowledge and political/economic structures does a post-COVID world need?
The workshop will take place in the format of a world café. Authors of the POLYLOG issue on „Interkulturelle Philosophie und Kritische Entwicklungstheorie im Dialog“ will give short impulse inputs at different coffee tables before we discuss the suggestions or texts in small groups and work out perspectives and possible steps for constructive cooperation of science, practice, politics and civil society.
Speakers:
Franz Gmainer-Pranzl, born in 1966 in Steyr (Upper Austria), studied Catholic theology and philosophy in Linz, Innsbruck and Vienna. Since 2009 he has been professor and director of the Centre for Intercultural Theology and the Study of Religions at the University of Salzburg. His work and research focuses on intercultural philosophy, intercultural-theological epistemology, political and religious developments in Africa, dialogue with critical development research.
Alexandra Grieshofer is programme coordinator of the Austrian Partnership Programme in Higher Education and Research for Development (APPEAR) and a PhD student at the Institute for International Development at the University of Vienna. In her contribution to POLYLOG issue 44, she deals with powerful and problematic imaginaries of (cultural) otherness in the field of tension of the modern narrative of development.
Jessica Dömötör wrote her doctoral thesis on „An Intercultural Business Ethics of Global Justice. The use of Julius Nyerere“. She deals with questions of business ethics against the background of the colonial-historical heritage of the global economy.
She currently works as a consultant for the evaluation of international student applications at uni-assist e.V. and heads the Central, Eastern Europe and Turkey team there.
Workshop-date: Saturday, 12. November 2022, 11:15 a.m. until 13:00 p.m.
This workshop takes place in seminar room Z74 in the building Science Park 2.
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