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BG is an independent online journal – since 1999 – Social Struggles, Prefigurative Politics, and the Common(s) – DE/EN – Annual Project 2025 #PluriverseOfPeace – berlinergazette.de/projects/pluriverse…
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- The #solidarity #clinics that emerged during the 2008-2015 #crisis protests in #Greece left behind experiences of direct #democracy and their transformative potential, as Dilan Köse argues in her contribution to the #DeepDemocracy series: berlinergazette.de/democratizat...
- Experiences with #peace-building in the postwar city of #Mostar, #BosniaAndHerzegovina, provide cause for serious reflection on how economic inequalities between formerly hostile groups can lead to social divisions, as Vesna Bojičić-Dželilović argues berlinergazette.de/cities-after... #war
- We are living in a world that is sliding into ‘ecosystem chaos,’ where capitalism can no longer calculate its own future and war has become the only governing algorithm. Raúl Sánchez Cedillo explores emancipatory politics: vimeo.com/1138500559 #Climate #War #Polycrisis #Peace #Movements #Workers
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- The renewal and realization of democracy, or indeed its democratization, has many names. In 2026, we would like to organize the BG’s annual text series under the title #DeepDemocracy berlinergazette.de/deep-democra... #radicaldemocracy #economicdemocracy #grassrootsdemocracy #democracy #polycrisis
- Reposted by BG | berlinergazette.deHappy to be a part of the @berlinergazette.bsky.social special collection on "Pluriverse of Peace" with my piece on "Ecological Sovereignty: Practicing Peace as Liberation from Extractivism" berlinergazette.de/ecological-s...
- Rather than viewing transition as a technocratic roadmap, Sandro Mezzadra suggests considering it as an open horizon that offers an alternative to the apocalyptic tone that shapes much of today’s activism. vimeo.com/1138501802 #PluriverseOfPeace
- In the #war that #Russia is waging in #Ukraine with the aim of wearing down its opponent, the destruction of the #infrastructure of human and more-than-human life – in short, the #environment – plays an important role. vimeo.com/1138498761 #PluriverseOfPeace
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- In the first half of the 20th century, a remarkable network of women existed in Sweden. The activists bridged the intersection of feminism and the ecological commons, linking these issues to peace struggles in the face of war... vimeo.com/1143362743 #PluriverseOfPeace #War
- How can we overcome the friend/foe dichotomy + initiate urgently needed public debate on #armament, #militarization and intensification of various types of #warfare? The editors of BG search for answers: berlinergazette.de/speaking-of-... #war #Ukraine #Climate #Peace #PluriverseOfPeace
- How can we break this vicious cycle of #ClimateCrisis, economic crisis + #war? The #PluriverseOfPeace event brought together researchers, #artists + activists to explore the link between #peace + #climate struggles. Check out the videos now: berlinergazette.de/pluriverse-o... #UkraineWar #peace
- Reposted by BG | berlinergazette.deVery interesting article by our PhD student and memeber of the research group Social Geography Marlene Hobbs in @berlinergazette.bsky.social! Learn more on: How is technology incorporated into the design of care spaces? #geosky #geography #digitalization #aging #care
- Marlene Hobbs questions the ideas shaping current debates on #digitalization, #aging + #care. As a geographer, she examines how #technology is incorporated into the design of #care #spaces and argues for a reevaluation of #nursing homes: berlinergazette.de/politics-of-...
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- In #Ukraine bunkers and shells lodged in #trees serve as archives and witnesses to nearly 100 years of #violence. These remnants reflect the intensity of the fighting and the continuity of the landscape’s #memory: berlinergazette.de/is-war-a-pro... #PluriverseOfPeace
- Marlene Hobbs questions the ideas shaping current debates on #digitalization, #aging + #care. As a geographer, she examines how #technology is incorporated into the design of #care #spaces and argues for a reevaluation of #nursing homes: berlinergazette.de/politics-of-...
- #LGBTQ* people and people with various #disabilities face similar political struggles for respect, visibility, and representation. They are also subjected to, or threatened by, far #right-wing violence, which has increased in recent years: berlinergazette.de/extreme-righ...
- There is a #family #crisis. However, this crisis was not triggered by the ‘erosion of traditional identities’ or by the fight for equal rights for #LGBTQIA+ people and #migrants. Rather, it stems from a larger systemic crisis: berlinergazette.de/the-family-i...
- Reposted by BG | berlinergazette.deI wrote this article for @berlinergazette.bsky.social where I examine the presence of nationalism and far-right elements within the student movement in #Serbia. berlinergazette.de/nationalism-...
- How can we go from a more or less diffuse sense of being affected, of ‘feeling it’, in these times of crisis and conflict, to concrete forms of literacy, mutualism, and infrastructure? berlinergazette.de/a-politics-o... @manuelaz.bsky.social @commonecologies.bsky.social
- Reposted by BG | berlinergazette.deGestern in der @taz.de: taz.de/AfD-hetzt-ge... Im September ua Martina Winkler beim WDR: www1.wdr.de/mediathek/au... Wir für die @berlinergazette.bsky.social im Juni: berlinergazette.de/de/widerstae...
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- Reposted by BG | berlinergazette.deI wrote about maps, cartographic visions of dividing land and seeing it as worthless, from wartime to resource-making. Happy to contribute to the amazing collections of the Berliner Gazette: berlinergazette.de/swap-and-sac... @berlinergazette.bsky.social
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- @squirrelista.bsky.social argues that #energy must stop being a tool of domination + a playground for investors. Instead, energy should become a #commons: locally owned, socially controlled, and ecologically grounded! berlinergazette.de/carbon-bombs... #colonialism #climate #carbon #GreenTransition
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- In Russia's #war in #Ukraine, the destruction of the infrastructure of human and more-than-human life – in short, the #environment – plays an important role, as Svitlana Matviyenko argues in her article for the #PluriverseOfPeace series: berlinergazette.de/elemental-wa... #Russia #Potemkin #ecology
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- Generative #AI systems for education pursue relief, efficiency, and individualization. @ansophiliert.bsky.social advocates edu-hacking and socialized AI infrastructures to counteract the advance of big tech in education: berlinergazette.de/free-educati... #openeducation #OpenSource #openscience
- At the #PluriverseOfPeace event researchers, artists and activists from 25 countries will be exploring connections between anti- #war + #climate struggles at @iciberlin.bsky.social (Oct.16 ) and ZK/U (Oct.17+18 ). Free entry, limited seats, registration required: berlinergazette.de/projects/plu...
- Municipal administrations must provide the framework for building a socially just and ecologically sustainable future – with the genuine participation of residents: berlinergazette.de/tools-for-tr... @nexteconomylab.bsky.social #donut #transition #commons
- The Movement of People Affected by Dams ( @mab.org.br ) challenges the dominance of transnational corporations by exposing how water is used as a tool of imperial violence: berlinergazette.de/water-for-li... #water #dams #climatechange #imperialism #grassroots #solidarity @cschroering.bsky.social
- While attention to climate issues has noticeably declined, supposed solutions, such as carbon emission trading, continue to be promoted. Maria Neuhauss argues, this is a bluff with far-reaching consequences: berlinergazette.de/carbon-marke... #climate #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction #decarbonization
- Romani women are subjected to racialized, gendered, and class-based violence. Judit Ignácz explores how they navigate social systems that were never designed for them to thrive. berlinergazette.de/racism-sexis... #Racism #Roma #feminism #oppression #metoo #femicide
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- Self-organized, solidarity-based community kitchens are an expression of the political and social changes brought about by the fight for feminist and anti-capitalist causes, as Anna Verwey argues: berlinergazette.de/no-food-no-f... #food #foodsoverignty #Community #Cooking #feminism
- Annette Schlemm reveals the misguided nature of #ClimateEngineering : Large-scale interventions in the Earth’s geochemical and biogeochemical cycles distract from the systemic causes of the #ClimateCrisis and exacerbate the problem: berlinergazette.de/climate-engi... #Technology #TechnoSolutionism
- In her contribution to the #PluriverseOfPeace series, @rarifiederos.bsky.social traces the emergence of the bunkerized subject in the #nuclear age, analyzes its persistence, and explores ways to escape the #bunker berlinergazette.de/are-we-ready... #climatechange #climatecrisis #war #peace
- Exploring #forest #mapping, Lynda Olman and Birgit Schneider deconstruct the metaphor of the #zoom and discuss using #cartography technologies without perpetuating underlying #power structures: berlinergazette.de/appropriatin... #climatecrisis #climatechange
- Mass protests in #Serbia call for true #democracy and denounce #corruption and #authoritarianism. However, the government has responded with even greater authoritarianism, resulting in the rise of political #prisoners : berlinergazette.de/the-discipli...
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- Reposted by BG | berlinergazette.deJust out: 'Resisting the Techno-Fascist Takeover: Are We Ready for Decomputing?' berlinergazette.de/resisting-th... in which I diagnose DOGE as institutional cyberattack and argue that the way to stop it spreading is to revive an alternative technopolitics.
- The #Soviet vision of seamless transformation – e.g., converting peatlands into energy sources and arable land, and people into compliant laborers – was largely realized but left behind traces of persistent violence, as @jeannakolesova.bsky.social argues: berlinergazette.de/witnesses-or... #climate
- Wie können wir Angriffen auf sog. „woke“ Themen und die Autonomie der Universitäten begegnen? berlinergazette.de/de/widerstae... @katsei.bsky.social @ngawiss.bsky.social @nuwiss.bsky.social @afgberlin.bsky.social @mvbzfuberlin.bsky.social #GenderStudies #Wissenschaftsfreiheit
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- How to counter attacks on individual academics + universities that target not only so-called #woke subjects, but also university autonomy? berlinergazette.de/why-we-need-... #AcademicFreedom #GenderStudies @ngawiss.bsky.social @nuwiss.bsky.social @afgberlin.bsky.social @mvbzfuberlin.bsky.social
- We are being torn apart by wars and ecological upheaval. Combining political biophysics with a critique of capitalism, Erald Kolasi addresses the fundamental challenges we face + offers a new blueprint for understanding + solving them: berlinergazette.de/overcoming-c... #climatechange #war #commons
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- As #megacities continue to grow, they are becoming sites of ongoing and future climate and #water injustices. Drawing on her research in Dhaka, Bangladesh’s capital, @farhanasultana.com examines the #class and #gender dimensions of hydro- and #climate apartheid: berlinergazette.de/the-politics...
- Janina Puder and Jule Elena Westerheide argue that port workers could be powerful partners in the ecologically sustainable and socially just transformation of the global #Economy berlinergazette.de/ports-as-sit... #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #logistics #labor #ports #transition #justtransition
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- Die Bedrohung der Demokratie durch den #Faschismus stellt egalitäre Errungenschaften in Frage. Wir sollten daher, wie Jule Govrin ( @jgovrin.bsky.social ) argumentiert, über #Gleichheit sprechen und nach Spuren eines #Universalismus von unten suchen: berlinergazette.de/de/universal...
- The imminent threat of #fascism to democratic society calls into question hard-won egalitarian gains. Therefore, as Jule Govrin ( @jgovrin.bsky.social ) argues, we cannot avoid talking about #equality and searching for traces of #universalism from below: berlinergazette.de/weaving-anti...
- In the debate on German #colonial history, the former colonies in Africa or the Pacific have been at the forefront, but as Agnieszka Pufelska ( @wiko-berlin.bsky.social ) reminds us, an important chapter has gone largely unnoticed: Prussia's expansion into #Poland: berlinergazette.de/hidden-borde...
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- What can #indigenous communities contribute to overcoming the global polycrisis? Their struggles and their ways of living and organizing provide a roadmap for the future, as @shrishteebajpai.bsky.social argues: berlinergazette.de/autonomy-for... #PluriverseOfPeace
- The resurgence of militarism through #ReArmEurope and #Readiness2030 promotes a #war against humanity and the planet – a War on Earth. Enikő Vincze articulates a critique and puts alternatives up for discussion: berlinergazette.de/warmongering... #PluriverseOfPeace
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- In #AI capitalism humans are no longer essential to the production of language and text. What is the role of #education in this context? @katrinbecker.eu reflects on our options: berlinergazette.de/rethinking-e... @criticaldatalab.bsky.social @annanosthoff.bsky.social
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- The civilian and military use of #nuclear energy, which has recently been the subject of increased discussion, are two sides of the same coin. How can climate movements and anti-war initiatives join forces? berlinergazette.de/nuclear-enta... #PluriverseOfPeace
- Working on the desirable world of tomorrow in the here+now means, not least, democratizing the capitalist economy. #Socialization, promoted by grassroots movements in areas as diverse as housing, energy, and transportation, is one promising method for doing this: berlinergazette.de/restructurin...
- Medical gaslighting is the devaluation, doubting, or downplaying of patients’ symptoms or concerns by medical staff. Read about the gender dimension of this social problem: berlinergazette.de/gaslighting-... #medicalgaslighting
- How can we reclaim and reinvent cities as infrastructures of both human and other-than-human life? How can we connect urban and ecological struggles? At #KinCity researchers, artists + activists sought answers. View the audios, videos, and workshop projects here: berlinergazette.de/projects/kin...
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- Sabine Hess deconstructs dominant discourses on migration and shows how the racist fixation on #migration as the ‘mother of all problems’ causes social harm and distracts from real social problems. berlinergazette.de/how-right-wi...
- We are witnessing the first generation of students who have full access to generative #AI and the first generation of teachers who are bombarded with offers to use AI tools. Is this leading to the creative destruction of knowledge ecologies? berlinergazette.de/generative-a...
- Let us imagine planet Earth as a pluriverse of peace: a ‘multiplicity of worlds’ where different forms of life and knowledge coexist, where everyone works together to make life worth living for all. berlinergazette.de/pluriverse-o... #PluriverseOfPeace
- With the proliferation of #AI, human skills are increasingly devalued and at the same time commodified, while the unique qualities of human labor are increasingly erased and the potential for resisting exploitation is reduced, as Giorgi Vachnadze argues: berlinergazette.de/biopolitics-...
