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How can the needs of different groups of people be taken into account and promoted, for example in terms of access to resources and opportunities?
Is it about recognising historical injustices and understanding their impact on current development processes?
Discover interesting facts about diversity, decolonialism, anti-racism and critical whiteness. Immerse yourself in current topics and concepts that lay the foundation for more inclusive, fairer and more sustainable development cooperation. The items we have selected can help you to recognise and address ingrained structures of inequality, both at an individual and institutional level.
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Understanding Racism
Are you familiar with Tupoka Ogette's 'Exit Racism', which concisely summarises the origins, structures and effects of racism? Or do you know what it is like to experience systematic discrimination first-hand? What do you know about the work of Melina Borčak, who presents linguistic framing from a Muslim, Bosnian and feminist perspective in 'Mekka hier, Mekka da'? How is the perception of Asian people in the anti-racism debate and the entanglement of discrimination with classism shaped? What do German activists and academics think about the discourse on their experiences of discrimination and oppression?
The following content can help you to understand racism and recognise its intersectional characteristics.