Dr. Sabine Mannitz

I am particularly interested in the debates around inter­national and intra-societal processing of colonial violence that have unfolded in recent years.

Political violence is inter­twined with normative projections and their impact on social identifi­cations. Translations of these projections are constantly taking place between institutions and indi­vidual as well as collective actors, and are hence contributing to dynamics of temporality: How do ideas of the ‘good’ (or 'better') life inform political projects that employ violence to force through their goals? And how do current-day actors deal with configurations that are grounded in such historical violence, but also perpetuate related structures? Using ongoing inter­national and intra-societal processing of colonial violence, I study the relation­ships between normative dis­course, collective action and re­presentations of colonial violence and examine what processes of transformation they render.

Research Area Interpretations: 3.1 Interpretation of Violence

Research Area Interpretations: 3.2 Memories of Violence