1st Edition
The Racism Debate in Germany Concepts of Anti-Racism and Matters of Solidarity
Introduction: The racism debate in Germany: concepts of anti-racism and matters of solidarity: introduction to the special issue
Manuela Bojadžijev, Robin Celikates and Paul Mecheril
1. Racism or racisms? Rethinking differentiation and the significance of solidarity
Manuela Bojadžijev
2. From “Xenophobia” to structural racism, and back? Epistemic obstacles, conceptual struggles, and the role of critical theory
Robin Celikates
3. Counting racism: quantitative methods and the challenges of structural analysis in Germany
Serhat Karakayali
4. “Sprich Deutsch”. A race critical reading of discourses on language and citizenship in twenty-first century Germany
Paul Mecheril and Radhika Natarajan
5. Policing the surplus crisis, carceral racism and abolitionist resistance in Germany
Vanessa Eileen Thompson
6. Antisemitism and racism revisited: historical genealogies and current research debates
Manuela Bojadžijev, Michael Brenner, Stefanie Schüler-Springorum and Mirjam Zadoff
Biography
Manuela Bojadžijev is Professor at the Institute of European Ethnology at Humboldt University Berlin and the Berlin Institute for Migration Research, Germany. She is a permanent fellow at the Centre for Social Critique Berlin, Germany, and the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt, Germany. Her work examines racism and migration from global perspectives, focusing on how social change manifests through representations of migration. Through collaborative projects, she investigates mobility transformations in relation to digitalization and logistics, particularly in urban spaces. Her research bridges conceptual questions of migration with lived experiences in migration societies.
Robin Celikates is Professor of Social Philosophy at Freie Universität Berlin, and Co-director of the Centre for Social Critique Berlin, Germany. He is a permanent fellow at the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt, Germany, and co-directs the “Transforming Solidarities” research project. Previously at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, USA, his research focuses on critical theory, civil disobedience, democratic theory, migration, and racism.
Paul Mecheril is Professor of Educational Science with a focus on Migration at Bielefeld University, Germany. With a background in psychology and philosophy, his academic journey includes positions at the universities of Innsbruck and Oldenburg, where he specialized in learning and education in migration societies. His work examines the intersection between education, belonging and subject formation in the context of migration and racism.
