Most importantly, we encourage people to exercise their right to observe the police and to advocate for one another.1
Dieser Aufruf ist Kern der Copwatch-Bewegung, bei der die zivile Beobachtung zu einem Instrument für Gerechtigkeit und staatliche Rechenschaftspflicht wird.
Copwatch – dedicated to monitoring police actions. Ein kurzer Einblick in die Praxis der ‚umgekehrten Überwachung‘ weiterlesenwith contributions from Christiane Brenner, Eveline Dürr, Hannah Michel and Brendan Röder
When was the first time you became aware of your Whiteness?
In light of the recent Black Lives Matter protests around the globe, the conversation about racial privilege and the need to become “woke” has gained new urgency. To what extent are we aware of our Whiteness and how does that shape our actions?
At the interdisciplinary “Subjectivation Working Group” of the conspicuously White Collaborative Research Center “Cultures of Vigilance” at the LMU Munich, my colleagues and I routinely reflect on why people become vigilant and in what ways that vigilance comes to shape who they are. Vigilance often involves self-observation, such as when Christian individuals seek to avoid falling into sin, or when Black Americans anticipate how they will be perceived by White Americans.
This led us to some self-reflection of our own. How vigilant are we ourselves with respect to our “White privilege”? What is it and how do people become aware of theirs?
When Did You Realize You’re White? weiterlesen
