Regional Video N°2: Plural Perspectives on Peace and Conflict in Asia
In the framework of the Virtual Encyclopedia Rewriting Peace and Conflict, Miriam Bartelmann and Viviana García Pinzón produced N°2 of their series of regional videos, focusing on Asia. The Virtual Encyclopedia is part of the Postcolonial Hierarchies Network, funded by the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space. The video series gives insight into postcolonial dynamics of peace and conflict in Asia, Latin America and Africa. The episodes feature interviews with researchers who investigate regional topics.
The video-series is an example of interdisciplinary research and collaboration that bridges social sciences with the arts. ABI's team collaborated with the Colombian videographer Iván Garzón Mayorga and his team. Their work of visualizing academic concepts makes the researcher's academic work accessible to multiple audiences.
On the encyclopedia's website, the videos come with a list of sources and further readings that are a great resource for teaching in different academic disciplines and beyond.
The researchers speaking in the video present their take on postcolonial approaches to Peace and Conflict. Understanding the postcolonial trajectories of peace and conflict in Asia is particularly complex, as it encompasses a plurality of historical colonial projects. What all speakers share is an analysis of how histories of colonialism and imperialism shape both the present of nation-states and individual experiences.
- Selbi Durdiyeva (Independent postdoctoral researcher, former member of the Postcolonial Hierarchies Network at the University of Marburg) relates Paul Gilroy's concept of Postcolonial Melancholia to today's Russia and the current war on Ukraine
- Jie-Hyun Lim (Sogang University) presents his framework of Victimhood Nationalism, comparing different Asian nation's narratives on victimhood
- Siddharth Tripathi (Erfurt University) offers an analysis of India's position in global power relations, between challenging the traditional order while creating new hierarchies by coining a political identity around the label of "Global South"
- Teresa Jopson (ABI) suggests reclaiming the term "post-conflict" from a liberal interpretation towards accounting for the lasting impacts of conflict.