BUKO40 2025

Decades after the formal end of colonialism in most countries, massive transfers of wealth from the global South to the global North are still taking place in the global economy. This panel will focus on the most prominent types of these transfers: debt service, profit repatriation and unequal exchange. Three eminent experts on the topic will present the extent of these transfers, their underlying mechanisms, and political strategies of how to overcome them.

Invited speakers:

Mariana Morena Hanbury Lemos, economist and researcher at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona

Malina Stutz, economist, consultant and researcher at the Jubilee/Erlassjahr campaign

Christof Parnreiter, Professor of Economic Geography at the University of Hamburg and head of a research project on the repatriation of profits"

The increasing public debate on colonialism and its aftermath in Germany led to calls for a restructuring of German remembrance policy in the form of a "third pillar" alongside the debate on National Socialism and the GDR. This was interpreted in part as a questioning of the singularity of the Holocaust and as an attack on the established politics of remembrance. In the panel discussion, we would like to discuss the question of what a politics of remembrance in Germany should look like that deals with the historical crimes of both National Socialism (and the continuing anti-Semitism) and the Holocaust.
Nazism (and ongoing anti-Semitism) and German colonialism (and ongoing racism), while doing justice to their differences and similarities.

Discussion:

Andrea-Vicky Amankwaa-Birago, cultural scientist, research associate at the HTW

Reinhart Kößler, sociologist and former director of the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute for Cultural Studies Research in Freiburg

Felix Axster, historian and ethnologist at the Center for Research on Anti-Semitism at TU Berlin and at the Research Institute for Social Cohesion.