Jule Govrin

Desiring equity. Traces of a universalism from below.

How does emancipatory desire manifest itself? The assumption is that it is expressed in egalitarian body politics that produce solidary care economies  counteracting capitalist harm and exploitation. To trace this desire, the lecture looks for signs of a universalism from below. Such a universalism from below emerges, if the contested boundaries of eurocentrically narrowed norms of universality are challenged. Its manifestations can be found throughout history without following a linear logic of progress. Rather, it turns out to be a precarious, contingent practice of equality that is based on difference and refuses incomprehensible identitarian closures. A radical, relational equality that is not granted by legislation but emerging in altered relational forms of care and solidarity: when people organize themselves in resistance, in the knowledge of their diversity and their embodied connectedness - in the shared desire for another possible world.

The event is part of the series “The Future of History”, which will run throughout the year. Click here for the programme!

The lecture will be held in german.