BuchBasel 2019

Live vom Literaturfestival

Radio X überträgt die BuchBasel am Samstag, 9. November und am Sonntag, 10. November aus der KLARA. Mit Autoren*innen live im Interview, Gästen aus aller Welt und der Übertragung des 12. Schweizer Buchpreises aus dem Theater Basel. Kommt vorbei und setzt euch zu uns - wir verraten euch die neusten und spannendsten literarischen Leckerbissen. 

BuchBasel KLARA
Moderatorinnen Hanna Girard und Claire Micallef live aus der KLARA, BuchBasel 2018
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All Dey von Kwaku' Reez' Opoku - Episode 4

This ideal State is functional and transparent, provides welfare benefits to its citizens, but fights off foreigners messing with their vibe. However, this State’s desires are deeply rooted in an attachment to a (fictional) national identity and a resentment towards the Other. This Other is both the “better-off” Other (rich Northern Europeans) and the disenfranchised Other (refugees and migrants). The latter, of course, is the easiest to attack and blame for all the ills of the world. von Danielle Bürgin

Being constantly othered makes it extremely easy for ‘locals’ to be hostile towards you, the “foreign bodies,” and controlled. The modes of control – prisons, ghettos, minoritizing, schooling, policing - are ways to ensure the ascendancy of a nation and its white elite. They often go hand in hand with strategies of internal colonialism, such as segregation, divestment, surveillance, and criminalization, which are both structural and interpersonal. This othering makes it extremely easy to create a void and avoid. They foster insanely cold interactions that allow nothing new

to grow. This episode points fingers at these moments and attempts to devise ways to slowly break down these structures and modes of control.

 

Episode Credits:

Kea Boccomino

Reported by Kwaku’ Reez’ Opoku Original music by Reez & Kxlab

 

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