glokal e.V. works(s) on the following projects, in the framework of which we research, educate ourselves and others, publish, etc.
Decolonial Approaches in Partnership/Public Relations and Fundraising (2024)
The project includes three webinar series for activists in development policy organizations and initiatives, as well as for anyone committed to global justice. We especially invite BIPoC, activists from migrant self-help organizations, and people in the diaspora. The training series will teach diversity-sensitive approaches and decolonial methods for more just and equitable development work. [more …]
Global Memory (2023–2024)
The project “Global Memory for the Future” explores global interconnections between the Global South and the Global North, both historically and in the present. It is aimed at high school students, college students, educators, and museum staff, as well as the general public. [more …]
Health Care for All (2023–2024)
In our new project, “Health Care for All? Methods, Knowledge, and Capacity for Action on Global Inequality in Health Care: The Case of the COVID-19 Pandemic,” we examine the entanglements of colonial and racist continuities in the field of medicine. We also aim to highlight recommendations for action, demands, and perspectives of resistance from BIPOC and their allies. [more …]
On Equal Footing? Decolonial and Empowering Approaches in Partnership Work (2023) The project included two webinar series for activists in development policy organizations and initiatives, as well as for anyone committed to global justice. In four modules, we identified internalized colonial patterns and strategies and worked together to develop alternative courses of action. Clickhere for the Abya Yala focus area. Click here for the African countries focus area.
sprache.macht.bilder – dekoloniale, feministische Öffentlichkeitsarbeit zu globaler (Un-)gerechtigkeit (2022)
Qualification series for active people in development policy organizations or initiatives as well as for all those who work on issues of global (in)justice and want to make their public relations sensitive to discrimination. [more …]
eLearning Timeline on Antisemitism (2021–2022)
glokal combines educational work that critiques racism and antisemitism: The project expands our timeline method and the eLearning tool connecting the dots.org. It has been expanded to include 30 quotes and resources on anti-Semitism-critical educational work. [more …]
Local Global History: Understanding the Past, Shaping the Future (2020-2022)
In the project, we would like to address the global interconnections of history and the present. The main measure of the project is the development of a digital map in Berlin and four other cities in cooperation with local groups. This map shows through min. 15 entries per city highlights local-global connections and thus promotes the perception of international ties through shared global history. Components of the project Project are educational measures and the further development of existing global history materials such as the eLearning tool connecting the dots: “History(s) of oppression and resistance”. [more …]
KlimaDeSol—Decolonial and Solidarity-Based Climate Action (2020–2022)
The German climate movement—as we have known it for many years, as well as new movements like Fridays for Future—have established themselves as white-German movements in which white-dominated debates and interpretations prevail, that remain “among themselves,” and that exclude the struggles of BPoC, diasporic perspectives, and their representatives. However, it is not only BPoC, diaspora groups, and their realities that are excluded; rather, (once again) only part of the story is being told. “Climate Decolonial and in Solidarity” (KlimaDeSol) is the name of the new project by glokal e.V., which began in 2020. Our goal is to provide the Berlin climate movement with impetus for a democratic, decolonial, and solidarity-based movement for climate justice. [more …]
OPAT (2018-4/2020)
The “OPAT – Welcome Without Paternalism” project is already conducting its second training series for people with refugee backgrounds. They are being trained as facilitators for racism awareness and empowerment. The project also includes awareness-raising workshops for members of the majority society who help shape the welcoming culture, as well as empowerment workshops for people with refugee backgrounds and experiences of racism. Individual consultations are also offered to initiatives and organizations that work with refugees. [more …]
connecting the dots ( 2018–2019)
The historical-postcolonial exhibition project “connecting the dots” explores the present and history(ies) in global and German contexts, particularly from the perspectives of resistance, racialized groups, and marginalized communities. The exhibition builds upon the “Verknüpfte Geschichten” project and the resulting e-learning tool. From a historical-postcolonial perspective, it connects the themes of colonialism, racism in Germany, humanity and nature, labor, capitalism, democracy and power, culture, migration and displacement, gender and sexuality, and development. The traveling exhibition can be booked starting in 2019. [more …]
Postcolonial Perspectives on Development Cooperation (2013–2017)
glokal has repeatedly carried out projects on postcolonial perspectives. These projects created opportunities for staff members of development-focused nongovernmental organizations to analyze and adapt their own work from a postcolonial perspective. Through open one-day and in-house workshops, process facilitation, and consulting, opportunities for engagement were created in both the short and medium term.
Among other things, these projects gave rise to the online resource platform “mangoes & bullets. Resources for Thinking and Acting Critically About Racism and Power,” where we have been providing methods, background texts, films and videos, activism, and art since 2015, as well as the publication “The Fairy Tale of Equality: Power and Solidarity in North-South Partnerships” (2016).
Interconnected Stories (2016–2017)
In 2016 and 2017, the project focused on historical learning from a postcolonial perspective. It included the development of methods, professional development programs, the creation of an e-learning tool, and a publication. For the e-learning tool, more than 160 quotations from the last 500 years were researched; interpretive guides and historical contextualizations were designed and integrated into the digital interface created by glokal. The publication offers both background texts on the ten topics covered by the e-learning tool—ranging from capitalism to colonialism—as well as texts for practical educational work using our timeline method.
The measures aimed to fill knowledge gaps regarding historical-postcolonial topics, as well as to further develop the pedagogical basis for historical-postcolonial learning. The eLearning tool ‘connecting the dots’ was awarded as an outstanding example of global learning and education for sustainable development at the education congress WeltWeitWissen 2018. In our follow-up project ‘connecting the dots’ we build on the results of ‘Linked stories’ and develop a traveling exhibition.
Decolonial Visual Worlds (2016)
The project addressed the long-standing issue of racist depictions in development policy communications, particularly in fundraising campaigns. The project was carried out by glokal in cooperation with the “Initiative Schwarze Menschen in Deutschland” (ISD-Bund e.V.). We sought to conceive and establish new visual languages as an alternative to prevailing visual practices. These were discussed and tested collaboratively during creative workshops. Several artists subsequently designed development policy posters that do not perpetuate racism. Following the workshop, these were displayed on billboards in public spaces throughout Berlin. They can also be seen in the publication “Die Spitze des Eisbergs” (The Tip of the Iceberg), which revisits the project’s central issues, presents existing voices in the critical discussion surrounding development policy, and summarizes the various project components.