| Title | Moving through Power |
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| Contributor | Tereza Hendl(author) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0508.04 |
| Landing page | http://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0508/chapters/10.11647/obp.0508.04 |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ |
| Copyright | Tereza Hendl |
| Publisher | Open Book Publishers |
| Published on | 2026-04-29 |
| Long abstract | Having gone around the world as a political philosopher, the chapter explores a migrant academic’s journey through the Netherlands, Aotearoa/New Zealand, Australia and Germany. Looking at Western-centric academia and its power structures, the hierarchies of knowledge and humanity maintained within them and the continuous devaluation and disregard of the knowledges from (de)occupied Europe’s East, the migrant experience is one of concern with what persistent East-West inequalities tell on those who enact and preserve them. Experiencing an increasingly far right German socio-political and academic environment brings back echoes of Nazi imperialism and Aryan racism that are haunting beyond a salvageable point. Refusal emerges as a profoundly powerful intergenerational response and the only way toward an intellectually and humanely meaningful and inspiring experience. |
| Print length | 10 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |
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Tereza Hendl (PhD) is a philosopher specialised in issues of global health justice (University of Augsburg, EACME Visiting Researcher at the University of Warsaw Center for Bioethics & Biolaw). She investigates concerns of oppression, refusal, justice, and solidarity, the ethics and epistemology of health technologies and interventions, and persistent East-West hierarchies of knowledge. Some of her latest work explores European East-West inequalities and their effects on health and wellbeing, also accounting for the impact of the intertwined legacies of Russian and German imperialism on directly affected populations. She is the co-founder of Central and Eastern European Feminist Research Network and the RUTA Association for Central, South-Eastern, and Eastern European, Baltic, Caucasus, Central and Northern Asian Studies in Global Conversation, which are initiatives that amplify and (re)connect so far marginalised knowledges and contribute to epistemic reparations.