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"The tension between the Ndebele and Shona people dates back to the pre-colonial era and this has been one of the major threats to Zimbabwe's peace. The book proposes Paul's ethics of reconciliation in the Corinthian correspondence as inspiration for social cohesion between the Ndebele and Shona tribes. The volume deploys Pauline key symbols (Christ, the Cross of Christ, Ambassador, New Creation, and Baptism) as epistemological lenses in promoting identity tags that go beyond ethnicity. For these symbols to be effective, the author proposes setting up of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), refraining from using ethnic offensive language, introduction of Ndebele and Shona languages in schools, substituting ethnic provincial names with neutral ones, substituting ethnic registration system of people with a neutral one, and the devolution of power."--

• Combining art and theory in paperback format • The start of a joint series • With works by Nara Bak, Jana Buch, Donja Nasseri, Arisa Purkpong, Anys Reimann, and Theresa Weber The Sammlung Philara and Verlag Kettler are pleased to present a resource-saving and affordable art book series in pocket format, aimed at mobile readers. In them, discursive exhibitions of the Philara Collection are documented and complemented with socio-critical voices from theoretical, journalistic or writing perspectives. As an opener, the publication Attempts to Be Many poses the question of how dynamic concepts of identity can be formulated in opposition to rigid constructs of foreign attribution and ideological one-dimensionality. The exhibition of the same name with works by Nara Bak, Jana Buch, Donja Nasseri, Arisa Purkpong, Anys Reimann and Theresa Weber in the Philara Collection 2021/2022 also negotiated the plurality of identities and new narrative forms in relation to learned narratives. The renowned cultural scientist and writer Mithu Sanyal opens up a very personal approach with her text to the exhibition by breaking through identity-political regulatory discourses that flatten into the categories of origin, ethnicity, religion, or gender. Text in English, German and Thai.