Unlearning white privilege?! A post- and decolonial draft of participatory justice for perspectives of church action in Germany

FB01: Christian Anthropology and Social Ethics, Prof. Dr. Gerhard Kruip

Scientific career
Since 06/2019Research assistant at the Chair of Social Ethics, JGU Mainz, including in the GLK project “IntWiss” (integration of a consistent teaching of methodological skills in scientific work into the teaching of Catholic theology) and as a multiplier in the FORTHEM-Lab “Diversity and Migration” as well as in teaching and research
Since 06/2019Freelance work as editorial assistant for the journal ET-Studies
2018 – 2022Licentiate studies in Catholic theology at JGU Mainz (major subject: social ethics)
2011 – 2018Studies at JGU Mainz (Spanish and Catholic Theology, B.Ed./M.Ed., and Italian, “Erweiterungsfach” for teaching) with semesters abroad at the Universidad de Sevilla and the Universitá degli Studi di Pavia
Awards & grants

Since 2023		Junior member of the Gutenberg Academy at JGU Mainz
2014 – 2019Funding from the German National Academic Foundation
2018Feldbausch Prize of the Faculty of Catholic Theology at JGU Mainz for the Master’s thesis in Social Ethics
Publications
Die katholische Kirche als “Anwältin der Schwachen”? Postkoloniale Überlegungen am Beispiel kirchlichen Engagements für Migrant:innen. In: Amosinternational 18(2024)2, 35-41.
with Hanna-Mari Kivistö, Gerhard Kruip: Refugees’ Human Rights and the Duties of the EU. In: Francesco Lo Piccolo, Annalisa Mangiaracina, Giuseppe Paternostro: In and Out: Rights of Migrants in European Space. Università degli Studi di Palermo: Springer 2024, 135-145.
with Luisa Fischer, Martin Lüstraeten, Katharina Pultar, Benedict Schöning: Wissenschaftliches Schreiben lernen. Eine curriculare Verortung des Medienkompetenzerwerbs im Theologiestudium. In: Ludger Hiepel, Monnica Klöckener (eds.): Schreiben als theologiedidaktische Herausforderung. Münster: LIT-Verlag, 29-45.
with Georg Sauerwein: Striving for Climate Justice. Grassroot Initiatives and Dioceses in Germany. In: Margit Eckholt (ed.): Creation – Transformation – Theology. Proceedings of the ESCT Congress 2021. Münster: LIT-Verlag 2023, 445-454.
with Alexandra Palkowitsch: Macht – omnipräsent und doch tabu? Theorien und Praktiken einer menschlichen Grundkategorie. Tagungsbeobachtung. In: Sebastian Dietz, Felix Geyer, Lukas Schmitt, Isabella Senghor, Elisabeth Zschiedrich (ed.): Macht – omnipräsent und doch tabu? Theorien und Praktiken einer menschlichen Grundkategorie. Forum Sozialethik 25. Münster: Aschendorff 2023, 261-275.
with Kruip, Gerhard: Final report on the activities of the “Diversity and Migration” lab at JGU, Mainz. In: Francesco Lo Piccolo, Annalisa Mangiaracina, Giuseppe Paternostro, Vincenzo Todaro: Research Evidence and Implications on Migration Phenomena in Europe. Palermo: Palermo University Press 2022, 101-113.
with Gerhard Kruip: A development of liberation theology? On the differences between the first edition and the revised new edition of Gustavo Gutiérrez’s Theology of Liberation. In: Michelle Becka, Franz Gmainer-Pranzl (eds.): Gustavo Gutiérrez: Theology of Liberation (1971/2021). The lasting impulse of a theological classic. Innsbruck: Tyrolia 2021, 87-111.
with Benedikt Schreiber: The “hidden curriculum” of methodological skills. In: Journal for Higher Education Development 16(2021)2, 229-247.
The power of linguistic boundaries between social groups. Postcolonial challenges for social ethics. In: Josef Becker, Sebastian Kistler, Max Niehoff (eds.): Grenzgänge der Ethik. Münster: Aschendorff 2020, 34-52.
Between solidarity and paternalism. A postcolonial look at ecclesial speech in the German migration society. Münster, JCSW 61(2020), 235-256.
The worship of the Tío in the mines. In: Gerhard Kruip, Dietmar Müßig and Raphael Zikesch (eds.): Neo-Extractivism in Bolivia. Opportunities, risks, sustainability. Münster: Aschendorff 2019, 237-255 – Spanish translation: La devoción al Tío en las minas. In: Gerhard Kruip, Dietmar Müßig and Raphael Zikesch (eds.): El Neo-Extractivismo en Bolivia. Oportunidades, Riesgos, Sostenibilidad. Cochabamba: Itinerarios 2019, 283-304.
Lectures and conference contributions
“Blancura Hiriente en Alemania y en Argentina. Consideraciones decoloniales sobre el racismo en la Iglesia y en la sociedad“ at the workshop “Responding to today’s signs of the times: Young female scholars doing theology” with the network Teologanda in Buenos Aires (29.02.-01.03.2024)
“Intercultural Ethics and the Conundrum of Othering. Towards a Power-Sensitive Ethics” at the “Workshop Intercultural Theological Ethics“, Faculty for Catholic Theology at the University of Vienna (21.-22.09.2023)
“Unlearning our privileges (as white theologians) as our loss? Decolonial challenges in the field of Christian social ethics”, as part of the conference ” De/colonizing Theologies: Glocal Histories, Contemporary Challenges” of the International Network of Societies for Catholic Theology (INSeCT) in Leuven (27.03.2023)
Impulse at the end of the conference at the Social Ethics Forum “Power – omnipresent and yet taboo? Theories and practices of a basic human category”, Catholic Academy Schwerte (14.09.2022)
“Presentation of ‘Christians For Future'” at the International Congress “Creation – Transformation – Theology” of the European Society for Catholic Theology (ESCT) in Osnabrück (27.08.2021)
Impulse at the end of the conference at the symposium “Christian Social Ethics – a social science and theological discipline at the same time”, Institute for Christian Social Sciences Münster (16.07.2021)
“Victims of injustice – victims of linguistic boundaries? Postcolonial Challenges for Social Ethics” as part of the Social Ethics Forum “Ethics of Borders – Borders of Ethics”, Catholic Academy Schwerte (17.09.2019)