@phdthesis{Adamik2020, author = {Adamik, Verena}, title = {In Search of the Utopian States of America}, series = {Palgrave Studies in Utopianism}, journal = {Palgrave Studies in Utopianism}, publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan}, address = {Cham}, isbn = {978-3-030-60278-9}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-60279-6}, pages = {xiii, 248}, year = {2020}, abstract = {This book endeavours to understand the seemingly direct link between utopianism and the USA, discussing novels that have never been brought together in this combination before, even though they all revolve around intentional communities: Imlay's The Emigrants (1793), Hawthorne's The Blithedale Romance (1852), Howland's Papas Own Girl (1874), Griggs's Imperium in Imperio (1899), and Du Bois's The Quest of the Silver Fleece (1911). They relate nation and utopia not by describing perfect societies, but by writing about attempts to immediately live radically different lives. Signposting the respective communal history, the readings provide a literary perspective to communal studies, and add to a deeply necessary historicization for strictly literary approaches to US utopianism, and for studies that focus on Pilgrims/Puritans/Founding Fathers as utopian practitioners. This book therefore highlights how the authors evaluated the USA's utopian potential and traces the nineteenth-century development of the utopian imagination from various perspectives.}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{Behrendt2020, author = {Behrendt, Aileen Jorena}, title = {Gender Politics and British Women Writers of the 1930s}, series = {Epistemata : W{\"u}rzburger wissenschaftliche Schriften. Reihe Literaturwissenschaft}, journal = {Epistemata : W{\"u}rzburger wissenschaftliche Schriften. Reihe Literaturwissenschaft}, number = {937}, publisher = {K{\"o}nigshausen \& Neumann}, address = {W{\"u}rzburg}, isbn = {978-3-8260-7177-5}, issn = {2699-5859}, pages = {298}, year = {2020}, abstract = {Today's focus on the 1930s as a time of radical politics paving the way for the apocalypse of the Second World War ignores the complexity of the decade's cultural responses, especially those by British women writers who highlighted gender issues within their contemporary political climate. The decade's literature is often understood to capture the political unrest, either narrating people's chaotic movement or their paralysed shock. This book argues that 1930s novels collapse the distinction between movement and standstill and calls this phenomenon Dynamic Stasis. This Dynamic Stasis thematically and structurally informs the novels of Nancy Mitford, Stevie Smith, Rosamond Lehmann and Jean Rhys. By disrupting the oft-repeated clich{\´e} of the 1930s as the age of political extremes, gender politics and negotiations of femininity can emerge from the discursive periphery. This book therefore corrects a persistent gender blind spot, which opens up a (re)consideration of authors that have been overlooked in literary criticism of 1930s to this day.}, language = {en} } @incollection{Eckstein2020, author = {Eckstein, Lars}, title = {Recollecting bones}, series = {Remembering German-Australian colonial entanglements}, booktitle = {Remembering German-Australian colonial entanglements}, publisher = {Routledge}, address = {London}, isbn = {978-0-367-42159-5}, pages = {22 -- 35}, year = {2020}, language = {en} } @article{Eckstein2020, author = {Eckstein, Lars}, title = {Reflections of Lus{\´a}ni Ciss{\´e}}, series = {Ideology in postcolonial texts and contexts}, journal = {Ideology in postcolonial texts and contexts}, publisher = {Rodopi}, address = {Leiden}, isbn = {978-90-04-42805-8}, doi = {10.1163/9789004437456_010}, pages = {147 -- 161}, year = {2020}, language = {en} } @article{EcksteinHurley2020, author = {Eckstein, Lars and Hurley, Andrew}, title = {German-Australian Colonial Entanglements}, series = {Remembering German-Australian colonial entanglements}, journal = {Remembering German-Australian colonial entanglements}, publisher = {Routledge}, address = {London}, isbn = {978-0-367-42159-5}, pages = {1 -- 21}, year = {2020}, abstract = {Remembering German-Australian Colonial Entanglements emphatically promotes a critical and nuanced understanding of the complex entanglement of German colonial actors and activities within Australian colonial institutions and different imperial ideologies. Case studies ranging from the German reception of James Cook's voyages through to the legacies of 19th- and 20th-century settler colonialism foreground the highly ambiguous roles played by explorers, missionaries, intellectuals and other individuals, as well as by objects and things that travelled between worlds - ancestral human remains, rare animal skins, songs, and even military tanks. The chapters foreground the complex relationship between science, religion, art and exploitation, displacement and annihilation.}, language = {en} } @unpublished{EcksteinHurley2020, author = {Eckstein, Lars and Hurley, Andrew Wright}, title = {German-Australian Colonial Entanglements}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-44449}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-444490}, pages = {30}, year = {2020}, abstract = {Remembering German-Australian Colonial Entanglements emphatically promotes a critical and nuanced understanding of the complex entanglement of German colonial actors and activities within Australian colonial institutions and different imperial ideologies. Case studies ranging from the German reception of James Cook's voyages through to the legacies of 19th- and 20th-century settler colonialism foreground the highly ambiguous roles played by explorers, missionaries, intellectuals and other individuals, as well as by objects and things that travelled between worlds - ancestral human remains, rare animal skins, songs, and even military tanks. The chapters foreground the complex relationship between science, religion, art and exploitation, displacement and annihilation.}, language = {en} } @article{FreitagHild2020, author = {Freitag-Hild, Britta}, title = {Verfahren des Genre-Lernens}, series = {Handbuch Methoden im Fremdsprachenunterricht}, journal = {Handbuch Methoden im Fremdsprachenunterricht}, editor = {Hallet, Wolfgang and K{\"o}nigs, Frank G. and Martinez, Helene}, publisher = {Kallmeyer}, address = {Hannover}, isbn = {978-3-7727-1228-9}, pages = {191 -- 195}, year = {2020}, abstract = {Der Ansatz des genrebasierten Fremdsprachenlernens basiert auf der Grundannahme, dass sich Kommunikation in der Form kultureller Genres vollzieht, die eine spezifische textuelle und interaktionale Form aufweisen. Wer erfolgreich kommunizieren will, muss daher je nach sozialem Kontext und Kommunikationszweck eine Form der {\"A}ußerung w{\"a}hlen, die dem entsprechenden Anlass bzw. der Situation angemessen und f{\"u}r die Kommunikationsabsicht zielf{\"u}hrend ist. F{\"u}r den Fremdsprachenunterricht leitet sich daraus das Ziel bzw. die Aufgabe ab, Lernende beim Erwerb dieser Kommunikationsformate bzw. Genres zu unterst{\"u}tzen.}, language = {de} } @article{FreitagHild2020, author = {Freitag-Hild, Britta}, title = {Simulationen}, series = {Handbuch Methoden im Fremdsprachenunterricht}, journal = {Handbuch Methoden im Fremdsprachenunterricht}, editor = {Hallet, Wolfgang and K{\"o}nigs, Frank G. and Martinez, Helene}, publisher = {Kallmeyer}, address = {Hannover}, isbn = {978-3-7727-1228-9}, pages = {123 -- 125}, year = {2020}, abstract = {Bei Simulationen im Fremdsprachenunterricht handelt es sich um eine ganz-heitliche Lehr-Lern-Methode, in der Lernende mit einer realen oder realit{\"a}ts-bezogenen Kommunikationssituation konfrontiert werden, um ihre Kompetenzen zur Bew{\"a}ltigung dieser Situation weiterzuentwickeln. Kennzeichnend f{\"u}r die Simulation sind u. a. der Spielcharakter, die Komplexit{\"a}t, Offenheit und Dynamik: Im Vergleich zu Rollenspielen {\"u}bernehmen alle Lernenden eine Rolle in der Simulation, die in ihrer Ausgestaltung nicht festgelegt ist und den Lernenden Gestaltungsspielr{\"a}ume bietet. Der Verlauf und der Ausgang einer Simulation sind zumeist offen, so dass durch das Handeln der Lernenden eine eigene Dynamik in der simulierten Wirklichkeit entsteht, die wiederum zur aktiven Mitgestaltung motivieren kann.}, language = {de} } @article{FreitagHild2020, author = {Freitag-Hild, Britta}, title = {Literatur lesen, erleben und reflektieren lernen}, series = {Affektiv-emotionale Dimensionen beim Lehren und Lernen von Fremd- und Zweitsprachen}, journal = {Affektiv-emotionale Dimensionen beim Lehren und Lernen von Fremd- und Zweitsprachen}, editor = {Burwitz-Melzer, Eva and Riemer, Claudia and Schmelter, Lars}, publisher = {Narr}, address = {T{\"u}bingen}, isbn = {978-3-8233-8417-5}, pages = {49 -- 62}, year = {2020}, language = {de} } @article{FreitagHildBarthWeingarten2020, author = {Freitag-Hild, Britta and Barth-Weingarten, Dagmar}, title = {Pragmatische Kompetenzen im Englischunterricht beurteilen}, series = {Pragmatische Kompetenzen im schulischen Fremdsprachenunterricht}, journal = {Pragmatische Kompetenzen im schulischen Fremdsprachenunterricht}, editor = {Limberg, Holger and Glaser, Karen}, publisher = {Lang}, address = {Berlin}, isbn = {1868-386X}, doi = {10.3726/b17282}, pages = {381 -- 408}, year = {2020}, abstract = {This article illustrates how pre-service English teachers' diagnostic skills of pragmatic competences can be developed in an interdisciplinary seminar that focuses on assessing foreign language learners' interactional competence (specifically turn-taking, action accomplishment, repair). A competence-oriented approach was chosen to model the linguistic and didactic skills required by language teachers to assess learners' pragmatic competence in role plays.}, language = {de} } @phdthesis{GreweSalfeld2020, author = {Grewe-Salfeld, Mirjam}, title = {Biohacking, bodies and do-it-yourself}, series = {American Culture Studies ; 36}, journal = {American Culture Studies ; 36}, publisher = {transcript Verlag}, address = {Bielefeld}, isbn = {978-3-8376-6004-3}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {314}, year = {2020}, abstract = {From self-help books and nootropics, to self-tracking and home health tests, to the tinkering with technology and biological particles - biohacking brings biology, medicine, and the material foundation of life into the sphere of »do-it-yourself«. This trend has the potential to fundamentally change people's relationship with their bodies and biology but it also creates new cultural narratives of responsibility, authority, and differentiation. Covering a broad range of examples, this book explores practices and representations of biohacking in popular culture, discussing their ambiguous position between empowerment and requirement, promise and prescription.}, language = {en} } @incollection{Heidt2020, author = {Heidt, Irene}, title = {Teaching language and culture as discourse through telecollaboration}, series = {Masters of reflective practice - Abschlussarbeiten in der Englischdidaktik}, booktitle = {Masters of reflective practice - Abschlussarbeiten in der Englischdidaktik}, publisher = {WVT}, address = {Trier}, pages = {165 -- 182}, year = {2020}, language = {en} } @article{Kuettner2020, author = {K{\"u}ttner, Uwe-Alexander}, title = {Tying sequences together with the [that's + wh-clause] format}, series = {Research on language and social interaction}, volume = {53}, journal = {Research on language and social interaction}, number = {2}, publisher = {Routledge, Taylor \& Francis Group}, address = {New York}, issn = {0835-1813}, doi = {10.1080/08351813.2020.1739422}, pages = {247 -- 270}, year = {2020}, abstract = {This article explores a sequence organizational phenomenon that results from the use of a loosely specifiable turn format (viz., That's + wh-clause) for launching (next) sequences while at the same time connecting back to a prior turn. Using this practice creates a sequential juncture, i.e., a pivot-like nexus between one sequence and a next. In third position, such junctures serve to accomplish seamless sequential transitions from one sequence into a next by presenting the latter as locally occasioned. The practice may, however, also be deployed in second position to launch actions that have not been made relevant or provided for by the preceding action and exhibit response relevance themselves. The sequential junctures then become retro-sequential in character: They transform the projected trajectory of the sequence in progress and create interlocking sequential structures. These findings highlight that sequence is practice, while pointing to understudied interconnections between tying and sequentiality. Data are in English.}, language = {en} } @article{LeGall2020, author = {LeGall, Yann}, title = {Songea Mbano and the 'halfway dead' of the Majimaji War (1905-7) in memory and theatre}, series = {Human Remains and Violence: an interdisciplinary journal}, volume = {6}, journal = {Human Remains and Violence: an interdisciplinary journal}, number = {2}, publisher = {University Press}, address = {Manchester}, doi = {10.7227/HRV.6.2.2}, pages = {4 -- 22}, year = {2020}, abstract = {Debates on the relevance of repatriation of indigenous human remains are water under the bridge today. Yet, a genuine will for dialogue to work through colonial violence is found lacking in the European public sphere. Looking at local remembrance of the Majimaji War (1905-07) in the south of Tanzania and a German-Tanzanian theatre production, this article demonstrates how the spectre of colonial headhunting stands at the heart of claims for repatriation and acknowledgement of this anti-colonial movement. The missing head of Ngoni leader Songea Mbano haunts the future of German-Tanzanian relations in culture and heritage. By staging the act of post-mortem dismemberment and foregrounding the perspective of descendants, the theatre production Maji Maji Flava offers an honest proposal for dealing with stories of sheer colonial violence in transnational memory.}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{LeGallMboro2020, author = {LeGall, Yann and Mboro, Mnyaka Sururu}, title = {Remembering the dismembered}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-50850}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-508502}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {viii, 346}, year = {2020}, abstract = {This thesis - written in co-authorship with Tanzanian activist Mnyaka Sururu Mboro - examines different cases of repatriation of ancestral remains to African countries and communities through the prism of postcolonial memory studies. It follows the theft and displacement of prominent ancestors from East and Southern Africa (Sarah Baartman, Dawid Stuurman, Mtwa Mkwawa, Songea Mbano, King Hintsa and the victims of the Ovaherero and Nama genocides) and argues that efforts made for the repatriation of their remains have contributed to a transnational remembrance of colonial violence. Drawing from cultural studies theories such as "multidirectional memory", "rehumanisation" and "necropolitics", the thesis argues for a new conceptualisation or "re-membrance" in repatriation, through processes of reunion, empowerment, story-telling and belonging. Besides, the afterlives of the dead ancestors, who stand at the centre of political debates on justice and reparations, remind of their past struggles against colonial oppression. They are therefore "memento vita", fostering counter-discourses that recognize them as people and stories. This manuscript is accompanied by a "(web)site of memory" where some of the research findings are made available to a wider audience. This blog also hosts important sound material which appears in the thesis as interventions by external contributors. Through QR codes, both the written and the digital version are linked with each other to problematize the idea of a written monograph and bring a polyphonic perspective to those diverse, yet connected, histories.}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{MendesdeOliveira2020, author = {Mendes de Oliveira, Milene}, title = {Business negotiations in ELF from a cultural linguistic perspective}, series = {Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [ACL] ; 43}, journal = {Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [ACL] ; 43}, publisher = {de Gruyter}, address = {Berlin}, isbn = {978-3-11-062678-0 print}, issn = {1861-4078}, pages = {XIX, 204}, year = {2020}, abstract = {Some of the most frequent questions surrounding business negotiations address not only the nature of such negotiations, but also how they should be conducted. The answers given by business people from different cultural backgrounds to these questions are likely to differ from the standard answers found in business manuals. In her book, Milene Mendes de Oliveira investigates how Brazilian and German business people conceptualize and act out business negotiations using English as a Lingua Franca. The frameworks of Cultural Linguistics, English as a Lingua Franca, World Englishes, and Business Discourse offer the theoretical and methodological grounding for the analysis of interviews with high-ranking Brazilian and German business people. Moreover, a side study on e-mail exchanges between Brazilian and German employees of a healthcare company serves as a test case for the results arising from the interviews, and helps understand other facets of authentic intercultural business communication. Offering new insights on English as a Lingua Franca in international business contexts, Business Negotiations in ELF from a Cultural Linguistic Perspective simultaneously provides a detailed cultural-conceptual account of business negotiations from the viewpoint of Brazilian and German business people and a secondary analysis of their pragmatic aspects.}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{Maerz2020, author = {M{\"a}rz, Moses}, title = {{\´E}douard Glissant's politics of relation}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-50948}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-509486}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {xv, 530}, year = {2020}, abstract = {The political legacy of the Martinican poet, novelist and philosopher {\´E}douard Glissant (1928-2011) is the subject of an ongoing debate among postcolonial literary scholars. Responding to an influential view shaping this debate, that Glissant's work can be categorised into an early political and late apolitical phase, this dissertation claims that this division is based on a narrow conception of 'engaged political writing' that prevents a more comprehensive view of the changing political strategies Glissant pursued throughout his life from emerging. Proceeding from this conceptual basis, the dissertation is concerned with re-reading the dimensions of Glissant's work that have hitherto been relegated as apolitical, literary or poetic, with the aim of conceptualising the politics of relation as an integral part of his overall poetic project. In methodological terms, the dissertation therefore proposes a relational reading of Glissant's life-work across literary genres, epochs, as well as the conventional divisions between political thought, writing and activism. This perspective is informed by Glissant's philosophy of relation, and draws on a conception of political practice that includes both explicit engagements with established political systems and institutions, as well as literary and cultural interventions geared towards their transformation and the creation of alternatives to them. Theoretically the work thus combines a poststructuralist lens on the conceptual difference between 'politics' and 'the political' with arguments for an inherent political quality of literature, and perspectives from the Afro-Caribbean radical tradition, in which writers and intellectuals have historically sought to combine discursive interventions with organisational actions. Applying this theoretical angle to the analysis of Glissant's politics of relation results in an interdisciplinary research framework designed to explore the synergies between postcolonial political and literary studies. In order to comprehensively describe Glissant's politics of relation without recourse to evolutionary or digressive models, the concept of an intellectual marronage is proposed as a framework to map the strategies making up Glissant's political archive. Drawing on a variety of historic, political theoretical and literary sources, intellectual marronage is understood as a mode of radical resistance to the neocolonial subjugation for which the plantation system stands historically and metaphorically, as an inherently innovative political practice invested in the creation of communities marked by relational ontologies, and as a commitment to fostering an imagination of the world and the human that differs fundamentally from the Enlightenment paradigm. This specific conception of intellectual marronage forms the basis on which three key strategies that consistently shape Glissant's political practice are identified and mapped. They revolve around Glissant's engagement with history (chapter 2), his commitment to fostering an imagination of the Tout-Monde (whole-world) as a political point of reference (chapter 3), and the continuous exploration of alternative forms of community on the levels of the island, the archipelago and the Tout-Monde (chapter 4). Together these strategies constitute Glissant's personal politics of relation. Its abstract characteristics can be put in a productive conversation with related theoretical traditions invested in exploring the political potentials of fugitivity (chapters 5), as well as with the work of other postcolonial actors whose holistic practice warrants to be described as a politics of relation (chapter 6).}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{Oduor2020, author = {Oduor, Tony Laban}, title = {Recalibrations of Childhoods in Eastern African Literatures and Cultures}, address = {Potsdam}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {V, 228}, year = {2020}, abstract = {The idea of critical childhood studies is a relatively young disciplinary undertaking in eastern Africa. And so, a lot of inquiries have not been carried out. This field is a potential important socio-political marker, among others, of some narratives, that have emerged out of eastern Africa. Towards this end, my research seeks out an archaeology of childhood in eastern Africa. There is a monochromatic hue which has often painted the eastern African childhood. This broad stroke portrays the childhood as characterized by want. The image of the eastern African childhood is composed in terms of the war-child, poverty, disease-ridden, and aid-begging. The pitfall of this consciousness is that it erases a differentiated and pluralist nature of the eastern African childhood. Therefore, I hypothesise that childhood is a discourse from which institutional vectors become conduits of certain statement-making both process-wise and content-wise. As such a critical childhood study is a theatre of staging and unearthing its joys, tribulations, cultural constructions, and even political interventions. To this end childhood and its literatures not only reflect but also contribute to meaning making and worldliness thereof. As an attempt to move from an un-nuanced depiction, which is often monodirectional, I seek to present a chronologically synchronic and diachronic analysis of childhood in the eastern Africa. Accordingly, I excavate a chronological construction of childhood within this geopolitical region. The main conceptual anchorage is Francis Nyamnjoh who tells of the African occupying a life on convivial frontiers. He theorises an Africa that is involved in technologies of self-definition that privilege conversations, fluidity of being and relational connections on a globalised scale. I also appropriate the notion of Bula Matadi from the Congo as a decolonialist epistemological exercise to break apart polarising representations and practices of childhood in eastern Africa. This opens a space for an unbounded reconfiguration of childhood in eastern Africa. This book works on and with archival matter, in a cross-disciplinary manner and ranges from pre-colonial to post-colonial eastern Africa. It is an exploration of the trajectory of the discourse of childhood in eastern Africa, in order to eclectically investigate childhood in eastern Africa, in fictional and non-fictional representations.}, language = {en} } @article{PetersCoetzeeVanRooy2020, author = {Peters, Arne and Coetzee-Van Rooy, Susan}, title = {Exploring the interplay of language and body in South African youth}, series = {Cognitive linguistics : an interdisciplinary journal of cognitive science}, volume = {31}, journal = {Cognitive linguistics : an interdisciplinary journal of cognitive science}, number = {4}, publisher = {Mouton de Gruyter}, address = {Berlin}, issn = {0936-5907}, doi = {10.1515/cog-2019-0101}, pages = {579 -- 608}, year = {2020}, abstract = {Elicitation materials like language portraits are useful to investigate people's perceptions about the languages that they know. This study uses portraits to analyse the underlying conceptualisations people exhibit when reflecting on their language repertoires. Conceptualisations as manifestations of cultural cognition are the purview of cognitive sociolinguistics. The present study advances portrait methodology as it analyses data from structured language portraits of 105 South African youth as a linguistic corpus from both qualitative and quantitative perspectives. The approach enables the uncovering of (a) prominent underlying conceptualisations of African language(s) and the body, and (b) the differences and similarities of these conceptualisations vis-a-vis previous cognitive (socio) linguistic studies of embodied language experiences. In our analysis, African home languages emerged both as 'languages of the heart' linked to cultural identity and as 'languages of the head' linked to cognitive strength and control. Moreover, the notion of 'degrees of proficiency' or 'magnitude' of language knowledge emerged more prominently than in previous studies of embodied language experience.}, language = {en} } @article{Pohl2020, author = {Pohl, Manuela}, title = {„The game's afoot!"}, series = {DIGAREC Series}, journal = {DIGAREC Series}, number = {08}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, isbn = {978-3-86956-467-8}, issn = {1867-6219}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-43067}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-430672}, pages = {104 -- 133}, year = {2020}, abstract = {Computerspiele bieten - verstanden als Text, als popkulturelles Artefakt, als Lerngelegenheit und vieles mehr - auch f{\"u}r den Einsatz im Fremdsprachenunterricht zahlreiche M{\"o}glichkeiten, curricular vorgegebene Kompetenzen auszubilden. Nicht nur kann die Auseinandersetzung mit Computerspielen einen Beitrag zur fachintegrativen Vermittlung von Medienkompetenz leisten, sondern ebenso dazu genutzt werden, Handlungen zu simulieren, in denen Sch{\"u}lerinnen und Sch{\"u}ler fremdsprachig (inter-)agieren. Der folgende Beitrag versucht daher, exemplarisch zwei Computerspiele auf ihr Potential f{\"u}r den Einsatz im Fremdsprachenunterricht Englisch zu untersuchen. Er versteht sich als praktischer Beitrag, der Einblick in didaktisch-methodische {\"U}berlegungen bietet, welche die Auseinandersetzung mit den zwei exemplarisch ausgew{\"a}hlten Spielen, HER STORY (2015) und 1979 REVOLUTION: BLACK FRIDAY (2016), in den Blick nehmen.}, language = {de} }