@article{Waller2018, author = {Waller, Nicole}, title = {Connecting Atlantic and Pacific: Theorizing the Arctic}, series = {Atlantic studies : literary, cultural and historical perspectives}, volume = {15}, journal = {Atlantic studies : literary, cultural and historical perspectives}, number = {2}, publisher = {Routledge, Taylor \& Francis Group}, address = {Abingdon}, issn = {1478-8810}, doi = {10.1080/14788810.2017.1387467}, pages = {256 -- 278}, year = {2018}, abstract = {This essay sets out to theorize the "new" Arctic Ocean as a pivot from which our standard map of the world is currently being reconceptualized. Drawing on theories from the fields of Atlantic and Pacific studies, I argue that the changing Arctic, characterized by melting ice and increased accessibility, must be understood both as a space of transit that connects Atlantic and Pacific worlds in unprecedented ways, and as an oceanic world and contact zone in its own right. I examine both functions of the Arctic via a reading of the dispute over the Northwest Passage (which emphasizes the Arctic as a space of transit) and the contemporary assessment of new models of sovereignty in the Arctic region (which concentrates on the circumpolar Arctic as an oceanic world). However, both of these debates frequently exclude indigenous positions on the Arctic. By reading Canadian Inuit theories on the Arctic alongside the more prominent debates, I argue for a decolonizing reading of the Arctic inspired by Inuit articulations of the "Inuit Sea." In such a reading, Inuit conceptions provide crucial interventions into theorizing the Arctic. They also, in turn, contribute to discussions on indigeneity, sovereignty, and archipelagic theory in Atlantic and Pacific studies.}, language = {en} } @article{deOliveira2018, author = {de Oliveira, Milene Mendes}, title = {Cultural conceptualizations of business negotiations in the Expanding Circle}, series = {World Englishes}, volume = {37}, journal = {World Englishes}, number = {4}, publisher = {Wiley}, address = {Hoboken}, issn = {0883-2919}, doi = {10.1111/weng.12346}, pages = {684 -- 696}, year = {2018}, abstract = {Following recents calls for the inclusion of conceptual aspects into world Englishes research, I report in this article on conceptualizations of business negotiations by Brazilian and German business people. I conducted semi-structured interviews in English with nine participants from each country. Subsequently, I analyzed conceptualizations of respect, success, and conflict in business negotiations by looking at 'conceptual scripts' underlying interviewees' answers. Results point to differences in how the Brazilian and the German interviewees conceptualize business negotiations.}, language = {en} } @article{Kuettner2018, author = {K{\"u}ttner, Uwe-Alexander}, title = {Investigating Inferences in Sequences of Action}, series = {Open Linguistics}, volume = {4}, journal = {Open Linguistics}, number = {1}, publisher = {de Gruyter}, address = {Berlin}, issn = {2300-9969}, doi = {10.1515/opli-2018-0006}, pages = {101 -- 126}, year = {2018}, abstract = {This paper offers an exploratory Interactional Linguistic account of the role that inferences play in episodes of ordinary conversational interaction. To this end, it systematically reconsiders the conversational practice of using the lexico-syntactic format oh that's right to implicitly claim "just-now" recollection of something previously known, but momentarily confused or forgotten. The analyses reveal that this practice typically occurs as part of a larger sequential pattern that the participants orient to and which serves as a procedure for dealing with, and generating an account for, one participant's production of an inapposite action. As will be shown, the instantiation and progressive realization of this sequential procedure requires local inferential work from the participants. While some facets of this inferential work appear to be shaped by the particular context of the ongoing interaction, others are integral to the workings of the sequence as such. Moreover, the analyses suggest that participants' understanding of oh that's right as embodying an implicit memory claim rests on an inference which is based on a kind of semanticpragmatic compositionality. The paper thus illustrates how inferences in conversational interaction can be systematically studied and points to the merits of combining an interactional and a linguistic perspective.}, language = {en} } @article{Hartung2018, author = {Hartung, Heike}, title = {Longevity narratives}, series = {Journal of aging studie}, volume = {47}, journal = {Journal of aging studie}, publisher = {Elsevier}, address = {New York}, issn = {0890-4065}, doi = {10.1016/j.jaging.2018.03.002}, pages = {84 -- 89}, year = {2018}, abstract = {The essay looks at longevity narratives as an important configuration of old age, which is closely related to evolutionary theories of ageing. In order to analyse two case studies of longevity published in the early twentieth century, the American psychologist G. Stanley Hall's book Senescence (1922) and the British dramatist Bernard Shaw's play cycle Back to Methuselah (1921), the essay draws on an outline of theories of longevity from the Enlightenment to the present. The analysis of the two case studies illustrates that evolutionary and cultural perspectives on ageing and longevity are ambivalent and problematic. In Hall's and Shaw's texts this is related to a crisis narrative of culture and civilization against which both writers place their specific solutions of individual and species longevity. Whereas Hall employs autobiographical accounts of artists as examples of longevity to strengthen his argument about wise old men as exclusive repositories of knowledge, Shaw in his vision of longevity as an extended form of midlife for both genders encounters the limits of age representation.}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{anHaack2018, author = {an Haack, Jan}, title = {Market and affect in evangelical mission}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-42469}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-424694}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {viii, 240}, year = {2018}, abstract = {This text is a contribution to the research on the worldwide success of evangelical Christianity and offers a new perspective on the relationship between late modern capitalism and evangelicalism. For this purpose, the utilization of affect and emotion in evangelicalism towards the mobilization of its members will be examined in order to find out what similarities to their employment in late modern capitalism can be found. Different examples from within the evangelical spectrum will be analyzed as affective economies in order to elaborate how affective mobilization is crucial for evangelicalism's worldwide success. Pivotal point of this text is the exploration of how evangelicalism is able to activate the voluntary commitment of its members, financiers, and missionaries. Gathered here are examples where both spheres—evangelicalism and late modern capitalism—overlap and reciprocate, followed by a theoretical exploration of how the findings presented support a view of evangelicalism as an inner-worldly narcissism that contributes to an assumed re-enchantment of the world.}, language = {en} } @article{Wawrzinek2018, author = {Wawrzinek, Jennifer}, title = {Postcolonial dandies and the death of the fl{\^a}neur}, series = {South and North : Contemporary Urban Orientations}, journal = {South and North : Contemporary Urban Orientations}, publisher = {Routledge}, address = {London}, isbn = {978-1-351-04704-3}, pages = {161 -- 179}, year = {2018}, language = {en} } @article{Eckstein2018, author = {Eckstein, Lars}, title = {Recollecting bones}, series = {Postcolonial Studies}, volume = {21}, journal = {Postcolonial Studies}, number = {1}, publisher = {Routledge, Taylor \& Francis Group}, address = {Abingdon}, issn = {1368-8790}, doi = {10.1080/13688790.2018.1435146}, pages = {6 -- 19}, year = {2018}, abstract = {This article critically engages with the different politics of memory involved in debates over the restitution of Indigenous Australian ancestral remains stolen by colonial actors in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and brought to Berlin in the name of science. The debates crystallise how deeply divided German scientific discourses still are over the question of whether the historical and moral obligations of colonial injustice should be accepted or whether researchers should continue to profess scientific 'disinterest'. The debates also reveal an almost unanimous disavowal of Indigenous Australian knowledges and mnemonic conceptions across all camps. The bitter ironies of this disavowal become evident when Indigenous Australian quests for the remains of their ancestral dead lost in the limbo of German scientific collections are juxtaposed with white Australian (fictional) quests for the remains of Ludwig Leichhardt, lost in the Australian interior.}, language = {en} } @article{Eckstein2018, author = {Eckstein, Lars}, title = {Recollecting bones}, volume = {21}, number = {1}, publisher = {Taylor \& Francis}, address = {London}, issn = {1368-8790}, doi = {10.1080/13688790.2018.1435146}, pages = {6 -- 19}, year = {2018}, abstract = {This article critically engages with the different politics of memory involved in debates over the restitution of Indigenous Australian ancestral remains stolen by colonial actors in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and brought to Berlin in the name of science. The debates crystallise how deeply divided German scientific discourses still are over the question of whether the historical and moral obligations of colonial injustice should be accepted or whether researchers should continue to profess scientific 'disinterest'. The debates also reveal an almost unanimous disavowal of Indigenous Australian knowledges and mnemonic conceptions across all camps. The bitter ironies of this disavowal become evident when Indigenous Australian quests for the remains of their ancestral dead lost in the limbo of German scientific collections are juxtaposed with white Australian (fictional) quests for the remains of Ludwig Leichhardt, lost in the Australian interior.}, language = {en} } @misc{BarrettEcksteinHurleyetal.2018, author = {Barrett, Lindsay and Eckstein, Lars and Hurley, Andrew Wright and Schwarz, Anja}, title = {Remembering German-Australian colonial entanglement}, series = {Postcolonial studies : culture, politics, economy}, volume = {21}, journal = {Postcolonial studies : culture, politics, economy}, number = {1}, publisher = {Routledge, Taylor \& Francis Group}, address = {Abingdon}, issn = {1368-8790}, doi = {10.1080/13688790.2018.1443671}, pages = {1 -- 5}, year = {2018}, language = {en} } @misc{Spahn2018, author = {Spahn, Hannah}, title = {Rezension zu: Valsania, Maurizio: Jefferson's Body: a Corporeal Biography. - Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2017. - xi, 266 S.}, series = {American Political Thought}, volume = {7}, journal = {American Political Thought}, number = {3}, publisher = {Univ. of Chicago Press}, address = {Chicago}, issn = {2161-1580}, doi = {10.1086/698488}, pages = {514 -- 517}, year = {2018}, language = {en} }