@phdthesis{Gasser2022, author = {Gasser, Lucy}, title = {East and South}, series = {Transdisciplinary souths}, journal = {Transdisciplinary souths}, publisher = {Routledge}, address = {London}, isbn = {978-0-367-72225-8}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {vi, 186}, year = {2022}, abstract = {"What is 'Europe' in academic discourse? While Europe tends to be used as shorthand, often interchangeable with the 'West', neither the 'West' nor 'Europe' are homogeneous spaces. Though postcolonial studies have long been debunking Eurocentrism in its multiple guises, there is still work to do in fully comprehending how its imaginations and discursive legacies conceive the figure of Europe, as not all who live on European soil are understood as equally 'European'. This volume explores this immediate need to rethink the axis of postcolonial cultural productions, to disarticulate Eurocentrism, to recognise Europe as a more diverse, plural and fluid space, to draw forward cultural exchanges and dialogues within the Global South. Through analyses of literary texts from East-Central Europe and beyond, this volume sheds light on alternative literary cartographies - the multiplicity of Europes and being European which exist both as they are viewed from the different geographies of the global South, and within the continent itself. Covering a wide spatial and temporal terrain in postcolonial and European cultural productions, this volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of literature and literary criticism, cultural studies, post-colonial studies, Global South studies and European studies"}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{Temmen2020, author = {Temmen, Jens}, title = {The Territorialities of U.S. Imperialism(s)}, series = {American Studies ; 308}, journal = {American Studies ; 308}, publisher = {Winter}, address = {Heidelberg}, isbn = {978-3-8253-4713-0}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {x, 259}, year = {2020}, abstract = {'The Territorialities of U.S. Imperialisms' sets into relation U.S. imperial and Indigenous conceptions of territoriality as articulated in U.S. legal texts and Indigenous life writing in the 19th century. It analyzes the ways in which U.S. legal texts as "legal fictions" narratively press to affirm the United States' territorial sovereignty and coherence in spite of its reliance on a variety of imperial practices that flexibly disconnect and (re)connect U.S. sovereignty, jurisdiction and territory. At the same time, the book acknowledges Indigenous life writing as legal texts in their own right and with full juridical force, which aim to highlight the heterogeneity of U.S. national territory both from their individual perspectives and in conversation with these legal fictions. Through this, the book's analysis contributes to a more nuanced understanding of the coloniality of U.S. legal fictions, while highlighting territoriality as a key concept in the fashioning of the narrative of U.S. imperialism.}, language = {en} }