TY  - GEN
A1  - Mischke, Dennis
T1  - A universal, uniform humanity
BT  - the German newspaper Der Kosmopolit and entangled nation-building in nineteenth-century Australia
T2  - Postcolonial Studies
N2  - The focus in this article, through a reading of the German-Australian
newspaper Der Kosmopolit, is on the legacies of entangled imperial
identities in the period of the nineteenth-century German
Enlightenment. Attention is drawn to members of the liberal
nationalist generation of 1848 who emigrated to the Australian
colonies and became involved in intellectual activities there. The
idea of entanglement is applied to the philosophical orientation
of the German-language newspaper that this group formed, Der
Kosmopolit, which was published between 1856 and 1957. Against
simplistic notions that would view cosmopolitanism as the
opposite of nationalism, it is argued that individuals like Gustav
Droege and Carl Muecke deployed an entangled ‘cosmo-
nationalism’ in ways that both advanced German nationalism and
facilitated their own engagement with and investment in
Australian colonial society.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe - 142 
KW  - German-Australian entanglements
KW  - German colonialism
KW  - cosmopolitanism and nationalism
KW  - nineteenth- century newspapers
KW  - Carl Muecke
Y1  - 2018
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-412942
ER  - 
TY  - GEN
A1  - Schwarz, Anja
T1  - Schomburgk’s Chook
BT  - the entangled South Australian collections of a German naturalist
T2  - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe
N2  - Focusing on the politics of museums, collections and the untold
stories of the scientific ‘specimens’ that travelled between
Germany and Australia, this article reconstructs the historical,
interpersonal and geopolitical contexts that made it possible for
the stuffed skin of an Australian malleefowl to become part of the
collections of Berlin’s Museum für Naturkunde. The author enquires into the kinds of contexts that are habitually considered
irrelevant when a specimen of natural history is treated as an
object of taxonomic information only. In case of this particular
specimen human and non-human history become entangled in ways that link the fate of this one small Australian bird to the German revolutionary generation of 1848, to Germany’s
nineteenth-century colonial aspirations, to settler–Indigenous
relations, to the cruel realities that underpinned the production of
scientific knowledge in colonial Australia, and to a present-day
interest in reconstructing Indigenous knowledges.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe - 141 
KW  - German colonialism
KW  - colonial Australia
KW  - natural history collections
KW  - Richard Schomburgk
KW  - malleefowl (Leipoa ocellata)
Y1  - 2018
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-412959
SN  - 1866-8380
IS  - 141
ER  -