TY - JOUR A1 - Küttner, Uwe-Alexander T1 - Tying sequences together with the [that’s + wh-clause] format BT - on (retro-)sequential junctures in conversation JF - Research on language and social interaction N2 - 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. KW - answers KW - organization KW - questions KW - responses Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/08351813.2020.1739422 SN - 0835-1813 SN - 1532-7973 VL - 53 IS - 2 SP - 247 EP - 270 PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group CY - New York ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Gnädig, Susanne A1 - Seidel, Astrid A1 - Siehr, Karl-Heinz A1 - Wienecke, Maik T1 - Das Tagespraktikum im Fokus – Eine Analyse aus fachdidaktischer Sicht JF - Professionalisierung in Praxisphasen : Ergebnisse der Lehrerbildungsforschung an der Universität Potsdam (Potsdamer Beiträge zur Lehrerbildung und Bildungsforschung ; 2) N2 - Die fachdidaktischen Tagespraktika (FTP) bilden ein Kernelement im Potsdamer Modell der Lehrerbildung, weist man ihnen doch eine „studienleitende Funktion“ zu. Wie aber realisiert sich diese Funktion in den einzelnen Fächern an der Universität Potsdam und welche Folgen ergeben sich für die Ausbildung der Lehramtsstudierenden ? Zur Beantwortung dieser Frage wurde eine Analyse der Verankerung der FTP in allen Studienordnungen hinsichtlich qualitativer (Inhalte und Ziele, Prüfungsformen, Belegungsvoraussetzungen) und quantitativer (Leistungspunkte, Semesterwochenstunden) Kriterien durchgeführt. Leitfadengestützte Interviews mit verantwortlichen Fachdidaktikerinnen und Fachdidaktikern dienten der Untersuchung der konkreten Umsetzung und der Relevanzzuschreibung. Ziel war es, durch das Zusammenführen beider Zugänge – der realiter existierenden Curricula, der individualisierten Praktiken sowie der subjektiven Überzeugungen – ein Verständnis eben jener „studienleitenden Funktion“ zu erlangen und anschließend Diskussions- und Handlungsfelder für die Weiterentwicklung des FTP herauszuarbeiten. N2 - The teaching internship (FTP) in the bachelor’s degree program has always been one core element of the Potsdam model of teacher education, which is assigned nothing less than a “study guiding function”. But how is this function interpreted and put into practice by the different departments of the University of Potsdam, and what are the consequences for the training of pre-service teachers ? In order to answer these questions, this article examines how the FTP is implemented in the study regulations with regard to qualitative criteria (contents and goals, forms of examination, requirements for enrollment) and quantitative criteria (credit points, workload). It also asks for the relevance of the FTP by conducting guided interviews with responsible lecturers. Combining both approaches – the analysis of existing curricula and the individualized practices as well as the subjective believes of the lecturers – we gain an understanding of the so-called “study guiding function” of the FTP and are thus able to elaborate areas for discussion for the development of the FTP. Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-570742 SN - 978-3-86956-508-8 SN - 2626-3556 SN - 2626-4722 IS - 2 SP - 91 EP - 121 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Pittel, Harald T1 - Fin du globe BT - Oscar Wilde’s romance with decadence and the idea of world literature JF - Thesis eleven : critical theory and historical sociology N2 - This essay argues that Oscar Wilde noticeably contributed to the emerging discourse about world literature, even though his views in this regard have to be unearthed from the margins of his works, from his early and unpublished American lectures and 'between the lines' of his major critical essays. Wilde's implicit ideas around world literature can be understood as being closely related to his broader endeavour of redirecting and revaluing the pejorative discourse around 'decadence' in art and literature. More specifically, the arch-aesthete preferred to use the word 'romance' rather than 'decadence' (a term he hardly used at all in his writings), signalling a sensitivity attuned to what he called the 'love of things impossible'. This reconceptualization of the decadent outlook was to inspire a critical ideal of literature which relied on creatively activating the other as Other, culminating in a vision of intersubjective, transcultural and unlimited literary communication. Wilde's thought can be more specifically understood as anticipating central tenets of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's evocations of the planetary, thus preparing the way for an alterity-oriented understanding of literary cosmopolitanism. KW - debt KW - decadence KW - planetarity KW - romance KW - world literature Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1177/0725513621994702 SN - 0725-5136 SN - 1461-7455 VL - 162 IS - 1 SP - 121 EP - 136 PB - Sage CY - London ER - TY - JOUR ED - Behrendt, Aileen Jorena ED - Courtman, Nicholas T1 - Writing the economic subject in modern western Europe BT - representation, contestation, critique JF - Literature, Culture, Economy JF - Literatur, Kultur, Ökonomie N2 - This book explores how capitalism shapes the formation of the economic subject in modern European writing. How are subject positions determined by the subject’s relationship to money and work? How fair is a society that predicates social inclusion upon employment? And what happens when full employment is impossible? The volume traces how literary authors and social theorists have answered these questions in different social and historical contexts from the nineteenth century to the present day. The contributions confront the imperatives of productivity, notions of success and failure, the construction of work cultures and environments, the (in)visibility of certain labour groups, and the implications of the body as a productive site. Y1 - 2021 SN - 978-3-631-83999-7 SN - 978-3-631-85753-3 SN - 978-3-631-85755-7 SN - 978-3-631-85754-0 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3726/b18541 SN - 2364-1304 IS - 9 PB - Lang CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wilke, Heinrich T1 - Character and perspective in cosmic horror BT - Lovecraft and Kiernan JF - Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik : a quarterly of language, literature and cultur N2 - Despite their overt focus on inexplicable alien forces, cosmic horror stories are also determined by their human cast. Far from being merely fodder for horror, the characters significantly contribute to the generation of meaning, including that of the supernatural entity or phenomenon itself. The same holds for the narrators' (implicitly) political perspectives on the world of which they are part. Much of the perspective propounded in Lovecraft's cosmic horror stories partakes of myth, adopting in particular the latter's universal view and pronounced sidelining of humanity as a whole, which it intensifies to the point of horror. Appearances to the contrary notwithstanding, this universal perspective is consistent with the racism permeating and structuring Lovecraft's writing. Though eschewing racism and universalism, the cosmic horror of Kiernan's "Tidal Forces" negotiates literary reflections of colonialism from an unreflective white perspective. KW - cosmic horror KW - H. P. Lovecraft KW - Caitlin R. Kiernan KW - race and whiteness KW - fiction Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1515/zaa-2021-2038 SN - 0044-2305 SN - 2196-4726 VL - 69 IS - 2 SP - 173 EP - 190 PB - De Gruyter CY - Berlin ER - TY - THES A1 - Madörin, Anouk T1 - Postcolonial surveillance BT - Europe's border technologies between colony and crisis T2 - Challenging Migration Studies N2 - Postcolonial Surveillance investigates the long history of the European border regime, focusing on the colonial forerunners of today’s border technologies. The book takes a longue durée perspective to uncover how Europe’s colonial history continues to shape the high-tech political present and has morphed into EU border migration policies, border security, and surveillance apparatuses. It exposes the racial hierarchies and power relations that form these systems and highlights key moments when the past and present interact and collide, such as in panoptic surveillance, biopolitical registers, biometric sorting, and deterrent media infrastructure. The technological genealogies assembled in this book reveal the unacknowledged histories that had to be rejected for the seemingly clean, unbiased, and neutral technologies to emerge as such. KW - surveillance KW - postcolonial KW - Europe KW - border KW - refugees KW - migration Y1 - 2022 SN - 978-1-5381-6503-4 SN - 978-1-5381-6504-1 PB - Rowman & Littlefield CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kunow, Rüdiger T1 - The biology of geography disease disease and disease ecologies in the Americas JF - The Routledge companion to inter-American studies Y1 - 2017 SN - 978-1-315-64498-1 SN - 978-1-138-18467-1 SP - 296 EP - 307 PB - Routledge CY - Abingdon ER - TY - THES A1 - Egorova, Alisa T1 - Hunting Down Animal Verbs BT - An Investigation into the Mechanisms of Meaning Transfer Underlying English Verbal Zoosemy N2 - Language change is an essential feature of human language, and it is therefore one of the focal areas of the scientific study of language. Language change is always tacitly at work in all languages of the world and at all levels of a given language, be it phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, etc. It has been suggested that it is precisely the capacity to constantly change and adjust that allows language to keep serving the communicative goals of its users, from ancient to modern times (Fauconnier & Turner, 2003, p. 179). This thesis investigates an especially salient pattern of lexicogrammatical change, namely word-formation of verbs from animal nouns by zero-derivation, in the process of which such nouns as, for example, dog, horse, or beaver change their usage and meaning to produce animal verbs: to dog ‘to follow someone persistently and with a malicious intent’, to horse about/around ‘to make fun of, to ‘rag’, to ridicule someone’ and to beaver away ‘to work at working with great enthusiasm’ respectively. In the previous literature this pattern of language change has been termed verbal zoosemy (e.g. Kiełtyka, 2016), i.e. metaphorical construal of human actions by means of linguistic material from the domain of animals. The approach taken in this study is not to simply report on the objective changes in the morphology, syntactic distribution and meaning of such linguistic units before and after conversion, but to uncover the complexity of cognitive mechanisms which allow the speakers of English to reclassify such well-established nominal units as animal noun into verbs. It is assumed that the grammatical change in these lexical units is predicated on and triggered by preceding semantic change. Thus, the study is set in the framework of Cognitive Historical Semantics and employs the Conceptual Metaphor and Metonymy Theory (CMMT) to untangle the intricacies of the semantic change making the grammatical change of animal nouns into verbs possible and acceptable in the minds of English speakers. To this end, this study employed the Oxford English Dictionary Online (OED Online) to compile a glossary of 96 denominal animal verbal forms tied to 209 verbal senses (most verbs in the dataset displayed polysemy). The data collected from the OED Online included not only the senses of the verbs, but also the date of the earliest recorded use of the verbal form with the given sense (regarded in the study as the date of conversion), the earliest usage examples for individual senses and morphologically or semantically related linguistic units from the lexical field of the respective parent noun which were amenable to explaining the observed instances of semantic change. Each instance of zoosemisation, i.e. of the creation of a separate metaphorical verbal sense, was then carefully analysed on the basis of the data collected and classified with the help of the CMMT. In the final stage, a comprehensive and systematic classification of the senses of animal verbs in accordance with the cognitive mechanisms of their creation (metaphor, metonymy, or a combination thereof) was produced together with a timeline of the first appearance of individual metaphorical senses of animal verbs recorded in the OED. The results show that animal verbs are produced through the interaction of conceptual metaphor and metonymy. Specifically, it was established that two major patterns of metaphor-metonymy interaction underpinning the process of verbal zoosemisation are metaphor from metonymy and metonymy from metaphor. In the former pattern, either an already existing metonymic animal verb is expanded to include the target domain PEOPLE, or the animal noun itself acts as a metonymic vehicle to a certain element of the idealised cognitive model of the given animal, which is metaphorically projected onto people. In the latter mechanism, a metaphorical projection of an animal term initially enters the lexicon in the form of a metaphorical animal noun referring to a human entity, and later in the course of language development it comes to metonymically stand for the action, which the given entity either performs or is involved in. Secondarily, it was observed that individual animal nouns can undergo multiple rounds of zoosemic conversion over time depending on the semantic frame in which the given linguistic unit undergoes denominal conversion, and that results in the polysemy of most animal verbs. N2 - Die Masterarbeit untersucht das Phänomen der verbalen Zoosemie im Englischen. Der Begriff verbale Zoosemie steht für Nullableitung von substantivischen Tiernamen zu Verben, die sich metaphorisch auf hauptsächlich von Menschen (aber zum Teil auch von nicht belebten Entitäten oder Tieren) ausgeführte Handlungen beziehen, z.B. von beaver ‚Bieber‘ zu to beaver away ‚fieberhaft an etwas arbeiten‘ oder von horse ‚Pferd‘ zu to horse around ‚rumalbern, rumblöden‘. Das Ziel dieser Untersuchung ist es im Rahmen der kognitiven Linguistik, und insbesondere einer ihrer Tochterdisziplinen, nämlich historischer Semantik, zu bestimmen, welche kognitiven Mechanismen solche Phänomene des Sprachwandels für die Sprecher verständlich machen bzw. ermöglichen. Dafür wurden 96 zoosemische Verben, samt den vom Oxford English Dictionary Online angebotenen Definitionen und datierten Beispielsätzen, zusammengetragen und unter Anwendung der kognitiven Methapher- und Metonymietheorie analysiert. Im Anschluss wurde eine Klassifizierung der zoosemischen Verben im Englischen unternommen. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass die Nullableitung von substantivischen Tiernamen zu Verben auf zwei grundsätzliche kognitive Mechanismen zurückzuführen ist, nämlich Metonymisierung gefolgt von Metaphorisierung oder Metaphorisierung gefolgt von Metonymisierung. Im ersten Fall wird entweder ein bereits lexikalisiertes metonymisches Verb oder der substantivische Tiername, der metonymisch für ein Attribut des Tieres steht, metaphorisch auf Menschenhandlungen projiziert, z.B. von to hound ‚etwas mithilfe eines Jagdhunds jagen’ zu to hound ‚wie ein Jagdhund verfolgen’ bzw. von rabbit ‚Karnickel’ zu to rabbit ‚sich wie Karnickel vermehren’. Im zweiten Fall wird der Tiername zunächst als metaphorisches Substantiv, das sich auf eine Person oder einen Gegenstand bezieht, lexikalisiert, z.B. rat ‚Verräter, Petze’ bzw. pony ‘Spickzettel’. Im weiteren Verlauf des Sprachwandels wird dieses Substantiv durch die Metonymie AGENT FOR ACTION oder OBJECT INVOLVED IN ACTION FOR ACTION zum Verben abgeleitet, z.B. to rat ‚verpetzen, verpfeifen’ bzw. to pony ‚spicken’. Zur Metaphorisierung gefolgt von Metonymisierung gehört eine weitere Subkategorie von zoosemischen Verben, nämlich die Verben die metonymisch für ganze metaphorische Redewendungen stehen, z.b. to wolf für to cry wolf ‚falschen Alarm geben’. Eine Erklärung zu dieser Art von metonymischer Verknüpfung zwischen der Semantik einer ganzen idiomatischen Redewendung und dem Bedeutungsinhalt eines ihrer substantivischen Elemente, das zum Verben konvertiert wird, konnte in der einschlägigen Literatur nicht gefunden werden. Daher bedarf dieser Mechanismus metonymischen Bedeutungstransfers weiterer Forschung. Die quantitative Analyse der identifizierten kognitiven Mechanismen im untersuchten Datensatz von 96 Tierverben hat ergeben, dass die metaphorische Projektion eines Tiernamens, der metonymisch für ein Attribut des Tieres steht, als der prototypische Mechanismus des Bedeutungstranfers der Englischen Zoosemie zu werten ist. KW - denominal verbs KW - conversion KW - conceptual metaphor KW - conceptual metonymy KW - animal metaphor KW - verbal zoosemy KW - language change KW - Tiermetaphern KW - konzeptuelle Metapher KW - konzeptuelle Metonymie KW - Konvestion KW - Nullableitung KW - Nullderivation KW - Denominalisierung KW - denominale Ableitung KW - Sprachwandel KW - verbale Zoosemie Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-557705 N1 - Neither Appendix 1 nor Appendix 2 are included in this publication on the grounds that both serve as basis for further research that is being conducted by the author at the PhD level. A review of data is possible upon contacting the author per email. ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Spahn, Hannah T1 - Rezension zu: Helo, Ari, Thomas Jefferson's ethics and the politics of human progress: the morality of a slaveholder. - New York, NY: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2014. - ISBN 978-1-107-04078-6 JF - Journal of the Early Republic KW - Thomas Jefferson KW - Ethics KW - Progress KW - Racism KW - Slavery Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2017.0010 SN - 0275-1275 SN - 1553-0620 VL - 37 IS - 1 SP - 170 EP - 173 PB - University of Pennsylvania Press CY - Philadelphia ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wiemann, Dirk T1 - Indian Writing in English and the Discrepant Zones of World Literature JF - Anglia : journal of English philology N2 - For world literature studies, Indian writing in English offers an exceptionally rich and variegated field of analysis: On the one hand, a set of prominent Indian or diasporic writers accrues substantial literary capital through metropolitan review circuits and award systems and thus maintains the high international visibility that Indian writing in English has acquired ever since the early 1980s. Addressing a readership that spans countries and continents, this kind of writing functions as a viable tributary to world literature. On the other hand, a new boom of Indian mass fiction in English has emerged that, while targeting a strictly domestic audience, is always already implicated in the dynamics of world literature as well, albeit in a very different way: As they deploy, appropriate and adopt a wide range of globally available templates of popular genres, these texts have globality inscribed into their very textures even if they do not circulate internationally. Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1515/ang-2017-0008 SN - 0340-5222 SN - 1865-8938 VL - 135 IS - 1 SP - 122 EP - 139 PB - De Gruyter CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Temmen, Jens T1 - The Unsettlement of America: Translation, Interpretation, and the Story of Don Luis de Velasco, 1560-1945 JF - Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik : a quarterly of language, literature and cultur Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1515/zaa-2017-0011 SN - 0044-2305 SN - 2196-4726 VL - 65 IS - 1 SP - 117 EP - 119 PB - De Gruyter CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Grum, Urška A1 - Zydatiß, Wolfgang T1 - Statistische Verfahren - Einleitung JF - Forschungsmethoden in der Fremdsprachendidaktik : Ein Handbuch Y1 - 2022 SN - 978-3-8233-8432-8 SN - 978-3-8233-0349-7 SN - 978-3-8233-9432-7 SP - 343 EP - 348 PB - Narr Francke Attempto CY - Tübingen ET - 2., vollständig überarbeitete und erweiterte Aufl. ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Grum, Urska A1 - Legutke, Michael K. T1 - Sampling JF - Forschungsmethoden in der Fremdsprachendidaktik : Ein Handbuch Y1 - 2022 SN - 978-3-8233-8432-8 SN - 978-3-8233-9432-7 SN - 978-3-8233-0349-7 SP - 85 EP - 96 PB - Narr Francke Attempto CY - Tübingen ET - 2., vollständig überarbeitete und erweiterte Aufl. ER - TY - GEN A1 - Barrett, Lindsay A1 - Eckstein, Lars A1 - Hurley, Andrew Wright A1 - Schwarz, Anja T1 - Remembering German-Australian colonial entanglement BT - an introduction T2 - Postcolonial studies : culture, politics, economy Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/13688790.2018.1443671 SN - 1368-8790 SN - 1466-1888 VL - 21 IS - 1 SP - 1 EP - 5 PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group CY - Abingdon ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schwarz, Anja T1 - Schomburgk’s Chook BT - the entangled South Australian collections of a German naturalist JF - Postcolonial Studies 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. KW - German colonialism KW - colonial Australia KW - natural history collections KW - Richard Schomburgk KW - malleefowl (Leipoa ocellata) Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/13688790.2018.1434749 SN - 1368-8790 SN - 1466-1888 VL - 21 IS - 1 SP - 20 EP - 34 PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group CY - Abingdon ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Eckstein, Lars T1 - Recollecting bones BT - the remains of German-Australian colonial entanglements JF - Postcolonial Studies N2 - 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. KW - Memory KW - ancestral remains KW - museums and anthropological collections KW - restorative justice KW - indigenous knowledge KW - Ludwig Leichhardt Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/13688790.2018.1435146 SN - 1368-8790 SN - 1466-1888 VL - 21 IS - 1 SP - 6 EP - 19 PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group CY - Abingdon ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Waller, Nicole T1 - Connecting Atlantic and Pacific: Theorizing the Arctic JF - Atlantic studies : literary, cultural and historical perspectives N2 - 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. KW - Atlantic studies KW - Pacific studies KW - Arctic studies KW - Northwest Passage KW - indigeneity KW - sovereignty KW - archipelagic theory Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/14788810.2017.1387467 SN - 1478-8810 SN - 1740-4649 VL - 15 IS - 2 SP - 256 EP - 278 PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group CY - Abingdon ER - TY - THES A1 - von Rath, Anna T1 - Afropolitan Encounters BT - Literature and Activism in London and Berlin T2 - Imagining Black Europe ; 2 N2 - Afropolitan Encounters: Literature and Activism in London and Berlin explores what Afropolitanism does. Mobile people of African descent use this term to address their own lived realities creatively, which often includes countering stereotypical notions of being African. Afropolitan practices are enormously heterogeneous and malleable, which constitutes its strengths and, at the same time, creates tensions. This book traces the theoretical beginnings of Afropolitanism and moves on to explore Afropolitan practices in London and Berlin. Afropolitanism can take different forms, such as that of an identity, a political and ethical stance, a dead–end road, networks, a collective self–care practice or a strategic label. In spite of the harsh criticism, Afropolitanism is attractive for people to deal with the meanings of Africa and Africanness, questions of belonging, equal rights and opportunities. While not a unitary project, the vast variety of Afropolitan practices provide approaches to contemporary political problems in Europe and beyond. In this book, Afropolitan practices are read against the specific context of German and British colonial histories and structures of racism, the histories of Black Europeans, and contemporary right–wing resurgence in Germany and England, respectively. Y1 - 2022 SN - 978-1-80079-006-3 SN - 978-1-80079-008-7 SN - 978-1-80079-009-4 PB - Lang CY - Oxford ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wawrzinek, Jennifer T1 - Postcolonial dandies and the death of the flâneur JF - South and North : Contemporary Urban Orientations Y1 - 2018 SN - 978-1-351-04704-3 SN - 978-0-815-39684-0 SP - 161 EP - 179 PB - Routledge CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wiemann, Dirk T1 - Layer after Layer BT - aerial roots and routes of translation JF - Thesis Eleven N2 - When the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew in South London were opened to the general public in the 1840s, they were presented as a ‘world text’: a collection of flora from all over the world, with the spectacular tropical (read: colonial) specimens taking centre stage as indexes of Britain’s imperial supremacy. However, the one exotic plant species that preoccupied the British cultural imagination more than any other remained conspicuously absent from the collection: the banyan tree, whose non-transferability left a significant gap in the ‘text’ of the garden, thereby effectively puncturing the illusion of comprehensive global command that underpins the biopolitical designs of what Richard Grove has aptly dubbed ‘green imperialism’. This article demonstrates how, in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the banyan tree became an object of fascination and admiration for British scientists, painters, writers and photographers precisely because of its obstinate non-availability to colonial control and visual or even conceptual representability. KW - banyan KW - colonial botany KW - historical nature KW - Kew Gardens KW - translation Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1177/0725513621990772 SN - 0725-5136 VL - 162 IS - 1 SP - 33 EP - 45 PB - Sage CY - Melbourne ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Wiemann, Dirk T1 - Being Taught Something World-Sized BT - 'The Detainee's Tale as Told to Ali Smith and the Work of World Literature T2 - The Work of World Literature N2 - This paper reads ‘The Detainee’s Tale as told to Ali Smith’ (2016) as an exemplary demonstration of the work of world literature. Smith’s story articulates an ethics of reading that is grounded in the recipient’s openness to the singular, unpredictable, and unverifiable text of the other. More specifically, Smith’s account enables the very event that it painstakingly stages: the encounter with alterity and newness, which is both the theme of the narrative and the effect of the text on the reader. At the same time, however, the text urges to move from an ethics of literature understood as the responsible reception of the other by an individual reader to a more explicitly convivial and political ethics of commitment beyond the scene of reading. KW - Ali Smith KW - anagogy KW - ethics KW - Refugee Tales KW - singularity KW - world literature Y1 - 2021 SN - 978-3-96558-011-4 SN - 978-3-96558-012-1 SN - 978-3-96558-013-8 SN - 978-3-96558-022-0 U6 - https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-19_07 SN - 2627-728X SN - 2627-731X VL - 2021 SP - 149 EP - 172 PB - ICI Berlin Press CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kocaman, Ceren A1 - Selvi, Ali Fuad T1 - Gender, sexuality, and language teaching materials BT - why materials matter for social justice in the language classroom JF - Babylonia Journal of Language Education N2 - Obwohl schon viel über kommerzielle Materialien gesagt und geschrieben wurde, ist unser Verständnis sehr begrenzt, wenn es um lokal produzierte (hauseigene, nicht-kommerzielle) Materialien geht, die oft verwendet werden, um bestehende veröffentlichte Materialien zu ersetzen oder zu ergänzen. In diesem Beitrag geben wir einen Überblick über die Literatur zur Darstellung von Geschlecht und Sexualität in kommerziellen Lehrmitteln und unsere Überlegungen zu lokal produzierten Unterrichtsmaterialien, die in einem Englisch-Intensivprogramm an einer Universität in der Türkei mit Englisch als Unterrichtsmedium (EMI) verwendet werden. Wir unterstreichen die Bedeutung von Materialien für die Handlungsfähigkeit von Lehrkräften bei der Schaffung eines sicheren und inklusiven Klassenzimmers und bei der Bekämpfung von systematischer Unterdrückung, Diskriminierung und Ungerechtigkeit im und ausserhalb des Klassenzimmers. Y1 - 2021 UR - https://babylonia.online/index.php/babylonia/article/view/41/66 VL - 1 SP - 76 EP - 81 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Barth-Weingarten, Dagmar A1 - Ogden, Richard T1 - “Chunking” spoken language BT - Introducing weak cesuras T2 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe N2 - In this introductory paper to the special issue on “Weak cesuras in talk-in-interaction”, we aim to guide the reader into current work on the “chunking” of naturally occurring talk. It is conducted in the methodological frameworks of Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics – two approaches that consider the interactional aspect of humans talking with each other to be a crucial starting point for its analysis. In doing so, we will (1) lay out the background of this special issue (what is problematic about “chunking” talk-in-interaction, the characteristics of the methodological approach chosen by the contributors, the cesura model), (2) highlight what can be gained from such a revised understanding of “chunking” in talk-in-interaction by referring to previous work with this model as well as the findings of the contributions to this special issue, and (3) indicate further directions such work could take starting from papers in this special issue. We hope to induce a fruitful exchange on the phenomena discussed, across methodological divides. T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe - 174 KW - Conversation Analysis KW - Interactional Linguistics KW - prosody KW - phonetics KW - intonation units KW - talk-in-interaction KW - syntax KW - kinetics Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-536259 SN - 1866-8380 SP - 531 EP - 548 PB - Universität Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Barth-Weingarten, Dagmar A1 - Ogden, Richard T1 - “Chunking” spoken language BT - Introducing weak cesuras JF - Open linguistics N2 - In this introductory paper to the special issue on “Weak cesuras in talk-in-interaction”, we aim to guide the reader into current work on the “chunking” of naturally occurring talk. It is conducted in the methodological frameworks of Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics – two approaches that consider the interactional aspect of humans talking with each other to be a crucial starting point for its analysis. In doing so, we will (1) lay out the background of this special issue (what is problematic about “chunking” talk-in-interaction, the characteristics of the methodological approach chosen by the contributors, the cesura model), (2) highlight what can be gained from such a revised understanding of “chunking” in talk-in-interaction by referring to previous work with this model as well as the findings of the contributions to this special issue, and (3) indicate further directions such work could take starting from papers in this special issue. We hope to induce a fruitful exchange on the phenomena discussed, across methodological divides. KW - Conversation Analysis KW - Interactional Linguistics KW - prosody KW - phonetics KW - intonation units KW - talk-in-interaction KW - syntax KW - kinetics Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2020-0173 SN - 2300-9969 VL - 7 IS - 1 SP - 531 EP - 548 PB - De Gruyter CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kolbe-Hanna, Daniela A1 - Wischer, Ilse ED - Kolbe-Hanna, Daniela ED - Wischer, Ilse T1 - Introduction JF - Anglistik Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.33675/ANGL/2021/1/4 SN - 2625-2147 VL - 32 IS - 1 SP - 5 EP - 10 PB - Universitätsverlag Winter CY - Heidelberg ER - TY - THES A1 - Grewe-Salfeld, Mirjam T1 - Biohacking, bodies and do-it-yourself BT - the cultural politics of hacking life itself T2 - American Culture Studies ; 36 N2 - 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. N2 - Von Selbsthilfe-Bücher zu "Nootropics", Selbsttracking und Gesundheitstests für den Heimgebrauch, zum experimentieren mit Technologien und biologischen Partikeln - Biohacking vereinigt Biologie, Medizin und die materielle Basis des Lebens mit Praktiken von "do-it-yourself". Dieser Trend birgt das Potential die Beziehung von Menschen mit ihren Körpern und ihrer eigenen Biologie grundlegend zu verändern. Gleichzeitig entstehen dadurch neue kulturelle Narrative von Verantwortung, Autorität, und Differenzierung. Anhand vieler Beispiele untersucht dieses Buch Praktiken und pop-kulturelle Repräsentationen von "biohacking" und beleuchtet ihre mehrdeutige Position zwischen Empowerment und Voraussetzung, Versprechen und Vorschrift. KW - culture KW - representation KW - biology KW - medicine KW - biocultures KW - biohacking KW - biotechnology KW - cultural narratives KW - DIY KW - America KW - body KW - biopolitics KW - American studies KW - life sciences KW - cultural studies KW - Amerika KW - Amerikastudien KW - DIY KW - Do-it-yourself KW - Biohacking KW - Biologie KW - Biopolitik KW - Biotechnology KW - Körper KW - Kulturwissenschaft KW - Narrative KW - Medizin Y1 - 2020 SN - 978-3-8376-6004-3 SN - 978-3-8394-6004-7 PB - transcript Verlag CY - Bielefeld ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Spahn, Hannah T1 - Rezension zu: Valsania, Maurizio: Jefferson’s Body: a Corporeal Biography. - Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2017. - xi, 266 S. JF - American Political Thought Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1086/698488 SN - 2161-1580 SN - 2161-1599 VL - 7 IS - 3 SP - 514 EP - 517 PB - Univ. of Chicago Press CY - Chicago ER - TY - THES A1 - Krause, Michael T1 - Digital surveillance fiction BT - dataveillance in contemporary science fiction Y1 - 2021 SN - 978-3-86938-154-1 PB - AVINUS CY - Hamburg ER - TY - THES A1 - Gasser, Lucy T1 - East and South BT - mapping other Europes T2 - Transdisciplinary souths N2 - "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" Y1 - 2022 SN - 978-0-367-72225-8 SN - 978-0-367-77271-0 SN - 978-1-00-041097-6 PB - Routledge CY - London ER - TY - THES A1 - LeGall, Yann A1 - Mboro, Mnyaka Sururu T1 - Remembering the dismembered BT - African human remains and memory cultures in and after repatriation N2 - 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. N2 - Diese Studie untersucht Erinnerungskulturen während und nach der Rückführung menschlicher Überreste zu afrikanischen Gemeinschaften und Ländern. An der Schnittstelle von memory studies, postkolonialer Ethnographie und kritischer Museumsforschung zeigt diese Arbeit, wie die Rückführung von Überresten ehemaliger Widerstandskämpfer*innen und namenloser Vorfahren in ihre Gesellschaften gegen das Fortbestehen kolonialer Ungerechtigkeit angeht. In diesen Prozessen – von Rückgabeforderungen bis nach der Wiederbestattung der Überreste – intervenieren Nachfahren von Opfern, community leaders, Künstler*innen und Medien. Sie ermöglichen dadurch eine transnationale Auseinandersetzung mit der Geschichte der antikolonialen Bewegungen und der Rassenanthropologie. Durch Methoden der partizipativen Ethnographie zeigt die Arbeit auf, wie Überlieferung, Gedenkstätten, lokale Kulturprojekte, Theater, Film und Reportagen die Tatorte erneut aufgreifen und die zuvor von der Anthropologie objektifizierten Überreste „rehumanisieren“ (Rassool), mit anderen Worten, ihnen ihre menschliche Würde zurückgeben. Doch auch die sog. „afterlives“ der Opfer, deren Überreste so lange in Museen und Universitätssammlungen lagen, haben zu wichtigen Diskussionen über postkoloniale Gerechtigkeit, Museumsethik und transnationale Erinnerung geführt. Sollen sie in Gewahrsam einer staatlichen Institution oder an einem von den Nachkommen der Opfer gewählten Ort begraben werden? Was bedeuten diese zurückgeführten Vorfahren in dem gegenwärtigen Kampf um Anerkennung kolonialer Gewalt und Genozids, aber auch um Entschuldigung und Wiedergutmachung? Und wie sind diese Rückgabeprozesse (auch „Repatriierung“ genannt) generell in Narrative der kolonialen Vergangenheit eingebettet, wie zu verstehen im Kontext ihrer körperlichen und diskursiven Gewalt? All diese Fragen werden hier in Fallstudien und von unterschiedlichen Perspektiven aufgegriffen: die Geschichte des Kopfs und des Zahns vom Mhehe antikolonialen Mtwa Mkwawa (Tansania); die Rückkehr von Sarah Baartman von Frankreich nach Südafrika; der Geist von Dawid Stuurman, der 2017 von Australien zurück nach Südafrika begleitet wurde; die verschiedene Repatriierungen von Ovaherero and Nama Ahnen von Deutschland nach Namibia zwischen 2011 und 2018; der Fall von Xhosa König Hintsa, dessen Kopf angeblich in Großbritannien verschleppt wurde; und die Abwesenheit vom Kopf des Ngoni Nduna Songea Mbano, der während des Majimaji Kriegs von den Deutschen ermordet wurde. Die Körper und Geister dieser Toten sind ein heterogener Korpus. Dennoch drehen sich alle Fallstudien dieser Arbeit um zwei entscheidende Fragen: Erstens, wer hat die Deutungshoheit über die Geschichte der kolonialen Gewalt? Welche Erinnerung der Totenbleibt? Zweitens, was sind angemessene Entschädigungen für Mord, Völkermord, koloniale Unterdrückung und Ausbeutung? Als Beitrag im Feld der memory studies argumentiert diese Arbeit für ein erweitertes Verständnis der „remembrance“ (übersetzt als Erinnerung aber auch „Zusammenbringen der Körperteile“). In diesen materiellen und immateriellen Prozessen, wird wiedervereint, was durch jahrzehntelange physische und epistemische Gewalt gebrochen, beschädigt oder getrennt wurde: einerseits Knochen, Zähne und Körper, und andererseits Familien wieder zu vereinen, Subjektpositionen zu reparieren, Würde wiederherzustellen und Ansprüche auf Selbstbestimmung und Selbsterzählung zu erheben. Die Arbeit zeigt, dass bilaterale und transnationale politische und kulturelle Projekte die Geschichten der Toten “multidirektional“ erzählen (Rothberg), nämlich in Beziehung zueinander. Sie untersucht auch, in welchen Kontexten die Vergangenheit nicht mehr als Last, sondern als Werkzeug zum Verständnis und zur Heilung der Wunden angesehen wird. Es sind Trittsteine für Wege der Versöhnung und mögliche Wiedergutmachung, die auf Trauer, Anerkennung und Sühne, aber auch Zusammenarbeit ausgerichtet sind. Dank Repatriierungen können Nachfahren und communities endlich eine Geschichte(n) erzählen, die auf mehr als nur Verlust und Abwesenheit aufbauen. Das Buch hat zwei Autoren und verschiedene Mitwirkende, die zusätzliche Perspektiven auf die Geschichten kolonialer Gewalt ermöglichen. Diese Polyphonie in der ethnographischen Arbeit bezieht sich auf Vincent Crapanzanos Technik der Juxtaposition und Alexander Weheliyes Argument für „fragmentarisches“ Schreiben. Da lokale Akteur*innen zu dieser Wissensproduktion beigetragen haben, zielt die Arbeit auch darauf ab, sie sichtbar zu machen. Das Wissen, das diese ethnographische Forschung generiert hat, soll auch weiterhin verfügbar sein und an diejenigen zurückgegeben werden, die diese Forschung überhaupt erst ermöglicht haben. Deswegen führen eingebettete QR-Codes zu den Audioquellen der vielfältigen Interventionen von Nachfahren und Gemeinschaftsmitgliedern. Diese Quellen sind Teil einer größeren Website, ein digitales Gegenstück zu dem Manuskript. Über die Website werden Kontexte kolonialer Gewalt öffentlich zugänglich gemacht. In dieser digitalen Ausstellung ist das Sprachregister an ein nicht-akademisches Publikum angepasst. Darüber hinaus bietet die Website Übersetzungen einiger Forschungsergebnisse in relevante afrikanische Sprachen an. KW - repatriation KW - colonialism KW - human remains KW - memory KW - Erinnerungskultur KW - Rückgabe KW - menschliche Überreste KW - Kolonialismus KW - Tanzania KW - South Africa KW - Namibia KW - genocide KW - skull KW - Schädel KW - Tansania KW - Südafrika KW - Namibia KW - Rothberg KW - Mbembe KW - postcolonial KW - decolonial KW - postkolonial KW - dekolonial KW - Erinnerung Y1 - 2021 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-508502 ER - TY - THES A1 - März, Moses T1 - Édouard Glissant's politics of relation T1 - Édouard Glissants Politik der Relation BT - mapping an intellectual movement of marronage BT - Kartographie einer Intellektuellen Marronage N2 - The political legacy of the Martinican poet, novelist and philosopher Édouard 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). N2 - Diese Dissertation befasst sich mit der politischen Dimension des Werks von Édouard Glissant (1928-2011), der zu den einflussreichsten aus der frankophonen Karibik stammenden postkolonialen Theoretiker*innen gezählt wird. Durch eine Kombination von literatur- und politikwissenschaftlichen Ansätzen wird Glissants Werk als Ganzes studiert und auf seine politischen Potenziale geprüft. Kennzeichnend für den verfolgten Rechercheansatz ist ein weites Verständnis des Politischen, das sich von gängigen Vorstellungen der Auseinandersetzung mit politischen Systemen und Machtkämpfen unterscheidet, in dem es literarischer und kultureller Arbeit dezidiert politische Bedeutung zuschreibt. Das Konzept der Politik der Relation aufgreifend, welches in Glissants späteren Schriften erscheint, befasst sich diese Arbeit mit den Fragen, was ist die Politik der Relation? Wie kann sie beschrieben werden? Und welche Verbindungen lassen sich zwischen ihr und verwandten politischen Praktiken nachzeichnen? Die Forschungsarbeit kommt dabei zu dem Ergebnis, dass mit der Politik der Relation sowohl die diversen politischen Praktiken beschrieben werden können, die das Werk Glissants durchziehen, als auch außerhalb dieses Bereichs postkoloniale politische Praktiken analysiert werden können. Im erstgenannten Kontext bezieht sich der Begriff auf eine ganzheitliche und vielschichtige Praxis eines Dichters und Intellektuellen, dessen politisches Engagement in erster Linie auf Veränderungen im Bereich des Imaginären und der Erschaffung alternativer Gemeinschaften abzielte, der jedoch darüber hinaus wiederholt diskursiv und organisatorisch in bestehende Institutionen und Gemeinschaften intervenierte, um Relationen herzustellen, die von bestehenden Diskursen und politischen Strukturen unterbunden wurden. Im zweiten Kontext, also außerhalb von Glissants eigenem politischen Denken und Handeln, wird die Politik der Relation zudem als ein Begriff vorgeschlagen, der die Praxis bestimmter postkolonialer Akteure beschreiben kann, deren Handeln jeweils ein ganzheitlicher Anspruch zugrunde liegt, bei dem Leben und Schreiben, Inhalt und Form, Mittel und Zwecke nicht voneinander getrennt werden können. Ihre politische Praxis orientiert sich an der radikalen Diversität und Vernetzung aller Kulturen der Welt, sie schöpft aus ihr Kraft und strebt an, sie zu beschützen. Indem die Dissertation Verbindungen zwischen diesen beiden Ebenen aufzeigt, ist sie methodisch ebenfalls relational angelegt. KW - Glissant KW - Politics KW - Marronage KW - Mapping KW - Postcolonial KW - Postkolonial KW - Relation KW - Caribbean KW - Karibik KW - Glissant KW - Kartographie KW - Marronage KW - Politik KW - Relation Y1 - 2021 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-509486 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hartung, Heike T1 - Longevity narratives BT - Darwinism and beyond JF - Journal of aging studie N2 - 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. KW - Age studies KW - Cultural studies KW - Longevity narratives KW - Evolutionary theories of ageing Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaging.2018.03.002 SN - 0890-4065 SN - 1879-193X VL - 47 SP - 84 EP - 89 PB - Elsevier CY - New York ER - TY - GEN A1 - Bala, Sruti A1 - Kerrigan, Dylan ED - Heide, Johanna T1 - Embodied Practices – Looking from Small Places BT - A Conversation between Sruti Bala and Dylan Kerrigan T2 - Minor Constellations in Conversation Lecture Series N2 - “Embodied Practices – Looking From Small Places” is an edited transcript of a conversation between theatre and performance scholar Sruti Bala (University of Amsterdam) and sociologist, criminologist and anthropologist Dylan Kerrigan (University of Leicester) that took place as an online event in November 2020. Throughout their talk, Bala and Kerrigan engage with the legacy of Haitian anthropologist Michel-Rolph Trouillot. Specifically, they focus on his approach of looking from small units, such as small villages in Dominica, outwards to larger political structures such as global capitalism, social inequalities and the distribution of power. They also share insights from their own research on embodied practices in the Caribbean, Europe and India and answer questions such as: What can research on and through embodied practices tell us about systems of power and domination that move between the local and the global? How can performance practices which are informed by multiple locations and cultures be read and appreciated adequately? Sharing insights from his research into Guyanese prisons, Kerrigan outlines how he aims to connect everyday experiences and struggles of Caribbean people to trans-historical and transnational processes such as racial capitalism and post/coloniality. Furthermore, he elaborates on how he uses performance practices such as spoken word poetry and data verbalisation to connect with systematically excluded groups. Bala challenges naïve notions about the inherent transformative potential of performance in her research on performance and translation. She points to the way in which performance and its reception is always already inscribed in what she calls global or planetary asymmetries. At the conclusion of this conversation, they broach the question: are small places truly as small as they seem? N2 - “Embodied Practices – Looking From Small Places” ist das editierte Transkript eines Gesprächs zwischen der Theaterwissenschaftlerin Sruti Bala (Universität Amsterdam) und dem Soziologen und Kriminologen Dylan Kerrigan (University Leicester), welches als Online-Veranstaltung unter gleichem Titel im November 2020 stattfand. Zentraler Ausgangspunkt des Gesprächs ist die Auseinandersetzung mit dem Werk des haitianischen Anthropologen Michel-Rolph Trouillot und insbesondere seinem Ansatz ausgehend von kleinen Einheiten, wie etwa kleinen Dörfern auf Dominica, auf große politische Zusammenhänge zu schauen, wie die Weltwirtschaft oder aber auch die Verteilung von Macht und sozialen Ungleichheiten. Davon ausgehend, geben die beiden Wissenschaftler*innen Einblicke in ihre eigenen Forschungen zu verkörperten, performativen Praktiken in der Karibik, in Europa oder in Indien. Sie verhandeln Fragen wie etwa: Wie kann Forschung zu und mit performativen Praktiken unser Verständnis von Macht- und Herrschaftssystemen schärfen, die gleichzeitig lokal und global wirksam sind? Wie könnte eine angemessene und wertschätzende Auseinandersetzung mit performativen Praktiken aussehen, die sich aus unterschiedlichen geografischen und kulturellen Kontexten speisen? Kerrigan führt aus wie er in seiner Forschung zeigt, dass alltägliche Erfahrungen und Kämpfe in der Karibik nicht außerhalb von historischen und transnationalen Prozessen wie racial capitalism sowie Post/Kolonialität zu denken sind. Darüber hinaus berichtet er, wie er performative Praktiken wie spoken word oder data verbalisation einsetzt, um mit systematisch marginalisierten Personen in Kontakt zu treten. Bala legt dar, dass sie in ihrer Forschung, beispielsweise zu Performance und Übersetzung, darum bemüht ist, naive Vorstellungen von dem scheinbar inhärent transformativen Potential von Performance zu dekonstruieren. Aufführungen und deren Rezeption seien vielmehr immer schon eingeschrieben in das, was Bala globale oder planetarische Asymmetrien nennt. Schließlich verhandeln sie die Frage wie klein sogenannte “kleine Orte” tatsächlich sind. KW - Performance Studies KW - Theatre Studies KW - Anthropology KW - Criminology KW - Caribbean KW - Embodied Practices KW - Performance KW - Translation KW - Spoken word Y1 - 2021 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-508999 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Pittel, Harald T1 - Ali Smith’s ‘Coming-of-Age’ in the age of Brexit JF - Brexit and Beyond: Nation and Identity Y1 - 2021 SN - 978-3-8233-8414-4 SN - 978-3-8233-9414-3 SP - 121 EP - 144 PB - Narr CY - Tübingen ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wiemann, Dirk ED - Robinson, Benjamin Lewis T1 - Being Taught Something World-Sized BT - 'The Detainee's Tale as Told to Ali Smith' and the Work of World Literature JF - The Work of World Literature N2 - This paper reads ‘The Detainee’s Tale as told to Ali Smith’ (2016) as an exemplary demonstration of the work of world literature. Smith’s story articulates an ethics of reading that is grounded in the recipient’s openness to the singular, unpredictable, and unverifiable text of the other. More specifically, Smith’s account enables the very event that it painstakingly stages: the encounter with alterity and newness, which is both the theme of the narrative and the effect of the text on the reader. At the same time, however, the text urges to move from an ethics of literature understood as the responsible reception of the other by an individual reader to a more explicitly convivial and political ethics of commitment beyond the scene of reading. KW - Ali Smith KW - anagogy KW - ethics KW - Refugee Tales KW - singularity KW - world literature Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-19_07 SN - 2627-728X SN - 2627-731X SP - 149 EP - 172 PB - ICI Press CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Adamik, Verena T1 - Making worlds from literature BT - W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Quest of the Silver Fleece and Dark Princess JF - Thesis eleven : critical theory and historical sociology N2 - While W.E.B. Du Bois’s first novel, The Quest of the Silver Fleece (1911), is set squarely in the USA, his second work of fiction, Dark Princess: A Romance (1928), abandons this national framework, depicting the treatment of African Americans in the USA as embedded into an international system of economic exploitation based on racial categories. Ultimately, the political visions offered in the novels differ starkly, but both employ a Western literary canon – so-called ‘classics’ from Greek, German, English, French, and US American literature. With this, Du Bois attempts to create a new space for African Americans in the world (literature) of the 20th century. Weary of the traditions of this ‘world literature’, the novels complicate and begin to decenter the canon that they draw on. This reading traces what I interpret as subtle signs of frustration over the limits set by the literature that underlies Dark Princess, while its predecessor had been more optimistic in its appropriation of Eurocentric fiction for its propagandist aims. KW - African American literature KW - Eurocentrism KW - genre KW - intertextuality KW - race Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1177/0725513621993308 SN - 0725-5136 SN - 1461-7455 VL - 162 IS - 1 SP - 105 EP - 120 PB - Sage CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Crane, Kylie Ann T1 - Anthropocene Presences and the Limits of Deferral BT - Alexis Wright's Carpentaria and The Swan Book JF - Open library of humanities N2 - Literary criticism, particularly ecocriticism, occupies an uneasy position with regard to activism: reading books (or plays, or poems) seems like a rather leisurely activity to be undertaking if our environment—our planet—is in crisis. And yet, critiquing the narratives that structure worlds and discourses is key to the activities of the (literary) critic in this time of crisis. If this crisis manifests as a ‘crisis of imagination’ (e.g. Ghosh), I argue that this not so much a crisis of the absence of texts that address the environmental disaster, but rather a failure to comprehend the presences of the Anthropocene in the present. To interpret (literary) texts in this framework must entail acknowledging and scrutinising the extent of the incapacity of the privileged reader to comprehend the crisis as presence and present rather than spatially or temporally remote. The readings of the novels Carpentaria (2006) and The Swan Book (2013) by Waanyi writer Alexis Wright (Australia) trace the uneven presences of Anthropocenes in the present by way of bringing future worlds (The Swan Book) to the contemporary (Carpentaria). In both novels, protagonists must forge survival amongst ruins of the present and future: the depicted worlds, in particular the representations of the disenfranchisement of indigenous inhabitants of the far north of the Australian continent, emerge as a critique of the intersections of capitalist and colonial projects that define modernity and its impact on the global climate. Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.16995/olh.348 SN - 2056-6700 VL - 5 IS - 1 PB - Open library of humanities CY - Cambridge ER - TY - JOUR A1 - März, Moses Alexander T1 - Imagining a politics of relation BT - Glissant’s border thought and the German border JF - Tydskrif vir letterkunde N2 - This study explores the theoretical and political potentials of Édouard Glissant’s philosophy of relation and its approach to the issues of borders, migration, and the setup of political communities as proposed by his pensée nouvelle de la frontière (new border thought), against the background of the German migration crisis of 2015. The main argument of this article is that Glissant’s work offers an alternative epistemological and normative framework through which the contemporary political issues arising around the phenomenon of repressive border regimes can be studied. To demonstrate this point, this article works with Glissant’s border thought as an analytical lens and proposes a pathway for studying the contemporary German border regime. Particular emphasis is placed on the identification of potential areas where a Glissantian politics of relation could intervene with the goal of transforming borders from impermeable walls into points of passage. By exploring the political implications of his border thought, as well as the larger philosophical context from which it emerges, while using a transdisciplinary approach that borrows from literary and political studies, this work contributes to ongoing debates in postcolonial studies on borders and borderlessness, as well as Glissant’s political legacy in the twenty-first century. KW - Edouard Glissant KW - politics of relation KW - Germany KW - border regime Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.17159/2309-9070/tvl.v.56i1.6271 SN - 0041-476X VL - 56 IS - 1 SP - 49 EP - 61 PB - University of Pretoria CY - Pretoria ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Eckstein, Lars A1 - Schwarz, Anja T1 - The making of Tupaia’s map BT - a story of the extent and mastery of Polynesian navigation, competing systems of wayfinding on James Cook’s endeavour, and the invention of an ingenious cartographic system JF - The journal of pacific history N2 - Tupaia’s Map is one of the most famous and enigmatic artefacts to emerge from the early encounters between Europeans and Pacific Islanders. It was drawn by Tupaia, an arioi priest, chiefly advisor and master navigator from Ra‘iātea in the Leeward Society Islands in collaboration with various members of the crew of James Cook’s Endeavour, in two distinct moments of mapmaking and three draft stages between August 1769 and February 1770. To this day, the identity of many islands on the chart, and the logic of their arrangement have posed a riddle to researchers. Drawing in part on archival material hitherto overlooked, in this long essay we propose a new understanding of the chart’s cartographic logic, offer a detailed reconstruction of its genesis, and thus for the first time present a comprehensive reading of Tupaia’s Map. The chart not only underscores the extent and mastery of Polynesian navigation, it is also a remarkable feat of translation between two very different wayfinding systems and their respective representational models. KW - Cartography KW - first contact KW - wayfinding KW - star navigation KW - sea of islands KW - translation KW - Indigenous knowledges and ontologies KW - Tupaia Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/00223344.2018.1512369 SN - 0022-3344 SN - 1469-9605 VL - 54 IS - 1 SP - 1 EP - 95 PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wiemann, Dirk T1 - Too Poor for Debt BT - Deleuze's First-World Problems JF - Coils of the Serpent N2 - Deleuze launches his description/prediction of the emergence and imminent consolidation of the society of control as a postscript. The text thus announces itself as an afterthought, a supplement appended to some complete larger textual body, from which it is, however, unmoored as it is launched as an independent self-standing text that, moreover, does not indicate to what it is an addendum but instead, on what it speaks. By this token, the Postscript unhinges the conventional notion according to which a supplement signals “the addition of something to an already complete entity” (Attridge 1992: 77). By marking his text as the adjunct to an absent main body, Deleuze appears to concede and at the same time emphatically embrace the necessary incompleteness of this short précis on the post-disciplinary regime. My argument in the following will be that the supplementary status of the Postscript does not so much signal some subversive or dissident gesture in the name of the minor or the molecular (even though it does that, too); instead, it primarily serves to keep at bay and contain an exteriority that it aims to ‘confine by exclusion’1; and that exteriority, I will argue, is the Third World. Y1 - 2020 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa2-728571 SN - 2510-3059 VL - 6 IS - 2 SP - 100 EP - 110 PB - Universität Leipzig CY - Leipzig ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Gasser, Lucy T1 - Towards Eurasia BT - remapping Europe as ‘upstart peripheral to an ongoing operation’ JF - Postcolonial Studies N2 - In order to heed the call in world literature studies to work against disciplinary Eurocentrism by refiguring both what constitutes world literature and how this is read, in this article I propose world literature as an archive of world-making practices and as an impulse for the articulation of alternative methodological approaches. This takes world literature from the postcolonial South as, following Pheng Cheah, instantiating a modality of world literature in which the need for imagining worlds with alternative centres to those determined by coloniality is particularly acute. A response to this is facilitated and illustrated by a reading of Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore’s Letters from Russia (1930), and South African writer/activist Alex La Guma’s A Soviet Journey (1978). By drawing forward connections between the postcolonial South and the former Soviet Union, this complicates traditional colonial arrangements of the colonial ‘centre’ as cradle of civilisation and culture, as well as postcolonial scholarship’s cumulative fetishisation of ‘Europe’, by allowing a reshuffling of the co-ordinates determining ‘centres’ and ‘peripheries’ and a more nuanced grasp of ‘Europe’ simultaneously. These imaginative journeys destabilise ‘Europe’ as closed category and call forth Eurasia as a more appropriate categorical–cartographical framework for thinking this space and the connections and (hi)story-telling it stages and fosters. KW - Eurasia KW - Europe KW - Eurocentrism KW - Soviet Union KW - world literature Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/13688790.2019.1608798 SN - 1368-8790 SN - 1466-1888 VL - 22 IS - 2 SP - 188 EP - 202 PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group CY - Abingdon ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Roos, Jana A1 - Starks, Donna A1 - Macdonald, Shem A1 - Nicholas, Howard T1 - Connecting worlds BT - linguistic landscapes as transformative curriculum artefacts in schools and universities T2 - The Routledge handbook of language education curriculum design N2 - This chapter considers the benefits of working with linguistic landscapes for language education curriculum. It shows how introducing linguistic landscape exploration into the curriculum can support learners to read beyond words and to build critical understandings of intersections between words and worlds. The chapter explores data from two case studies in different educational contexts. The first study shows the effects of scaffolding in-service languages teachers to learn to read their worlds from multiple perspectives. The second study illustrates the types of insights that can emerge from school EFL learners when they explore the linguistic landscapes of worlds beyond their classrooms. Y1 - 2020 SN - 978-1-138-95857-9 SN - 978-1-315-66103-2 SP - 238 EP - 257 PB - Routledge CY - New York ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Heidt, Irene T1 - Teaching language and culture as discourse through telecollaboration T2 - Masters of reflective practice – Abschlussarbeiten in der Englischdidaktik Y1 - 2020 SP - 165 EP - 182 PB - WVT CY - Trier ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Eckstein, Lars T1 - Recollecting bones BT - the remains of German-Australian colonial entanglements T2 - Remembering German-Australian colonial entanglements Y1 - 2020 SN - 978-0-367-42159-5 SP - 22 EP - 35 PB - Routledge CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Eckstein, Lars A1 - Hurley, Andrew T1 - German-Australian Colonial Entanglements BT - On German Settler Colonialism, the Wavering Interests of Exploration, Science, Mission and Migration, and the Contestations of Travelling Memory JF - Remembering German-Australian colonial entanglements N2 - 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. Y1 - 2020 SN - 978-0-367-42159-5 SP - 1 EP - 21 PB - Routledge CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Eckstein, Lars T1 - Reflections of Lusáni Cissé BT - Imperial Images and Sentient Critique JF - Ideology in postcolonial texts and contexts Y1 - 2020 SN - 978-90-04-42805-8 SN - 978-90-04-43745-6 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004437456_010 SP - 147 EP - 161 PB - Rodopi CY - Leiden ER - TY - GEN A1 - Küttner, Uwe-Alexander T1 - Rhythmic analyses as a proof-procedure? BT - An initial observation on rhythmicity and projection T2 - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe N2 - This paper reports a problematic case of unequivocally evidencing participant orientation to the projective force of some turn-initial demonstrative wh-clefts (DCs) within the framework of Conversation Analysis (CA) and Interactional Linguistics (IL). Conducting rhythmic analyses appears helpful in this regard, in that they disclose rhythmic regularities which suggest a speaker's orientation towards a projected turn continuation. In this particular case, rhythmic analyses can therefore be shown to meaningfully complement sequential analyses and analyses of turn-design, so as to gather additional evidence for participant orientations. In conclusion, I will point to possibly more extensive relations between rhythmicity and projection and proffer a tentative outlook for the usability of rhythmic analyses as an analytic tool in CA and IL. T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe - 172 KW - Interactional Linguistics KW - Speech Rhythm and Rhythmic Analysis KW - Method KW - Participant Orientation KW - Turn-Constructional Units KW - Projection KW - Demonstrative Clefts Y1 - 2021 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-445363 SN - 1866-8380 IS - 172 ER - TY - BOOK ED - Eckstein, Lars ED - Bartels, Anke ED - Wiemann, Dirk ED - Waller, Nicole T1 - Postcolonial Justice: An Introduction T3 - ASNEL papers ; 22 N2 - Postcolonial Justice' addresses a major issue in current postcolonial theory and beyond, namely, the question of how to reconcile an ethics grounded in the reciprocal acknowledgment of diversity and difference with the normative, if not universal thrust that appears to energize any notion of justice. The concept of postcolonial justice shared by the essays in this volume carries an unwavering commitment to difference within and beyond Europe, while equally rejecting radical cultural essentialisms, which refuse to engage in "utopian ideals" of convivial exchange across a plurality of subject positions. Such utopian ideals can no longer claim universal validity, as in the tradition of the European enlightenment; instead they are bound to local frames of speaking from which they project world. Y1 - 2017 SN - 978-90-04-33503-5 PB - Leiden CY - Brill ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Eckstein, Lars T1 - Recollecting bones BT - the remains of German-Australian colonial entanglements N2 - 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. Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/13688790.2018.1435146 SN - 1368-8790 SN - 1466-1888 VL - 21 IS - 1 SP - 6 EP - 19 PB - Taylor & Francis CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Eckstein, Lars A1 - Peitsch, Helmut A1 - Schwarz, Anja T1 - Tusitalas Wandlungen BT - Spuren Robert Louis Stevensons in deutscher Literatur über Samoa JF - Pazifikismus : Poetiken des Stillen Ozeans Y1 - 2017 SN - 978-3-8260-6169-1 SP - 443 EP - 460 PB - Königshausen & Neumann CY - Würzburg ER -