TY  - GEN
A1  - Gasser, Lucy
T1  - Towards Eurasia
BT  - remapping Europe as ‘upstart peripheral to an ongoing operation’
T2  - Postprints der Universität Potsdam Philosophische Reihe
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.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe - 164 
KW  - Eurasia
KW  - Europe
KW  - eurocentrism
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - world literature
Y1  - 2019
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-433585
SN  - 1866-8380
IS  - 164
SP  - 188
EP  - 202
ER  - 
TY  - GEN
A1  - Fischer, Karl
T1  - Verhandlungen oder militärische Option? : Chancen und Risiken für Afghanistan
N2  - Nach wie vor ist es der internationalen Gemeinschaft nicht gelungen, eine Lösung für die afghanische Krise zu präsentieren. Dabei macht die gegenwärtige Situation eine Beendigung des Kriegszustands sowie die Aufnahme von konstruktiven Verhandlungen unerlässlich. Die Genfer Verhandlungen der 1980er Jahre über den Abzug der Sowjetarmee aus Afghanistan könnten hierbei als Vorbild dienen.
KW  - Afghanistan
KW  - UN
KW  - Sowjetunion
KW  - Afghanistan
KW  - UN
KW  - Soviet Union
Y1  - 2010
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-48984
ER  -