TY - INPR A1 - Eckstein, Lars T1 - ‘We’re destroyed if we mix. And we’re destroyed if we don’t’ BT - indigeneity in the modern World system and the politics of Tricksterese in Pauline Melville’s The Ventriloquist’s Tale Y1 - 2012 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-85529 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 - CHAP A1 - Wiemann, Dirk T1 - World Literary Spacing : Contemporary Verse Novels Across the Anglosphere T2 - Across Literary and Linguistic Diversities : Essays on Comparative Literature Y1 - 2014 SN - 978-3-0343-1759-7 SP - 45 EP - 62 PB - Lang CY - Oxford ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Goldschweer, Ulrike T1 - Von der Unbehaustheit des Exils BT - prekäre Wohnsituationen im Werk Vladimir Nabokovs am Beispiel des Romans Mašen‘ka, 1926 Y1 - 2011 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-57372 SN - 2192-3019 SN - 2192-3027 IS - 1 SP - 149 EP - 168 ER - TY - INPR A1 - Eckstein, Lars T1 - Transatlantic slavery and the literary imagination Y1 - 2009 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-85548 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Wiemann, Dirk T1 - Tolkien’s Baits : Agonism, Essentialism and the Visible in The Lord of the Rings T2 - Politics in Fantasy Media : Essays on Ideology and Gender in Fiction, Film, Television and Games Y1 - 2014 SP - 191 EP - 204 PB - McFarland CY - Jefferson, NC ER - TY - INPR A1 - Eckstein, Lars T1 - Three ways of looking at illegal immigration BT - clandestine existence in novels by Salman Rushdie, Christopher Hope and Caryl Phillips Y1 - 2007 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-85567 SP - 141 EP - 157 ER - TY - INPR A1 - Eckstein, Lars T1 - Think local sell global BT - magical realism, The Whale Rider and the market Y1 - 2010 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-85537 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Priewe, Marc T1 - The commuting island BT - cultural (im)mobility in The Flying Bus JF - Mobilisierte Kulturen Y1 - 2011 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-57368 SN - 2192-3019 SN - 2192-3027 IS - 1 SP - 135 EP - 147 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Eckstein, Lars T1 - Sound matters BT - postcolonial critique for a viral age T2 - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe N2 - This essay proposes a reorientation in postcolonial studies that takes account of the transcultural realities of the viral twenty-first century. This reorientation entails close attention to actual performances, their specific medial embeddedness, and their entanglement in concrete formal or informal material conditions. It suggests that rather than a focus on print and writing favoured by theories in the wake of the linguistic turn, performed lyrics and sounds may be better suited to guide the conceptual work. Accordingly, the essay chooses a classic of early twentieth-century digital music – M.I.A.’s 2003/2005 single “Galang” – as its guiding example. It ultimately leads up to a reflection on what Ravi Sundaram coined as “pirate modernity,” which challenges us to rethink notions of artistic authorship and authority, hegemony and subversion, culture and theory in the postcolonial world of today. T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe - 119 KW - Sound KW - M.I.A KW - Galang KW - music KW - postcolonial critique KW - transculturality KW - pirate modernity KW - Great Britain KW - South asian diaspora Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-98393 SN - 1866-8380 IS - 119 ER - TY - INPR A1 - Eckstein, Lars T1 - Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners (1956) N2 - This essay reads Sam Selvon’s novel The Lonely Londoners (1956) as a milestone in the decolonisation of British fiction. After an introduction to Selvon and the core composition of the novel, it discusses the ways in which the narrative takes on issues of race and racism, how it in the tradition of the Trinidadian carnival confronts audiences with sexual profanation and black masculine swagger, and not least how the novel, especially through its elaborate use of creole Englishes, reimagines London as a West Indian metropolis. The essay then turns more systematically to the ways in which Selvon translates Western literary models and their isolated subject positions into collective modes of narrative performance taken from Caribbean orature and the calypsonian tradition. The Lonely Londoners breathes entirely new life into the ossified conventions of the English novel, and imbues it with unforeseen aesthetic, ethical, political and epistemological possibilities. Y1 - 2017 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-103285 ER - TY - INPR A1 - Eckstein, Lars T1 - Reflections of Lusáni Cissé BT - Imperial Images and Sentient Critique N2 - On the last sunny October weekend in 2015 I decided to cycle from my home in Berlin to the small town of Wünsdorf some 40 kilometres south of the city. Y1 - 2017 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-103196 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 - INPR A1 - Eckstein, Lars T1 - Recollecting Bones BT - The Remains of German-Australian Colonial Entanglements N2 - In the same “guarded, roundabout and reticent way” which Lindsay Barrett invokes for Australian conversations about imperial injustice, Germans, too, must begin to more systematically explore, in Paul Gilroy’s words, “the connections and the differences between anti-semitism and anti-black and other racisms and asses[s] the issues that arise when it can no longer be denied that they interacted over a long time in what might be seen as Fascism’s intellectual, ethical and scientific pre-history” (Gilroy 1996: 26). In the meantime, we need to care for the dead. We need to return them, first, from the status of scientific objects to the status of ancestral human beings, and then progressively, and proactively, as close as possible to the care of those communities from whom they were stolen. Y1 - 2017 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-103278 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wiemann, Dirk A1 - Raja, Ira A1 - Shaswati, Mazumdar T1 - Postcolonial world literature BT - Narration, translation, imagination JF - Thesis eleven : critical theory and historical sociology N2 - Postcolonial criticism has repeatedly debunked the ostensible neutrality of the ‘world’ of world literature by pointing out that and how the contemporary world – whether conceived in terms of cosmopolitan conviviality or neoliberal globalization – cannot be understood without recourse to the worldly event of Europe’s colonial expansion. While we deem this critical perspective indispensable, we simultaneously maintain that to reduce ‘the world’ to the world-making impact of capital, colonialism, and patriarchy paints an overly deterministic picture that runs the risk of unwittingly reproducing precisely that dominant ‘oneworldness’ that it aims to critique. Moreover, the mere potentiality of alternative modes of world-making tends to disappear in such a perspective so that the only remaining option to think beyond oneworldness resides in the singularity claim. This insistence on singularity, however, leaves the relatedness of the single units massively underdetermined or denies it altogether. By contrast, we locate world literature in the conflicted space between the imperial imposition of a hierarchically stratified world (to which, as hegemonic forces tell us, ‘there is no alternative’) and the unrealized ‘undivided world’ that multiple minor cosmopolitan projects yet have to win. It is precisely the tension between these ‘two worlds’ that brings into view the crucial centrality not of the nodes in their alleged singularity but their specific relatedness to each other, that both impedes and energizes world literature today and renders it ineluctably postcolonial. KW - Postkoloniale Theorie KW - Weltliteratur KW - Emily Apter KW - oneworldness KW - relationality KW - singularity KW - untranslatability Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1177/0725513621994707 SN - 0725-5136 VL - 162 IS - 1 SP - 3 EP - 17 PB - Sage CY - London [u.a.] ER - TY - INPR A1 - Eckstein, Lars T1 - Postcolonial Piracy N2 - Media piracy is a contested term in the academic as much as the public debate. It is used by the corporate industries as a synonym for the theft of protected media content with disastrous economic consequences. It is celebrated by technophile elites as an expression of freedom that ensures creativity as much as free market competition. Marxist critics and activists promote flapiracy as a subversive practice that undermines the capitalist world system and its structural injustices. Artists and entrepreneurs across the globe curse it as a threat to their existence, while many use pirate infrastructures and networks fundamentally for the production and dissemination of their art. For large sections of the population across the global South, piracy is simply the only means of accessing the medial flows of a progressively globalising planet. Y1 - 2017 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-103307 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Eckstein, Lars A1 - Schwarz, Anja T1 - Postcolonial piracy BT - Media distribution and cultural production in the global south T2 - Theory for a global age N2 - Across the global South, new media technologies have brought about new forms of cultural production, distribution and reception. The spread of cassette recorders in the 1970s; the introduction of analogue and digital video formats in the 80s and 90s; the pervasive availability of recycled computer hardware; the global dissemination of the internet and mobile phones in the new millennium: all these have revolutionised the access of previously marginalised populations to the cultural flows of global modernity. Yet this access also engenders a pirate occupation of the modern: it ducks and deranges the globalised designs of property, capitalism and personhood set by the North. Positioning itself against Eurocentric critiques by corporate lobbies, libertarian readings or classical Marxist interventions, this volume offers a profound postcolonial revaluation of the social, epistemic and aesthetic workings of piracy. It projects how postcolonial piracy persistently negotiates different trajectories of property and self at the crossroads of the global and the local. T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe - 89 Y1 - 2014 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-72189 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 - INPR A1 - Eckstein, Lars A1 - Wiemann, Dirk A1 - Waller, Nicole A1 - Bartels, Anke T1 - Postcolonial Justice BT - An Introduction N2 - In July 2014, some of us participated in a handover ceremony of 14 ancestral remains to their Australian traditional owners, performed on the premises of the Charité Campus in Berlin. Y1 - 2017 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-103220 ER - TY - INPR A1 - Eckstein, Lars T1 - Politics of passion and the production of human illegality Y1 - 2013 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-85512 ER - TY - INPR A1 - Eckstein, Lars T1 - Performing jazz, defying essence BT - music as a metaphor of being in Jackie Kay’s trumpet Y1 - 2006 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-85574 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Wiemann, Dirk T1 - On (Not) Missing Links : reading Conan Doyle with Mahasweta Devi T2 - Afrofictional In(ter)ventions : revisiting the BIGSAS Festival of African (-Diasporic) Literatures, Bayreuth 2011-2013 Y1 - 2014 SN - 978-3-942885-67-6 SP - 269 EP - 282 PB - Edition Assemblage CY - Berlin ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Wiemann, Dirk T1 - Network Realism/Capitalist Realism T2 - Realism: Aesthetics, Experiments, Politics KW - Realismus KW - Kapitalismus KW - Kritik KW - literary theory KW - realism KW - capitalism Y1 - 2022 SN - 978-1-5013-8548-3 SN - 978-1-5013-8551-3 SN - 978-1-5013-8550-6 SN - 978-1-5013-8549-0 U6 - https://doi.org/10.5040/9781501385513.0018 SP - 209 EP - 227 PB - Bloomsbury Academic CY - New York ER - TY - INPR A1 - Eckstein, Lars T1 - Monk Lewis’s Timour the Tartar, grand romantic orientalism and imperial melancholy Y1 - 2013 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-85503 ER - TY - THES A1 - an Haack, Jan T1 - Market and affect in evangelical mission T1 - Markt und Affekt im US-Evangelikalismus N2 - 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. N2 - Diese Arbeit ist ein Beitrag zur Erforschung des weltweiten Erfolges des evangelikalen Christentums und bietet eine neue Perspektive auf die Beziehung zwischen spätmodernem Kapitalismus und Evangelikalismus. Zu diesem Zweck wird untersucht, wie Affekt und Emotion im Evangelikalismus eingesetzt werden, um seine Mitglieder zu mobilisieren und inwieweit ähnliche Mobilisierungsstrategien im spätmodernen Kapitalismus wiedererkennbar sind. Ausgewählte Beispiele aus dem evangelikalen Spektrum werden als Affektökonomien analysiert, um herauszuarbeiten, inwieweit die affektive Mobilisierung eine zentrale Bedeutung für den weltweiten Erfolg des evangelikalen Christentums hat. Ein zentraler Punkt dieser Untersuchung ist die Frage, wie der Evangelikalismus seine Mitglieder, Förderer und Missionare zu ihrem außergewöhnlichen Engagement motiviert. Die hier präsentierten Beispiele zeigen auf, in welchen Bereichen sich spätmoderner Kapitalismus und Evangelikalismus überlagern und austauschen. Darauf aufbauend folgt eine theoretische Erkundung, inwieweit die hier präsentierten Ergebnisse eine Beschreibung des Evangelikalismus als innerweltlichen Narzissmus erlauben und einer angenommenen Wiederverzauberung der Welt Vorschub leisten. KW - evangelicalism KW - affect KW - emotion KW - economies of affect KW - Evangelikalismus KW - Affekt KW - Emotion KW - Affektökonomie, Affektökonomien Y1 - 2018 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-424694 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Eckstein, Lars A1 - Reinfandt, Christoph T1 - Luhmann in the Contact Zone BT - zur Theorie einer transkulturellen Moderne T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe - 90 Y1 - 2014 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-85488 SP - 107 EP - 124 ER - TY - INPR A1 - Eckstein, Lars A1 - Reindfandt, Christoph T1 - Luhmann in da Contact Zone BT - Towards a Postcolonial Critique of Sociological Systems Theory N2 - Our aim in this contribution is to productively engage with the abstractions and complexities of Luhmann’s conceptions of society from a postcolonial perspective, with a particular focus on the explanatory powers of his sociological systems theory when it leaves the realms of Europe and ventures to describe regions of the global South. In view of its more recent global reception beyond Europe, our aim is to thus – following the lead of Dipesh Chakrabarty – provincialize Luhmann’s system theory especially with regard to its underlying assumptions about a global “world society”. For these purposes, we intend to revisit Luhmann in the post/colonial contact zone: We wish to reread Luhmann in the context of spaces of transcultural encounter where “global designs and local histories” (Mignolo), where inclusion into and exclusion from “world society” (Luhmann) clash and interact in intricate ways. The title of our contribution, ‘Luhmann in da Contact Zone’ is deliberately ambiguous: On the one hand, we of course use ‘Luhmann’ metonymically, as representative of a highly complex theoretical design. We shall cursorily outline this design with a special focus on the notion of a singular, modern “world society”, only to confront it with the epistemic challenges of the contact zone. On the other hand, this critique will also involve the close observation of Niklas Luhman as a human observer (a category which within the logic of systems theory actually does not exist) who increasingly transpires in his late writings on exclusion in the global South. By following this dual strategy, we wish to trace an increasing fracture between one Luhmann and the other, between abstract theoretical design and personalized testimony. It is by exploring and measuring this fracture that we hope to eventually be able to map out the potential of a possibly more productive encounter between systems theory and specific strands of postcolonial theory for a pluritopic reading of global modernity. Y1 - 2017 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-103298 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 - INPR A1 - Eckstein, Lars A1 - Wiemann, Dirk T1 - Kleine Kosmopolitismen N2 - Das große Projekt der Aufklärung und damit auch der kosmopolitischen Idee war bereits in seinen Ursprüngen ambivalenter als gemeinhin anerkannt wird. Denn sein normatives Menschenbild war (und bleibt) implizit männlich, bürgerlich und nicht zuletzt weiß. Y1 - 2017 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-103261 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Eckstein, Lars A1 - Wiemann, Dirk T1 - Kleine Kosmopolitismen JF - Global Citizenship – Perspektiven einer Weltgemeinschaft Y1 - 2017 SN - 978-3-95829-211-6 SP - 44 EP - 53 PB - Steidel CY - Göttingen ER - TY - INPR A1 - Eckstein, Lars A1 - Wiemann, Dirk T1 - Introduction BT - towards a cultural politics of passion Y1 - 2013 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-85457 ER - TY - INPR A1 - Eckstein, Lars T1 - Filming illegals BT - clandestine translocation and the representation of bare life Y1 - 2013 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-85491 ER - TY - INPR A1 - Eckstein, Lars A1 - Dengel-Janic, Ellen T1 - Bridehood revisited BT - disarming concepts of gender and culture in recent Asian British film Y1 - 2008 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-85555 ER - TY - INPR A1 - Eckstein, Lars T1 - Belonging in music and the music of unbelonging in Richard Powers’s The Time of Our Singing Y1 - 2005 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-85584 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 - Coetzee-Van Rooy, Susan A1 - Peters, Arne T1 - A portrait-corpus study of language attitudes towards Afrikaans and English JF - Language matters : studies in the languages of Africa N2 - Language portraits are useful instruments to elicit speakers' reflections on the languages in their repertoires. In this study, we implement a "portrait-corpus approach" (Peters and Coetzee-Van Rooy 2020) to investigate the conceptualisations of the languages Afrikaans and English in 105 language portraits. In this approach, we use participants' reflections about their placement of the two languages on a human silhouette as a linguistic corpus. Relying on quantitative and qualitative analyses using WordSmith, Statistica and Atlas.ti, our study shows that Afrikaans is mainly conceptualised as a language that is located in more peripheral areas of the body (for example, the hands and feet) and, hence, is perceived as less important in participants' repertoires. The central location of English in the head reveals its status as an important language in the participants' multilingual repertoires. We argue that these conceptualisations of Afrikaans and English provide additional insight into the attitudes towards these languages in South Africa. KW - language attitudes KW - language portraits KW - portrait-corpus approach KW - multilingualism KW - South Africa KW - Afrikaans KW - English Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/10228195.2021.1942167 SN - 1022-8195 SN - 1753-5395 VL - 52 IS - 2 SP - 3 EP - 28 PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group CY - Abingdon ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Wiemann, Dirk T1 - (Not) Readily Available : Kiran Nagarkar in the Global Market T2 - Indian Writing in English and the Global Literary Market Y1 - 2014 SN - 978-1-349-49386-9 SP - 180 EP - 197 PB - Palgrave CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kunow, Rüdiger T1 - "Unavoidably side by side" BT - mobility studies – concepts and issues JF - Mobilisierte Kulturen Y1 - 2011 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-57317 SN - 2192-3019 SN - 2192-3027 IS - 1 SP - 17 EP - 32 ER -