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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 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 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 -