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Bridging Fictions and Liminal Aesthetics Within the UK’s Hostile Environment
No full textThe article considers the various frictions and fissures in contemporary European politics. Contrary to its historical genesis, this politics often aims at division rather than community, a development epitomized by Brexit. The creation, reinforcement, and protection of borders seem to be a core aim of this policy, which can be observed in EU foreign policy in the narrower sense, but also in the central framing narratives that the EU pursues in the context of border politics and migration in order to fortify the ‘fortress Europe’, as does the UK with its Hostile Environment policy. Contrary to the supposed populist success of such policies, which were clearly demonstrated by the Brexit referendum vote, there is also widespread skepticism towards such disintegrating governance. A vast body of literature, mostly so-called Brexlit, addresses the fractures created by Brexit but also the many pre-existing divisions that Brexit did not cause, but was a consequence of. Some of these works establish an antagonistic Leave or Remain dichotomy, perfectly understandable from the point of view of the losing side of the referendum, but perhaps not necessarily productive in terms of reducing the divisions in society or even generating compassion for the opposition. The article argues that there is, however, a body of literature that aims at the erasure of borders, that seeks to bridge the existing ruptures within society and to reconcile the divided camps. I would like to focus on two respective literary projects, the EFACIS Kaleidoscope series which features various writers and artists from Ireland and their respective views on Europe, and Ali Smith’s Seasonal Quartet and Companion Piece , five novels that negotiate contemporary UK politics post Brexit. While both projects perceptibly address contemporary borders and exclusions, they do not present them as inevitable. Rather, they offer alternative designs for overcoming the existing divisions by integrating them into their plots, but they also reflect this communal unity on the formal level of their works. In this respect, both projects seem particularly suited to create a welcoming climate of solidarity, in order to unwrite, if not Brexit itself, at least some of its consequences.Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL.Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (1056
Antisemitic Comments on Facebook Pages of Leading British, French, and German Media Outlets
No full textWe conducted a cross-national study on antisemitic hate speech on the Facebook profiles of leading media outlets in the United Kingdom, France, and Germany. In a combination of qualitative pragmalinguistic analysis and quantitative analysis, we examined their comment sections concerning the conceptual and linguistic repertoire of verbal antisemitism in these three languages as well as to the frequency of antisemitic utterances. The corpus comprises 4500 comments (1500 for each language) made in reaction to the media’s Facebook posts reporting on an escalation phase of the Arab–Israeli conflict in May 2021. Since in antisemitism studies, Israel—and issues related to it—are widely perceived as today’s main pretext for communicating antisemitic resentment, unsurprisingly, those events led to the emergence of antisemitic content online. This article contrasts the findings of antisemitism in the three countries’ comment sections and illustrates them by presenting a variety of linguistic realisations of various antisemitic concepts and illustrates the corresponding steps of interpretation
Australian Seascapes
No full textThe beach resort Rickett’s Point in Melbourne inspired Impressionist artists like the English immigrant Charles Conder to create scenes of family outings, picnics, and shell collecting. Conder was part of the ‘Heidelberg School’, consisting of painters in a small village (now a suburb of Melbourne) which is named after the picturesque Baden town. Their aim was to catch a motif plein air; they found beauty outside and claimed to paint its true nature: “we will do our best to put only the truth down, and only as much as we feel sure of seeing” (Roberts, Conder, Streeton). Painting Australian landscapes and creating mesmerising seascapes, they visually framed the nation of Australia creating new ‘Australian art’. They display both modernist aspects of progress through industrialisation as well as leisure and nature. Yet, their paintings could be labelled a “tale of a European culture in a non-European land” (Dunlap) because European-trained artists like Tom Roberts and Conder, as well as Arthur Streeton established this type of art in Australia: Painters set up artists’ colonies and caught the seaside with both an imperial and a new post-colonial, nationalistic gaze upholding an illusion that includes an erasure of Australian indigenous life. This article analyses how the ‘Australian Impressionists’ created a (post-)colonial, Australian self-positioned national painting style
Assessing the Prospect of Multilateralism in Transatlantic Climate Change Policy
No full textClimate change policy stands out as a highly salient issue in European and in American public opinion. This article contends that a significant transatlantic consensus supports multilateral action on climate change. Leveraging a broad review of survey data in our time series, the analysis identifies a clear pattern of increasing agreement in public opinion. Yet progress in joint transatlantic climate change action has been rather slow and fragmented. To explain this puzzle, we connect these findings to pitfalls for transatlantic cooperation by weighing partisan polarization and regional differences in the U.S. and country variations in the EU as plausible hurdles to policy consistency. We argue that, beneath broader trends in shared concerns, roadblocks on the national level inhibit the implementation of coherent and effective transatlantic climate change policies.Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL.Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover (1038
The CLARIN Infrastructure as an Interoperable Language Technology Platform for SSH and Beyond
No full textCLARIN is a European Research Infrastructure Consortium developing and providing a federated and interoperable platform to support scientists in the field of the Social Sciences and Humanities in carrying-out language-related research. This contribution provides an overview of the entire infrastructure with a particular focus on tool interoperability, ease of access to research data, tools and services, the importance of sharing knowledge within and across (national) communities, and community building. By taking into account FAIR principles from the very beginning, CLARIN succeeded in becoming a successful example of a research infrastructure that is actively used by its members. The benefits CLARIN members reap from their infrastructure secure a future for their common good that is both sustainable and attractive to partners beyond the original target groups.Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL.Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS) (3453