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Überwachungsnarrative im Dokumentarischen. Konstruierte Untergangsstimmung im deutschsprachigen Fernsehen
No full textThe article examines which narratives underlie the statements on the topic of surveillance in documentary texts. I ask the question with which meanings surveillance is provided within our culture, how the experience of a multitude of surveillance occurrences is organized into understandable stories and which surveillance storyworld results from it. The texts construct the world as data world, the subject as data subject, via the narrative object of surveillance. They establish shadows as a collective symbol within the narrative of self-loss and focus on a future marked by a global totality of dataveillance. That’s how they state a crisis as a time of upheaval or transition.https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/6988
Measuring and Managing Expectations: Consumer Confidence as an Economic Indicator, 1920s–1970s
No full textThis chapter explores the origins of consumer confidence measurements as a prognostic tool. Commercial consumer studies had gained in importance since the interwar decades as a “scientific” means of predicting market developments for corporations and advertisers. In the years surrounding World War II, government economists became equally interested in forecasting consumer behavior. Such forecasts required a new understanding of consumers, their attitudes and expectations, and of the role that psychological factors play in economic behavior. The chapter focuses on George Katona and several other European émigré scholars in this field to highlight the importance of transnational knowledge transfers. Finally, it considers consumer research as a means of economic forecasting in the context of attempts to socially engineer mass consumption and to “manage” consumer expectations on both sides of the Atlantic during the middle of the twentieth century.https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/7142
Jennifer Debenham: Celluloid Subjects to Digital Directors: Changing Aboriginalities and Australian Documentary Film, 1901-2017
No full text2020 Ecocriticism: In Europe and Beyond
No full textEcocriticism has been at the forefront of introducing risk theory and risk research to literary and cultural studies. The essay surveys this more recent trend in ecocritical scholarship, which began with the new millennium and has focused on the participation of fictional texts in various environmental risk discourses. The study of risk fiction draws our attention to cultural moments of uncertainty, threat, and instability, to risk scenarios both local and planetary—not least the risk scenarios of the Anthropocene in which species consciousness and ‘planetariness’ have become central issues. The essay reviews how key publications have shed light on the cultural and literary historical relevance of environmental risk and on various issues that are central to ecocriticism. It points out how they have sharpened our sense of both the spatial and temporal dimensions of environmental risk and environmental crisis, introduced new categories of ecocritical analysis, contributed to clarifying some of the field’s major conceptual premises, and added a new approach to genre discussions, in particular relating to fiction engaging with global anthropogenic climate change
Merkmale und Funktionen von Krisennarrativen als Sinnstiftung über Zeiterfahrung und als literarische Laboratorien für alternative Welten
No full textDuring the last two decades there has not only been a wide range of ever more crises of all sorts; we have also witnessed an inflationary use of the term crisis, and a concomitant proliferation of factual and fictional crisis narratives across various media. The first section of this introduction provides a brief overview of some of the crisis narratives and crisis scenarios that have recently emerged, while also outlining the topic of this special issue. Delineating some of the most important recent developments in interdisciplinary research on this still underresearched topic, section 2 then explores both the concepts of crisis and crisis narratives, and their main recurrent features, highlighting major trends and seminal publications (section 2). As the subtitle already indicates, the focus will be on an exploration of the functions that crisis narratives and the scenarios evoked by them in general (section 3), and literary crisis narratives in particular (section 4), serve to fulfil. This introductory essay concludes by providing a brief overview of the articles that follow as paradigm examples for exploring crisis narratives in literary studies (section 5), and of future perspectives that the recent proliferation of crises might have for research and university teaching (section 6), arguing that literary scholars in general, and narrative theorists in particular could, and arguably should, contribute to a better understanding of the forms and functions of the medial uses of crises by shedding light on crisis narratives and crisis scenarios
Bewegte Bilder / Bewegte Vergangenheit: Queeres Kino der USA
No full textDurch aktuelle gesellschaftspolitische und rechtliche Debatten um geschlechtliche und sexuelle Vielfalt ist einiges in Bewegung geraten: Tradierte (Zu-)Ordnungen von Geschlecht sind durchlässiger geworden, strikte Regulierungen von Sexualität(en) sind aufgebrochen. Soziale Wirklichkeiten scheinen nun pluralisiert und neue Chancen für selbstbestimmte Lebensweisen eröffnet. Zugleich haben institutionalisierte Vorstellungen von binären Geschlechterdifferenzen und von Heterosexualität Spuren hinterlassen, die als ‚Einschreibungen’ der sozialen Verhältnisse weiter existieren. Der vorliegende Band ist das Ergebnis interdisziplinärer Reflexionen in den Sozial- und Geisteswissenschaften. Die Beiträge geben einen Einblick in unterschiedliche disziplinäre Perspektiven auf Gender- und Sexualitäts(zu)ordnungen. Sie spannen die Breite der Forschungsfelder mit ihrem jeweiligen Bezug zu Alltagspraktiken auf; vor dem Hintergrund der Fachkulturen und wissenschaftlichen Entwicklungen beleuchten sie begriffliche Konzepte, Fragestellungen sowie Arbeitsweisen und reflektieren vor allem auch die Gleichzeitigkeit von Kontinuität, Wandel und neuen Normierungsprozessen.Der vorliegende Band ist das Ergebnis interdisziplinärer Reflexionen in den Sozial- und Geisteswissenschaften. Die Beiträge geben einen Einblick in unterschiedliche disziplinäre Perspektiven auf Gender- und Sexualitäts(zu)ordnungen. Sie spannen die Breite der Forschungsfelder mit ihrem jeweiligen Bezug zu Alltagspraktiken auf; vor dem Hintergrund der Fachkulturen und wissenschaftlichen Entwicklungen beleuchten sie begriffliche Konzepte, Fragestellungen sowie Arbeitsweisen und reflektieren vor allem auch die Gleichzeitigkeit von Kontinuität, Wandel und neuen Normierungsprozessen.If current socio-political and legal discussions about gender diversity and sexual orientation are any indication, we are witnessing a paradigmatic shift: traditional mappings of sex and gender have become less strict, and formerly stringent regulations of both sexual practices and sexual orientation have lost some of their force. The very social fabric now seems to accommodate plurality, potentially allowing for more self-determined lifestyles. At the same time, however, gender binaries and heteronormativity continue to leave their trace – in the form of powerful inscriptions into social relations and institutional practices. This volume is a product of interdisciplinary reflexion. The essays collected here illustrate the different ways in which normative orders of gender and sexuality, and their dynamic reconfigurations, are addressed across a range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Informed by current developments in the field and by their respective academic culture, they offer a wide canvas of research interests – and they highlight the respective terms, concepts, guiding questions and methods employed in each discipline today. Most importantly, they all reflect on the coexistence of continuity and change in normative (re)mappings of gender and sexual orientation.https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-fau/frontdoor/index/index/docId/1375
Movilidades y transformaciones
No full textEn este artículo presento hallazgos de investigaciones sobre juventudes, educación y política, con acento en los resultados de un trabajo de campo en un colegio de tradición británica para clases altas en Buenos Aires-Argentina realizado entre 2016-2018 con avances de una investigación en curso sobre trayectorias educativas y procesos de socialización de estudiantes universitarios/as argentinos/as en Berlín, Alemania.In this article I present the research’s findings about youth, education and politics, with emphasis on the results of a field work at a British tradition school for the upper class in Buenos Aires, Argentina, between 2016 and 2018; and the developments of an ongoing research on educational trajectories and socialization processes of Argentinian university students in Berlin, Germany
Can the Undocumented Speak? Undocumented Immigrants and Self-Representation
No full textUndocumented immigrants usually trust their voices to immigration activists rather than engaging with strategies of visuality to reclaim their rights. The universe of illegal border crossing is about radical experiences of invisibility, misidentification, erasure, dispossession, and disappearance. First person testimonies by undocumented immigrants have, however, seen the light of day throughout the last decade in unsuspected media venues, from the New York Times to the Guardian, small sites of independent journalism, and also some book publications. Revealing their presence, their names, and their faces seems a brave decision, when the risk of deportation is part of their everyday reality. In my reading of their testimonies and the photographs illustrating them, I follow two theoretical lines that engage with the subjectivities of marginalized groups: sociologist Boaventura de Sousa Santos’ elaboration of a post abyssal thinking and cultural critic Nicholas Mirzoeff’s ideas of spaces of appearance and practices of counter visuality. Combining them will allow me to analyze how instances of self-representation by undocumented immigrants in the United States contribute to crafting a new subject position by a group who, by definition, cannot speak because it is deemed non-existent in legal terms. The issue brings back to the discussion Gayatri Spivak’s classical questions on subalternity and power.http://www.asjournal.org/69-2020/can-the-undocumented-speak-undocumented-immigrants-and-self-representation
Book Value Categories and the Acceptance of Technological Changes in English Book Production
No full textFor more than 20 years now, the publishing industry has been highly influenced by innovations in digital technology. This is not the first time that technological changes affect the book trade. Both the printing press and industrialized production methods vitally changed the book industry in their time. With a macroscopic, comparative approach, this book looks at the transitional phases of the book of the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries to locate distinctive patterns in the acceptance of new technologies. Using specific book value categories, which shape the acceptance context of innovations in book production, helps us find continuities and discontinuities of these patterns. It also offers a better understanding of current developments in publishing in the digital age.https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/7261
Going to Write It for You
No full textThe article introduces vicarious writing as a category of literary and cultural analysis that can reframe the study of authorship with respect to this specific form of collaboration. It argues for shifting emphasis from an ongoing privileging of singular authorship and its conceptual legacy of individualism to writing for others as a site where power constellations become operative and particularly salient. Four vignettes of twentieth-century vicarious life writing—"The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas" (1933), "The Babe Ruth Story" (1948), "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" (1965), and "I," "Rigoberta Menchú" (1984)—bring to the fore the manifold motivations and manifest and latent functions that writing for others can have as symbol and matter of literary practice, exposing it as a craft, as a means of cultural authorization, and as a strategy for constituting and positioning authorial subjects in entangled processes of writing. Considering the theoretical implications and historical situatedness of vicarious writing, the author argues that the key issue is not one of identity (“I am an author”) but one of stance-taking (“I position myself / someone else as an author”), highlighting the contractual relations writers and signatories enter to create author figures. The article also pleads for consideration of collaborative dynamics in the academic field that are analogous to the procedures of the literary marketplace