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Zum Spannungsfeld der Fremdsprachendidaktik und ihrer Bezugswissenschaften
No full textThis chapter discusses the nature of the interdisciplinary discipline ‘Fremdsprachendidaktik’. It addresses questions of definition, self- understanding and pluralism of language education as a field of academic inquiry. The author argues that due to its inherent transdisciplinarity, its multifaceted approaches, and the complexity of its subject matter, ‘Fremdsprachendidaktik’ can be considered a ‘disobedient’ discipline.https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/6789
Cultures of U.S.-American Conservatism
No full textConservatism in the United States can seem perplexing from a European perspective. It is also under-theorized in many branches of the humanities, including literary and cultural studies. The international conference “Cultures of US-American Conservatism” will address both of these problems by bringing together scholars from the social sciences and the humanities to explore US-American conservatism from a cultural perspective. Our approach is pluralistic. We will keep in mind that the conservative movement was never homogeneous. From its origins in anticommunism, it has grown into a loose coalition that includes evangelicals interested in traditional values, independents who become active on divisive issues such as abortion and affirmative action, libertarians, neoliberals, fiscal conservatives, foreign policy hawks, nativists, and opponents of federalism and taxation. What unites these groups is an anti-establishment and individualistic orientation defined in opposition to the allegedly “liberal” media and university system. The goal of the conference is to interrogate this orientation by placing the multiplicity of conservative politics in relation to conservative lifestyles, beliefs, attitudes, discourses, markers of taste, media outlets, and social and familial roles.https://conservatismconference2017.wordpress.com
Interdisziplinarität in der empirischen Fremdsprachenforschung: Zugänge, Formate, Methoden
No full textThis chapter explores the interdisciplinary nature of empirical research on foreign/second language learning. In doing so, it reviews four recent interdisciplinary PhD theses. It mainly argues that interdisciplinary cooperation changes the systematicity of disciplines as such and, thus, may lead to the development of hybrid disciplines.https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/6789
Challenges of the Post-Truth Era in American Studies
No full textThe thematic focus of our conference, “Challenges of the Post-Truth Era in American Studies,” brings to the fore the important critical work of our interdisciplinary and transnational field in times of misinformation, propaganda, filter bubbles, and a lack of media literacy. Not only the United States but also across the Atlantic have political elections and their aftermaths caused turmoil in all spheres of social, cultural, and economic life. The meanings and uses of such controversial terms as “truthiness,” “fake news,” or “post-truth” (voted as words of the year by Merriam-Webster in 2006, Macquarie Dictionary Australia in 2016, and the American Dialect Society in 2017 respectively) continue to shape current discourses in the media and on social networks around information policies, propaganda, and sensationalism that highlight the historic and contemporary circumstances of democratic processes as well as its literary and cultural representations in a diachronic manner.https://pgf2019.wordpress.com
Brian Yothers: Reading Abolition: The Critical Reception of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Frederick Douglass
No full textReverberations of Trumpism in Far Cry 5
No full textPolitics and contexts of publication are two interesting focalisers when examining video games from an American Studies perspective. While not all video games are overtly political, many have explicit political agendas. The example of Far Cry 5 shows how real-world political rhetoric can find parallels in virtual environments, in this case the ludonarrative design of a video game.http://www.baas.ac.uk/usso/vg-amstud-trumpism-far-cry
Distance Matters: Approaching US Social Movements and Race/Ethnicity from a French Perspective
No full texthttp://www.asjournal.org/68-2019/conducting-sensitive-research-as-an-alien-ethnographer-in-the-united-states
"Period Sex": 'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend' and Feminist Politics of Offence
No full textThis chapter untangles Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’s (The CW 2015–2019) several strands of crudity and overall offensiveness to make the case for the show’s complex commentary on postfeminism and contemporary media culture. Rather than looking at its musical interludes or comic elements as clashing with the show’s exploration of feminist issues, the chapter positions these as essential to the biting critique that has made this portmanteau-hyphen television outlier—a female-lead dramedy-cringe-musical series—a critical, if not commercial success. It outlines the show’s critique of ‘abject postfeminism’, before tracing its rejection of the romanticizing of ‘crazy women’ in US-American popular culture. Exemplary readings of select scenes detail how the series employs different levels of offence to push the limits of female representation in contemporary television.https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/978303017573