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Archivierung von Kulturen: Die Lücke zwischen materiellem und immateriellem Kulturerbe schließen
Full text linkIn Archiving Cultures, Jeannette Bastian guides the reader through a compelling exploration of what ‘cultural archives’ are. She explores how diverse communities express and document their heritage and collective memories. She also considers the reasons behind intangible forms of expression, as well as their function as archival records. Analyzing several forms of externalizing memories and knowledge beyond written text, she shows their relevance as records for their communities. The next challenge for archivists, cultural policymakers, and everyone concerned with preserving cultural expressions is to determine how they can contribute to this endeavor.In Archiving Cultures führt Jeannette Bastian den Begriff der „kulturellen Archive“ aufschlussreich ein. Sie untersucht, wie Gemeinschaften ihr kulturelles Erbe und ihr kollektives Gedächtnis zum Ausdruck bringen und dokumentieren und reflektiert die Gründe für immaterielle Ausdrucksformen sowie deren Funktion als Archivdokumente. Die nächste Herausforderung für Archivar_innen, kulturpolitische Entscheidungsträger_innen und alle, die sich mit der Bewahrung kultureller Ausdrucksformen befassen, besteht darin, zu bestimmen, wie sie zu diesem Vorhaben beitragen können.
Disruptive Subjects: Operaismo and Radical Feminism in Italy and the United States
Full text linkThis _Article examines the role of disruption in two pivotal instances of subject formation in the late 1960s and 1970s Atlantic World: Operaismo (Workerism) and radical feminism in Italy and the United States. To do so, it traces the history of the self-creation of workers and women as political subjects. It underscores how this becoming-subject emerged, both conceptually and tactically, through the disruption of their assigned role, place, and function within society. It describes the autonomous, unruly, and unexpected subjectivities that emerged from this disavowal and the new forms of politics, praxis, history, being-with, and against that women and workers created. The conclusion discusses the fortunes of disruptive politics and subjectivity since the 1970s and what these historical struggles can say to the liberation struggles of our present
Tagungsbericht zu “The Social Impact of Land and Knowledge: Transformation of Land Distribution, Utilization in Post-colonial Southern Africa”
No full textThe international conference on “The Social Impact of Land and Knowledge: Transformation of Land Distribution, Utilization in Post-colonial Southern Africa” took place between September 23 and 27, 2024, at the University of Fort Hare in East London and was co-organized with the Justus Liebig University. The goal was to address contemporary questions and challenges of land distribution and its various conditions in Southern African countries. For this purpose, scholars from Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Nigeria, and Germany were invited to discuss notions of land rights, political discourses on land, food sovereignty and food security, and postcolonial challenges. In addition to the presentations, organizers arranged a field trip with Loliwe Bonani to visit an informal settlement.Die internationale Konferenz zum Thema „The Social Impact of Land and Knowledge: Transformation of Land Distribution, Utilization in Post-colonial Southern Africa“ fand vom 23. bis 27. September 2024 an der University of Fort Hare in East London statt und wurde gemeinsam mit der Justus-Liebig-Universität organisiert. Ziel war es, aktuelle Fragen und Herausforderungen der Landverteilung und ihrer unterschiedlichen Voraussetzungen in den Ländern in Südafrika zu thematisieren. Zu diesem Zweck wurden Wissenschaftler aus Botswana, Namibia, Südafrika, Nigeria und Deutschland eingeladen, um Begriffe wie Landrechte, politische Diskurse über Land, Ernährungssouveränität und Ernährungssicherheit sowie postkoloniale Herausforderungen zu diskutieren. Zusätzlich zu den Vorträgen organisierten die Organisatoren eine Exkursion mit Loliwe Bonani, um eine inoffizielle Siedlung zu besuchen
Making Queer Content Visible: Media Framing of Queerness in Serbia
Full text linkThis _Perspective portrays the challenges and needs of the queer population in Serbian public discourse. Since the first Belgrade Pride in 2001, members of the LGBT+ community have encountered rejection from different sources. Although it is generally acknowledged that politics and mass media play an important role in the way that societies come to terms with queerness, there is little empirical knowledge about whether and how mass media actually contribute to the process of raising awareness and legitimation and increasing visibility. The study aims to assess changes in the online framing of the Serbian newspaper blic by analyzing the Belgrade Pride of each year from 2014 to 2024. The concept of media framing analysis is employed to elucidate the structural and dynamic interactions between the LGBT+ community and the (in)tolerant segment of the Serbian society. Furthermore, the aim of the analysis is to identify the various frames utilized in the media coverage, with a particular focus on the reporting and the actors that shape the discourse surrounding queerness. The primary argument is that, although the reporting has not resulted in significant shifts in framing, it provides a lens through which discussions about LGBT+ visibility and representation in Serbia can be conducted
Reframing the Dove, the Rifle, and the Faces: Débora Arango’s Gift to Álvaro Uribe
Full text linkDébora Arango is considered by critics to be an outstanding artist, both in her use of painting as political denunciation, and for being a woman who used her art to challenge gender roles and the conservative values of her time. However, before her death and during the office of Álvaro Uribe Vélez (2002–2010), Arango gifted the president a drawing he commissioned, which he made a symbol of his government by inserting a text between the sketch and its frame. From the vantage point of the image’s public archive, how should this be interpreted as part of Uribe’s political iconography? This _Article aesthetically and politically reframes the ex-president’s partial bracketing of the artist’s work by means of his discourse, by outlining a broader picture that considers first a contextualization of Uribe’s discursive appropriation of only half of the drawing for his propagandistic ends—currently the dominant discourse on it; and second, presents the artist’s political oeuvre as an interpretative repertoire, mapping the image’s critical potential by evoking its affectively charged visual tropes or Pathosformel
Of Sleeps and Cycles: Digital Disruptions and the Myth of Awakening
Full text linkThis _Essay explores digital disruptions at the intersections of awakening narratives and historical revivals in the postdigital era. Characterized by the normalization of technology, the postdigital (as opposed to the hyphenated post-digital) invites critical reflection on the political, social, and cultural implications of digital infrastructures. While optimism surrounding digital advancements is often framed through the lens of apolitical affordances, this _Essay challenges that perspective by foregrounding the concept of cyclical time. The so-called ‘Arab Spring’ exemplifies that this temporal framework is used politically: the 2010–2011 uprisings in North Africa initially sparked hopes for liberation through technology (Spring/Awakening) only to be followed by disillusionment and despair (Winter/Sleep). These cycles highlight an apparent duality of digital affordances to both empower and constrain. Through the metaphor of biphasic pre-industrial sleeping patterns, this _Essay delves into the ideological underpinnings of digital disruptions and how they animate a contemporary return to imagined medieval fantasies. This resurgence reveals troubling overlaps between alt-right ideologies and digital culture. Ultimately, this analysis contends that the postdigital has become a fertile ground for rewriting and reimagining history, one that calls for selected knowledge seeking, and where the struggle for democratic rights continues amidst the spectre of reactionary forces
Jerūiyq: Journey Beyond the Horizon
Full text linkThe Kazakhstan project at the 60th Venice Biennale (20 April 2024–24 November 2024) was titled Jerūiyq: Journey Beyond the Horizon. According to the curators, Anvar Musrepov and Danagul Tolepbay, it aimed to stimulate Kazakh decolonial futurism: “We wanted to create our own Wakanda, our post-nomadic essence, our ‘Kazakhness.’ Technology and the future are present in it, but they are not the primary focus. There is something beyond language, a spirituality, perhaps something connected to space and the landscape, our identity, which largely determines our way of thinking.” In these words we see how decolonial futurism functions as a creative disruptive fiction that mediates between forging spatial identity, geographical imagination, and decolonial indigeneity