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Truth Be Told, Science Be Bold. The Growing Fear of ‘Queer’
No full textThe flak which Gender Studies receive from within academic institutions, in (social) media and even through bans from state governments is usually staged as a crucial redeeming of science as a ‘neutral’, ‘distant’ and ‘objective’ endeavour. As a term ‘gender’ meanwhile has become synonymous with politics, activism and ideology regardless of the context or the shape in which it is served. Queer interrogations of the heteronormative ordering of sex, gender and sexuality in particular are rendered as scientifically untenable and socially disruptive fantasy texts. This contribution investigates the modes and means of maintaining and (re-)gaining discursive power regarding the delimitations of the contestable and underscores the necessity, value, and force of queer knowledge productions
Frontmatter and Editorial
No full textIn lieu of an abstract, here is the first paragraph of the editorial:
We live in an increasingly materialistic society in which nearly everything is for sale. The effects of this development are ambivalent: while we can pick and choose the accoutrements that best fit our lives and the image we want to project, the ability to fulfill those wishes and goals is still impacted and dictated by our class status, our gender, our sexual orientation and our race. What I can consume depends on the amount of currency I have – be it social, cultural or monetary. And with the freedom to consume also comes the pressure to do so. Membership and acceptance in a community can be dependent on our ability to buy the latest fashion and the newest gadget or to travel to the hippest vacation spot. And this pressure, too, is gendered: adhering to beauty standards, for a woman, often involves footing the bill for expensive make-up, clothes, gym memberships or even plastic surgery. In this issue of gender forum, the contributors discuss various aspects of consumer culture and examine the myriad and often problematic ways in which consumption and gender are interrelated
Artificial Intelligence, Personal Ontology, and Existential Risks
No full textSome future forms of AI may kill us all, or at least irremediably maim our hopes to enjoy the benefits of great technological advances in the future – or so some philosophers working on existential risk have recently claimed. But what does ‘our’ stand for in this context – and why could the extension of that term not include, say, superintelligent AIs as well? This paper explores several foundational issues in the recent debates on existential risks related to AI, with a particular focus on the conceptual connections between ontological theories of our nature – answers to the question, ‘What am I?’ — and recent formulations of the notion of an existential risk
Organisational forms in the climate justice movement: An analysis of the structures and processes of different groups within the climate justice movement in Germany and their potential and obstacles
No full textAlle Gruppen sozialer Bewegungen stehen vor der Frage, wie sie sich intern organisieren sollen, um ihre Ziele zu erreichen. Dies trifft auch auf die verschiedenen Gruppen der Klimagerechtigkeitsbewegung in Deutschland zu. In dieser Arbeit geht es darum, zu verstehen, welche Unterschiede im Hinblick auf die Organisationsformen bestehen und was deren Potentiale und Hemmnisse sind.
Ziel der Arbeit ist die Beantwortung der Frage, wie sich vier Gruppen der Klimagerechtigkeitsbewegung in Deutschland (Ende Gelände, Extinction Rebellion, Fridays for Future, Letzte Generation) organisieren und mit welchen Potentialen und Hemmnissen deren Organisationsformen einhergehen. Zur Beantwortung der Forschungsfrage wird eine qualitative Studie mithilfe von leitfadengestützten Einzelinterviews mit vier Aktivist:innen aus den vier untersuchten Gruppen durchgeführt. Die Interviewdaten und weitere relevante Online-Quellen werden mithilfe des Verfahrens der Grounded Theory Methodologie ausgewertet, um theoretische Erkenntnisse zur Forschungsfrage zu generieren.
Die qualitative Auswertung zeigt, dass die vier untersuchten Gruppen unterschiedliche Organisationsformen aufweisen. Dabei bestehen die größten Unterschiede zwischen den Gruppen „Ende Gelände“ und „Letzte Generation“. Ausschlaggebend ist hierfür vor allem der unterschiedliche Grad der hierarchischen Strukturierung. Das aus den Daten abgeleitete Modell und die aufgestellten Hypothesen zeigen, dass vor allem der Grad der hierarchischen Strukturierung einer Gruppe eine entscheidende Rolle dabei spielt, welche Potentiale und Hemmnisse die Gruppe erfährt. Die unterschiedlichen, strukturellen Ausprägungen wirken sich jeweils ermöglichend oder hemmend auf die Prozesse innerhalb der Gruppen aus. Dabei geht es um Langsamkeit versus Schnelligkeit, Instrumentalität versus Präfiguration, Effektivität versus Partizipation/Legitimität, Einheit/Uniformität versus Diversität sowie Resilienz versus Vulnerabilität.
Ausgehend von den Ergebnissen scheint eine weiterführende quantitative Untersuchung der innerhalb dieser Arbeit aufgestellten Hypothesen, sowie das Einbeziehen weiterer gegebenenfalls noch formalerer Gruppen sinnvoll.All social movement groups face the question of how to organise themselves internally in order to achieve their goals. This also applies to the various groups within the climate justice movement in Germany. This working paper aims to understand the differences between the various forms of organisation and to identify their potential and obstacles.
The aim of the working paper is to answer the question of how four groups within the climate justice movement in Germany (Ende Gelände, Extinction Rebellion, Fridays for Future, Letzte Generation) organise themselves and what potential and obstacles are associated with their forms of organisation. To answer the research question, a qualitative study is conducted using guided individual interviews with four activists from the four groups under investigation. The interview data and other relevant online sources are evaluated using the grounded theory methodology to generate theoretical insights into the research question.
The qualitative evaluation shows that the four groups examined have different forms of organisation. The greatest differences exist between the groups ‘Ende Gelände’ and ‘Letzte Generation’. The decisive factor here is primarily the different degrees of hierarchical structuring. The model derived from the data and the hypotheses established show that the degree of hierarchical structuring of a group plays a decisive role in determining the potential and obstacles experienced by the group. The different structural characteristics have either a facilitating or inhibiting effect on the processes within the groups. This involves slowness versus speed, instrumentality versus prefiguration, effectiveness versus participation/legitimacy, unity/uniformity versus diversity, and resilience versus vulnerability.
Based on the results, it seems sensible to conduct a further quantitative investigation of the hypotheses established in this study and to include other, possibly even more formal groups
„Manchmal muss man eine Sprache nicht verstehen, um zu wissen, was gemeint ist.“: Eine Systematisierung des mehrsprachigen Spielfilms mit Implikationen für den Deutschunterricht
Get PDFMehrsprachigkeit in Filmen ist prinzipiell so alt wie das Medium des Tonfilms selbst, und gerade in aktuellen Film- und Serienproduktionen erfreut sich dieses filmische Verfahren immer größerer Popularität. Daher ist es umso verwunderlicher, dass Matthias Bauer noch 2019 konstatieren musste, dass der mehrsprachige Spielfilm ein „weitgehend unerschlossenes Untersuchungsgelände“ (Bauer 2019, 154) sei. Bis dato lagen nämlich nur vereinzelte filmwissenschaftliche und mediendidaktische Publikationen zu diesem Gegenstand vor. Ausgehend von Überlegungen des Neoformalismus systematisiert der Beitrag Mehrsprachigkeit im Film in formaler und funktionaler Perspektive. Im Anschluss wird ein didaktisches Modell entwickelt, das dabei unterstützen soll, Lernprozesse zu planen, die von der ersten unvoreingenommenen Rezeption des mehrsprachigen Films hin zu einer fundierten und bedarfsgerechten Filmanalyse führen, in der die filmische Mehrsprachigkeit eine ihr angemessene Berücksichtigung erfährt.
Abstract (English): „With the tone I used, the language doesn’t matter.“ A Systematic Approach to Multilingual Films and Their Implications for German Language Education.
Multilingualism in films is essentially as old as the medium of sound film itself and this cinematic device has been gaining increasing popularity in contemporary film and series productions. It is therefore all the more surprising that to date, only a few publications in film studies and media didactics have addressed this subject. Based on neoformalistic considerations, this article systematizes multilingualism in film from both a formal and functional perspective. As a consequence, a didactic model is developed to facilitate the planning of learning processes. These processes lead from an initial, unprejudiced reception of the multilingual film to a well-founded and needs-oriented film analysis in which cinematic multilingualism receives appropriate attention
"On the Knife-edge of Time": Katherine Burdekin and Naomi Mitchison
Get PDFDemonstrating direct links between different works is not the intention here, although some clearly do exist and are able to be explored. The objective is to understand the political context of the writing of the time, not from a perspective that examines women writers from a rubric of male-created and dominated modernism but from the perspective of the women writers themselves and their own understanding of the relationship between gender and war. However ground-breaking the three-volume work of Gilbert and Gubar may have been, however seemingly encompassing the two volumes of Bonnie Kime Scott\u27s Refiguring Modernism, the projects depend a great deal on the vision that male writers have of women and women writers. With a new language provided by the war, men saw women as the enemy, but their misogyny was grounded in an historical antipathy that many women writers of the period comprehended to various degrees of sophistication and demonstrated through various kinds of work, particularly prose and particularly polemical prose.Let us try to drag up into consciousness the subconscious Hitlerism that holds us down. It is the desire for aggression; the desire to dominate and enslave. Even in the darkness we can see that made visible. We can see shop windows blazing; and women gazing; painted women; dressed-up women; women with crimson lips and crimson fingernails. They are slaves who are trying to enslave. If we could free ourselves from slavery we should free men from tyranny. Hitlers are bred by slaves.
Virginia Woolf, "Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid
Nineteenth-Century Narraceons: Race, Gender, and (National) Identity in Harriet Beecher Stowe\u27s Uncle Tom\u27s Cabin and Dred and George Eliot\u27s Daniel Deronda
No full textGeorge Eliot\u27s inquiry into Jewishness as racial origin in her last novel, Daniel Deronda (1876), was motivated by the American writer Harriet Beecher Stowe\u27s exploration of the subject of race in Uncle Tom\u27s Cabin (1852) and Dred (1856). Eliot\u27s continued interest in how individual and social identity is constituted made her go beyond Stowe\u27s considerations of race and (national) identity and focus on the teachings of Jewish Kabbalah1 in Daniel Deronda. Her investigation of the ancient Jewish faith caused her to incorporate into her novel a very interesting meditation on identity that explores the identity constituting power of the socio-biological determinants of "race" or (homo)eroticism; this fascinating aspect of Daniel Deronda will be discussed in the second part of my paper