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Eindeutig uneindeutig – Popkulturelle Akteur_innen und Narrationen als Anknüpfungspunkte für die politische Bildung
Get PDFAuto-ethnographische Texte zu einer Performance über den Dritten Raum
No full textThis auto-ethnography explores wrath as a material and inspiration for my compositional practice, drawing on Donald W. Winnicott’s conception of a third space as an intermediary between the individual and the surrounding environment. Written for a lecture performance, the text compiles theoretical, practical, and poetic reflections about my process as a composer, performer, artist, and feminist. Rethinking listening as a tool to creatively interact with an environment, I propose that listening must be inclusive. As a listener, I explore the interior dimension of social interactions and my own inner space, my mind: thinking mind is an inner vocality. Composing is an intimate process that begins inside, progresses towards an ,outside’, and is well adjusted through the exchange with the environment. An important phase is the zone when an imagined sound becomes manifest as a notated image, to be further developed, performed, and perceived by an audience. I identify this time-space continuum as a third space linking my artistic process to a wider social context. Alongside my composition SETZUNG (2014), inspired by the work and life of the author Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (Mexico 1651-1695), I look into aspects of veiling from artistic and cultural angles
Healthism and Fat Politics in TLC’s My Big Fat Fabulous Life
No full textAmerican reality TV has for a long time staged fat bodies in exaggerated and voyeuristic ways. The aim of such programs is to tell cautionary tales about the supposedly disastrous effects of fatness for the individual and society. The fat body needs to change, or be controlled in order to function fully in a capitalist society. One series that interrupts this narrative is TLC’s My Big Fat Fabulous Life (2015-); the title suggests that this narrative is not one of misery and regret, but of joy – certainly an unusual take on fatness in reality TV. It stars Whitney Thore, a woman who claims to be body positive, and who advertises fat politics; politics inspired by fat studies and activism. These clash with the healthist, neoliberal ideology circulated in reality TV. While she announces that she is proud to be fat, her friends and family are constantly shown challenging her. The series thus sends contradicting messages: unable to fully commit to fat and body positivity, it stages Thore’s health problems in a spectacular way and thus undermines the successes and triumphs she experiences as fat role model
Sexual Harassment in Egypt: An Old Plague in a New Revolutionary Order
Get PDFThe article aims at analyzing sexual harassment in Egypt in changing sociopolitical contexts at various times; I argue that no analysis of the Egyptian revolution is complete without an understanding of these broad sociopolitical conditions that have contributed to the culture of anti-women and sexual violence since the 19th century. I am not suggesting that sexual harassment always took the same form and was practiced with the same level of violence, or even rooted in the same reason(s) throughout that long period of history. Based on archival research, personal observations and intensive interviews with activists I show how sexual harassment increased in violence caused by the state’s heavy-handed security and neoliberal policies
Making and Illustrating the Model
Get PDFSince the inception of the intersectionality framework by feminists over three decades ago, scholars have advanced the analysis and subsequent understanding of peoples’ social locations, identity constructions, and systems of oppression involving gender, ethnicity, religion, class, and caste, to name a few. Considering these axes of differentiation as mutually constitutive rather than only as individual factors has been the single most important innovation. However, intersectionality has yet to reach its potential theoretically, methodologically, and practically. For instance, the framework is rarely applied to social phenomena that extend beyond the confines of a given nation-state. In previous publications, we have addressed this shortcoming by arguing for applying intersectionality across multiple social scales (intimate, regional, national, and transnational). We have shown how any given person’s intersectionality can and often does shift according to the scale of analysis. In this article, we address another important way to strengthen intersectionality—bringing in polyvocality. That is, and drawing upon arguments originally made in postmodern critiques of “writing culture”, publications tend to reflect partial and/or limited perspectives, typically those reflecting researchers’ privileged, authoritative accounts. In this article, in contrast, we include different insider (ego) and outsider (ego’s relatives’ and the researchers’) perspectives. The article includes the theoretical and methodological argument for adding polyvocality to intersectionality and then applies the proposed model to an ethnographic case. We illustrate how intersectional constellations shift from voiced interpretation to voiced interpretation and, in so doing, deepen, expand, and problematize these same analyses
Der Einfluss von Gender im Entwicklungsprozess von digitalen Artefakten
No full textNicht nur in der Gestaltung digitaler Medien spielt die Kategorie Geschlecht eine tragende Rolle, sondern auch in der Konzeption, Herstellung sowie Nutzung von Webangeboten. Problematisch daran ist, dass die weibliche Perspektive in Bezug auf Interessen, Bedürfnisse und Anwendbarkeit häufig wenig oder stereotyp berücksichtigt wird, die Nutzung digitaler Medien jedoch Verhaltensweisen, Werte und Normen von Nutzer_innen erheblich – und sehr einseitig – prägt. Design stellt hierbei einen zentralen Faktor dar: Es steuert, ermöglicht oder verhindert das Nutzer_innenverhalten und deutet und wertet Inhalte durch die Art der jeweiligen Darstellung. Die Auswirkung von Design im Entwicklungsprozess von digitalen Artefakten ist sehr vielschichtig und in ihrer gesamten Tragweite weit unterschätzt. Der Beitrag sensibilisiert hinsichtlich Gendercodes in Designstrategien, Methoden aus dem Entwicklungsprozess (Persona-Entwicklung) und einzelner Gestaltungselemente (Farbe, Typografie)
Gendersensible Gestaltung des neuen Studiengangs „BWL – Digitale Wirtschaft“ an der Beuth Hochschule für Technik Berlin
No full textDie fortschreitende Digitalisierung führt zu einem grundlegenden Wandel der Arbeitswelt. Die damit verbundenen Karrierechancen werden bislang von Frauen nicht in gleichem Maße genutzt wie von Männern. Eine gendersensible Ausgestaltung von Studiengängen kann wesentlich dazu beitragen, dies zu ändern. Welche Maßnahmen hierzu im neuen Studiengang „BWL – Digitale Wirtschaft“ an der Beuth Hochschule für Technik ergriffen wurden, untersucht der vorliegende Beitrag. Ergänzend werden relevante Erfahrungen und good practice anderer Hochschulen exemplarisch vorgestellt und der mögliche Erkenntnisgewinn zu Karrierezielen und Berufsanforderungen aus Umfragen von Studierenden und Absolvent(inn)en thematisiert
