Transverse Disciplines

Queer-Feminist, Anti-racist, and Decolonial Approaches to the University

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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For at least a decade, university foreign language programs have been in decline throughout the English-speaking world. As programs close or are merged into large multi-language departments, disciplines such as German studies find themselves struggling to survive.Transverse Disciplines offers an overview of the current research on the humanities and the academy at large and proposes creative and courageous ideas for the university of the future. Using German studies as a case study, the book examines localized academic work in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States in order to model new ideas for invigorated thinking beyond disciplinary specificity, university communities, and entrenched academic practices. In essays that are theoretical, speculative, experimental, and deeply personal, contributors suggest that German studies might do better to stop trying to protect existing national and disciplinary arrangements. Instead, the discipline should embrace feminist, queer, anti-racist, and decolonial academic practices and commitments, including community-based work, research-creation, and scholar activism.Interrogating the position of researchers, teachers, and administrators inside and outside academia, Transverse Disciplines takes stock of the increasingly tenuous position of the humanities and stakes a claim for the importance of imagining new disciplinary futures within the often restrictive and harmful structures of the academy.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2022-09-30
Mått159 x 235 x 25 mm
Vikt700 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor368
FörlagUniversity of Toronto Press
ISBN9781487508456

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Preface: Forging Alliances in the Burning Present Simone Pfleger and Carrie SmithIntroduction: Transversal Thinking, Accountabilities, and Commitments Simone Pfleger and Carrie SmithPart One: Situating Disciplinarity: Diagnoses, Genealogies, and Possibilities1. Recomposing the Humanities: Transversal Legacies, Localized FuturesClaudia Breger2. Beyond Germanistik: Transverse Approaches to German Studies in AustraliaBrangwen Stone3. Imagining German Studies for the Future Carol Anne Costabile-Heming4. Trying to Be a Bit Radical: Decolonizing the German Curriculum and Empowering Students in German Studies at LeedsHelen Finch with Chloé Elliott and Poppy McDonnellPart Two: Against Insularity5. Critical Interventions in Land-Grant EpistemologiesHester Baer and Bradley Boovy6. Unsettling Memory: Taking Holocaust Studies at a United States PrisonAnke Pinkert7. Anxious Trajectories: Game Studies and German StudiesEvan Torner8. Thinking Inconveniently: A Neuro-queer Project on Mathematics and Lyrik PoetryJennifer M. Hoyer9. Making Academic Publishing More PublicRebecca RossPart Three: Speculative Methodologies and Radical Relationality10. Collaborative Infrastructures for Feminist German StudiesCarrie Smith11. "Sometimes I dream of different kinds of plants": Assemblage, Defiance, and Tenuous ConnectionMaria Stehle12. Anti-Blackness in German StudiesJamele Watkins13. Beyond Disciplinary Belonging: Constructing a Scholarly Self through Interactions and RelationalitySimone Pfleger14. German Studies, Home, Hospitality: Decolonial Possibilities and a Politics of Place?Beverly Weber

"This challenging and valuable volume refuses easy answers to difficult questions and models collaboration and speculative work as established and productive tools for transforming German studies, the academic sector, and neoliberal societies." - Tom Smith, University of St Andrews (Seminar) "This book offers concrete strategies and inspiring visions of just futures." - Faye Stewart, University of North Carolina at Greensboro (German Studies Review)