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Abstract: Every issue of Feminist German Studies is an example of collective knowledge production. The coeditors are deeply grateful to the editorial board and to the anonymous reviewers for their commitment to a model of feminist scholarship that is collaborative and supportive. We also thank the excellent team at University of Nebraska Press for their unflagging support. ... Read More PubDate: 2024-07-29T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: We are pleased to introduce the fourth guest-edited special issue of Feminist German Studies, “Communi-care, or How to Create Communities of Care in an Uncaring System.” The topic of care has been critical to the history of feminisms, but in the last decade it has been taken up in new ways to rethink our modes of being and laboring within the university. Indeed, the very first special issue of FGS, published in 2020, on collaboration in the humanities, explicitly and implicitly addressed feminist approaches to right relations in the academy, including relationships of care. It is a notable coincidence that just a few months after publication of that issue, lockdowns began in the United States and around the world ... Read More PubDate: 2024-07-29T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Communi-care: the essays in this issue are about community and care in and against the university, but they are also in communication and community with each other and with broader questions of how to create more just and equitable worlds. Derived from the Latin verb commūnicāre, the etymology of the word communication highlights the process of interacting and sharing (Hoad; Chandler and Munday). Community, communication, and care are three C-words that guide our thinking in this introduction. We begin by laying out some of the theoretical frameworks with which the essays are in conversation. This also means that we acknowledge the complexities of thinking and writing about care, which lead us to some of the topics ... Read More PubDate: 2024-07-29T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Neoliberal politics of individualism cast wellness as a personal accomplishment. Here, neoliberal subjects should optimize their bodyminds to serve the settler-colonial capitalist suprastructure. Unwellness, in turn, not only emerges as a threat to individualist wellness politics but also unsettles the very structure of neoliberalism. If neoliberalism wants its subjects to be individual agents whose well-being in the world does not necessitate cohabitation and collaboration as much as it rests on individual perseverance navigating and nurturing the economic system itself, then those who are unwell and stay unwell are bad subjects. In fact, those afflicted by unwellness must overcome it in order to take their spot ... Read More PubDate: 2024-07-29T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: When the time came for Adaezejeso and me (Rebecca) to draft the prefa-tory remarks for the dialogue that follows, I offered to write them myself, thinking that doing so would be helpful to Adaezejeso, who had just finished her first year of law school and was beginning a summer internship at a local law firm. When she told me about the possibility of the internship, she said that she had been impressed by the hiring partner’s willingness to learn and pronounce her name. At a networking event a few months earlier she had been introduced to an associate from a prestigious law firm in Vancouver. He said he would “leave it to her” to pronounce her name. He wouldn’t even try. Often the only Black student in her law ... Read More PubDate: 2024-07-29T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: To be nourished; to provide sustenance; to have a place at the table; to be satisfied. But also: to hunger; to hoard; to scrap; to envy; to ration. These expressions can serve as metaphors for patterns of relation, existence, and subsistence in academic spaces, signaling ways in which people are cared for, on the one hand, or how, on the other hand, they might fight and struggle for resources amid the scarcity culture that structures the neoliberal university.Thinking about questions of nourishment and scarcity in academia, I kept turning to metaphors, and then returning to memories of actual scenes of eating. Departmental receptions at the start of the semester, cheese and crackers served on black plastic trays ... Read More PubDate: 2024-07-29T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: As artists in academia, we grapple with the role of human connection within the limitations of institutions that often seem to prioritize prestige and profit over camaraderie and care. The core of creating lies in connection; art seeks to investigate, explain, and communicate our messages to ourselves or an audience. How our work is made and interpreted is highly informed by the context. Context is essential to any art making, because the work does not exist in a vacuum, but in a cultural, historical, and social context. As artists in higher education we are interested in how an academic context affects the making of work. Through our lived experiences we have seen the way academia can feel stifling to some because ... Read More PubDate: 2024-07-29T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: There is a scene in Alexander Kluge’s film Gelegenheitsarbeit einer Sklavin (Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave, 1973) in which the protagonist, Roswitha Bronski (played by Kluge’s sister, Alexandra), scales a wall in a miniskirt and leather boots. She is attempting to breach the external wall of the chemical factory grounds (where her husband works) to distribute flyers about the firm’s proposal to outsource to Portugal, costing all the workers their jobs. Kluge’s camera lingers on her exposed legs and scrabbling feet as she attempts to gain purchase on the slippery surface. The shot is both mocking and voyeuristic—how absurd that this woman would not think to dress appropriately for the task she is undertaking ... Read More PubDate: 2024-07-29T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: How do we relate to the people in and around the field of German studies, and how do our institutions and their organization shape that relationality' Mutual aid, as explored in this article, offers the potential to radically rethink relationships in our field, especially in the face of institutional structures and university timelines that often restrict change through hierarchical departmental structures, processes of tenure and promotion, expectations for publishing and research, and the “hidden curriculum” that graduate and undergraduate students must navigate without much support.Yet, despite such institutional obstacles, there are communities and collectives that sustain many in our field. For some this might ... Read More PubDate: 2024-07-29T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: We propose cross-racial collaboration like ours as a disciplinary intervention in questions pertaining to race, sex, and gender that often reduce these frames of perspective as issues to be addressed rather than acknowledging them as integral to the identities of current and prospective German studies students and scholars. Our autotheoretical framework is inspired by the work of Alex Brostoff and Lauren Fournier, in an effort to enliven alternative modes of being and becoming. Autotheory could enable us to imagine inclusive possibilities for critical, yet vulnerable, creative writing that establishes and reinforces bridges of connection. The following conversation shares the experiences and insights of German and ... Read More PubDate: 2024-07-29T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: “Our world is one in which carelessness reigns,” begins The Care Manifesto (2020). Feminist scholarship on care has seen a resurgence since the COVID-19 pandemic. Although neoliberal capitalism and its attendant social policies have established themselves as the dominant economic, social, and political paradigm in the United States and other Western democracies over the past forty years, the pandemic made starkly visible “the violence perpetrated by neoliberal markets, which has left most of us less able to provide care as well as less likely to receive it. We have, for a very long time, been rendered less capable of caring for people even in our most intimate spheres, while being energetically encouraged to ... Read More PubDate: 2024-07-29T00:00:00-05:00
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