Transverse Disciplines : Queer-Feminist, Anti-Racist, and Decolonial Approaches to the University / edited by Simone Pfleger and Carrie Smith.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pfleger, Simone, editor.

Smith, Carrie, 1975- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anti-racism.

Critical pedagogy.

Decolonization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (400 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, Ontario : University of Toronto Press, [2022]

Summary:

"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 like 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 contributions 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." -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Half-Title Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Preface: Forging Alliances in the Burning Present

Introduction: Transversal Thinking, Accountabilities, and Commitments

Section 1: Situating Disciplinarity: Diagnoses, Genealogies, and Possibilities

1 Recomposing the Humanities: Transversal Legacies, Localized Futures

2 Beyond Germanistik: Transverse Approaches to German Studies in Australia

3 Imagining German Studies for the Future

4 Diversifying the German Curriculum through Student Research

Section 2: Against Insularity

5 Critical Interventions in Land-Grant Epistemologies

6 Unsettled Memory: Learning about the Holocaust at a United States Prison

7 Anxious Trajectories: Game Studies and German Studies

8 Thinking Inconveniently: A Neuroqueer Project on Mathematics and Lyric Poetry

9 Making Academic Publishing More Public

Section 3: Speculative Methodologies and Radical Relationality

10 Collaborative Infrastructures for Feminist German Studies

11 "Sometimes I dream of different kinds of plants": Assemblage, Defiance, and Tenuous Connection

12 Anti-Blackness in German Studies

13 Beyond Disciplinary Belonging: Constructing a Scholarly Self through Interactions and Relationality

14 German Studies, Home, Hospitality: Decolonial Possibilities and a Politics of Place?

Contributors

Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-4875-3827-8

1-4875-3826-X

OCLC:

1319088366