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Contemporary PerforMemory
Contemporary PerforMemory looks at dance works created in the 21st century by choreographers identifying as Afro-European, Jewish, Black, Palestinian, and Taiwanese-Chinese-American. It explores how contemporary dance-makers engage with historical traumas such as the Shoah and the Maafa to reimagine how the past is remembered and how the future is anticipated. The new idea of perforMemory arises within a lively blend of interdisciplinary theory, interviews, performance analysis, and personal storytelling. Scholar and artist Layla Zami traces unexpected pathways, inviting the reader to move gracefully across disciplines, geographies, and histories. Featuring insightful interviews with seven international artists: Oxana Chi, Zufit Simon, André M. Zachery, Chantal Loïal, Wan-Chao Chang, Farah Saleh, and Christiane Emmanuel.
Afrodiasporic Identities in Germany
Aminata Camara, Maya K., Lafia T., Oxana Chi and Layla Zami are middle-class, highly educated women in Germany and come from families of mixed African European heritages. This ethnographic study traces the coming of age as person of African descent in Germany born in the 1980s with a focus on the city of Frankfurt. Silvia Wojczewski follows the paths of five women and shows how the practice of travelling is used as a way to connect to transnational families and to an Afrodiasporic heritage. Zooming in on five lives, she reveals the ways in which class, diaspora and kinship relations influence how the women understand themselves and their position in the world.
Routinen im Tanz
Gerade in der Kunst haben Routinen kein gutes Renommee: zu starr, zu einengend, zu langweilig - so zumindest die weit verbreitete These. Dabei sind sich die stabilisierenden Kräfte von Routinen und die innovative Instabilität künstlerischer Praxis näher als oft vermutet. Die Beiträger*innen widmen sich zum einen der produktiven Kraft und zum anderen den krisenhaften Momenten von eingeübten, gewohnheitsmäßigen Praktiken in Tanz und Performance. Dabei nehmen sie Routinen in der Ausbildung, in künstlerischer Praxis und Wissenschaft sowie im Kontext digitaler Formate und postkolonialer Ansätze in den Blick - und zeichnen so ein Bild des Tanzes im Spannungsfeld von Stabilisierung und Veränderung.
We Collect Together in a Net
Literary Nonfiction. Art. LGBTQIA Studies. Edited by Rachel Valinsky. A net contains and disperses, locating our entanglements in the world. Artist Kerry Downey's first major publication, WE COLLECT TOGETHER IN A NET, assembles a series of fourteen full color reproductions of new monotypes alongside commissioned texts by writers Jaime Shearn Coan, Jeanne Vaccaro, Ryan Lee Wong, and Layla Zami. Through Chine-collé, embossment, rubbing, and sanding, these works on paper bring attention to the materiality and transformative potential of paper as a substrate, drawing parallels between paper's surface and our skin. Like a net, skin's porousness acts as a threshold between the personal and the social, the psychological and the embodied.
Black Lives Under Nazism
In a little-known chapter of World War II, Black people living in Nazi Germany and occupied Europe were subjected to ostracization, forced sterilization, and incarceration in internment and concentration camps. In the absence of public commemoration, African diaspora writers and artists have preserved the stories of these forgotten victims of the Third Reich. Their works illuminate the relationship between creative expression and wartime survival and the role of art in the formation of collective memory. This groundbreaking book explores a range of largely overlooked literary and artistic works that challenge the invisibility of Black wartime history. Emphasizing Black agency, Sarah Phillips...
Exceptional Experiences
Looking at encounters that can puncture or jolt us, this volume uses art as a lens through which to register and understand exceptional experiences. The volume also includes the fieldworker’s experience of unexpected events that can lead to key understandings, as well as revelatory moments that happen during artistic creation and while looking at art. By exploring exceptional experiences through art, the volume asks probing questions for anthropology. In recognizing that art is all-encompassing – including, as it does, narrative, performance, dance and images – Exceptional Experiences situates itself within a number of conversations on methodological and conceptual issues in anthropology and beyond.
Feminist Freedom Warriors
Born out of an engagement with anti-racist feminist struggles as women of color from the Global South, Feminist Freedom Warriors (FFW) is a project showcasing cross-generational histories of feminist activism addressing economic, anti-racist, social justice, and anti-capitalist issues across national borders. This feminist reader is a companion to the FFW video archive project that is currently available online. Using text and images, the book presents short narratives from the women featured in the FFW project and illustrates the intersecting struggles for justice in the fight against oppression. These are stories of sister-comrades, whose ideas, words, actions, and visions of economic and social justice continue to inspire a new generation of women activists.
Sprache, Kultur, polyphone Narration
Mehrsprachigkeit und Plurikulturalität sind in der heutigen postmigrantischen Gesellschaft keineswegs eine Ausnahme, sondern der Normalfall. Die sprachliche und kulturelle Vielfalt steht auch im Mittelpunkt von Beate Baumanns Publikation zum Zusammenhang zwischen postmigrantischen Diskursen und sprachlichen, kulturellen sowie künstlerischen Praktiken. Die Autorin beleuchtet diese aus kulturwissenschaftlich-linguistischer und macht- und differenztheoretischer Perspektive. Das offenbart postmigrantische Rekonfigurationen sowie widerständige Praxen und erlaubt deren Analyse. Mögliche Implikationen und Chancen, die sich aus den gesellschaftsrelevanten sprachlichen und kulturellen Praktiken für anwendungsorientierte Bereiche wie den Unterricht im Fach Deutsch als Fremdsprache ergeben, bilden einen weiteren thematischen Schwerpunkt dieses Buches. Anhand essayistischer und literarischer Texte sowie Interviews kommen die Akteurinnen und Akteure zudem selbst zu Wort und bringen ihre Positionen und Visionen zum Ausdruck.
Czech Feminisms
Sixteen essays “apply the intersectional theory in an inspiring way in the analysis of gender issues in the past and in contemporary Czech society” (Aspasia). In this wide-ranging study of women’s and gender issues in the pre- and post-1989 Czech Republic, contributors engage with current feminist debates and theories of nation and identity to examine the historical and cultural transformations of Czech feminism. This collection of essays by leading scholars, artists, and activists, explores such topics as reproductive rights, state socialist welfare provisions, Czech women’s NGOs, anarchofeminism, human trafficking, LGBT politics, masculinity, feminist art, among others. Foregroundi...
The Persistence of Gender Inequality
Despite centuries of campaigning, women still earn less and have less power than men. Equality remains a goal not yet reached. In this incisive account of why this is the case, Mary Evans argues that optimistic narratives of progress and emancipation have served to obscure long-term structural inequalities between women and men, structural inequalities which are not only about gender but also about general social inequality. In widening the lenses on the persistence of gender inequality, Evans shows how in contemporary debates about social inequality gender is often ignored, implicitly side-lining critical aspects of relations between women and men. This engaging short book attempts to join up some of the dots in the ways that we think about both social and gender inequality, and offers a new perspective on a problem that still demands society’s full attention.
