Circumventing Openness: Creating New Senses of Dutchness Isabel Hoving Download PDF Abstract: Time and again, people who come to the Netherlands are struck by the excessive openness of the Dutch landscape and the Dutch people. Migrants and visitors often remark … Continue reading
Erik Born
The Archive, the Activist, and the Audience, or Black European Studies: A Comparative Interdisciplinary Study of Identities, Positionalities, and Differences Fatima El-Tayeb Download PDF Abstract: My aim in this brief article is the introduction of a new international and interdisciplinary … Continue reading
Pathways of Migrant Incorporation in Germany Nina Glick Schiller, Boris Nieswand, Günther Schlee, Tsypylma Darieva, Lale Yalcin-Heckmann, László Fosztó Download PDF Abstract: In this essay we examine five different pathways by which migrants with whom we have worked are incorporating … Continue reading
Thomas Meinecke’s German Fictions of Multicultural America: Model or Admonition? Cecile Zorach Download PDF Abstract: The end of the Cold War accelerated changes in the demographics of Germany that had been taking place in spurts since its founding: the settlement … Continue reading
Glub Mieke Bal Download PDF Abstract: GLUB (Hearts) is a film about seeds – the eating of them, the shells, the shops and stalls, the people cracking the shells and spitting them out; you see it and you don’t, hidden … Continue reading
November Hito Steyerl Download PDF Abstract: November is the time after October, a time when revolution seems to be over and peripheral struggles have become particular, localist, and almost impossible to communicate. In November a new reactionary form of terror … Continue reading
Kleine Freiheit Yüksel Yavuz Download PDF Abstract: A Little Bit of Freedom tells the story of a friendship between two young men, both of them illegal immigrants living in Altona, one of them a Kurd from Turkey. Baran’s application for … Continue reading