Volume 9.1: Foreword
TRANSIT 9.1: Foreword Dear Readers, We are pleased to announce the publication of the first installment of texts in our 2013–14 volume: an excerpted translation of Sabahattin Ali’s Kürk Mantolu Madonna (The Madonna in the Fur Coat, 1943); selections from the exhibition on “Das neue Deutschland. Von Migration und Vielfalt (The New Germany: On Migration and Diversity, […]
The Orient of Europe, by Nicholas A. Germana / Reviewed by Ashwin J. Manthripragada
Book Review Download PDF Germana, Nicholas A. The Orient of Europe: The Mythical Image of India and Competing Images of German National Identity. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009. 272 pages. Paper, £39.99. Nicholas A. Germana’s monograph shines light on the scholarly use of India in the decades leading up to and following the […]
Transit / Translated by Jon Cho-Polizzi
Transit By Deniz Göktürk Translated by Jon Cho-Polizzi Download PDF “Transit” is understandable the world over: the word means “passage” in many languages. One might think of crossing borders or of moving through a place; in transit we are all things but settled. In transit, we have already left a point of origin and have […]
Nation / Translated by Ashwin J. Manthripragada
Nation By Wolfgang Kaschuba Translated by Ashwin J. Manthripragada Download PDF Since the fifteenth century the Latin term natio has gradually seeped into European languages as a loanword. This illustrates the conceptualization of a populace bound by lineage, history, language and culture, which, as “a people and a nation,” projects an image of itself as […]
Multiculturalism (Multiculturality) / Translated by Jon Cho-Polizzi
Multiculturalism (Multiculturality) By Claus Leggewie Translated by Jon Cho-Polizzi Download PDF “Multiculturality” and more specifically “multiculturalism” are words that have not yet managed to receive recognition as serious academic concepts. They have too often been employed as terms of combat (as –isms) for the identity politics of minority and majority groups, and have too infrequently […]
Mobility / Translated by Courtney Johnson
Mobility By Gisela Welz Translated By Courtney Johnson Download PDF Mobility is understood as overcoming geographic distances with movement. When national borders are crossed, one refers to transnational mobility. Some kinds of mobility are freely chosen, such as tourism or study abroad; others are reactions to force and hardship, such as forced migration and poverty-driven […]
Integration / Translated by Emina Musanovic
Integration By Albrecht Koschorke Translated by Emina Musanovic Download PDF [Integration (from Lat. integrare, “to renew, complete, reconstruct”) designates, on a sociological level, the assimilation of an individual into a group or the incorporation of a minority into the majority. On a more general level, it designates the complete (re)construction of a social unity. Social […]
Guest Faces / Translated by Erik Born
Guest Faces By Emine Sevgi Özdamar Translated by Erik Born Download PDF As a child in Istanbul, the first European word that I heard was: “Deux-Pièces.” Every Monday, my parents went to a movie theatre called “Teyyare Sinemasi.” In German, this meant, “Flugzeugkino” (Airplane Theatre). This movie theatre only showed European films. My mother told […]
The Future of Migration / Translated by Jennifer Ingalls
The Future of Migration By Jochen Oltmer Translated by Jennifer Ingalls Download PDF Migration has always been a central element of the human adaptation to changing environmental conditions, as well as to social, economic, and political changes. The movement of people in space has changed the world in recent centuries: countless examples demonstrate the extent […]
Baggage / Translated by Cara Tovey
Baggage By Deniz Utlu Translated by Cara Tovey Download PDF On a Christmas day in the early 1960s, my father, emaciated from an almost deadly case of tuberculosis, set his wooden suitcase—his baggage—down on a pier in Hamburg. He had hired a ship to go to Canada, but he had to go ashore in Germany […]