Kinship and Collective Action: in Literature and Culture

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· Herausforderungen für die Geisteswissenschaften - Challenges for the Humanities Book 6 · Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
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"Make kin, not babies!", Donna Haraway demands in an attempt to offer new and creative ways of thinking what kinship might mean in an age of ecological devastation. At the same time, the emergence of a seemingly new culture of public protest and political opinion have provoked scholars such as Judith Butler to address the contexts and dynamics of public collective action. This volume explores the dynamic relationship between structures of kinship and the (material) conditions under which collective action emerges from a literary and cultural studies perspective. How are kinship and collective action negotiated in literature, the arts, or in specific historical moments, and how does this affect the role of representation? How have conceptualizations of both concepts developed over time, and what can we infer from this for questions of kinship and collective action today?

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Dr. Gero Bauer ist Literaturwissenschaftler und Geschäftsführer des Zentrums für Gender- und Diversitätsforschung, Universität Tübingen. Dr. Anya Heise-von der Lippe ist wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Lehrstuhl für Anglophone Literaturen an der Universität Tübingen. Dr. Nicole Hirschfelder lehrt und forscht zu amerikanischer Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft an der Universität Tübingen. Katharina Luther unterrichtet und forscht zu Beziehungen zwischen Materie, Literatur, und Kultur in der Abteilung für Amerikanistik am Englischen Seminar, Universität Tübingen.

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