Publications

The capture of Jerusalem during the First Crusade, the extirpation of various heresies in the twelfth and thirteen centuries, the gradual expansion of Christian rule in the Iberian peninsula, and the mass conversion of Jews to Christianity there during the fourteenth century, all seemed to support a Christian triumphalism that imagined that as the End Time approached, Jews and other infidels would inevitably be absorbed into the Church. Nonetheless, an expanding medieval awareness of the many ‘Others’ beyond Christendom contributed to Christian anxieties that Jews (or Muslims) might expand their number through mass conversion, and not Christians. This paper will examine some sources of this anxiety.

Thomas de Cantilupe (d. 1282) is one of the last medieval English Catholics to have been canonized as a saint, following a remarkable career in which he twice served as the Chancellor of the University of Oxford, as the Chancellor of England, and as Bishop of Hereford. This paper examines reports of his anti-Judaism and its potential influence in England in the period before the English crown expelled the entire Jewish community in 1290.

This book honors the impactful work of Terrence G. Wiley on advancing social justice in the areas of language diversity and language policy. It brings together a group of experienced scholars to provide an overview of research and progress in three areas: heritage and community language education, ideologies of language and literacies, and language policy. The chapters cover a wide range of formal and informal learning spaces and address language policies and practices from the national to the local levels. The international appeal of Wiley's work is represented through the rich diversity of the contributing scholars and research contexts. With an emphasis on advancing scholarship and advocacy for language minoritized populations in the United States and around the world, this book will be of interest to graduate students and researchers in the fields of language education, language policy and sociolinguistics.

Since the mid-2010s, scholars and practitioners have been increasingly interested in the integration of development cooperation, humanitarian action and peacebuilding, known as the ‘triple nexus’ approach. In parallel, the necessity of including sexual and gender minorities in these three areas has also garnered growing attention, recognizing the marginalization and specific needs of LGBTQI+ people. This critical literature review examines both scholarly and ‘grey’ publications on the place of sexual and gender minorities in each of the triple nexus’s three areas, documenting what is known and what is not. It also examines the challenges for implementation and achieving impact before proposing a global research agenda on LGBTQI+ people and the triple nexus.

The representation of the Chinese immigrant in Spanish culture has mainly hewed to hackneyed stereotypes of machine-like and constant productivity, as well as homogeneity. In Alejandro González Iñárritu’s film Biutiful (Citation2010), the Chinese are reduced to childminders and exploitative bosses, while in Almudena Grandes’s novel Los besos en el pan (Citation2015), a group of Chinese hairdressers are presented as identikit and docile, deprived of any individuality. Elvira Navarro’s novel La ciudad feliz Navarro (Citation2009) fictionalizes the coming-of-age of a young Chinese immigrant male child and the travails of his Chinese immigrant family as they settle into Spanish society. The novel reconceives Chinese immigrant integration into Spanish society as a complex phenomenon, forged at the interface of converging linguistic, emotional, gender, and mnemonic factors in both the country of origin and the host country. In so doing, it underscores the complexity of Chinese assimilation to Spain, which has been reduced to ghettoization, while also reconceiving Chinese immigrants as sentient, historical beings and unique individuals who enact idiosyncratic gender performances. Drawing on a wide range of affect, gender, migration, and linguistic theories, I analyze the representation of Chinese immigrant masculinity and femininity within the novel, which encompasses the categories of the tiger mother, the traumatized male immigrant, the father-son relationship, the ageing male immigrant, and the second-generation male immigrant. In so doing, I highlight the heterogeneity of the representation of the Chinese immigrant, thus expanding the current understanding of it.

In today's world, democracy is recognized as both a theoretical idea and a form of government that holds a unique position, largely unaffected by intense academic or worldly controversies. Presently, no scholar can dismiss or oppose democracy and expect to be taken seriously. However, in the Polis of Athens, the birthplace of democracy, the prominent philosophers were critical and often disparaging of this system of governance. This article seeks to demystify prevailing discourses surrounding Western democracy by illustrating how they frequently depend on hierarchizing citizens, peoples, and countries, as well as compartmentalizing human experiences. Moreover, it endeavors to demonstrate that the discourses of democracy and liberalism have often been used by Western powers to interfere in the global south and exploit its peoples. The article also offers a non-evaluative approach to studying democracy, taking into consideration non-Western experiences to preserve the concept’s utopian appeal.

This article explores the aesthetics and ethics of the diva by offering a comparative analysis of Fassbinder’s penultimate film, Veronika Voss (1982), and the filmmaker’s self-presentation as a diva. Veronika Voss offers a unique mode of engagement with the past in the form of its central female figure, the outsized Nazi-era actress Voss. Voss is not only, like Fassbinder, a drug addict; she is also unlike the divas who came before her in Fassbinder’s films, for she is not rendered a fetish. Fassbinder’s film presents a cinescape of “diva time and space.” Diva time evokes a nonlinear, expansive temporality of queer longing that eschews restorative nostalgia, blending past and present in a manner that complicates Manichean notions of victimhood and capitalist exploitation. And diva space is likewise expansive, as the diva spreads out and multiplies, engulfing space in a manner that is both narcissistic and generous.

In recent years numerous streaming series, books, and films focusing on Elisabeth of Austria have generated intense interest among readers and viewers. This plethora of pop cultural 'Sisi' products both reflects and produces a cult affect surrounding the figure of 'Sisi'. Recent films by female auteurs Frauke Finsterwalder ( Sisi und Ich, 2023) and Marie Kreutzer ( Corsage, 2022) present especially complex, partly fantastical pictures of this figure. I will argue here that these recent filmic 'Sisi' iterations embody a unique mode of female fetishism that invites us to reconsider the fetish from a feminist perspective.

Bodies are immanent element of socio-cultural negotiation. Since the 19th century, Egyptology has produced vast knowledge on the ancient Egyptian bodies (human, divine, animal), however, mainly by focusing on funerary aspects of ancient Egyptian culture. Different paradigm shifts and turns of the last few decades (hermeneutics, semiotics, social-constructivism, ontology etc.), echo through Egyptology, but are still not part of the dominant discourse. This is also the case for the so-called “body turn”, an important epistemological turning point, that came largely unnoticed in Egyptology. Previous body centred Egyptological publications are either too specific in their focus or too broad in their presentation of Ancient Egyptian corporealities. To balance this out and reflect the latest state of research, this volume brings together selected contributions from the fields of Egyptology and Northeast African Archaeology. The focus is on both conceptualizations of the bodies by ancient Egyptians and Egyptologists. The topics of the contributions cover familiar but also new aspects. They range from division of labour, disability, gender roles, erotic, magic, fragmented and narrated bodies, other-than-human corporealities, to questions of ethics and the place of Egyptology in current approaches to past bodies. Various textual, pictorial, and archaeological sources, as well as human remains, are analyzed both from synchronic and diachronic perspectives. From the theoretical and methodological point of view, the publication provides deeper insights into a number of different approaches and their application to the ancient material (among others: osteoarchaeology, socio-cultural anthropology, semiotics, new materialism, ontology, etc.), which makes the book an important reading for all career stage Egyptologists (students to professionals) and the broader interested public.

Wie haben Autor*innen wie Fakir Baykurt, Emine Sevgi Özdamar, Kemal Yalçın und Rauf Ceylan das Ruhrgebiet literarisch geprägt? Nesrin Tanç zeigt, wie Literatur kollektive Erinnerung, Migrationserfahrungen und kulturelles Erbe dokumentiert. Dabei verbindet sie Analyse mit Kulturpraxis: Übersetzungen, Hörstücke und Literaturkarten machen Literatur erfahrbar und bieten einen neuen Blick auf transnationale Literatur für alle, die sich mit Bildung, Kultur und Erinnerung beschäftigen.

This article provides the first comprehensive account of the forms and functions of apologies in Nigerian English, with a view to examining the factors that condition speakers’ choice of the linguistic forms of apologies in different text types as well as potential differences between apologies elicited via discourse completion tasks and those found in corpus data. Analysing the data from a postcolonial pragmatics approach, the article identifies nativised forms of apologising due to influence from indigenous Nigerian languages and reveals that the linguistic forms of apologies produced by Nigerian English speakers are systematically conditioned by the communicative situation. It suggests that it is the written mode of language production that allows speakers to choose speech acts without time pressure rather than the type of data as such, which influences the choice of linguistic forms of speech acts. Thus, the study contributes to the description of pragmatic variation in Nigerian English.