Emerging Research in Australian Studies

ISBN-13: 9783757580575 / Angielski / Miękka / 100 str.

Author of the ASJ | ZfA Edited Volume

Opis

What exactly are or counts as Australian studies? Usually, the answer will read something like research related to the continent of Australia; however, beyond this basic assumption, not much else is certain. It would be presumptuous to try and compress the manifoldness, the intricacies, and the dynamics of Australian studies into a few sentences. Instead of providing an unwieldy and unrewarding definition in the space of this editorial, we have opted for appending five textual examples of what current investigations in Australian studies look like.Jointly considered, the articles in this special issue display astonishing synergies and coherences. They highlight the disruptive forces of violence and racism, the importance of community and relationships, the dynamics of identities and belonging, as well various connections between social, cultural, and political spheres. In sum, then, the five authors featured in this special issue attest to the productivity and versatility of Australian studies, and to its refusal to be pressed into neat categories. This is precisely our hope for the future: That the discipline (if it can be called that) remains uncontainable and creative beyond bounds.This work can be downloaded as open-access at the ASJ | ZfA website: asj.australienstudien.org

ASJ | ZfA 37/2023, 'Emerging Research in Australian Studies' attests to the productivity and versatility of Australian studies, and to its refusal to be pressed into neat categories.

O autorze

The 'Australian Studies Journal Zeitschrift für Australienstudien' is an academic publication issued by the editors on behalf of the German Association for Australian Studies with a regular issue in summer and special issues in spring and autumn.It discusses a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary aspects relevant to Australia and its society. Stefanie Affeldt (Lead) is a post-doctoral researcher at the HCCH, Universität Heidelberg, as well as a member of the GASt executive board, the Specialised Information Service Anglo-American Culture advisory board, and the Centre for Australian Studies team. With a B.A. in Sociology (Macquarie University), an M.A. in Cultural and Social History (University of Essex), and a Dr. rer. pol from the Universität Hamburg, her area of research is racism analysis focussing on the history of whiteness in Australia. In the editorial team of the Australian Studies Journal Zeitschrift für Australienstudien, Stefanie acts as Lead Managing Editor. Katrin Althans is a DFG-funded research fellow at the Postcolonial Studies Section of the Department of Anglophone Studies, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. Her main research interest is in Australian Studies and she has published widely in this area. Here, her focus is on Aboriginal Australian literature, which she has approached from a variety of angles, including genre (the Gothic), ecocritical readings, and geocriticism. Katrin also works in the area of law & literature and for her post-doc project, she is currently writing a second book on the representations of refugees in law and literature and the narrative authority of the law. In the editorial team of the Australian Studies Journal Zeitschrift für Australienstudien, Katrin acts as Reviews Editor. Christina Ringel completed her PhD at the University of Cologne with a thesis on possession in the endangered Aboriginal language Miriwoong. She has held a PostDoc position at the UoC, a position as Subject Librarian at TU Dortmund, and is currently pursuing a PostDoc project at TUD. Christina's recent conference papers and publications were concerned with contributions of linguistics to Native Title Claims, definiteness and possession in Miriwoong, evidentiality in Australian languages, and the influence of linguistic human rights and identification with territory and language on language vitality. She is a research affiliate at CoEDL, a member of ALS, FEL, GBS and GASt, and serves as Research Coordinator at the CAS, on the Board of Directors of CCLS and on the Advisory Board of FID AAC.