Articles & Papers

The aim of this article is to theoretically substantiate antonymy as a discourse-linguistic category and to analytically examine it. The central question here is how antonymic relations are grammatically constituted in discourse and what communicative functions they fulfill. Following this interest, the main empirical part […]

Introduction to the special issue Widersprüche.

Publication in the “Archivale des Monats” series of the Research Center for Eastern Europe Studies Bremen. Als Wien zum Zentrum des tschechoslowakischen Dissens‘ wurde. Bremen: Forschungsstelle Osteuropa. www.forschungsstelle.uni-bremen.de

Review of the edited volume Nationsbildung und Außenpolitik im Osten Europas. Nationsbildungsprozesse, Konstruktionen nationaler Identität und außenpolitische Positionierungen im 20. und 21. Jahr-hundert (ed. Bianka Pietrow-Ennker).

Seit jeher sind Gottesdienste Orte christlicher Gemeinschaftserfahrungen und schaffen durch kollektive Formen liturgischer Praxis ein Gefühl spiritueller Verbundenheit. Hierbei stellt sich jedoch kritisch die Frage, inwiefern dieser Anspruch christlicher Gemeinschaft gelebte Praxis oder uneinlösbares Ideal ist. Besonders für queere Menschen stellen Gottesdienste (heute zum Glück […]

European demand for raw materials is growing as part of the energy transition. Many of the raw materials required for the energy transition are located on the territories of indigenous peoples, which often leads to conflicts. Against this backdrop, it is surprising that the planned […]

This article aims to critically examine anti-genderist representations of queer Christian church services by analyzing social media data and discourse ethnographic field research. In this regard, the concept of ‘anti-genderism’ is first discussed with reference to current research literature and related to church policy contexts.

Contribution to the Journal Femina Politica – Zeitschrift für feministische Politikwissenschaft In this article, I address the precarious relationship between democracy and care and develop a radical democratic understanding of care – Radical Democratic Care. I proceed in four steps: First, I introduce the concept […]

In Austermann, Nele, Andreas Fischer-Lescano, Heike Kleffner, Kati Lang, Maximilian Pichl, Ronen Steinke & Tore Vetter (eds.). 2024. Recht gegen rechts: Report 2024. Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer. printISBN: 978-3-10-397556-7 ebookISBN: 978-3-10-491854-9

In this article, the proposal is made to analyse practices of contradiction with regard to their aesthetic potential. On the one hand, this is intended to demonstrate the diverse possibilities of contradiction studies and, on the other, to emphasise the role of aesthetic texts in protest discourses. Texts from the feminist abortion discourse will be used as examples.

In recent decades, the history of social movements has been characterized by discursive struggles for the attention to (intentionally) overlooked social positions of subjects and their actual or imagined membership in groups marginalized by and in mainstream discourses. Warnke, Ingo H., Bonacchi, Silvia & Seiler […]

This contribution deals with the contradictions of nature and agricultural economy in the contemporary moment of crisis in the Anthropocene. It is based on an analysis of the fantastic French film La nuée (The Swarm) by Just Philippot who reflects by this film also on the turning points from the preception of reality to obsession and from the uninjured body to the damaged body, or even from live to death resepctiveley from live instinct to death drive.