Publications

The paper deals with discursive portrayals of language learning and language learners. In a combination of quantitative and qualitative approaches, it asks whether the status of the language learner is constituted as a phenomenon of marginality or of centrality in current discourses in Germany, and […]

The COVID-19 pandemic exposed systemic problems in the global health system. It revealed that the global health system perpetuates global health inequalities rather than effectively reducing them: The international community, particularly the countries of the Global North, failed to make COVID-19 vaccines widely available to the populations of the world’s poorest countries. This blog debate takes stock of the reform debate about a just and decolonizing transformation of the health system. Bringing together scholars from various disciplines, the contributions of this debate ask what a fair global health system could look like and what role the law plays in it.

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 […]

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 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

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 […]

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.

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.

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 agreement between the EU and the Mercosur states does not contain any provisions regarding the participation and protection of indigenous peoples. A reference to such provisions, in particular from ILO Convention 169, would be required under international law and would help to make the conflicts and contradictions of the concept of sustainability negotiable.

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 […]

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).

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

Introduction to the special issue Widersprüche.

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 […]

Legal research is usually done at a desk, discussions are possible by telephone and even archives are usually accessible online, and most work is based on academic literature. But what insights, perspectives and research subjects are missed by legal research for which researchers do not leave their desks? And how can the gaps be filled?

Against the backdrop of general considerations of the interview as a genre, the paper discusses under which theoretical conditions interviews are suitable instruments for discourse analysis. With a special interest in questions of the linguistic constitution of shared knowledge in discourse, the authors outline the discourse-linguistic status of interviews in a systematic way.

Publication of the University of Bremen and University of Vienna international student conference »Debattieren, Opponieren, Protestieren – Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf sprachliche Praktiken des Widersprechens« 2023.

In the psychology of music and basic auditory research, there is talk of “paradoxes of hearing” or “musical paradoxies” (Deutsch 1986, 275-280; Utz 2015, 22-52; Deutsch 1995). But can auditory impressions really be paradoxical? What exactly should it mean what exactly should it mean to “hear paradoxes” or even to “hear paradoxically”? We will pursue this question in the following and in doing so, we will first define the concept of paradoxia for the present context – namely in the sense of ambiguity and discrepancy ambiguity and a discrepancy. We will then develop a typology, which at the same time shows the fundamental significance that ambiguities have for music – or more precisely: for the enduring appeal of pieces of music.

Corona infections, childhood memories, presidential elections, avalanches: everything we experience and witness and all external events can be ordered in time – according to their succession. Time is therefore an ordering parameter, or dimension, of events. There is disagreement about what else time is on the “battlefield of eternal disputes” – as Kant once called philosophy (or more precisely: metaphysics): Is time relative or absolute? Is it continuous or discrete? Is it a substance in its own right or is it constituted by relationships between events?

On 13.11.2024, a group of 113 members of the German Bundestag tabled a motion to initiate proceedings to ban the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. The debate to date has focused on the requirements and prospects of success of a (partial) ban of the party from a constitutional perspective (in particular here and here). The national perspective threatens to distort the view of transnational interlegalities and does not do justice to the state of European integration.