Working Papers

criticalhabitations features longer work by authors associated with the blog for you to read and comment.

Dunst, Alexander, Elahe Haschemi Yekani, and Anja Schwarz. “The Here and Now of Cultural Studies.” Journal for the Study of British Cultures 21.2 (2014): 195-222.

Eckstein, Lars, and Anja Schwarz. Postcolonial Piracy: Media Distribution and Cultural Production in the Global South. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.

Dunst, Alexander, “Introduction: Third Reality – On the Persistence of Philip K. Dick”, in: The World According to Philip K. Dick. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2015, 1-10.

Zombies, Zombies, Zombies

This issue of the Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften is a compilation of articles from different academic disciplines reaching from political sciences and anthropology to literature and media studies in German language. The issue traces the zombie’s historical continuities from the colonial Caribbean to the North American invasion of Haiti in 1915 and beyond – to its neo-colonial implications and also to it’s re-appropriations in West Africa. It discusses the first Caribbean zombi-text from the 17^th century, the relation between zombification and the Code Noir and discusses global zombie-capitalism from a Caribbean perspective.

The debate focuses on the (im)possibilities of „epistemic disobedience“.

The introduction in German can be downloaded here.

“Zombies”, hg. v. Gudrun Rath, Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften 1/2014, Bielefeld: Transcript.

Lateinamerikanische Kulturtheorien

„Lateinamerikanische Kulturtheorien“ is a selection of theoretical texts from and about Latin America, most of them for the first time available in German translation. From the perspective of estudios culturales, these texts offer new perspectives on the global interrelations between symbolic and material spheres.

Amongst the authors are Oswald de Andrade, Fernando Ortiz, Ángel Rama, Antonio Cornejo Polar, Néstor García Canclini, Beatriz Sarlo, Carlos Monsiváis, Édouard Glissant, Sylvia Wynter and Rita Segato.

The introduction and some of the articles (in German) can be downloaded here.

Lateinamerikanische Kulturtheorien, ed. Gudrun Rath and Isabel Exner, Konstanz University Press 2015.