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Transverse Disciplines: Queer-Feminist, Anti-Racist, and Decolonial Approaches to the University

Transverse Disciplines: Queer-Feminist, Anti-Racist, and Decolonial Approaches to the University

Pfleger, Simone
Smith, Carrie

Hardcover

GermanLiterary CriticismGeneral Education

ISBN10: 148750845X
ISBN13: 9781487508456
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: Sep 30 2022
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.63
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

For at least a decade, university foreign language programs have been in decline throughout the English-speaking world. As programs close or are merged into large multi-language departments, disciplines such as German studies find themselves struggling to survive.

Transverse Disciplines offers an overview of the current research on the humanities and the academy at large and proposes creative and courageous ideas for the university of the future. Using German studies as a case study, the book examines localized academic work in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States in order to model new ideas for invigorated thinking beyond disciplinary specificity, university communities, and entrenched academic practices. In essays that are theoretical, speculative, experimental, and deeply personal, contributors suggest that German studies might do better to stop trying to protect existing national and disciplinary arrangements. Instead, the discipline should embrace feminist, queer, anti-racist, and decolonial academic practices and commitments, including community-based work, research-creation, and scholar activism.

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