Transverse Disciplines - Queer-Feminist, Anti-racist, and Decolonial Approaches to the University (Hardcover)

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. Interrogating the position of researchers, teachers, and administrators inside and outside academia, Transverse Disciplines takes stock of the increasingly tenuous position of the humanities and stakes a claim for the importance of imagining new disciplinary futures within the often restrictive and harmful structures of the academy.

General

Imprint:	University of Toronto Press
Country of origin:	Canada
Release date:	September 2022
First published:	2022
Editors:	Simone Pfleger • Carrie Smith
Dimensions:	235 x 159 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	368
ISBN-13:	978-1-4875-0845-6
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Semiology Books > Social sciences > Education > Philosophy of education
LSN:	1-4875-0845-X
Barcode:	9781487508456

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