Maria Stehle
Biographic Data
| ID | 1245020 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maria Stehle |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maria |
| FAMILY NAME | Stehle |
| SIGNATURE | STEHLE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tennessee at Knoxville |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6968-7670 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Transverse Disciplines: Queer-Feminist, Anti-racist, and Decolonial Approaches to the University
Einleitung I
Gifts of welcome: Precarity, intimacy and the gift in Die Farbe des Ozeans (Peren, 2011) and Welcome (Lioret, 2009)
This article examines the role of Europe as gift in Lioret's Welcome (2009) and Peren's Die Farbe des Ozeans (2011) by focusing on gestures of welcome extended by white European characters to undocumented migrants. In both films, these gestures include gifts, in the form of money, shelter or skills taught, that play an important narrative role, but subordinate refugee characters' lives and stories to the emotional needs of white European 'givers'…
Willkommenskultur Documented: Precarious Heimat in Can’t Be Silent (2013), Land in Sicht (2013), and Willkommen auf Deutsch (2015)
Three German documentary films released before the height of the arrival of mainly Syrian refugees in 2015/16 document the precarious lives of refugees in Germany and highlight the complex politics that underlie Germany’s Willkommenskultur. Can’t Be Silent follows the tour of musician Heinz Ratz, who performs with artists he met in refugee camps across Germany; Land in Sicht documents the journeys of three refugees applying for asylum in Germany;…
Digital media and feminist futures: Awkward cooptions in the impasse
Many have lamented a perceived impasse of feminism in the aftermath of the 2016 US elections (Amanda Hess 2017). The women’s March on Washington, a day after Trump’s inauguration, was the largest p
Kimberly Mair. Guerrilla Aesthetics: Art, Memory, and the West German Urban Guerrilla
Knitted Naked Suits and Shedding Skins: The Body Politics of Popfeminist Musical Performances in the Twenty-first Century
This article offers a theorization of the politics of politically inspired musical performances in the twenty-first century. The two examples, Peaches' "Dick in the Air" and Rose McGowan's "RM486," both released in fall 2015, offer two very different approaches to contemporary feminist and popfeminist body politics. These songs with their accompanying video and multimedia releases, offer the temporal and auditory frame for reflections about how g…
Awkward Politics: Technologies of Popfeminist Activism
Digital feminisms: Transnational activism in German protest cultures
This Introduction provides the context for the articles in this special issue and identifies a set of reoccurring themes. After offering some historical background on the developments of feminist activism and feminist movements in the German context, the editors particularly highlight two main and interrelated thematic strands: feminist activism under or in neoliberalism and the complexities of negotiating questions of race and difference between…
German Women's Writing in the Twenty-First Century
Riot Grrrls, Bitchsm, and pussy power: Interview with Reyhan Şahin/Lady Bitch Ray
Dr phil. Reyhan Şahin—also known as Lady Bitch Ray—earned her M.A. in Linguistics, German Literature, and Education in 2004 and her doctorate in Linguistics in 2012 at the University of Bremen. Her alter ego, Lady Bitch Ray is a rapper, performer, fashion designer, and author. The following interview introduces Şahin’s work as a performer and as an academic and sheds light on the negotiation of feminist politics in a neoliberal context as well as…
Pop-Feminist Music in Twenty-First Century Germany: Innovations, Provocations, and Failures: Pop-Feminist Music
German Popular Music in the Twenty-First Century: Politics, Trends, and Trajectories: German Popular Music in the Twenty-First Century
German Soccer, the 2010 World Cup, and Multicultural Belonging
The celebrations of the “multicultural” German national soccer team for the 2010 World Cup and the subsequent declaration of the failure of German multiculturalism reveal complex constructions of national belonging and of postnational identity constructions, and affective ties to the idea of Europe in twenty-first century Germany. Within what appears to be an enthusiastic celebration of a multicultural German team, we uncover a set of converging …
White ghettos: The ‘crisis of multiculturalism’ in post-unification Germany
This article traces the shifts in German discourses about multiculturalism and the failed experiment of multiculturalism from the early 1990s into the 21st century by analyzing anxieties about emerging ‘ethnic ghettos’ and ‘parallel societies’ in Europe. In these discourses, ‘Europe’ functions simultaneously as an example for the failures of multiculturalism and as a bastion of western values in need of protection. The second part of this article…
From sex shacks to mega-brothels: The politics of anti-trafficking and the 2006 soccer World Cup
This article examines the discourses of forced prostitution that circulated in the US and European media and government publications in the context of the soccer World Cup in 2006. This analysis of the public discourse around prostitution reveals two themes: concerns about immigration and border security, and representations of gender binaries that serve to relegate migrant women to the status of victim. The fears of increased sex trafficking and…
Gender, Performance, and the Politics of Space: Germany and the Veil in Popular Culture
Since the 1990s, the headscarf has played a powerful role in negotiating questions of national and cultural belonging, gender identity, and definitions of urban space in Germany. This essay examines examples of veiling depicted in popular culture and theorizes the relationship between the headscarf and gendered and racialized spaces and the headscarf’s potential as a symbol of defiance in Germany. The two examples, the television comedy Turkish f…
Pop, Porn, and Rebellious Speech: Feminist politics and the multi-media performances of Elfriede Jelinek, Charlotte Roche, and Lady Bitch Ray
In Excitable Speech, Judith Butler contends that rebellious speech constitutes a “risk taken in response to being put at risk, a repetition in language that forces change.” With this in mind, this article examines the politics of employing and altering the language and imagery of “porn” in texts and multi-media performances of (post-)feminist (pop-)artists. The discussions about Elfriede Jelinek's novel Lust in the early 1990s exemplify the diffi…
Two Generations in Motion: Negotiating the Legacies of the West German Student Movement
Transnational Visual Cultures: The German Case
Youth Politics in the Postwar Germanies
Ruff, Mark Edward. The Wayward Flock: Catholic Youth in Postwar West Germany, 1945-1965 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005)McDougall, Alan. Youth Politics in East Germany: The Free German Youth Movement 1946-1968 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2004
The Whole World Is In Uproar: Discourses of Fear, Instability, and Global Change in West German Media, 1977-1980
After presenting a brief summary of the events leading up to the German Autumn, this article offers a close analysis of media responses in major German newspapers and magazines in the months following these violent and confusing political developments. It compares these responses to reports in January 1980, where the events of the late 1970s serve as a catalyst for fears of global change. Media articulate these fears about the stability and ident…
German Soccer, the 2010 World Cup, and Multicultural Belonging
The celebrations of the “multicultural” German national soccer team for the 2010 World Cup and the subsequent declaration of the failure of German multiculturalism reveal complex constructions of national belonging and of postnational identity constructions, and affective ties to the idea of Europe in twenty-first century Germany. Within what appears to be an enthusiastic celebration of a multicultural German team, we uncover a set of converging …
Digital feminisms: Transnational activism in German protest cultures
This Introduction provides the context for the articles in this special issue and identifies a set of reoccurring themes. After offering some historical background on the developments of feminist activism and feminist movements in the German context, the editors particularly highlight two main and interrelated thematic strands: feminist activism under or in neoliberalism and the complexities of negotiating questions of race and difference between…
White ghettos: The ‘crisis of multiculturalism’ in post-unification Germany
This article traces the shifts in German discourses about multiculturalism and the failed experiment of multiculturalism from the early 1990s into the 21st century by analyzing anxieties about emerging ‘ethnic ghettos’ and ‘parallel societies’ in Europe. In these discourses, ‘Europe’ functions simultaneously as an example for the failures of multiculturalism and as a bastion of western values in need of protection. The second part of this article…
From sex shacks to mega-brothels: The politics of anti-trafficking and the 2006 soccer World Cup
This article examines the discourses of forced prostitution that circulated in the US and European media and government publications in the context of the soccer World Cup in 2006. This analysis of the public discourse around prostitution reveals two themes: concerns about immigration and border security, and representations of gender binaries that serve to relegate migrant women to the status of victim. The fears of increased sex trafficking and…
Willkommenskultur Documented: Precarious Heimat in Can’t Be Silent (2013), Land in Sicht (2013), and Willkommen auf Deutsch (2015)
Three German documentary films released before the height of the arrival of mainly Syrian refugees in 2015/16 document the precarious lives of refugees in Germany and highlight the complex politics that underlie Germany’s Willkommenskultur. Can’t Be Silent follows the tour of musician Heinz Ratz, who performs with artists he met in refugee camps across Germany; Land in Sicht documents the journeys of three refugees applying for asylum in Germany;…
Digital media and feminist futures: Awkward cooptions in the impasse
Many have lamented a perceived impasse of feminism in the aftermath of the 2016 US elections (Amanda Hess 2017). The women’s March on Washington, a day after Trump’s inauguration, was the largest p
Gender, Performance, and the Politics of Space: Germany and the Veil in Popular Culture
Since the 1990s, the headscarf has played a powerful role in negotiating questions of national and cultural belonging, gender identity, and definitions of urban space in Germany. This essay examines examples of veiling depicted in popular culture and theorizes the relationship between the headscarf and gendered and racialized spaces and the headscarf’s potential as a symbol of defiance in Germany. The two examples, the television comedy Turkish f…
The Whole World Is In Uproar: Discourses of Fear, Instability, and Global Change in West German Media, 1977-1980
After presenting a brief summary of the events leading up to the German Autumn, this article offers a close analysis of media responses in major German newspapers and magazines in the months following these violent and confusing political developments. It compares these responses to reports in January 1980, where the events of the late 1970s serve as a catalyst for fears of global change. Media articulate these fears about the stability and ident…
The Whole World Is In Uproar: Discourses of Fear, Instability, and Global Change in West German Media, 1977-1980
After presenting a brief summary of the events leading up to the German Autumn, this article offers a close analysis of media responses in major German newspapers and magazines in the months following these violent and confusing political developments. It compares these responses to reports in January 1980, where the events of the late 1970s serve as a catalyst for fears of global change. Media articulate these fears about the stability and ident…
Youth Politics in the Postwar Germanies
Ruff, Mark Edward. The Wayward Flock: Catholic Youth in Postwar West Germany, 1945-1965 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005)McDougall, Alan. Youth Politics in East Germany: The Free German Youth Movement 1946-1968 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2004
Two Generations in Motion: Negotiating the Legacies of the West German Student Movement
Transnational Visual Cultures: The German Case
Pop, Porn, and Rebellious Speech: Feminist politics and the multi-media performances of Elfriede Jelinek, Charlotte Roche, and Lady Bitch Ray
In Excitable Speech, Judith Butler contends that rebellious speech constitutes a “risk taken in response to being put at risk, a repetition in language that forces change.” With this in mind, this article examines the politics of employing and altering the language and imagery of “porn” in texts and multi-media performances of (post-)feminist (pop-)artists. The discussions about Elfriede Jelinek's novel Lust in the early 1990s exemplify the diffi…
White ghettos: The ‘crisis of multiculturalism’ in post-unification Germany
This article traces the shifts in German discourses about multiculturalism and the failed experiment of multiculturalism from the early 1990s into the 21st century by analyzing anxieties about emerging ‘ethnic ghettos’ and ‘parallel societies’ in Europe. In these discourses, ‘Europe’ functions simultaneously as an example for the failures of multiculturalism and as a bastion of western values in need of protection. The second part of this article…
From sex shacks to mega-brothels: The politics of anti-trafficking and the 2006 soccer World Cup
This article examines the discourses of forced prostitution that circulated in the US and European media and government publications in the context of the soccer World Cup in 2006. This analysis of the public discourse around prostitution reveals two themes: concerns about immigration and border security, and representations of gender binaries that serve to relegate migrant women to the status of victim. The fears of increased sex trafficking and…
Gender, Performance, and the Politics of Space: Germany and the Veil in Popular Culture
Since the 1990s, the headscarf has played a powerful role in negotiating questions of national and cultural belonging, gender identity, and definitions of urban space in Germany. This essay examines examples of veiling depicted in popular culture and theorizes the relationship between the headscarf and gendered and racialized spaces and the headscarf’s potential as a symbol of defiance in Germany. The two examples, the television comedy Turkish f…
Pop-Feminist Music in Twenty-First Century Germany: Innovations, Provocations, and Failures: Pop-Feminist Music
German Popular Music in the Twenty-First Century: Politics, Trends, and Trajectories: German Popular Music in the Twenty-First Century
German Soccer, the 2010 World Cup, and Multicultural Belonging
The celebrations of the “multicultural” German national soccer team for the 2010 World Cup and the subsequent declaration of the failure of German multiculturalism reveal complex constructions of national belonging and of postnational identity constructions, and affective ties to the idea of Europe in twenty-first century Germany. Within what appears to be an enthusiastic celebration of a multicultural German team, we uncover a set of converging …
German Women's Writing in the Twenty-First Century
Riot Grrrls, Bitchsm, and pussy power: Interview with Reyhan Şahin/Lady Bitch Ray
Dr phil. Reyhan Şahin—also known as Lady Bitch Ray—earned her M.A. in Linguistics, German Literature, and Education in 2004 and her doctorate in Linguistics in 2012 at the University of Bremen. Her alter ego, Lady Bitch Ray is a rapper, performer, fashion designer, and author. The following interview introduces Şahin’s work as a performer and as an academic and sheds light on the negotiation of feminist politics in a neoliberal context as well as…
Awkward Politics: Technologies of Popfeminist Activism
Digital feminisms: Transnational activism in German protest cultures
This Introduction provides the context for the articles in this special issue and identifies a set of reoccurring themes. After offering some historical background on the developments of feminist activism and feminist movements in the German context, the editors particularly highlight two main and interrelated thematic strands: feminist activism under or in neoliberalism and the complexities of negotiating questions of race and difference between…
Digital media and feminist futures: Awkward cooptions in the impasse
Many have lamented a perceived impasse of feminism in the aftermath of the 2016 US elections (Amanda Hess 2017). The women’s March on Washington, a day after Trump’s inauguration, was the largest p
Kimberly Mair. Guerrilla Aesthetics: Art, Memory, and the West German Urban Guerrilla
Knitted Naked Suits and Shedding Skins: The Body Politics of Popfeminist Musical Performances in the Twenty-first Century
This article offers a theorization of the politics of politically inspired musical performances in the twenty-first century. The two examples, Peaches' "Dick in the Air" and Rose McGowan's "RM486," both released in fall 2015, offer two very different approaches to contemporary feminist and popfeminist body politics. These songs with their accompanying video and multimedia releases, offer the temporal and auditory frame for reflections about how g…
Willkommenskultur Documented: Precarious Heimat in Can’t Be Silent (2013), Land in Sicht (2013), and Willkommen auf Deutsch (2015)
Three German documentary films released before the height of the arrival of mainly Syrian refugees in 2015/16 document the precarious lives of refugees in Germany and highlight the complex politics that underlie Germany’s Willkommenskultur. Can’t Be Silent follows the tour of musician Heinz Ratz, who performs with artists he met in refugee camps across Germany; Land in Sicht documents the journeys of three refugees applying for asylum in Germany;…
Einleitung I
Gifts of welcome: Precarity, intimacy and the gift in Die Farbe des Ozeans (Peren, 2011) and Welcome (Lioret, 2009)
This article examines the role of Europe as gift in Lioret's Welcome (2009) and Peren's Die Farbe des Ozeans (2011) by focusing on gestures of welcome extended by white European characters to undocumented migrants. In both films, these gestures include gifts, in the form of money, shelter or skills taught, that play an important narrative role, but subordinate refugee characters' lives and stories to the emotional needs of white European 'givers'…
Transverse Disciplines: Queer-Feminist, Anti-racist, and Decolonial Approaches to the University
Political science (19 works) · Law (16 works) · Sociology (16 works) · German (14 works) · Art (13 works) · Gender Studies (13 works) · History (13 works) · Politics (13 works) · Law (10 works) · Media studies (10 works)