Laura Bieger

Biographic Data

ID1593213
NAMELaura Bieger
GIVEN NAMESLaura
FAMILY NAMEBieger
SIGNATUREBIEGER L
AFFILIATIONSSocial Change and Development
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS2
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX1

  • The Underground Railroad and the Promise of Infrastructure

    Open AccessLaura BiegerARTICLEParallax2024References: 5

  • Humans

    Laura Bieger, Joshua Shannon et al.BOOKHumans2021

    BOOKHumansLaura Bieger, Joshua Shannon, Jason Weems Stable URL: https://www.aaeportal.com/?id=-22193Copy Humans are organisms, but "the human being" is a term referring to a complicated, self-contradictory, and historically evolving set of concepts and practices. Humans explores competing versions, constructs, and ideas of the human being that have figured prominently in the arts of the United States. These essays consider a range of artworks fro…

  • Committed Writing as Common Ground

    Open AccessLaura BiegerARTICLEAmerikastudien/American Studies2021

    After the death of George Floyd under the knee of a White police officer on May 25, 2020, the words "I can't breathe" may never sound the same. Over the course of the summer, they became a rallying cry in antiracism demonstrations across the U.S. and around the globe, prompting Black Lives Matter activists to remind White protesters that they can indeed breathe just fine. This demarcation of difference among those united against racism is what ma…

  • Fire Oppression

    Open AccessLaura Bieger, Joshua Shannon et al.CHAPTERHumans2021

    Fire Oppression: Burning and Weaving in Indigenous CaliforniaJessica L. HortonHumansStories about the origins of fire give shape to the malleable category "humans" and predict the long-term...AuthorJessica L. HortonPublisherTerra Foundation for American ArtCopyright© 2021, Terra Foundation for American ArtRelated print edition pages: pp.66-87 Stable URL: https://www.aaeportal.com/?id=-22197Copy Chapter subject tags:Indigenous peoplesPrescribed bu…

  • What Dewey Knew. The Public as Problem, Practice, and Art

    Open AccessLaura BiegerARTICLEEuropean Journal of American…2020Cited by: 1References: 14

    This essay takes the present “post truth” threat to democratic politics as an occasion to revisit John Dewey’s view of the public as a political actor that is both indispensible for the project of modern democracy and vulnerable to self-effacement. Drawing on a recent development in democratic theory—epistemic democracy—that is in part inspired by Dewey, I trace how Dewey’s relativist understanding of truth animates his views of the public as a p…

  • No Place Like Home; or, Dwelling in Narrative

    Laura BiegerARTICLENew Literary History2015Cited by: 1

    This essay explores the intimate and immensely productive relation of belonging and narrative. It is concerned with belonging as an existential condition of human being, and with narrative as the quintessential mediator and enabler of that condition. As fundamental constituent of human being, so its main claim, narrative serves as a cultural resource of orientation and emplacement that sustains our being by giving voice and form. Thus understood,…

  • The imaginary and its worlds

    Open AccessLaura Bieger, Ramon Saldivar et al.BOOKThe imaginary and its worlds2013

    The Imaginary and Its Worlds collects essays that boldly rethink the imaginary as a key concept for cultural criticism. Addressing both the emergence and the reproduction of the social, the imaginary is ideally suited to chart the consequences of the transnational turn in American studies. Leading scholars in the field from the United States and Europe address the literary, social, and political dimensions of the imaginary, providing a methodolog…