Karín Lesnik-Oberstein
Biographic Data
| ID | 311460 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karín Lesnik-Oberstein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karín |
| FAMILY NAME | Lesnik-Oberstein |
| SIGNATURE | LESNIK-OBERSTEIN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Reading |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Child Studies Multiple: Collaborative play for thinking through theories and methods
This text is an exploration of collaborative thinking and writing through theories, methods, and experiences on the topic of the child, children, and childhood. It is a collaborative written text (with 32 authors) that sprang out of the experimental workshop Child Studies Multiple. The workshop and this text are about daring to stay with mess, 'un-closure' , and uncertainty in order to investigate the (e)motions and complexities of being either a…
The Case of The Case of Peter Pan or the Impossibility of Children's Fiction: Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, Childhood, Animality
This article argues a different understanding to that in children's literature studies more widely of the implications of the work of Jacqueline Rose in The Case of Peter Pan or: The Impossibility of Children's Fiction (1984) for thinking about childhood, animality and children's literature and links these implications to the similar implications of Jacques Derrida's thinking about the child and animality. In both cases, the child and the animal …
The object of neuroscience and literary studies
An investment in the object as unquestionably self-evident and self-defining has for quite some time now been widely critiqued as a central philosophical tenet of crony capitalism in its current economic, material, social, cultural and institutional manifestations. In this article, I trace that appeal to the category of the object in order to claim its discursive presence also in recent critical tendencies in literary criticism in relation to sci…
Gender, Childhood and Children’s Literature: The CIRCL Approach
This paper explores the unique approach to childhood and children’s literature of the research and teaching of the ‘Graduate Centre for International Research in Childhood: Literature, Culture, Media (CIRCL)’. CIRCL follows in its work the arguments of UK critical theorist Jacqueline Rose in her seminal 1984 book The case of Peter Pan or the impossibility of children’s fiction. Rose’s work has been widely and routinely referenced in Children’s Li…
Rethinking Disability Theory and Practice: Challenging Essentialism
Drawing from work in a wide range of fields, this book presents novel approaches to key debates in thinking about and defining disability. Differing from other works in Critical Disability Studies, it
Motherhood, evolutionary psychology and mirror neurons or: Grammar is politics by other means
Through a close analysis of socio-biologist Sarah Blaffer Hrdy's work on motherhood and 'mirror neurons' it is argued that Hrdy's claims exemplify how research that ostensibly bases itself on neuroscience, including in literary studies 'literary Darwinism', relies after all not on scientific, but on political assumptions, namely on underlying, unquestioned claims about the autonomous, transparent, liberal agent of consumer capitalism. These under…
Last Taboo: Women and Body Hair
Reading Derrida on Mathematics
This article engages with the claims of Anne Brubaker that “[n]ow that the dust has settled after the so-called ‘Science Wars’ [...] it is an opportune time to reassess the ways in which poststructural theory both argues persuasively for mathematics as a culturally embedded practice – a method as opposed to a metaphysics – and, at the same time, reinscribes realist notions of mathematics as a noise-free description of a mind independent reality.”…
Children in Culture, Revisited
Children in Culture, Revisited follows on from the first volume, Children in Culture , and is composed of a range of chapters, newly written for this collection, which offer further fully inter- and m
The Last Taboo: Women and Body Hair
This is an academic book on women and body hair, a subject which has, until now, been seen as too trivial, ridiculous or revolting to write about. Even feminist writers or researchers on the body have found remarkably little to say about body hair, usually not mentioning it at all. If women's body hair is noted, it is either simply to accept its removal as an inevitable aspect of female beautification, or to argue against hair removal as a return…
Children in Culture, Revisited: Further Approaches to Childhood
Childhood, queer theory, and feminism
Departing from the theoretical position that childhood is a construction of identity, this article examines queer theory about childhood, arguing that definitions of 'queer theory' and of 'childhood' affect each other specifically in complex ways. In relation to this, it is argued that even where 'queer theory' defines itself as the dismantling of foundational categories, childhood often escapes this dismantling inadvertently and unintentionally.…
On having an own child: Reproductive Technologies and the Cultural Construction of Childhood
What is Queer Theory Doing With the Child
(2002). What is Queer Theory Doing With the Child? Parallax: Vol. 8, Random Figures, pp. 35-46
The Psychopathology of Everyday Children's Literature Criticism
What is Queer Theory Doing With the Child
(2002). What is Queer Theory Doing With the Child? Parallax: Vol. 8, Random Figures, pp. 35-46
Childhood, queer theory, and feminism
Departing from the theoretical position that childhood is a construction of identity, this article examines queer theory about childhood, arguing that definitions of 'queer theory' and of 'childhood' affect each other specifically in complex ways. In relation to this, it is argued that even where 'queer theory' defines itself as the dismantling of foundational categories, childhood often escapes this dismantling inadvertently and unintentionally.…
The Psychopathology of Everyday Children's Literature Criticism
Child Studies Multiple: Collaborative play for thinking through theories and methods
This text is an exploration of collaborative thinking and writing through theories, methods, and experiences on the topic of the child, children, and childhood. It is a collaborative written text (with 32 authors) that sprang out of the experimental workshop Child Studies Multiple. The workshop and this text are about daring to stay with mess, 'un-closure' , and uncertainty in order to investigate the (e)motions and complexities of being either a…
The object of neuroscience and literary studies
An investment in the object as unquestionably self-evident and self-defining has for quite some time now been widely critiqued as a central philosophical tenet of crony capitalism in its current economic, material, social, cultural and institutional manifestations. In this article, I trace that appeal to the category of the object in order to claim its discursive presence also in recent critical tendencies in literary criticism in relation to sci…
Gender, Childhood and Children’s Literature: The CIRCL Approach
This paper explores the unique approach to childhood and children’s literature of the research and teaching of the ‘Graduate Centre for International Research in Childhood: Literature, Culture, Media (CIRCL)’. CIRCL follows in its work the arguments of UK critical theorist Jacqueline Rose in her seminal 1984 book The case of Peter Pan or the impossibility of children’s fiction. Rose’s work has been widely and routinely referenced in Children’s Li…
Motherhood, evolutionary psychology and mirror neurons or: Grammar is politics by other means
Through a close analysis of socio-biologist Sarah Blaffer Hrdy's work on motherhood and 'mirror neurons' it is argued that Hrdy's claims exemplify how research that ostensibly bases itself on neuroscience, including in literary studies 'literary Darwinism', relies after all not on scientific, but on political assumptions, namely on underlying, unquestioned claims about the autonomous, transparent, liberal agent of consumer capitalism. These under…
Reading Derrida on Mathematics
This article engages with the claims of Anne Brubaker that “[n]ow that the dust has settled after the so-called ‘Science Wars’ [...] it is an opportune time to reassess the ways in which poststructural theory both argues persuasively for mathematics as a culturally embedded practice – a method as opposed to a metaphysics – and, at the same time, reinscribes realist notions of mathematics as a noise-free description of a mind independent reality.”…
The Psychopathology of Everyday Children's Literature Criticism
What is Queer Theory Doing With the Child
(2002). What is Queer Theory Doing With the Child? Parallax: Vol. 8, Random Figures, pp. 35-46
On having an own child: Reproductive Technologies and the Cultural Construction of Childhood
Childhood, queer theory, and feminism
Departing from the theoretical position that childhood is a construction of identity, this article examines queer theory about childhood, arguing that definitions of 'queer theory' and of 'childhood' affect each other specifically in complex ways. In relation to this, it is argued that even where 'queer theory' defines itself as the dismantling of foundational categories, childhood often escapes this dismantling inadvertently and unintentionally.…
Children in Culture, Revisited
Children in Culture, Revisited follows on from the first volume, Children in Culture , and is composed of a range of chapters, newly written for this collection, which offer further fully inter- and m
The Last Taboo: Women and Body Hair
This is an academic book on women and body hair, a subject which has, until now, been seen as too trivial, ridiculous or revolting to write about. Even feminist writers or researchers on the body have found remarkably little to say about body hair, usually not mentioning it at all. If women's body hair is noted, it is either simply to accept its removal as an inevitable aspect of female beautification, or to argue against hair removal as a return…
Children in Culture, Revisited: Further Approaches to Childhood
Reading Derrida on Mathematics
This article engages with the claims of Anne Brubaker that “[n]ow that the dust has settled after the so-called ‘Science Wars’ [...] it is an opportune time to reassess the ways in which poststructural theory both argues persuasively for mathematics as a culturally embedded practice – a method as opposed to a metaphysics – and, at the same time, reinscribes realist notions of mathematics as a noise-free description of a mind independent reality.”…
Last Taboo: Women and Body Hair
Rethinking Disability Theory and Practice: Challenging Essentialism
Drawing from work in a wide range of fields, this book presents novel approaches to key debates in thinking about and defining disability. Differing from other works in Critical Disability Studies, it
Motherhood, evolutionary psychology and mirror neurons or: Grammar is politics by other means
Through a close analysis of socio-biologist Sarah Blaffer Hrdy's work on motherhood and 'mirror neurons' it is argued that Hrdy's claims exemplify how research that ostensibly bases itself on neuroscience, including in literary studies 'literary Darwinism', relies after all not on scientific, but on political assumptions, namely on underlying, unquestioned claims about the autonomous, transparent, liberal agent of consumer capitalism. These under…
Gender, Childhood and Children’s Literature: The CIRCL Approach
This paper explores the unique approach to childhood and children’s literature of the research and teaching of the ‘Graduate Centre for International Research in Childhood: Literature, Culture, Media (CIRCL)’. CIRCL follows in its work the arguments of UK critical theorist Jacqueline Rose in her seminal 1984 book The case of Peter Pan or the impossibility of children’s fiction. Rose’s work has been widely and routinely referenced in Children’s Li…
The object of neuroscience and literary studies
An investment in the object as unquestionably self-evident and self-defining has for quite some time now been widely critiqued as a central philosophical tenet of crony capitalism in its current economic, material, social, cultural and institutional manifestations. In this article, I trace that appeal to the category of the object in order to claim its discursive presence also in recent critical tendencies in literary criticism in relation to sci…
The Case of The Case of Peter Pan or the Impossibility of Children's Fiction: Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, Childhood, Animality
This article argues a different understanding to that in children's literature studies more widely of the implications of the work of Jacqueline Rose in The Case of Peter Pan or: The Impossibility of Children's Fiction (1984) for thinking about childhood, animality and children's literature and links these implications to the similar implications of Jacques Derrida's thinking about the child and animality. In both cases, the child and the animal …
Child Studies Multiple: Collaborative play for thinking through theories and methods
This text is an exploration of collaborative thinking and writing through theories, methods, and experiences on the topic of the child, children, and childhood. It is a collaborative written text (with 32 authors) that sprang out of the experimental workshop Child Studies Multiple. The workshop and this text are about daring to stay with mess, 'un-closure' , and uncertainty in order to investigate the (e)motions and complexities of being either a…
Sociology (13 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Psychoanalysis (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works)