Alexandra Ganser
Biographic Data
| ID | 456798 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexandra Ganser |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexandra |
| FAMILY NAME | Ganser |
| SIGNATURE | GANSER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Vienna |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3510-4304 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Introduction
This special forum of JTAS brings together the work of international scholars from the fields of archipelagic American studies, island studies, and mobility studies.It is the result of two thematic workshops in Leipzig, Germany organized by the collaborative research center "Spatialization Processes under the Global Condition" and the Vienna research platform "Mobile Cultures and Societies" that set out to investigate the relationship between tra…
Liberty and death
Questioning the opposition of freedom and enslavement and of life and death, zombies and pirates have negotiated (post)colonial relations for centuries. Zombies, bodies or spirits doomed to serve a master beyond death, thematize histories of enslavement which also include rebellion. Similarly, pirates were used to articulate colonial adventure and exploitation on the one hand and the idea of a resistant collective beyond established power relatio…
A Sea of Stars? Towards an Astropelagic Reading of Outer Space with Jacques Lacan and Hannah Arendt
Starting from the fact that the International Outer Space Treaty (Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, Including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies/UNOOSA, 1967) has been modeled on international laws of the seas, this essay investigates the epistemic consequences of conceiving outer space archipelagically, or, more specifically and following Craig Santos Perez, terripelagically. By r…
Caring for Cultural Studies
David Armitage, Alison Bashford, and Sujit Sivasundaram, editors. Oceanic Histories
No longer are the world’s oceans the exclusive domain of the natural sciences, as for about two decades now, they have become a topic for scholarly examination in the context of what Steven Mentz succinctly termed the “blue cultural studies” and others call the oceanic turn or a “new thalassology” (Mentz, “Toward a Blue Cultural Studies: The Sea, Maritime Culture, and Early Modern English Literature,” Literature Compass 6, no. 5 [2009]: 997–1013;…
From the black Atlantic to the bleak Pacific
Herman Melville's novella "Benito Cereno" (1855/56) is one of the best-studied texts both within Melville's oeuvre and nineteenth-century American literature in general. In recent decades, its puzzling structure and fragmented narrative perspective as well as its symbolism and themes have been subject to critical scrutiny mostly in the context of inquiries into the text's racial politics regarding the institution of slavery. More specifically, th…
Mobility in early modern Anglo-American accounts of piracy
Through the ages and across discourses, pirates have been described as utterly mobile subjects: from political theory to historiography, from philosophy to literary writing. Both the geographic and socio-economic aspects of mobility are closely entwined in such writings, highlighting how piracy is entangled in the entrepreneurial colonial context of the early modern Atlantic. This chapter sets out to examine how these texts contributed to both a …
A Sea of Stars? Towards an Astropelagic Reading of Outer Space with Jacques Lacan and Hannah Arendt
Starting from the fact that the International Outer Space Treaty (Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, Including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies/UNOOSA, 1967) has been modeled on international laws of the seas, this essay investigates the epistemic consequences of conceiving outer space archipelagically, or, more specifically and following Craig Santos Perez, terripelagically. By r…
From the black Atlantic to the bleak Pacific
Herman Melville's novella "Benito Cereno" (1855/56) is one of the best-studied texts both within Melville's oeuvre and nineteenth-century American literature in general. In recent decades, its puzzling structure and fragmented narrative perspective as well as its symbolism and themes have been subject to critical scrutiny mostly in the context of inquiries into the text's racial politics regarding the institution of slavery. More specifically, th…
Mobility in early modern Anglo-American accounts of piracy
Through the ages and across discourses, pirates have been described as utterly mobile subjects: from political theory to historiography, from philosophy to literary writing. Both the geographic and socio-economic aspects of mobility are closely entwined in such writings, highlighting how piracy is entangled in the entrepreneurial colonial context of the early modern Atlantic. This chapter sets out to examine how these texts contributed to both a …
From the black Atlantic to the bleak Pacific
Herman Melville's novella "Benito Cereno" (1855/56) is one of the best-studied texts both within Melville's oeuvre and nineteenth-century American literature in general. In recent decades, its puzzling structure and fragmented narrative perspective as well as its symbolism and themes have been subject to critical scrutiny mostly in the context of inquiries into the text's racial politics regarding the institution of slavery. More specifically, th…
David Armitage, Alison Bashford, and Sujit Sivasundaram, editors. Oceanic Histories
No longer are the world’s oceans the exclusive domain of the natural sciences, as for about two decades now, they have become a topic for scholarly examination in the context of what Steven Mentz succinctly termed the “blue cultural studies” and others call the oceanic turn or a “new thalassology” (Mentz, “Toward a Blue Cultural Studies: The Sea, Maritime Culture, and Early Modern English Literature,” Literature Compass 6, no. 5 [2009]: 997–1013;…
Caring for Cultural Studies
Introduction
This special forum of JTAS brings together the work of international scholars from the fields of archipelagic American studies, island studies, and mobility studies.It is the result of two thematic workshops in Leipzig, Germany organized by the collaborative research center "Spatialization Processes under the Global Condition" and the Vienna research platform "Mobile Cultures and Societies" that set out to investigate the relationship between tra…
Liberty and death
Questioning the opposition of freedom and enslavement and of life and death, zombies and pirates have negotiated (post)colonial relations for centuries. Zombies, bodies or spirits doomed to serve a master beyond death, thematize histories of enslavement which also include rebellion. Similarly, pirates were used to articulate colonial adventure and exploitation on the one hand and the idea of a resistant collective beyond established power relatio…
A Sea of Stars? Towards an Astropelagic Reading of Outer Space with Jacques Lacan and Hannah Arendt
Starting from the fact that the International Outer Space Treaty (Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, Including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies/UNOOSA, 1967) has been modeled on international laws of the seas, this essay investigates the epistemic consequences of conceiving outer space archipelagically, or, more specifically and following Craig Santos Perez, terripelagically. By r…
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