Sybille Frank
Biographic Data
| ID | 640451 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sybille Frank |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sybille |
| FAMILY NAME | Frank |
| SIGNATURE | FRANK S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern Denmark |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0681-6970 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Governing infrastructure heterogeneity: An intraurban analysis of sewerage infrastructures in Cape Town
Heterogeneous infrastructures, combining networked and non-networked socio-technical arrangements, are increasingly legitimised as responses to service delivery challenges in Southern cities. However, their emergence in non-poor neighbourhoods and the challenges of governing them remain underexplored. Drawing on document review and 31 interviews across five neighbourhoods in Cape Town, this paper identifies three key governance challenges: 1) the…
Emigrant Literature, World Literature, National Literature: The Case of Georg Brandes
This article examines Georg Brandes’ comparative method and notions of emigrant literature, world literature, and national literature, comparing them to Goethe’s and Milan Kundera’s ideas of world literature, and drawing on Emily Apter’s concept of untranslatability. It is argued that Brandes, like Apter, valorizes an untranslatable dimension of language in his paradoxical notion of world literature as the most national literature, whereas Goethe…
The Power of New Urban Tourism: Spaces, Representations and Contestations
UIDB/04647/2020 UIDP/04647/2020
Literary Studies and Entanglements beyond the Nation
Urban fallism: Monuments, iconoclasm and activism
In March 2015, an activist movement ‘Rhodes must fall’ from the University of Cape Town initiated a new form of global socio-political protest, which spread in cities worldwide and was characterized by spatial practices of occupying, modifying and pulling down monuments in public space. Presenting key theoretic points of this special feature in City, this introduction explores the phenomenon of ‘urban fallism’–the ways in which the action of cont…
Urban Heritage in Divided Cities: Contested Pasts
Laudrup or Ibrahimović: Who is the best Scandinavian soccer player of all time
The essay does not provide a final answer to the question of its subtitle, but it juxtaposes the profiles of Michael Laudrup and Zlatan Ibrahimović in terms of soccer abilities, career statistics and social backgrounds. While arguing that comparisons between soccer players are in principle meaningless, the essay nevertheless employs comparison heuristically in order to outline each player’s uniqueness through differences and similarities. If Laud…
The Novel and the Borders of Europe: Ben Jelloun's Leaving Tangier and Oksanen's Purge
The Novel and the Borders of Europe:Ben Jelloun's Leaving Tangier and Oksanen's Purge Søren Frank (bio) With the collapse of Communism and the tearing down of the Berlin Wall in 1989 a new and more fluid atlas of Europe emerged. On the one hand, the continuous expansion of the European Union and "Schengen" has enabled a growing number of Europeans to cross national borders internally in Europe without the need of a passport. On the other hand, Eu…
Dwelling in Mobile Times: Places, Practices and Contestations
Dwelling in mobile times: Places, practices and contestations
Mobile people dwell in local environments. The present special issue considers the relation between mobility and dwelling. This introduction to the special issue on ‘(Im)mobilities of dwelling: Places and practices’ provides a general introduction to places and practices of dwelling of highly mobile people and discusses why it is a promising subject for both cultural and mobilities studies that still needs to be addressed in its full theoretical …
Dwelling-in-motion: Indian Bollywood tourists and their hosts in the Swiss Alps
Until recently, tourist routes typically led from ‘the West’ to the so-called ‘rest’ of the world, and travel guides and travel novels were the essential media for planning a journey. In recent years, however, the intensified circulation of place images through global communication media has connected more and more places with more and more imaginations, while the price reductions in and the expansion of travel offers as well as the economic upsw…
Wall Memorials and Heritage: The Heritage Industry of Berlin’s Checkpoint Charlie
Analysing the transformation of Berlin’s former Allied border control point, "Checkpoint Charlie," into a global heritage industry, this volume provides an introduction to, and a theoretically informed structuring of, the interdisciplinary international heritage debate. This crucial case study demonstrates that an unregulated global heritage industry has developed in Berlin which capitalizes on the internationally very attractive – but locally st…
Introduction: Heritage-Outside-In
‘Heritage’ is one social imaginary used by people to define identity in relation to ideas about the past. But global flows of people, ideas, imaginations and technologies (Appadurai 1996; Urry 2007
Negotiating German colonial heritage in Berlin's Afrikanisches Viertel
Conceptualising heritage as a contested process of past-based meaning production in the present, this paper analyses the ongoing dispute over street names in Berlin’s Afrikanisches Viertel. In 1899, Berlin named two of its newly-built streets Togo Street and Cameroon Street. Togo and Cameroon had been proclaimed the first German colonies in 1884. By 1958, 22 Berlin streets had been named after African regions that had been colonised by the German…
Jonas Lie mellem det maritime og det hjemlige
The Norwegian author Jonas Lie is best known as a writer of domestic fiction depicting the Norwegian society through the perspective of marriage and the family. Through readings of Lodsen og hans hustru, Rutland and Gaa Paa!, this article challenges this view by emphasizing the maritime dimension of Lie’s work. A place-phenomenological method based on the writings of Carl Schmitt, Martin Heidegger and Robert Pogue Harrison allows for a focus on s…
David Beckham’s re-invention of the winger
It seems David Beckham is destined to be judged more according to his celebrity status than to his soccer skills. Even as a soccer player occupying one of the most mythic positions on the pitch, the winger, Beckham has constantly fallen short to the inevitable (but also unfair) comparisons with Cristiano Ronaldo, Ryan Giggs, Luis Figo and even earlier prototypes such as George Best or Raymond Kopa, whose basic qualities consisted in dribbling, sp…
The importance of being benched: Soccer, contingency and re-enchantment
This essay argues that soccer still possesses the capacity to re-enchant the world. First, it delineates an evolutionary model of soccer history – a wave model – different to the nostalgics’ linear version of soccer history. Second, it argues that soccer can be considered a secular strategy of re-enchantment due to four reasons: soccer is not only agon (competition) but also arete (striving for excellence and beauty); the mental zone of both play…
Stadium Worlds: Football, Space and the Built Environment
Analyzing football as a cultural practice, this book investigates the connection between the sport and its built environment. Four thematic sections bring together an international multi-disciplinary range of perspectives with particular focus on the stadium. Examples from architectural design, media studies and archaeology are used while studying advertising, economics, migration, fandom, local identities, emotions, gender, and the sociology of …
The aesthetic of elephantiasis: Rushdie's Midnight's Children as an encyclopaedic novel
Drawing on Northrop Frye, Edward Mendelson and Franco Moretti, this article discusses encyclopaedic features in Rushdie's novel Midnight's Children and argues that the novelist's ambition to incorporate the whole of life is simultaneously a serious and ironic enterprise carried out on the level of discourse. The former attitude stands revealed in metaphorical modes of connection, analogy and fusion, whereby the manifold variations of life are mad…
Migration and Literature: Günter Grass, Milan Kundera, Salman Rushdie, and Jan Kjærstad
Prolegomena: Towards a Literature of Migration Gunter Grass The Birth of the Trilogy Heroes Against Absurdity Territories and Histories Linguistic Diarrhea Return of the Storyteller Milan Kundera Heroes of Non-Belonging The Modern Homecoming The Art of Composition Return of the Authorial Narrator Salman Rushdie Heroes of Disorientation Language Deterritorialized Dissemination Rhizomatic Forms Jan Kjaerstad Narratorial Oscillations Norway Localize…
Authors
Communist Heritage Tourism and its Local (Dis)Contents at Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin
Introduction: Negotiating Urban Conflicts
Romanen som vitalistisk form
Salman Rushdies The Ground Beneath Her FeetThe novel as a vitalistic formThis article discusses the relationship between life (understood as becoming) and form in novelistic practice in general by taking as its starting point the ideas of novelistic form and the position of the narrator in Lukács, Benjamin, Adorno and Deleuze. More specifically, the article examines the relationship between life and form in Salman Rushdie’s The Ground Beneath Her…
Negotiating Urban Conflicts: Interaction, Space and Control
Cities have always been arenas of social and symbolic conflict. As places of encounter between different classes, ethnic groups, and lifestyles, cities play the role of powerful integrators; yet on the other hand urban contexts are the ideal setting for marginalization and violence. The struggle over control of urban spaces is an ambivalent mode of sociation: while producing themselves, groups produce exclusive spaces and then, in turn, use the b…
Urban fallism: Monuments, iconoclasm and activism
In March 2015, an activist movement ‘Rhodes must fall’ from the University of Cape Town initiated a new form of global socio-political protest, which spread in cities worldwide and was characterized by spatial practices of occupying, modifying and pulling down monuments in public space. Presenting key theoretic points of this special feature in City, this introduction explores the phenomenon of ‘urban fallism’–the ways in which the action of cont…
Negotiating Urban Conflicts: Interaction, Space and Control
Cities have always been arenas of social and symbolic conflict. As places of encounter between different classes, ethnic groups, and lifestyles, cities play the role of powerful integrators; yet on the other hand urban contexts are the ideal setting for marginalization and violence. The struggle over control of urban spaces is an ambivalent mode of sociation: while producing themselves, groups produce exclusive spaces and then, in turn, use the b…
Wall Memorials and Heritage: The Heritage Industry of Berlin’s Checkpoint Charlie
Analysing the transformation of Berlin’s former Allied border control point, "Checkpoint Charlie," into a global heritage industry, this volume provides an introduction to, and a theoretically informed structuring of, the interdisciplinary international heritage debate. This crucial case study demonstrates that an unregulated global heritage industry has developed in Berlin which capitalizes on the internationally very attractive – but locally st…
Introduction: Heritage-Outside-In
‘Heritage’ is one social imaginary used by people to define identity in relation to ideas about the past. But global flows of people, ideas, imaginations and technologies (Appadurai 1996; Urry 2007
Negotiating German colonial heritage in Berlin's Afrikanisches Viertel
Conceptualising heritage as a contested process of past-based meaning production in the present, this paper analyses the ongoing dispute over street names in Berlin’s Afrikanisches Viertel. In 1899, Berlin named two of its newly-built streets Togo Street and Cameroon Street. Togo and Cameroon had been proclaimed the first German colonies in 1884. By 1958, 22 Berlin streets had been named after African regions that had been colonised by the German…
The Novel and the Borders of Europe: Ben Jelloun's Leaving Tangier and Oksanen's Purge
The Novel and the Borders of Europe:Ben Jelloun's Leaving Tangier and Oksanen's Purge Søren Frank (bio) With the collapse of Communism and the tearing down of the Berlin Wall in 1989 a new and more fluid atlas of Europe emerged. On the one hand, the continuous expansion of the European Union and "Schengen" has enabled a growing number of Europeans to cross national borders internally in Europe without the need of a passport. On the other hand, Eu…
The aesthetic of elephantiasis: Rushdie's Midnight's Children as an encyclopaedic novel
Drawing on Northrop Frye, Edward Mendelson and Franco Moretti, this article discusses encyclopaedic features in Rushdie's novel Midnight's Children and argues that the novelist's ambition to incorporate the whole of life is simultaneously a serious and ironic enterprise carried out on the level of discourse. The former attitude stands revealed in metaphorical modes of connection, analogy and fusion, whereby the manifold variations of life are mad…
Authors
Communist Heritage Tourism and its Local (Dis)Contents at Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin
Introduction: Negotiating Urban Conflicts
Romanen som vitalistisk form
Salman Rushdies The Ground Beneath Her FeetThe novel as a vitalistic formThis article discusses the relationship between life (understood as becoming) and form in novelistic practice in general by taking as its starting point the ideas of novelistic form and the position of the narrator in Lukács, Benjamin, Adorno and Deleuze. More specifically, the article examines the relationship between life and form in Salman Rushdie’s The Ground Beneath Her…
Negotiating Urban Conflicts: Interaction, Space and Control
Cities have always been arenas of social and symbolic conflict. As places of encounter between different classes, ethnic groups, and lifestyles, cities play the role of powerful integrators; yet on the other hand urban contexts are the ideal setting for marginalization and violence. The struggle over control of urban spaces is an ambivalent mode of sociation: while producing themselves, groups produce exclusive spaces and then, in turn, use the b…
Migration and Literature: Günter Grass, Milan Kundera, Salman Rushdie, and Jan Kjærstad
Prolegomena: Towards a Literature of Migration Gunter Grass The Birth of the Trilogy Heroes Against Absurdity Territories and Histories Linguistic Diarrhea Return of the Storyteller Milan Kundera Heroes of Non-Belonging The Modern Homecoming The Art of Composition Return of the Authorial Narrator Salman Rushdie Heroes of Disorientation Language Deterritorialized Dissemination Rhizomatic Forms Jan Kjaerstad Narratorial Oscillations Norway Localize…
Stadium Worlds: Football, Space and the Built Environment
Analyzing football as a cultural practice, this book investigates the connection between the sport and its built environment. Four thematic sections bring together an international multi-disciplinary range of perspectives with particular focus on the stadium. Examples from architectural design, media studies and archaeology are used while studying advertising, economics, migration, fandom, local identities, emotions, gender, and the sociology of …
The aesthetic of elephantiasis: Rushdie's Midnight's Children as an encyclopaedic novel
Drawing on Northrop Frye, Edward Mendelson and Franco Moretti, this article discusses encyclopaedic features in Rushdie's novel Midnight's Children and argues that the novelist's ambition to incorporate the whole of life is simultaneously a serious and ironic enterprise carried out on the level of discourse. The former attitude stands revealed in metaphorical modes of connection, analogy and fusion, whereby the manifold variations of life are mad…
The importance of being benched: Soccer, contingency and re-enchantment
This essay argues that soccer still possesses the capacity to re-enchant the world. First, it delineates an evolutionary model of soccer history – a wave model – different to the nostalgics’ linear version of soccer history. Second, it argues that soccer can be considered a secular strategy of re-enchantment due to four reasons: soccer is not only agon (competition) but also arete (striving for excellence and beauty); the mental zone of both play…
Jonas Lie mellem det maritime og det hjemlige
The Norwegian author Jonas Lie is best known as a writer of domestic fiction depicting the Norwegian society through the perspective of marriage and the family. Through readings of Lodsen og hans hustru, Rutland and Gaa Paa!, this article challenges this view by emphasizing the maritime dimension of Lie’s work. A place-phenomenological method based on the writings of Carl Schmitt, Martin Heidegger and Robert Pogue Harrison allows for a focus on s…
David Beckham’s re-invention of the winger
It seems David Beckham is destined to be judged more according to his celebrity status than to his soccer skills. Even as a soccer player occupying one of the most mythic positions on the pitch, the winger, Beckham has constantly fallen short to the inevitable (but also unfair) comparisons with Cristiano Ronaldo, Ryan Giggs, Luis Figo and even earlier prototypes such as George Best or Raymond Kopa, whose basic qualities consisted in dribbling, sp…
Dwelling in mobile times: Places, practices and contestations
Mobile people dwell in local environments. The present special issue considers the relation between mobility and dwelling. This introduction to the special issue on ‘(Im)mobilities of dwelling: Places and practices’ provides a general introduction to places and practices of dwelling of highly mobile people and discusses why it is a promising subject for both cultural and mobilities studies that still needs to be addressed in its full theoretical …
Dwelling-in-motion: Indian Bollywood tourists and their hosts in the Swiss Alps
Until recently, tourist routes typically led from ‘the West’ to the so-called ‘rest’ of the world, and travel guides and travel novels were the essential media for planning a journey. In recent years, however, the intensified circulation of place images through global communication media has connected more and more places with more and more imaginations, while the price reductions in and the expansion of travel offers as well as the economic upsw…
Wall Memorials and Heritage: The Heritage Industry of Berlin’s Checkpoint Charlie
Analysing the transformation of Berlin’s former Allied border control point, "Checkpoint Charlie," into a global heritage industry, this volume provides an introduction to, and a theoretically informed structuring of, the interdisciplinary international heritage debate. This crucial case study demonstrates that an unregulated global heritage industry has developed in Berlin which capitalizes on the internationally very attractive – but locally st…
Introduction: Heritage-Outside-In
‘Heritage’ is one social imaginary used by people to define identity in relation to ideas about the past. But global flows of people, ideas, imaginations and technologies (Appadurai 1996; Urry 2007
Negotiating German colonial heritage in Berlin's Afrikanisches Viertel
Conceptualising heritage as a contested process of past-based meaning production in the present, this paper analyses the ongoing dispute over street names in Berlin’s Afrikanisches Viertel. In 1899, Berlin named two of its newly-built streets Togo Street and Cameroon Street. Togo and Cameroon had been proclaimed the first German colonies in 1884. By 1958, 22 Berlin streets had been named after African regions that had been colonised by the German…
Laudrup or Ibrahimović: Who is the best Scandinavian soccer player of all time
The essay does not provide a final answer to the question of its subtitle, but it juxtaposes the profiles of Michael Laudrup and Zlatan Ibrahimović in terms of soccer abilities, career statistics and social backgrounds. While arguing that comparisons between soccer players are in principle meaningless, the essay nevertheless employs comparison heuristically in order to outline each player’s uniqueness through differences and similarities. If Laud…
The Novel and the Borders of Europe: Ben Jelloun's Leaving Tangier and Oksanen's Purge
The Novel and the Borders of Europe:Ben Jelloun's Leaving Tangier and Oksanen's Purge Søren Frank (bio) With the collapse of Communism and the tearing down of the Berlin Wall in 1989 a new and more fluid atlas of Europe emerged. On the one hand, the continuous expansion of the European Union and "Schengen" has enabled a growing number of Europeans to cross national borders internally in Europe without the need of a passport. On the other hand, Eu…
Dwelling in Mobile Times: Places, Practices and Contestations
Urban Heritage in Divided Cities: Contested Pasts
Urban fallism: Monuments, iconoclasm and activism
In March 2015, an activist movement ‘Rhodes must fall’ from the University of Cape Town initiated a new form of global socio-political protest, which spread in cities worldwide and was characterized by spatial practices of occupying, modifying and pulling down monuments in public space. Presenting key theoretic points of this special feature in City, this introduction explores the phenomenon of ‘urban fallism’–the ways in which the action of cont…
The Power of New Urban Tourism: Spaces, Representations and Contestations
UIDB/04647/2020 UIDP/04647/2020
Literary Studies and Entanglements beyond the Nation
Emigrant Literature, World Literature, National Literature: The Case of Georg Brandes
This article examines Georg Brandes’ comparative method and notions of emigrant literature, world literature, and national literature, comparing them to Goethe’s and Milan Kundera’s ideas of world literature, and drawing on Emily Apter’s concept of untranslatability. It is argued that Brandes, like Apter, valorizes an untranslatable dimension of language in his paradoxical notion of world literature as the most national literature, whereas Goethe…
Governing infrastructure heterogeneity: An intraurban analysis of sewerage infrastructures in Cape Town
Heterogeneous infrastructures, combining networked and non-networked socio-technical arrangements, are increasingly legitimised as responses to service delivery challenges in Southern cities. However, their emergence in non-poor neighbourhoods and the challenges of governing them remain underexplored. Drawing on document review and 31 interviews across five neighbourhoods in Cape Town, this paper identifies three key governance challenges: 1) the…
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