Ulrike Schaper
Biographic Data
| ID | 658755 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ulrike Schaper |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ulrike |
| FAMILY NAME | Schaper |
| SIGNATURE | SCHAPER U |
| AFFILIATIONS | Freie Universität Berlin |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5717-1976 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Layers of Memory
In recent decades, post-colonial and anti-racist activists around the world have initiated debates about the representation of colonialism in public space. In Germany, too, the treatment of colonial street names and monuments has become a subject of controversy. What is unique to the debate on the memory of colonialism in Germany, though, is how it is deeply entangled with memories of other political regimes, in particular National Socialism and …
Intimacy on the move
Published online: 07 May 2025
Sexual Frustrations and Dream Vacations
This article argues that sexualized travel was a crucial site in which the ambivalences of the so-called sexual revolution were negotiated. Focusing on the experiences of white, West German men between the late 1960s and early 1990s, this article draws on a wide range of travel literature—as well as criticism of sex and travel—to document the ways in which tourists made sense of sexual ambivalences at home through discussions about sex abroad. Re…
Becoming a Subject in Court
Deutsche Männer haben doch die Schnauze voll von Frauen wie Ihnen“
The article examines public discussions of international marriage agencies in West Germany in the late 1970s and 1980s and shows how they emerged from three overlapping developments: the commercialization of dating, changes in gender relations, and increasing global mobility and networks. Drawing on press articles, grey literature, and activist publications, as well as on promotional material from marriage agencies, the article shows how discussi…
Sexotic
This introduction to the special issue on the ‘sexotic’, reflects on the heuristic potential of the ‘sexotic’ lens. It situates this approach within existing research on the history of sexualization and exoticization and demonstrates how the ‘sexotic’ opens up fresh vistas on topics like mobilities and migrations, arts and media, as well as science and moralities
Chieftaincy as a Political Resource in the German Colony of Cameroon, 1884–1916
Pictures, Postcards, Points of Contact
This review article considers recent works that take a cultural-historical approach to German colonialism. A number of the books place colonialism in the specific context of Imperial Germany. Mass-cultural visual representations of the colonies and colonized helped shape a ‘popular colonialism’ that continued to develop well beyond Germany’s loss of its colonies after the First World War. Research into colonial knowledge in Imperial Germany—focus…
David Meetom
David Meetom, a Duala subchief, was an important interpreter in the coastal region of Cameroon at the beginning of German rule, which was shaped by colonial officials’ lack of language skills, the colonial state’s low level of institutionalisation, its necessity to rely on intermediaries, and tensions within Duala society. In this circumstances, new opportunities opened up to those who had knowledge of a colonial language. The article examines Me…
Body by Weimar
For a long time, the history of sports has tended to limit its interest to sport’s inherent structures and developments. It has failed, and often continues to fail, to analyse sport in a broader context. In the last few years, however, there have been efforts to examine the significance of sport in relation to social, cultural and political developments. Jensen ties in with these approaches, which, in the case of Weimar history, have started exam…
Karl Heinz Metz
Sexual Frustrations and Dream Vacations
This article argues that sexualized travel was a crucial site in which the ambivalences of the so-called sexual revolution were negotiated. Focusing on the experiences of white, West German men between the late 1960s and early 1990s, this article draws on a wide range of travel literature—as well as criticism of sex and travel—to document the ways in which tourists made sense of sexual ambivalences at home through discussions about sex abroad. Re…
Pictures, Postcards, Points of Contact
This review article considers recent works that take a cultural-historical approach to German colonialism. A number of the books place colonialism in the specific context of Imperial Germany. Mass-cultural visual representations of the colonies and colonized helped shape a ‘popular colonialism’ that continued to develop well beyond Germany’s loss of its colonies after the First World War. Research into colonial knowledge in Imperial Germany—focus…
Body by Weimar
For a long time, the history of sports has tended to limit its interest to sport’s inherent structures and developments. It has failed, and often continues to fail, to analyse sport in a broader context. In the last few years, however, there have been efforts to examine the significance of sport in relation to social, cultural and political developments. Jensen ties in with these approaches, which, in the case of Weimar history, have started exam…
Karl Heinz Metz
David Meetom
David Meetom, a Duala subchief, was an important interpreter in the coastal region of Cameroon at the beginning of German rule, which was shaped by colonial officials’ lack of language skills, the colonial state’s low level of institutionalisation, its necessity to rely on intermediaries, and tensions within Duala society. In this circumstances, new opportunities opened up to those who had knowledge of a colonial language. The article examines Me…
Chieftaincy as a Political Resource in the German Colony of Cameroon, 1884–1916
Pictures, Postcards, Points of Contact
This review article considers recent works that take a cultural-historical approach to German colonialism. A number of the books place colonialism in the specific context of Imperial Germany. Mass-cultural visual representations of the colonies and colonized helped shape a ‘popular colonialism’ that continued to develop well beyond Germany’s loss of its colonies after the First World War. Research into colonial knowledge in Imperial Germany—focus…
Sexotic
This introduction to the special issue on the ‘sexotic’, reflects on the heuristic potential of the ‘sexotic’ lens. It situates this approach within existing research on the history of sexualization and exoticization and demonstrates how the ‘sexotic’ opens up fresh vistas on topics like mobilities and migrations, arts and media, as well as science and moralities
Deutsche Männer haben doch die Schnauze voll von Frauen wie Ihnen“
The article examines public discussions of international marriage agencies in West Germany in the late 1970s and 1980s and shows how they emerged from three overlapping developments: the commercialization of dating, changes in gender relations, and increasing global mobility and networks. Drawing on press articles, grey literature, and activist publications, as well as on promotional material from marriage agencies, the article shows how discussi…
Becoming a Subject in Court
Sexual Frustrations and Dream Vacations
This article argues that sexualized travel was a crucial site in which the ambivalences of the so-called sexual revolution were negotiated. Focusing on the experiences of white, West German men between the late 1960s and early 1990s, this article draws on a wide range of travel literature—as well as criticism of sex and travel—to document the ways in which tourists made sense of sexual ambivalences at home through discussions about sex abroad. Re…
Layers of Memory
In recent decades, post-colonial and anti-racist activists around the world have initiated debates about the representation of colonialism in public space. In Germany, too, the treatment of colonial street names and monuments has become a subject of controversy. What is unique to the debate on the memory of colonialism in Germany, though, is how it is deeply entangled with memories of other political regimes, in particular National Socialism and …
Intimacy on the move
Published online: 07 May 2025
Political science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · History (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Art (5 works) · German (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Colonialism (3 works) · History (3 works)