Antje Schuhmann
Biographic Data
| ID | 668749 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Antje Schuhmann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Antje |
| FAMILY NAME | Schuhmann |
| SIGNATURE | SCHUHMANN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Witwatersrand |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8085-7084 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
German Rightwingization as the New Normal? Tales of Becoming
This text explores the politics of becoming rightwing amongst what is considered normal German middle class life. The socio-political and historic context of the left losing its subcultural hegemony is narrated as transgenerational societal shift in the light of a perceived masculine fragility. Illustrated through wo middleclass men whose becoming rightwing is driven by a plethora of anxieties manifesting at the intersection of their public/priva…
Articulating selfhood through the therapeutic
In this article, we argue that it is in engaging with the particularly socio-politically loaded topics such as racism, gender-based violence, homophobia, and classism, where we urgently need to find new ways of simultaneously opening up, holding, and containing the visceral responses of students in relation to continuously renegotiating boundaries of the learning environment. Specifically, we contend that under the current conditions of calls for…
Decolonization and Denazification
In 2015 students in South Africa mobilized to decolonize universities and to struggle for free higher education. This article discusses these developments in the context of contemporary theories of remembrance, repression and denial and current debates around decolonization and “talking race” in post-apartheid South Africa. The current South African student movement(s) challenge apartheid legacies and white colonial culture, contending that campu…
How to be political? Art activism, queer practices and temporary autonomous zones
How to be political and do the “right” thing under “wrong” conditions? The following essay and the embedded conversation with Cornelia Schlothauer, a political artist in Germany, reflect on these questions. This text moves between theoretical analysis and practical examples of forms of resistance, opposition, and subversion of normative body politics through the arts. By critically discussing campaign politics in the context of emerging activism …
"Seeing White" - Interrogating Whiteness with the South African Photographer Michelle Booth
Gaze Regimes
Gaze Regimes is a bricolage of essays and interviews showcasing the experiences of women working in film, either directly as practitioners or in other areas such as curators, festival programme directors or fundraisers. It does not shy away from questioning the relations of power in the practice of filmmaking and the power invested in the gaze itself. Who is looking and who is being looked at, who is telling women's stories in Africa and what gov…
Gaze Regimes
Gaze Regimes is a bricolage of essays and interviews showcasing the experiences of women working in film, either directly as practitioners or in other areas such as curators, festival programme directors or fundraisers. It does not shy away from questioning the relations of power in the practice of filmmaking and the power invested in the gaze itself. Who is looking and who is being looked at, who is telling women's stories in Africa and what gov…
How to be political? Art activism, queer practices and temporary autonomous zones
How to be political and do the “right” thing under “wrong” conditions? The following essay and the embedded conversation with Cornelia Schlothauer, a political artist in Germany, reflect on these questions. This text moves between theoretical analysis and practical examples of forms of resistance, opposition, and subversion of normative body politics through the arts. By critically discussing campaign politics in the context of emerging activism …
"Seeing White" - Interrogating Whiteness with the South African Photographer Michelle Booth
Gaze Regimes
Gaze Regimes is a bricolage of essays and interviews showcasing the experiences of women working in film, either directly as practitioners or in other areas such as curators, festival programme directors or fundraisers. It does not shy away from questioning the relations of power in the practice of filmmaking and the power invested in the gaze itself. Who is looking and who is being looked at, who is telling women's stories in Africa and what gov…
How to be political? Art activism, queer practices and temporary autonomous zones
How to be political and do the “right” thing under “wrong” conditions? The following essay and the embedded conversation with Cornelia Schlothauer, a political artist in Germany, reflect on these questions. This text moves between theoretical analysis and practical examples of forms of resistance, opposition, and subversion of normative body politics through the arts. By critically discussing campaign politics in the context of emerging activism …
Decolonization and Denazification
In 2015 students in South Africa mobilized to decolonize universities and to struggle for free higher education. This article discusses these developments in the context of contemporary theories of remembrance, repression and denial and current debates around decolonization and “talking race” in post-apartheid South Africa. The current South African student movement(s) challenge apartheid legacies and white colonial culture, contending that campu…
German Rightwingization as the New Normal? Tales of Becoming
This text explores the politics of becoming rightwing amongst what is considered normal German middle class life. The socio-political and historic context of the left losing its subcultural hegemony is narrated as transgenerational societal shift in the light of a perceived masculine fragility. Illustrated through wo middleclass men whose becoming rightwing is driven by a plethora of anxieties manifesting at the intersection of their public/priva…
Articulating selfhood through the therapeutic
In this article, we argue that it is in engaging with the particularly socio-politically loaded topics such as racism, gender-based violence, homophobia, and classism, where we urgently need to find new ways of simultaneously opening up, holding, and containing the visceral responses of students in relation to continuously renegotiating boundaries of the learning environment. Specifically, we contend that under the current conditions of calls for…
Political science (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Context (archaeology (2 works)