Steffen Wöll
Biographic Data
| ID | 6850473 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steffen Wöll |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steffen |
| FAMILY NAME | Wöll |
| SIGNATURE | WOLL S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leipzig University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1582-6078 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
From Starved Rock to Cancer Alley
The Louisiana Purchase created a complex landscape of cultures and ethnicities located at the peripheries of the Early Republic. Some feared that it would threaten (White) American identity while others imagined the frontier as a clean slate on which the nation could reform its core values. Throughout the nineteenth century, axiomatic regeneration through (violent) experiences dominated peripheral-yet-central discourses of the American space. She…
Unmasking Maps, Unmaking Empire
On the surface, maps enable the planning and development of human dwelling, the visualization of connections, and drawing of boundaries. Throughout human history, however, maps have also acted as antidotes to chaos by generating spatial imaginations as pathways to meaning, belonging, and yearning. Exploring both theoretical and practical trajectories of transnational mappings, this article traces cartographies through the spatio-cultural nodes of…
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…
Inertia and Movement
As an epistemic part of the American West, the Yukon territory or “Northland” is often depicted as a monolithic region: a “last frontier” integrated in a stable national framework attained through the manifest destiny of Anglo-Saxon culture to enlighten a supposedly uncivilized space of cultural and racial otherness. In this article, I argue that Jack London’s short stories “An Odyssey of the North” and “The Law of Life” demonstrate the elusivene…
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Inertia and Movement
As an epistemic part of the American West, the Yukon territory or “Northland” is often depicted as a monolithic region: a “last frontier” integrated in a stable national framework attained through the manifest destiny of Anglo-Saxon culture to enlighten a supposedly uncivilized space of cultural and racial otherness. In this article, I argue that Jack London’s short stories “An Odyssey of the North” and “The Law of Life” demonstrate the elusivene…
From Starved Rock to Cancer Alley
The Louisiana Purchase created a complex landscape of cultures and ethnicities located at the peripheries of the Early Republic. Some feared that it would threaten (White) American identity while others imagined the frontier as a clean slate on which the nation could reform its core values. Throughout the nineteenth century, axiomatic regeneration through (violent) experiences dominated peripheral-yet-central discourses of the American space. She…
Unmasking Maps, Unmaking Empire
On the surface, maps enable the planning and development of human dwelling, the visualization of connections, and drawing of boundaries. Throughout human history, however, maps have also acted as antidotes to chaos by generating spatial imaginations as pathways to meaning, belonging, and yearning. Exploring both theoretical and practical trajectories of transnational mappings, this article traces cartographies through the spatio-cultural nodes of…
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…
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