German in the World : The Transnational and Global Contexts of German Studies
- Submitting institution
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King's College London
- Unit of assessment
- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
- Output identifier
- 147555337
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Camden House
- ISBN
- 9781640140332
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- June
- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- My research contribution to this edited volume was as Co-Editor, Co-Author, and Single Author.
(i) As Co-Editor, I shaped the research intervention over a 7-year period, from the initial presentation of ideas (in 2013), through workshops (in 2014), to this fully independent research volume published in 2020. It is not a conference volume: of the 13 chapters in the book, only 2 are by speakers that attended the 2014 event, and as editors we commissioned 11 new chapters. By conceptualizing the volume as a separate entity, our editorial work definitively shaped its intervention into German Studies and Transnational Studies: we could ensure that all chapters showcased the value of German Studies as a field of critical cultural discourse across a globalized public sphere, and enable each chapter to model a research-led transnational approach. In so doing, our aim was for the book to contribute as a coherent whole to an innovative reshaping of current disciplinary understandings of German Studies research and Transnational Modern Languages.
(ii) As Co-Author, I co-wrote the main theoretical introduction to the volume. This does not discuss in detail the individual chapters, but aims instead to investigate the relationship of German Studies to Transnational methodologies derived from a range of other disciplines, exploring what happens when the geographic, linguistic, and temporal boundaries that have traditionally been used to define German-language culture are destabilized. In addition, I co-wrote 3 further Section Introductions which set out both the research interventions of each section, and the intellectual links between the sections, supporting coherency.
(iii) My Single-Author chapter proposes an interdisciplinary model of Transnational research, crossing German Studies, Theatre & Performance Studies, and Ethnography. It thus illustrates in a concrete manner the conceptual aims of the volume as a whole and the methodological approaches outlined in the Introductions.
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