Everyday Nationhood: Theorising Culture, Identity and Belonging after Banal Nationalism, 2017
The chapter proposes to look at the connection between dance performances, the identification of ... more The chapter proposes to look at the connection between dance performances, the identification of these movements as national and feelings of comfort and discomfort through a conceptual lens of affect. Through an analysis of female dancing in Azerbaijan that unpacks the ways in which feelings of national belonging and alienation emerge in moments of bodily encounters, the chapter makes the affective dimensions of banal nationalism explicit. Following feminist accounts of Spinozist-Deleuzian affect and informed by an autoethnographic research methodology, Militz focuses on how bodily movements and sensations activate national categorisations. Through a vignette from her field research the author accounts for the ways in which her own positionality and bodily experiences produce national categorisations and constitute her experiences of national belonging and alienation. She concludes that disclosing the affective dimensions of banal nationalism helps to understand how feelings of national belonging emerge and persist even if national representations remain absent.
Nation-Building and Identity in the Post Soviet Space: New Tools and Approaches (edited by Rico Isaacs and Abel Polese) , 2016
The contexts of international mega-events increasingly serve as tool to shape nation building pro... more The contexts of international mega-events increasingly serve as tool to shape nation building processes. In particular the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) experiences a growing politicisation and is utilised as stage for countries to exhibit themselves. In Azerbaijan, the ESC 2012 was used to advertise the image of a modern, independent, successful and European-like nation state with distinctive traditional and cultural roots not only on an international stage. The representations of the country addressed in particular the local community to manifest dominant discourses and legitimise the political ideology of the Aliyev regime.
On the basis of qualitative interview data retrieved between 2012 and 2013 in Azerbaijan and the interpretation of official images used to represent the country, this chapter shows how visual representations of the nation at the time of hosting the ESC 2012 strengthen prevailing regimes of truth. At the same time, the study makes explicit that nation building processes are never finished and the attempt to fix meaning only inevitably fails. In addition, the chapter shows how geographical references are central and inherent to processes of national image creation.
Comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) addresses all dimensions of sexuality-physical, emotional... more Comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) addresses all dimensions of sexuality-physical, emotional, psychological and social-and enables young people to be aware of their health, well-being and dignity. CSE also plays a crucial role in the ways in which young people develop intimate relationships with others and how they understand and protect their personal rights. Although UNESCO et al. suggest that CSE should be made available to all young people through schools or qualified out-of-school institutions, experts have observed a lack of CSE in Kyrgyzstan. As discussion of sexuality is seen as socially taboo by families, educational institutions, politics and the general public, and with the increasing social stigmatization of and violence against queer and non-heteronormative sexualities, many young people in Kyrgyzstan do not have safe and sufficient access to sexuality education let alone comprehensive sexuality education (CSE). In recent years, therefore, more and more non-governmental projects, grassroots initiatives and communities offering CSE are emerging on Instagram one of the most popular social media platforms in Kyrgyzstan. To guarantee every young person's safe access to CSE in Kyrgyzstan, state institutions have a responsibility to strengthen these digital initiatives and communities technically, financially, and discursively. In this policy brief, we first illustrate the challenges to CSE in Kyrgyzstan. We then show how Kyrgyzstan based Instagram activists and users create digital spaces for CSE. Finally, we propose actions that need to be addressed at the political and societal levels to enable safe, inclusive, and non-violent access to CSE for all (young) people in Kyrgyzstan.
Nation-Building and Identity in the Post-Soviet Space
The contexts of international mega-events increasingly serve as tool to shape nation building pro... more The contexts of international mega-events increasingly serve as tool to shape nation building processes. In particular the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) experiences a growing politicisation and is utilised as stage for countries to exhibit themselves. In Azerbaijan, the ESC 2012 was used to advertise the image of a modern, independent, successful and European-like nation state with distinctive traditional and cultural roots not only on an international stage. The representations of the country addressed in particular the local community to manifest dominant discourses and legitimise the political ideology of the Aliyev regime. On the basis of qualitative interview data retrieved between 2012 and 2013 in Azerbaijan and the interpretation of official images used to represent the country, this chapter shows how visual representations of the nation at the time of hosting the ESC 2012 strengthen prevailing regimes of truth. At the same time, the study makes explicit that nation building processes are never finished and the attempt to fix meaning only inevitably fails. In addition, the chapter shows how geographical references are central and inherent to processes of national image creation.
Technologies are at the heart of geographic analysis. More-than-human geographies, actor-network ... more Technologies are at the heart of geographic analysis. More-than-human geographies, actor-network theory, and new materialism have all called for attending to technological infrastructures and artefacts. This attention is directed mainly towards large-scale technologies. What often escapes geographies of technoscience are small, mundane, and unspectacular technologies. Bringing into conversation work from feminist technoscience and feminist geographies, we broaden the understanding of technology in geographies of technoscience by developing the concept of intimate technologies. By exploring three sites that lie at the centre of feminist technoscience – the home, the laboratory, and the clinic – we carve out the spatial politics of intimate technologies.
sub\urban. zeitschrift für kritische stadtforschung
In meinem Debattenbeitrag zu Jan Huttas und Nina Schusters Einladung zu einem Gedankenspiel über ... more In meinem Debattenbeitrag zu Jan Huttas und Nina Schusters Einladung zu einem Gedankenspiel über Infrastrukturen städtischer Intimität thematisiere ich soziale Medien als digitale intime Infrastrukturen. Ich knüpfe damit an die von den Autor_innen aufgeworfene Frage an, „wo und wann Materialitäten und Verbindungen überhaupt infrastrukturellen Charakter [gewinnen]“ (Hutta/Schuster 2022: 7). Dazu rekonstruiere ich zunächst wie sich soziale Medien in unterschiedlichen Kontexten als digitale Infrastrukturen städtischer Intimität materialisieren. Anschließend reflektiere ich am Beispiel einer ethnographischen Beobachtung auf Instagram im Kontext von Kirgistan, wie soziale Medien eine fremde Intimität (Koch/Miles 2021), also intime Verbindungen zwischen sich nicht bekannten Stadtbewohner*innen, generieren und dadurch zu digitalen intimen Infrastrukturen werden.
Feminist scholars, activists, and artists have long addressed the topic of virginity and have dis... more Feminist scholars, activists, and artists have long addressed the topic of virginity and have dismantled it as a powerful, globally circulating, and gendered myth. It affects how many woman-identifying people experience how their bodies become (a)sexual. Centrally, the myth of virginity has been shown to be mobilized in support of colonial, ethnonationalist identity projects. In Kyrgyzstan, disciplining women through policing their sexual behavior co-constituted nation-building projects after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Drawing on data collected since 2017 (qualitative interviews in Bishkek and Osh and qualitative research on Instagram), I examine intimate geographies of the virginity myth in Kyrgyzstan. Building on geographic scholarship on intimacy and body parts, I discuss the ways in which virginal blood works both to submit to and to reclaim one’s intimate body spaces and sexual practices. I argue that people affected by the virginity myth create the foundations for in...
On 28th February, 2020, the kick-off event of the ASG-funded thematic group "Feminist Geogra... more On 28th February, 2020, the kick-off event of the ASG-funded thematic group "Feminist Geographies" took place at the University of Neuchâtel. More than thirty scholars and students working on questions of space, place, earth, and the body met to discuss feminist and intersectional geographical concepts and perspectives. The highlight of the event was a panel discussion with Stefanie C. Boulila, Juliet Fall, Yvonne Riaño, Marina Richter, Carolin Schurr, Karin Schwiter and Miriam Tola, who accepted our invitation to discuss their pasts, presents and futures as feminist scholars working with(in) geography. To share this conversation, we weave together some of their key messages into a plaidoyer for feminist geographies.
This book unpacks the ways in which nationalisms – understood as feelings between national belong... more This book unpacks the ways in which nationalisms – understood as feelings between national belonging and alienation – unfold in moments of affective encounter between different bodies, objects and places in Azerbaijan. In times of a global trend to fight for the persistence of singular nations instead of dissolving national boundaries, the book suggests focusing on the development of attachments and detachments to nationalising beliefs, corporeal experiences and everyday routines, in order to understand the ways in which bodies’ different capacities to affect and to be affected are of central importance for the emergence and the persistence of nationalisms. Based on eight months of ethnographic field work, consisting of observant participation within families, field notes from attendance at public holidays and commemoration ceremonies and qualitative interviews conducted between 2012 and 2014 in Azerbaijan, the book develops the concept of affective nationalism as the banal affirmat...
During the past several years, the Human Geographies Symposium, a one-day conference within the a... more During the past several years, the Human Geographies Symposium, a one-day conference within the annually hosted Swiss Geoscience Meeting has turned into a regular meeting place and platform of research exchange for human geographers across Switzerland. Addressing critical geographies of gender and sexuality as well as feminist political geographies including emotions and affects, the session Bodies, Space and Difference in the Global Intimate is the first attempt to explicitly make space for feminist geographies at the Human Geographies Symposium of the Swiss Geoscience Meeting.
Das Handbuch Feministische Geographien ladt dazu ein, feministische Arbeitsweisen und Konzepte in... more Das Handbuch Feministische Geographien ladt dazu ein, feministische Arbeitsweisen und Konzepte in der Geographie kennenzulernen und zu vertiefen. Feministische Geographien zeigen auf, wie sich Raume und intersektional gedachte Geschlechterverhaltnisse gegenseitig beeinflussen. Raume reichen dabei vom Korper uber das Haus bis hin zu Stadtteilen, Regionen, Nationen und globalen Beziehungen. Das Buch zeigt, wie feministische Geographien in der Wissenschaft, aber auch in praxisnahen oder politischen Kontexten gedacht, erforscht und gelehrt werden konnen. This Handbook gives an introduction as well as a deeper look on feminist working methods and concepts in geography. Feminist Geographies analyse how spaces and gender relations influence each other. The concept of spaces ranges from the body to the house, cities and nations to global relationships. The book shows how Feminist Geography can be thought, researched and taught in science, but also in practical or political contexts.
Everyday Nationhood: Theorising Culture, Identity and Belonging after Banal Nationalism, 2017
The chapter proposes to look at the connection between dance performances, the identification of ... more The chapter proposes to look at the connection between dance performances, the identification of these movements as national and feelings of comfort and discomfort through a conceptual lens of affect. Through an analysis of female dancing in Azerbaijan that unpacks the ways in which feelings of national belonging and alienation emerge in moments of bodily encounters, the chapter makes the affective dimensions of banal nationalism explicit. Following feminist accounts of Spinozist-Deleuzian affect and informed by an autoethnographic research methodology, Militz focuses on how bodily movements and sensations activate national categorisations. Through a vignette from her field research the author accounts for the ways in which her own positionality and bodily experiences produce national categorisations and constitute her experiences of national belonging and alienation. She concludes that disclosing the affective dimensions of banal nationalism helps to understand how feelings of national belonging emerge and persist even if national representations remain absent.
Nation-Building and Identity in the Post Soviet Space: New Tools and Approaches (edited by Rico Isaacs and Abel Polese) , 2016
The contexts of international mega-events increasingly serve as tool to shape nation building pro... more The contexts of international mega-events increasingly serve as tool to shape nation building processes. In particular the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) experiences a growing politicisation and is utilised as stage for countries to exhibit themselves. In Azerbaijan, the ESC 2012 was used to advertise the image of a modern, independent, successful and European-like nation state with distinctive traditional and cultural roots not only on an international stage. The representations of the country addressed in particular the local community to manifest dominant discourses and legitimise the political ideology of the Aliyev regime.
On the basis of qualitative interview data retrieved between 2012 and 2013 in Azerbaijan and the interpretation of official images used to represent the country, this chapter shows how visual representations of the nation at the time of hosting the ESC 2012 strengthen prevailing regimes of truth. At the same time, the study makes explicit that nation building processes are never finished and the attempt to fix meaning only inevitably fails. In addition, the chapter shows how geographical references are central and inherent to processes of national image creation.
Comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) addresses all dimensions of sexuality-physical, emotional... more Comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) addresses all dimensions of sexuality-physical, emotional, psychological and social-and enables young people to be aware of their health, well-being and dignity. CSE also plays a crucial role in the ways in which young people develop intimate relationships with others and how they understand and protect their personal rights. Although UNESCO et al. suggest that CSE should be made available to all young people through schools or qualified out-of-school institutions, experts have observed a lack of CSE in Kyrgyzstan. As discussion of sexuality is seen as socially taboo by families, educational institutions, politics and the general public, and with the increasing social stigmatization of and violence against queer and non-heteronormative sexualities, many young people in Kyrgyzstan do not have safe and sufficient access to sexuality education let alone comprehensive sexuality education (CSE). In recent years, therefore, more and more non-governmental projects, grassroots initiatives and communities offering CSE are emerging on Instagram one of the most popular social media platforms in Kyrgyzstan. To guarantee every young person's safe access to CSE in Kyrgyzstan, state institutions have a responsibility to strengthen these digital initiatives and communities technically, financially, and discursively. In this policy brief, we first illustrate the challenges to CSE in Kyrgyzstan. We then show how Kyrgyzstan based Instagram activists and users create digital spaces for CSE. Finally, we propose actions that need to be addressed at the political and societal levels to enable safe, inclusive, and non-violent access to CSE for all (young) people in Kyrgyzstan.
Nation-Building and Identity in the Post-Soviet Space
The contexts of international mega-events increasingly serve as tool to shape nation building pro... more The contexts of international mega-events increasingly serve as tool to shape nation building processes. In particular the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) experiences a growing politicisation and is utilised as stage for countries to exhibit themselves. In Azerbaijan, the ESC 2012 was used to advertise the image of a modern, independent, successful and European-like nation state with distinctive traditional and cultural roots not only on an international stage. The representations of the country addressed in particular the local community to manifest dominant discourses and legitimise the political ideology of the Aliyev regime. On the basis of qualitative interview data retrieved between 2012 and 2013 in Azerbaijan and the interpretation of official images used to represent the country, this chapter shows how visual representations of the nation at the time of hosting the ESC 2012 strengthen prevailing regimes of truth. At the same time, the study makes explicit that nation building processes are never finished and the attempt to fix meaning only inevitably fails. In addition, the chapter shows how geographical references are central and inherent to processes of national image creation.
Technologies are at the heart of geographic analysis. More-than-human geographies, actor-network ... more Technologies are at the heart of geographic analysis. More-than-human geographies, actor-network theory, and new materialism have all called for attending to technological infrastructures and artefacts. This attention is directed mainly towards large-scale technologies. What often escapes geographies of technoscience are small, mundane, and unspectacular technologies. Bringing into conversation work from feminist technoscience and feminist geographies, we broaden the understanding of technology in geographies of technoscience by developing the concept of intimate technologies. By exploring three sites that lie at the centre of feminist technoscience – the home, the laboratory, and the clinic – we carve out the spatial politics of intimate technologies.
sub\urban. zeitschrift für kritische stadtforschung
In meinem Debattenbeitrag zu Jan Huttas und Nina Schusters Einladung zu einem Gedankenspiel über ... more In meinem Debattenbeitrag zu Jan Huttas und Nina Schusters Einladung zu einem Gedankenspiel über Infrastrukturen städtischer Intimität thematisiere ich soziale Medien als digitale intime Infrastrukturen. Ich knüpfe damit an die von den Autor_innen aufgeworfene Frage an, „wo und wann Materialitäten und Verbindungen überhaupt infrastrukturellen Charakter [gewinnen]“ (Hutta/Schuster 2022: 7). Dazu rekonstruiere ich zunächst wie sich soziale Medien in unterschiedlichen Kontexten als digitale Infrastrukturen städtischer Intimität materialisieren. Anschließend reflektiere ich am Beispiel einer ethnographischen Beobachtung auf Instagram im Kontext von Kirgistan, wie soziale Medien eine fremde Intimität (Koch/Miles 2021), also intime Verbindungen zwischen sich nicht bekannten Stadtbewohner*innen, generieren und dadurch zu digitalen intimen Infrastrukturen werden.
Feminist scholars, activists, and artists have long addressed the topic of virginity and have dis... more Feminist scholars, activists, and artists have long addressed the topic of virginity and have dismantled it as a powerful, globally circulating, and gendered myth. It affects how many woman-identifying people experience how their bodies become (a)sexual. Centrally, the myth of virginity has been shown to be mobilized in support of colonial, ethnonationalist identity projects. In Kyrgyzstan, disciplining women through policing their sexual behavior co-constituted nation-building projects after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Drawing on data collected since 2017 (qualitative interviews in Bishkek and Osh and qualitative research on Instagram), I examine intimate geographies of the virginity myth in Kyrgyzstan. Building on geographic scholarship on intimacy and body parts, I discuss the ways in which virginal blood works both to submit to and to reclaim one’s intimate body spaces and sexual practices. I argue that people affected by the virginity myth create the foundations for in...
On 28th February, 2020, the kick-off event of the ASG-funded thematic group "Feminist Geogra... more On 28th February, 2020, the kick-off event of the ASG-funded thematic group "Feminist Geographies" took place at the University of Neuchâtel. More than thirty scholars and students working on questions of space, place, earth, and the body met to discuss feminist and intersectional geographical concepts and perspectives. The highlight of the event was a panel discussion with Stefanie C. Boulila, Juliet Fall, Yvonne Riaño, Marina Richter, Carolin Schurr, Karin Schwiter and Miriam Tola, who accepted our invitation to discuss their pasts, presents and futures as feminist scholars working with(in) geography. To share this conversation, we weave together some of their key messages into a plaidoyer for feminist geographies.
This book unpacks the ways in which nationalisms – understood as feelings between national belong... more This book unpacks the ways in which nationalisms – understood as feelings between national belonging and alienation – unfold in moments of affective encounter between different bodies, objects and places in Azerbaijan. In times of a global trend to fight for the persistence of singular nations instead of dissolving national boundaries, the book suggests focusing on the development of attachments and detachments to nationalising beliefs, corporeal experiences and everyday routines, in order to understand the ways in which bodies’ different capacities to affect and to be affected are of central importance for the emergence and the persistence of nationalisms. Based on eight months of ethnographic field work, consisting of observant participation within families, field notes from attendance at public holidays and commemoration ceremonies and qualitative interviews conducted between 2012 and 2014 in Azerbaijan, the book develops the concept of affective nationalism as the banal affirmat...
During the past several years, the Human Geographies Symposium, a one-day conference within the a... more During the past several years, the Human Geographies Symposium, a one-day conference within the annually hosted Swiss Geoscience Meeting has turned into a regular meeting place and platform of research exchange for human geographers across Switzerland. Addressing critical geographies of gender and sexuality as well as feminist political geographies including emotions and affects, the session Bodies, Space and Difference in the Global Intimate is the first attempt to explicitly make space for feminist geographies at the Human Geographies Symposium of the Swiss Geoscience Meeting.
Das Handbuch Feministische Geographien ladt dazu ein, feministische Arbeitsweisen und Konzepte in... more Das Handbuch Feministische Geographien ladt dazu ein, feministische Arbeitsweisen und Konzepte in der Geographie kennenzulernen und zu vertiefen. Feministische Geographien zeigen auf, wie sich Raume und intersektional gedachte Geschlechterverhaltnisse gegenseitig beeinflussen. Raume reichen dabei vom Korper uber das Haus bis hin zu Stadtteilen, Regionen, Nationen und globalen Beziehungen. Das Buch zeigt, wie feministische Geographien in der Wissenschaft, aber auch in praxisnahen oder politischen Kontexten gedacht, erforscht und gelehrt werden konnen. This Handbook gives an introduction as well as a deeper look on feminist working methods and concepts in geography. Feminist Geographies analyse how spaces and gender relations influence each other. The concept of spaces ranges from the body to the house, cities and nations to global relationships. The book shows how Feminist Geography can be thought, researched and taught in science, but also in practical or political contexts.
On September 10, 2008, around 6 pm in the evening, I am sitting between my friends Vali and Eldar... more On September 10, 2008, around 6 pm in the evening, I am sitting between my friends Vali and Eldar in the Tofiq Bahramov Stadium in Baku, Azerbaijan. We are here to watch the group qualification game – Azerbaijan against Liechtenstein – for the men’s football World Cup 2010. The stadium is packed. And noisy. Seated in the back, I see dozens of heads in the rows in front of me – mainly young men with dark short hair wearing colourful T-Shirts. Yet, what catches my attention is the sight of the Azerbaijani flag, flashing up here and there, dotting the sea of mostly indistinguishable young men.
Ausgabe der Feministischen Geo-RundMail Nr. 85 (April 2021) zum Thema "feministische digitale Geo... more Ausgabe der Feministischen Geo-RundMail Nr. 85 (April 2021) zum Thema "feministische digitale Geographien". Mit Beiträgen zu den Themen: digitale Arbeit, Platforum Urbanism, gig economy, digitale Methoden, feministische digitale Initiativen, Instagram, soziale Medien, uvm. Beiträge sind auf Deutsch, Englisch und Espanol.
Das Handbuch Feministische Geographien lädt dazu ein, feministische Arbeitsweisen und Konzepte in... more Das Handbuch Feministische Geographien lädt dazu ein, feministische Arbeitsweisen und Konzepte in der Geographie kennenzulernen und zu vertiefen. Feministische Geographien zeigen auf, wie sich Räume und intersektional gedachte Geschlechterverhältnisse gegenseitig beeinflussen. Räume reichen dabei vom Körper über das Haus bis hin zu Stadtteilen, Regionen, Nationen und globalen Beziehungen. Das Buch zeigt, wie feministische Geographien in der Wissenschaft, aber auch in praxisnahen oder politischen Kontexten gedacht, erforscht und gelehrt werden können.
Alle Beiträge des Buches wurden kollektiv im Rahmen der Arbeit des DFG-Netzwerks „Feministische Geographien“ entwickelt. Sie haben den Anspruch, theoretische Konzepte, aktuelle Themen und (selbst)kritische Reflexionen nachvollziehbar zu verbinden. Daher enthält das Handbuch viele anschauliche Beispiele und Hinweise zum Weiterlesen. Das Handbuch adressiert zwei größere Bereiche: Der erste Teil vertieft, wie in der Geographie und darüber hinaus feministisch gedacht, geforscht und gelehrt werden kann. Reflektiert werden das Verhältnis von feministischer Wissenschaft und politischer Praxis, verschiedene Strategien einer entschleunigten Wissenschaft unter dem Stichwort ‘slow scholarship’, Möglichkeiten einer verantwortungsvollen Feldforschung sowie feministisches Lehren und Lernen. Der zweite Teil greift aktuelle Themen und theoretische Debatten der feministischen Geographie auf. Diskutiert werden die Prekarisierung von Arbeit in Bezug auf städtische und globale Beziehungen, die Verflechtungen von Geschlechter-, Umwelt- und Naturverhältnissen, feministische Geographien des Körpers und feministische Geographien der Technowissenschaften sowie emotionale und affektive Geographien. Das Buch richtet sich an Studierende, Wissenschaftler*innen und Aktivist*innen, die feministische Geographien kennen lernen oder vertiefen möchten, sowie an alle Interessierten, die feministische Wissenschaft und Praxis zusammendenken möchten.
This book unpacks the ways in which nationalisms – understood as feelings between national belong... more This book unpacks the ways in which nationalisms – understood as feelings between national belonging and alienation – unfold in moments of affective encounter between different bodies, objects and places in Azerbaijan. In times of a global trend to fight for the persistence of singular nations instead of dissolving national boundaries, the book suggests focusing on the development of attachments and detachments to nationalising beliefs, corporeal experiences and everyday routines, in order to understand the ways in which bodies’ different capacities to affect and to be affected are of central importance for the emergence and the persistence of nationalisms. Based on eight months of ethnographic field work, consisting of observant participation within families, field notes from attendance at public holidays and commemoration ceremonies and qualitative interviews conducted between 2012 and 2014 in Azerbaijan, the book develops the concept of affective nationalism as the banal affirmation of the national emerging in moments of encounter between different bodies and objects. The book advances scholarship on nationalism and affect by suggesting to study nationalisms not as given, but as potential and emergent experiences of differently positioned bodies in a world divided into nations.
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On the basis of qualitative interview data retrieved between 2012 and 2013 in Azerbaijan and the interpretation of official images used to represent the country, this chapter shows how visual representations of the nation at the time of hosting the ESC 2012 strengthen prevailing regimes of truth. At the same time, the study makes explicit that nation building processes are never finished and the attempt to fix meaning only inevitably fails. In addition, the chapter shows how geographical references are central and inherent to processes of national image creation.
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On the basis of qualitative interview data retrieved between 2012 and 2013 in Azerbaijan and the interpretation of official images used to represent the country, this chapter shows how visual representations of the nation at the time of hosting the ESC 2012 strengthen prevailing regimes of truth. At the same time, the study makes explicit that nation building processes are never finished and the attempt to fix meaning only inevitably fails. In addition, the chapter shows how geographical references are central and inherent to processes of national image creation.
Mit Beiträgen zu den Themen: digitale Arbeit, Platforum Urbanism, gig economy, digitale Methoden, feministische digitale Initiativen, Instagram, soziale Medien, uvm.
Beiträge sind auf Deutsch, Englisch und Espanol.
Alle Beiträge des Buches wurden kollektiv im Rahmen der Arbeit des DFG-Netzwerks „Feministische Geographien“ entwickelt. Sie haben den Anspruch, theoretische Konzepte, aktuelle Themen und (selbst)kritische Reflexionen nachvollziehbar zu verbinden. Daher enthält das Handbuch viele anschauliche Beispiele und Hinweise zum Weiterlesen. Das Handbuch adressiert zwei größere Bereiche: Der erste Teil vertieft, wie in der Geographie und darüber hinaus feministisch gedacht, geforscht und gelehrt werden kann. Reflektiert werden das Verhältnis von feministischer Wissenschaft und politischer Praxis, verschiedene Strategien einer entschleunigten Wissenschaft unter dem Stichwort ‘slow scholarship’, Möglichkeiten einer verantwortungsvollen Feldforschung sowie feministisches Lehren und Lernen. Der zweite Teil greift aktuelle Themen und theoretische Debatten der feministischen Geographie auf. Diskutiert werden die Prekarisierung von Arbeit in Bezug auf städtische und globale Beziehungen, die Verflechtungen von Geschlechter-, Umwelt- und Naturverhältnissen, feministische Geographien des Körpers und feministische Geographien der Technowissenschaften sowie emotionale und affektive Geographien. Das Buch richtet sich an Studierende, Wissenschaftler*innen und Aktivist*innen, die feministische Geographien kennen lernen oder vertiefen möchten, sowie an alle Interessierten, die feministische Wissenschaft und Praxis zusammendenken möchten.
Based on eight months of ethnographic field work, consisting of observant participation within families, field notes from attendance at public holidays and commemoration ceremonies and qualitative interviews conducted between 2012 and 2014 in Azerbaijan, the book develops the concept of affective nationalism as the banal affirmation of the national emerging in moments of encounter between different bodies and objects.
The book advances scholarship on nationalism and affect by suggesting to study nationalisms not as given, but as potential and emergent experiences of differently positioned bodies in a world divided into nations.