Dr. Antje Schuhmann

Political Studies Department School of Social Sciences

University of the Witwatersrand

University of the Witwatersrand, Bramfontain, Johannesburg

ZA

Johannesburg

a.schuhmann@gmx.net

Forschung und Projekte

Derzeitige Position(en)

Senior Lecturer

Aktuelle(s) Projekt(e)

A)
Exploring postcolonial backlashes such as homophobic hate-crimes and nationalist body-politics from a feminist, queer and anti-racist perspective.
B)
Memory Politics, Transitional Justice and Dominant Understandings of Contemporary Forms of Violence in Transnational Perspectives.

Frühere Position(en)

Assistant Professor LMU Munich, American Studies Institute;

DFG Graduiertenkolleg "Postcolonial Studies";

Veröffentlichungen

Monographien (und Dissertation)

Forthcoming:
Race_Gender_Class. the post-colonial culture of nationness. a feminist critique.

Artikel

Forthcoming:
African Women Filmmakers. Eds. Mistry, Jyoti, and Antje Schuhmann. Johannesburg

“Post-colonial Backlash in South Africa: Bodily Ambiguity and Anti-Emancipatory Nationalism” Black Intersectionalities – A Critique for the 21st Century. Eds. Michlin, Monica, and Jean-Paul Rocchi. Liverpool:Liverpool University Press, 2012.

“Blood Count. Zanele Muholi’s Visual Activism” African Women Filmmakers. Eds. Mistry, Jyoti, and Antje Schuhmann. Johannesburg: UNISA Press, 2012

“Made in Germany: Anti-Antifascism, State Terrorism and Neoliberal Politics of Othering” Hospitality and Hostility in the Multilingual Global Village. Eds. Horn, Annette, Thorpe, Kathleen, and Veronique Tadjo. Johannesburg: University of the Witwatersrand Press, 2012.

Published:

Blackness and Sexualities. Eds. Wright, Michelle M., and Antje Schuhmann. Hamburg, Berlin, Münster, London: LIT Verlag, 2007

“Nation, Staat, Partei: Leerstellen feministischer Veränderung?” Briefe aus der Ferne. Anforderungen an ein feministisches Projekt heute Ed. Frigga Haug. Argument Sonderband AS, 2010

“Battling Hate Crimes Against Black Lesbians in the Rainbow Nation. Discussing the Limitations of an US American Concept and Exploring the Political Horizon beyond Law Reform” State Accountability for Homophobic Violence in South Africa. Ed. Isaack, Wendy. Johannesburg: POWA, 2009

“Destroy what is Destroying you? Racial Profiling, The Terror of the National & Militant Dissidence” Dissidence et identités plurielles. Ed. Rocchi, Jean-Paul. Nancy: Presses Universitaires de Nancy, 2008

“Exoticizing the Erotic: White on White via the Black Body. Collecting Artefacts within German Dominant Culture. “ Blackness and Sexualities. Eds. Wright, Michelle M., and Antje Schuhmann. Hamburg, Berlin, Münster, London: LIT Verlag, 2007

“Whose Burden? The Significance of the Israel-Palestine Conflict in German Identity Politics.” Nationalist Myth and Modern Media Contested Identities in the Age of Globalization. Eds. Brinks, Jan H., Stella Rock, and Edward Timms. London, New York: Tauris Academic Studies, 2006

“National Politics of Belonging and Conflicting Masculinities: Race and the Representation of Recent Wars” Media, Terrorism, and Theory:A Reader. Ed. Kavoori, Anandam, and Todd Fraley. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2006

“’Seeing White’ – Interrogating Whiteness with the South African Photographer Michelle Booth” L’Homme. Journal of feminist science of history. Special Issue on Whiteness. Ed. Hacker, Hanna and Mineke Bosch. 2005

”Relocating Racializing Subjects: Images of Indianness in Current Constructions of Germanness.” Mediating Indian Writing in English German Responses. Eds. Lange, Bernd-Peter, and Mala Pandurang. Jaipur, New Delih, Bangalore, Mumbai: Rawat Publications, 2005 and Hamburg, Berlin, Münster, London: LIT Verlag, 2006

„Frage nicht, was deine Stadt für dich tut, frage, was du für deine Stadt tun kannst. Über Umverteilung, Vermischung und andere Sortierverfahren am Rande der Stadt. Ein Gespräch mit Wolf Wetzel” Public Space/Öffentlicher Raum Salzburg Lehen. Ed. Draxler, Helmut, and Salzburger Kunstverein. Salzburg: Anton Pustet Verlag, 1998

„Aufstieg und Fall der Frauenbewegung” Gender Killer. Texte zu Feminismus und Politik. Ed. Eichhorn, Cornelia, and Sabine Grimm. Berlin, Amsterdam: Edition ID Archiv, 1994

Herausgeberschaften und Editionen

Forthcoming:
African Women Filmmakers. Eds. Mistry, Jyoti, and Antje Schuhmann. Johannesburg: UNISA Press, 2012

Published:
Blackness and Sexualities. Eds. Wright, Michelle M., and Antje Schuhmann. Hamburg, Berlin, Münster, London: LIT Verlag, 2007

Forschungsinteressen und Arbeitsgebiete

gender/feminist studies, critical whiteness studies, study of racism, (trans)-nationalism, german fascism, memory politics, social movements, globlisation, internationalism, african american studies, postcolonialism, South African politics, critical migration studies