Gegenwartsbewältigung [Overcoming the Present]
Year: 2020
Type: article
Abstract: I’m used to being solicited as a Jewish author. Or as I prefer to call it: a Jew-author. And now I’m already in the thick of things. Because in this text, I’ll be investigating how normalized understandings of belonging and the return of rightwing thought are intertwined. I contend that these understandings are manifest in the demand for integration whose all-but-universal presence is the reason I describe this as an integration paradigm. And I’d like to explain why I believe that Gegenwartsbewältigung [overcoming the present][1] is an appropriate counterstrategy. This text, then, is a kind of assembly kit for the construction of an alternative to the integration paradigm. But it’s up to you, dear reader, to make something out of it. [1] A play on the much-lauded German (World War 2-related) memory culture of “overcoming / coming to terms with the past” [ Vergangenheitsbewältigung ].
Source: Transit
DOI: 10.5070/t7122047484
Authors: Max Czollek, Jon Cho-Polizzi
Institution: University of California, Berkeley
Language: German
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W3013369330