Chapters in this book
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Chapter Nogmaals kijken naar de pijn van anderen, of: de uitdaging van ‘wij ’
(2023)
This essay takes its point of departure in images of the victims of the 2023 Turkish-Syrian earthquake. It examines their rhetoric, comparing them to those of Alan Kurdi, the Syrian toddler who washed ashore on a Turkish ...
Chapter Culture and critique
(2023)
In her work on cultural critique, Rosemarie Buikema conceptualizes culture as a terrain for the elaboration and contestation of collective memory, a form that mediates social formations, and a practice that critically ...
Chapter Revolt: The sense and non-sense of Kristeva
(2023)
Revolt, for Julia Kristeva, is not as a singular socio-political moment of breaking away, but as Rosemarie Buikema puts it, “a process of movement and repetition” (Buikema, 2020, 6), “a reversal, a relocation, a transformation, ...
Chapter Dingen die ertoe doen!
(2023)
In this contribution Mineke Bosch connects to Rosemarie Buikema’s work with the Museum of Equality and Difference which aims at inspiring museum and exhibition curators to tell more complex stories that include postcolonial ...
Chapter Unfolding patterns of revolt
(2023)
This article deals with art, fashion design, and cultural practice as both critique and creativity. It analyses artworks by William Kentridge, Sue Austin, and Lina Iris Viktor, as well as the fashion of Viktor & Rolf, ...
Chapter Unfolding patterns of revolt
(2023)
This article deals with art, fashion design, and cultural practice as both critique and creativity. It analyses artworks by William Kentridge, Sue Austin, and Lina Iris Viktor, as well as the fashion of Viktor & Rolf, ...
Chapter Hou toezicht op de emancipatie!
(2023)
For numerous public interests there are supervisory bodies, such as the Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM) and the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM). Drawing on the multidisciplinary ...
Chapter Retirement as going through a portal of possibilities
(2023)
The essay contemplates retirement as a portal of possibilities which may open time for diving into both haunting and joyful questions that being tied up with admin work formerly prevented the pursuit of. Questions which ...
Chapter Het baton-plafond
(2023)
It remains very exceptional when highly gifted women musicians are crowned maestra, conductor of a symphony orchestra. There are various explanations for this deprivation. Contextualised in historical and statistical data, ...
Chapter Spazzacamini en Savoyaards
(2023)
This article engages in genealogical inquiry into Zwarte Piet (Black Pete), to gain deeper insight into the multiple semantic layers of this cultural icon. I argue that the ‘roetpiet’ (soot Pete) or chimney sweep is rooted ...
Chapter Coetzee’s Disgrace
(2023)
In this essay I discuss Buikema’s ideas about the specific function of literature in times of social upheaval and political violence. Buikema resists the current tendency to reduce engaged novels to their political views ...
Chapter Aesthetics and politics in contemporary South Africa
(2023)
South Africa is a context within which Rosemarie Buikema has thought deeply and conducted much of her empirical research for her book Revolts in Critique. This contribution pursues some of the ways in which Buikema’s ...
Chapter Reading to reveal the world
(2023)
Following the critical principles as they were articulated in an earlier article on South African literature (Buikema, 2009), the paper discusses a more recent call for literary engagement in the context of contemporary ...
Chapter Tussen marge en middelpunt – voormoeders van genderstudies in Utrecht
(2023)
In this essay, Berteke Waaldijk outlines the early development of gender studies in Utrecht through the course ‘Between Margin and Centre, Women in Culture and Society’. The course lent itself perfectly to an interdisciplinary ...
Chapter Nederlandse Southern Gothic
(2023)
This article presents a close reading of gothic features in Simone Atangana Bekono’s novella Zo hoog de zon stond (‘As high as the sun stood’, 2022). This analysis serves as a way to comment on recent academic debates about ...
Chapter Wandering around the edges of the arts and humanities
(2023)
Writing sometimes involves wandering. This writing seeks to say and show what it is to write wandering around the edges of the arts and humanities. It also concerns why some writing is difficult, and thence writing on some ...
Chapter Caught in a flash, arrested at a standstill
(2023)
This article seeks to articulate in one image the diverse genocides in German history, an image able to capture the piling wreckages of history in a flash. The point of departure is a multimedia installation by William ...
Chapter As in trans art
(2023)
This article engages with trans artistic practices: both trans in art as well as trans as art. It takes as its point of departure the artistic work of Ro Robertson, Tama Sharman, and Erica Rutherford, each of whom works ...
Chapter Transitions in Art, Culture, and Politics: An Introduction
(2023)
This volume focusses on the role of art, culture and politics in transitions and the struggle for social justice. Sometimes these transitions are traumatic and violent processes as in the case of post-apartheid South Africa. ...
Chapter Musea voor een betere wereld
(2023)
Over the last forty years, ‘the world’ has entered ‘the museum’. Collections and presentations that were supposed to be self-evident had to be reconsidered. This chapter demonstrates that two more or less simultaneous ...