Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Gender as a Category of Knowledge

PhD Project:

Unity in Diversity ? Construction of Cultural Memory in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Description of the Project

This transdisciplinary dissertation project examines in light of the post-apartheid South African state how national bodies are developed along the premises of nation building in places of remembrance. With a research design that stems from communication and media studies, Schulze analyzes narratives forged in South Africa in terms of the choice of perspective and form of representation. She works out how politico-economic production relationships and material knowledge in nationalist spheres of remembrance together define how knowledge is gendered and commodified, as well as the role state power plays in how national memory agendas are legitimized. She proves that these representations also point to dissident
perspectives and knowledge that in spaces of nationalized remembrance comes into conflict with structures of governmental production relations.

Particulars

Annett Schulze, studied journalism and communication studies, psychology and North American studies in Berlin, associate member in the Research Training Group “Gender as a Category of Knowledge“ (2009-2012), PhD in cultural studies, since May 2012 lecturer in journalism at the DEKRA Hochschule Berlin.

Selected Publications

Erinnerungen im Konflikt. Nation-Building-Prozesse im Post-Apartheid-Südafrika, Wiesbaden 2013.

zus. m. Thorsten Schäfer (Hg.): Zur Re-Biologisierung der Gesellschaft. Menschenfeindliche Konstruktionen im Ökologischen und im Sozialen, Aschaffenburg 2012.

zus. m. Friedrich von Bose, Kerstin Poehls u. Franka Schneider (Hg.): Museum. Zur Neuvermessung eines mehrdimensionalen Raumes, Berlin 2012.

Nation-building-premises in Freedom Park, South Africa. In: Image & Text 19 (2012). S. 14 – 23.

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