Veronika Fuechtner

Bio: Veronika Fuechtner is an academic researcher from Dartmouth College. The author has contributed to research in topics: Gender studies & Philosophy. The author has an hindex of 3, co-authored 4 publications receiving 29 citations.

A Companion to the Works of Alfred Döblin

Abstract: Alfred Doblin (1878-1957) was one of the great German-Jewish writers of the 20th century, a major figure in the German avant-garde before the First World War and a leading intellectual during the Weimar Republic. Doblin greatly influenced the history of the German novel: his best-known work, the best-selling 1929 novel Berlin Alexanderplatz, has frequently been compared in its use of internal monologue and literary montage to James Joyce's Ulysses and John Dos Passos's Manhattan Transfer . Doblin's oeuvre is by no means limited to novels, but in this genre, he offered a surprising variety of narrative techniques, themes, structures, and outlooks. Doblin's impact on German writers after the Second World War was considerable: Gunter Grass, for example, acknowledged him as "my teacher." And yet, while Alexanderplatz continues to fascinate the reading public, it has overshadowed the rest of Doblin's immense oeuvre. This volume of carefully focused essays seeks to do justice to such important texts as Doblin's early stories, his numerous other novels, his political, philosophical, medical, autobiographical, and religious essays, his experimental plays, and his writings on the new media of cinema and radio.Contributors: Heidi Thomann Tewarson, David Dollenmayer, Neil H. Donahue, Roland Dollinger, Veronika Fuechtner, Gabriele Sander, Erich Kleinschmidt, Wulf Koepke, Helmut F. Pfanner, Helmuth Kiesel, Klaus Muller-Salget, Christoph Bartscherer, Wolfgang Dusing.Roland Dollinger is associate professor of German at Sarah Lawrence College; Wulf Koepke is professor emeritus of German at Texas AM Heidi Thomann Tewarson is professor of German at Oberlin College.

United Nations High Commission for Refugees

Abstract: 4. UNHCR notes with concern that although the country acceded to the 1951 Convention and the 1967 Protocol in 1999, incorporation of the 1951 Convention obligations into national legislation and normative acts has been slow and to date Kazakhstan has failed to comply with its obligation to give full effect to the Covenant in the domestic legal order, inter alia providing for effective judicial and other remedies for violations of these rights

Conjectures on the Sexual World-System

Abstract: This article brings together world-systems analysis, which explores how the world's capitalist markets became globally integrated, and sexuality studies for the first time in order to examine how the homo/hetero binary came to integrate and govern sexual organization throughout much of the world. Zooming out from the metropolitan and national frames that have dominated sexual historiography, this article operates at a different scale and order of magnification to explore forms of sexuality shared in whole and in part across the world. My theorization of the sexual world-system aims to understand the encounter between object choice as the organizing dimension of sexuality and its collision with other sexual knowledges and organizations: intimacy, bodily practice, positionality, sexual acts, behaviors, desires, and so forth. Reading across literary, sexological, legal, and religious archives, I examine the relationship between these varieties of sexual knowledge in order to contribute to a comparative study of sexuality and to write sexuality into what Immanuel Wallerstein calls "geoculture."

Foreign Front: Third World Politics in Sixties West Germany

Abstract: but one feels that Priestland has ultimately read back into history a thesis that will give him the results he desires in the future. To put it bluntly, in order to prove the kind of thesis that Priestland wishes to get across here, he needs to offer much more than the ‘essay’ in question. He wants to do ‘big’ history; but while noone is suggesting one has to go to Toynbee-esque lengths to do this, 300 or so pages simply won’t wash. One might be a little ungenerous in suspecting that the disclaimer about the book being for a general readership and not an academic study is merely a fig leaf; but nonetheless, the suspicion remains. Of course, the question one must always ask of books like this is: How much is prescription and how much is description? Despite proclaiming in the introduction that he had no intention of prognostication, in the epilogue Priestland allows himself to speculate. What will happen to the merchants now that they have been seen to be wearing no clothes? The merchant, we are told, ‘is rarely overthrown by revolutions . . . History suggests that merchant rule tends to be defeated by its inner flaws’ (pp. 249–50) The problems thrown up by the crash of 2008 will not be solved by tinkering: ‘We need a more fundamental change in both values and power relations’ (p. 251). Somewhat predictably, this involves the merchant being reined in and the sage and the worker being given more of a hand in things. But Priestland’s ultimate recommendation is essentially that a Bretton Woods II should be put together. Unfortunatly, he seems to have no idea how this might be brought about—we are told that conditions today are extremely unpromising (pp. 256–257). Ultimately, Merchant, Soldier, Sage is a lightweight affair. Preistland writes well, and it is certainly no chore to breeze through the 300 or so pages here. But aside from a few interesting insights on the nature of power, there is not much to take away from it. Essentially it is the old cry of ‘why don’t we learn from history’ in a quasi-sociological dress. The problem with arguing that by letting history have its say we can clear the present of indeterminacy, is that history rarely has its say just once—to wheel out a trite-but-true phrase, every generation re-writes its own history.