The Upsurge of the Manifesto in Contemporary Debates on Diversity in the United States

《宣言》在美国当代多元化辩论中的热潮

• 批准号: 501505288
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Carsten Junker
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Professur für Amerikanistik mit dem Schwerpunkt Diversity Studies
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/501505288?language=en
• 关键词: Upsurge; Manifesto; Contemporary; Debates; Diversity

The project is designed to contribute to foundational research in transnational American Literary and Cultural Studies by working through formalizations of current controversial debates on demographic diversity and social unity in scenarios of inequality in the US and beyond, especially by interrogating the uses of the sociopolitical manifesto and its function of positioning subjects and groups in these debates. Taking the recent upsurge of the manifesto as its cue, the project interrogates how the manifesto as a generic form highlights tensions between a decreasing tolerance for demographic diversity and urgent calls for its recognition. As a specific form of public refutation, the manifesto has been researched from various angles and through different approaches. What requires close examination yet is its function as an important instrument for the discursive positioning of manifestors, not least in the polarized landscape of the post-Obama years. To thematically map debates on diversity as carried out in the manifesto and gain a better sense of the function of the genre to position discursive actors, it is necessary to combine state-of-the-art approaches from a politicized theory of generic form with innovative conceptual and methodical approaches from research areas in Diversity Studies. The project relates questions that pertain to generic form with questions concerning recent dynamics of activism and the authorizing strategies associated with it. It thus aims to contribute both to a better understanding of how subjects and groups position themselves in debates on diversity through the strategic use of a genre, and to a theory of form that takes historical specificities and structural and discursive relations of power seriously.

该项目旨在通过将当前有关美国及其他地区不平等情况下的人口多样性和社会团结的争议辩论形式化，特别是通过质疑社会政治宣言的用途及其在这些辩论中定位主体和群体的功能，为跨国美国文学和文化研究的基础研究做出贡献。该项目以最近宣言的热潮为线索，质疑宣言作为一种通用形式如何凸显对人口多样性的容忍度下降与对其承认的迫切呼吁之间的紧张关系。作为公开反驳的一种具体形式，人们从不同的角度、不同的途径对宣言进行了研究。还需要仔细审视的是它作为表达者话语定位的重要工具的功能，尤其是在后奥巴马时代的两极分化格局中。为了按主题绘制宣言中关于多样性的辩论，并更好地了解该流派在定位话语参与者方面的功能，有必要将通用形式的政治化理论的最先进方法与多样性研究领域的创新概念和方法方法结合起来。该项目将与一般形式有关的问题与有关近期行动主义动态和与之相关的授权策略的问题联系起来。因此，它的目的是有助于更好地理解主体和群体如何通过策略性地使用一种流派在多样性辩论中定位自己，并有助于建立一种认真对待历史特殊性以及结构性和话语性权力关系的形式理论。