Abstract

Abstract:

Through a discussion of the ways in which institutions foreclose or enable connections across disciplines, we argue that scholars in Indigenous Studies and German Studies can seek out strategic points of alliance with each other in spite of the divergent histories and commitments of the two disciplines. Drawing on the authors’ reflections on their collaborative relationship, the article describes possibilities for challenging and intervening in institutional power structures that seek to further align the values of higher education with the prerogatives of neoliberalism in a settler colonial and xenophobic state. The authors suggest that German Studies scholars draw on critical frameworks in activist disciplines such as Indigenous Studies as well as recent critical interventions within German Studies in order to reimagine and increase commitments to transformative scholarship and pedagogies.

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