Anja Schwarz | Universitaet Potsdam (2025)

Across the global South, new media technologies have brought about new forms of cultural producti... more Across the global South, new media technologies have brought about new forms of cultural production, distribution and reception. The spread of cassette recorders in the 1970s; the introduction of analogue and digital video formats in the 80s and 90s; the pervasive availability of recycled computer hardware; the global dissemination of the internet and mobile phones in the new millennium: all these have revolutionised the access of previously marginalised populations to the cultural flows of global modernity.

Yet this access also engenders a pirate occupation of the modern: it ducks and deranges the globalised designs of property, capitalism and personhood set by the North. Positioning itself against Eurocentric critiques by corporate lobbies, libertarian readings or classical Marxist interventions, this volume offers a profound postcolonial revaluation of the social, epistemic and aesthetic workings of piracy. It projects how postcolonial piracy persistently negotiates different trajectories of property and self at the crossroads of the global and the local.

Postcolonial Justice in Australia. Reassessing the ‘Fair Go’, 2016

Space and Culture, 2013

Historical narratives play an important role in constructing contemporary notions of citizenship.... more Historical narratives play an important role in constructing contemporary notions of citizenship. They are sites on which ideas of the nation are not only reaffirmed but also contested and reframed. In contemporary Germany, dominant narratives of the country's modern history habitually focus on the legacy of the Third Reich and tend to marginalize the country's rich and highly complex histories of immigration. The article addresses this commemorative void in relation to Berlin's urban landscape. It explores how the city's multilayered architecture provides locations for the articulation of marginal memories-and hence sites of urban citizenship-that are often denied to immigrant communities on a national scale. Through a detailed examination of a small celebration in 1965 that marked the anniversary of the founding of the modern Turkish republic, the article engages with the layers of history that coalesce around such sites in Berlin.

... Dokumenttyp: Teil eines Buches. Autor/in: Schwarz, Anja; Müller, Sabine Lucia; Erscheinungsda... more ... Dokumenttyp: Teil eines Buches. Autor/in: Schwarz, Anja; Müller, Sabine Lucia; Erscheinungsdatum: 2008. Quelle: Publ. in: Iterationen : Geschlecht im kulturellen Gedächtnis /Anja Schwarz, Sabine Lucia Müller (eds.). Göttingen: Wallstein, 2008, pp. 89-110. ...

... Erscheinungsdatum: 2008. Quelle: Ersch. in: Iterationen : Geschlecht im kulturellen Gedächtni... more ... Erscheinungsdatum: 2008. Quelle: Ersch. in: Iterationen : Geschlecht im kulturellen Gedächtnis / [Hrsg. d. Bandes Anja Schwarz ...]. Göttingen : Wallstein, 2008, S. 7-28. - (Querelles ; 13). URI: (zitierfähiger Link), http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:352-opus-120239. ...

querelles-net, Jan 1, 2009

Abstract: Geschlechtliche und sexuelle Differenz/en werden gegenwärtig häufig nicht mehr als Prob... more Abstract: Geschlechtliche und sexuelle Differenz/en werden gegenwärtig häufig nicht mehr als Problem verstanden, sondern zunehmend als kulturelles Kapital zelebriert. Diese Form der Wertschätzung von Diversität in der Spätmoderne, so Antke Engel, ist eng mit neoliberalen Entwürfen ...

Polyculturalism and discourse, Jan 1, 2007

Macquarie University ResearchOnline.

Polyculturalism and …, Jan 1, 2007

The last thirty to forty years have seen unprecedented levels of global change associated primari... more The last thirty to forty years have seen unprecedented levels of global change associated primarily with migration and the movements of people. These changes have not only dramatically reconfigured the relations between nation-states, leading to an increasingly ...

Macquarie University ResearchOnline.

Global fragments:(dis) orientation in the new world …, Jan 1, 2007

Mapping (Un-) Australian Identities —'Territorial Disputes' in Christos... more Mapping (Un-) Australian Identities —'Territorial Disputes' in Christos Tsiolkas' Loaded Anja Schwarz N ITS RECENT TREATMENT OF REFUGEES, the Australian state has shown itself to be intensely preoccupied with the protection of its territorial integrity. When in ...

Polyculturalism and discourse, Jan 1, 2007

Across the global South, new media technologies have brought about new forms of cultural producti... more Across the global South, new media technologies have brought about new forms of cultural production, distribution and reception. The spread of cassette recorders in the 1970s; the introduction of analogue and digital video formats in the 80s and 90s; the pervasive availability of recycled computer hardware; the global dissemination of the internet and mobile phones in the new millennium: all these have revolutionised the access of previously marginalised populations to the cultural flows of global modernity.

Yet this access also engenders a pirate occupation of the modern: it ducks and deranges the globalised designs of property, capitalism and personhood set by the North. Positioning itself against Eurocentric critiques by corporate lobbies, libertarian readings or classical Marxist interventions, this volume offers a profound postcolonial revaluation of the social, epistemic and aesthetic workings of piracy. It projects how postcolonial piracy persistently negotiates different trajectories of property and self at the crossroads of the global and the local.

Postcolonial Justice in Australia. Reassessing the ‘Fair Go’, 2016

Space and Culture, 2013

Historical narratives play an important role in constructing contemporary notions of citizenship.... more Historical narratives play an important role in constructing contemporary notions of citizenship. They are sites on which ideas of the nation are not only reaffirmed but also contested and reframed. In contemporary Germany, dominant narratives of the country's modern history habitually focus on the legacy of the Third Reich and tend to marginalize the country's rich and highly complex histories of immigration. The article addresses this commemorative void in relation to Berlin's urban landscape. It explores how the city's multilayered architecture provides locations for the articulation of marginal memories-and hence sites of urban citizenship-that are often denied to immigrant communities on a national scale. Through a detailed examination of a small celebration in 1965 that marked the anniversary of the founding of the modern Turkish republic, the article engages with the layers of history that coalesce around such sites in Berlin.

... Dokumenttyp: Teil eines Buches. Autor/in: Schwarz, Anja; Müller, Sabine Lucia; Erscheinungsda... more ... Dokumenttyp: Teil eines Buches. Autor/in: Schwarz, Anja; Müller, Sabine Lucia; Erscheinungsdatum: 2008. Quelle: Publ. in: Iterationen : Geschlecht im kulturellen Gedächtnis /Anja Schwarz, Sabine Lucia Müller (eds.). Göttingen: Wallstein, 2008, pp. 89-110. ...

... Erscheinungsdatum: 2008. Quelle: Ersch. in: Iterationen : Geschlecht im kulturellen Gedächtni... more ... Erscheinungsdatum: 2008. Quelle: Ersch. in: Iterationen : Geschlecht im kulturellen Gedächtnis / [Hrsg. d. Bandes Anja Schwarz ...]. Göttingen : Wallstein, 2008, S. 7-28. - (Querelles ; 13). URI: (zitierfähiger Link), http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:352-opus-120239. ...

querelles-net, Jan 1, 2009

Abstract: Geschlechtliche und sexuelle Differenz/en werden gegenwärtig häufig nicht mehr als Prob... more Abstract: Geschlechtliche und sexuelle Differenz/en werden gegenwärtig häufig nicht mehr als Problem verstanden, sondern zunehmend als kulturelles Kapital zelebriert. Diese Form der Wertschätzung von Diversität in der Spätmoderne, so Antke Engel, ist eng mit neoliberalen Entwürfen ...

Polyculturalism and discourse, Jan 1, 2007

Macquarie University ResearchOnline.

Polyculturalism and …, Jan 1, 2007

The last thirty to forty years have seen unprecedented levels of global change associated primari... more The last thirty to forty years have seen unprecedented levels of global change associated primarily with migration and the movements of people. These changes have not only dramatically reconfigured the relations between nation-states, leading to an increasingly ...

Macquarie University ResearchOnline.

Global fragments:(dis) orientation in the new world …, Jan 1, 2007

Mapping (Un-) Australian Identities —'Territorial Disputes' in Christos... more Mapping (Un-) Australian Identities —'Territorial Disputes' in Christos Tsiolkas' Loaded Anja Schwarz N ITS RECENT TREATMENT OF REFUGEES, the Australian state has shown itself to be intensely preoccupied with the protection of its territorial integrity. When in ...

Polyculturalism and discourse, Jan 1, 2007

... Kasher Dr Martin McGoldrick Revd Stephen Morris Professor John Parry Professor Peter L. Twohi... more ... Kasher Dr Martin McGoldrick Revd Stephen Morris Professor John Parry Professor Peter L. Twohig Professor S Ram Vemuri Revd ... Perspective: Germany and Australia 1 A. Dirk Moses „Ein komplexes und wechselhaftes Spiel “: Sprachliche Resignifikation in Kanak Sprak und ...

Journal of Australian Studies 39.4 (2015): 529-545, 2015

The article discusses German commemorations of Ludwig Leichhardt (1813–1848) in the National Soci... more The article discusses German commemorations of Ludwig Leichhardt (1813–1848) in the National Socialist era when officials, journalists, educators and writers, spurred by the double anniversary of the explorer's 125th birthday and the 90th anniversary of his disappearance, began to re-imagine the explorer's life and fate in the light of the ideological imperatives of the day. Our analysis of this period pays particular attention to how these reimagined Leichhardts emphasise or neglect some of the key elements that make up his story to this day, among them: Leichhardt's ethnicity; his sense of attachment to place and home; his homosocial relationships; his evasion of Prussian military service; his role in the British colonial project; and finally, his engagements with Aborigines. On the one hand, our analysis reveals, how Leichhardt was portrayed first on the local and, later, the national level in ways that increasingly sought to elide ambiguous aspects of his life and deeds. However, it also uncovers some of the ideological labour required to render him useful to the National Socialist cause. Often enough, these re-imagined Leichhardts escaped party politics, and cast up some of the logical inconsistencies and limits to key terms in National Socialist thinking.

Journal for the Study of British Cultures 21.2 (2014): 195-222., 2014

A renewed focus on the ‘here and now’ of cultural studies, we argue, works towards de-linking, di... more A renewed focus on the ‘here and now’ of cultural studies, we argue, works towards de-linking, disrupting and de-totalising the grand narratives of the field that are currently produced in Anglo-American contexts. While remaining committed to cultural studies as a dynamic political form of knowledge production, we want to de-link cultural studies from its supposedly singular origin in Birmingham, drawing attention to regionally specific approaches and their challenges to some of cultural studies’ core concepts and methodologies; we engage with the disruptive potential queer and postcolonial critiques may bring to cultural studies’ commitment to emancipation and progressivist narratives; and we draw attention to the de-totalising impact of the recent interest in non-human agents and affects on a field so thoroughly committed to social causes and human actors.

Space & Culture [Special issue: Open Cities] (2013): 1-13., 2013

Historical narratives play an important role in constructing contemporary notions of citizenship.... more Historical narratives play an important role in constructing contemporary notions of citizenship. They are sites on which ideas of the nation are not only reaffirmed but also contested and reframed. In contemporary Germany, dominant narratives of the country’s modern history habitually focus on the legacy of the Third Reich and tend to marginalize the country’s rich and highly complex histories of immigration. The article addresses this commemorative void in relation to Berlin’s urban landscape. It explores how the city’s multilayered architecture provides locations for the articulation of marginal memories—and hence sites of urban citizenship—that are often denied to immigrant communities on a national scale. Through a detailed examination of a small celebration in 1965 that marked the anniversary of the founding of the modern Turkish republic, the article engages with the layers of history that coalesce around such sites in Berlin.

Zeitschrift für Kulturphilosophie. (2013): 53-56., 2013

Rhythmus figuriert in Joseph Conrads Heart of Darkness als wirkmächtige Sinneserfahrung, die Körp... more Rhythmus figuriert in Joseph Conrads Heart of Darkness als wirkmächtige Sinneserfahrung, die Körper affiziert und auf diese Weise Gemeinsamkeiten zwischen Menschen und Maschinen oder aber Europäern und »Barbaren« herstellt. Er wird somit zu einem zentralen Ort der Aushandlung von Ängsten vor der Ansteckung durch das Fremde, wie sie für die britische Literatur zur Zeit der Jahrhundertwende typisch waren.

Crossings: Journal of Migration and Culture 4.1 (2013): 51-65., 2013

For a while now, German and Australian societies have been in the process of negotiating the unde... more For a while now, German and Australian societies have been in the process of negotiating the understanding of their nations’ guilty pasts, constituted by the atrocities committed by Germans during the Third Reich on the one hand and the history of Indigenous dispossession in Australia on the other. These concerns mark a reorientation of national memory politics towards an empathic recognition of the nation’s victims. This article discusses the ways in which immigrants are implicated in these current renegotiations of ‘negative national memories’ in both countries

Reenactment History 1.2 (2010): 18-38., 2010

In July 2005, Australian novelist Kate Grenville was invited by Radio National’s Books and Writin... more In July 2005, Australian novelist Kate Grenville was invited by Radio National’s Books and Writing programme to talk about The Secret River, her latest novel loosely based on the life of her ancestor Solomon Wiseman, who had been transported to the penal colony of New South Wales in 1817 and later settled on the Hawkesbury River.1 The show’s host, Ramona Koval, congratulated Grenville on the poetic tone and language of her narrative and praised the text as ‘a wonderful and disturbing novel, full of detail about life and work in the colony … and daring descriptions of the land and the strangeness of the encounters between black and white people’.2 Grenville, in turn, read a passage from the book and reflected comprehensively on what had motivated her to write it. Then came Koval’s final question and Grenville’s reply which would irritate and preoccupy the country’s historians for months to come: ‘So, where would you slot your book’, Koval had enquired, ‘if you were laying out books on the history wars? Whereabouts would you slot yours?’ Australia’s ‘history wars’, heated debates among historians and public intellectuals over the nature of the country’s colonial legacy,3 had over the previous decade caused a deep rift between the so-called black armband historians on the political left and conservative scholars accused of wearing a ‘white blindfold’4 on the right.

Rethinking History 11.1 (2007): 425-444, Jan 1, 2007

This article is interested in exploring what happens when historicalreenactments are faced with ... more This article is interested in exploring what happens when historical
reenactments are faced with the task of reproducing events whose legacy for
the present is disputed among different social groups. It focuses on The Ship, a
2002 television recapitulation of Cook’s 1770 Endeavour voyage of imperial
discovery along the east coast of the Australian continent. The ‘increasing
division on board about just what Cook’s legacy to history means’ opens out for
consideration The Ship’s positioning within the shifting field of postcolonial
historiography and contemporary Australian debates on reconciliation. The
show engages with these themes by means of a ‘psychoanalytical emplotment’
of the journey’s twenty-first-century repetition, suggesting that the divisive past
requires a ‘working through’ in order to ‘heal’ the commemorative division.
The article proposes an alternative understanding of such processes of
reconciliation in which reenactments of imperial history are implicated. This
approach draws on Derrida’s notion of ‘hauntology’, as well as on recent
insights from performance studies and speech act theory; it conceptualizes
reenactments as open-ended processes of heritage production.

Journal of Australian Studies 80 (2004): 211-220, Jan 1, 2003

Journal of Australian Studies 80, Jan 1, 2004

... They only extend their waiting time with their un-Australian activities. (2) The then Federal... more ... They only extend their waiting time with their un-Australian activities. (2) The then Federal Minister for Immigration Phillip Ruddock was quoted saying that 'lip-sewing is a practice that is unknown in our culture ... It is something that offends, I think, the sensitivities of Australians'. ...

(accepted for publication) “Schomburgk’s Chook: Reconstructing the Settler-colonial Past of Berlin’s Malleefowl.” Entanglements: Remembering German-Australian Colonial Pasts [Transpositions - Australian Studies in German Literature, Philosophy and Culture]. St. Ingbert: Röhrig Universitätsverlag.

(accepted for publication) Schwarz, Anja; Lars Eckstein and Helmut Peitsch. "Spuren Robert Louis Stevensons in deutscher Literatur über Samoa.“ Pazifikismus. Poetiken des Stillen Ozeans. Eds. Johannes Görbert, Mario Kumeka und Thomas Schwarz. Königshausen & Neumann 2016.

(accepted for publication) Schwarz, Anja and Lars Eckstein. “Epistemic Crossroads in the Pacific World: Re-Thinking Oceanic Histories with Tupaia’s Map.” Crossroads. Essays in Honor of Rüdiger Kunow. Eds. Marc Priewe and Ariane Schröder.

Schwarz, Anja. " A Study on Memory: Erinnerungen und Trauma in Rod Dickinsons The Milgram-Re-enactment." Rendezvous mit dem Realen. Die Spur des Traumas in den Künsten. Eds. Aleida Assmann, Karolina Jeftic and Friederike Wappler. Bielefeld: transcript, 2014. 115-134., 2014

Schwarz,. Anja und Michael Neumann. "Nachwort der Herausgeber." Sympathiezauber. Texte zur Ethnographie. Konstanz: Konstanz University Press, 2013. 344-356., 2013

Schwarz, Anja. "“Mínyın ŋyínı bıal piabúnı whiteman? – Why don’t you [learn to] speak like a whiteman?”: The Politics of Remembering the Dawes/Patyegarang Encounter." Agents of Transculturation: Border-Crossers, Mediators, Go-Betweens. Eds. Sebastian Jobs and Gesa Mackenthun. Waxmann, 2013. 263-280., 2013

Schwarz, Anja and Andrew Hurley. "Leichhardt im kulturellen Gedächtnis Deutschlands und Australiens." Der Australienforscher Ludwig Leichhardt. Spuren eines Verschollenen. Ed. Heike Hartmann. Berlin: Bebra Verlag, 2013. 144-159. , 2013

Schwarz, Anja. "Looking for Shell Beach: Dark City’s Digital Landscapes and Australian National Cinema.” Film Landscapes. Eds. Jonathan Rayner and Graeme Harper. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholarly Press, 2013. 74-87., 2013

Schwarz, Anja and Lars Eckstein. “Oceanic Modernity: Indigeneity, Globality and Cultural Translation.” Worldwide: Archipels de la mondialisation / Archipiélagos de la globalizacion. Eds. Ottmar Ette and Gesine Müller. Madrid: Vervuert, 2012. 149-165., 2012

Schwarz, Anja. “‘That’s Not a Story I Could Tell’: Commemorating the Other Side of the Colonial Frontier in Australian Literature of Reconciliation.” Memory and Political Change. Eds. Aleida Assmann and Linda Shortt. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. 150-169., 2011

Schwarz, Anja. “Zirkelschlüsse der Authentizität: Das Erleben von Geschichte im australischen TV-Reenactment Outback House.” Echte Geschichte: Authentizitätsfiktionen in populären Geschichtskulturen. Eds. Eva Ulrike Pirker et. al. Bielefeld: transkript, 2010. 233-50., 2010

Schwarz, Anja and Sabine Lucia Müller. “Iterationen.” Iterationen. Geschlecht im kulturellen Gedächtnis [Iterations: Gender and Cultural Memory]. Eds. Anja Schwarz and Sabine Lucia Müller. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2008. 7-28. , 2008

Anja Schwarz and Sabine Lucia Müller. “‘A Ready-made Set of Ancestors’: Re-enacting a Gendered Past in The 1900 House.“ Iterationen. Geschlecht im kulturellen Gedächtnis. [Iterations: Gender and Cultural Memory.] Eds. Anja Schwarz and Sabine Lucia Müller. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2008. 89-110., 2008

Schwarz, Anja. “Mapping (un-)Australian identities: ‘Territorial disputes’ in Christos Tsiolkas’ Loaded.” Global Fragments: (Dis-)Orientation in the New World Order. Eds. Dirk Wiemann and Anke Bartels. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2007. 13-27., 2007

Schwarz, Anja. “Multiculturalism: A Comparative Discursive History.” Multicultural Societies and Discourse: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Australia and Germany. Eds. Anja Schwarz and Russell West-Pavlov. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2007. 71-92., 2007

Schwarz, Anja. “Beached Identities: Inclusion and Exclusion of Histories in the Formation of the Beach as an Australian Spatial Icon.” Australia. Making Space Meaningful. Ed. Gerd Dose. Stuttgart: Stauffenburg Verlag, 2006. 125-138., 2006

Schwarz, Anja. “Re-Iterated Arrivals: Re-enacting Cook’s First Voyage of Discovery.” Thinking Down Under. Australian Politics, Society and Culture in Transition. Ed. Graham Willet. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2006. 135-153., 2006

Schwarz, Anja. "'...a kind of ying and yang': Kate Greenville's Historical Novels The Secret River and The Lieutenant." Zeitschrift für Australienstudien 24 (2010). , 2010

Schwarz, Anja and Katerina Kolarova. "Ökonomie des exzessiven Begehrens. Antke Engels Bilder von Sexualität und Ökonomie. Queere kulturelle Politiken im Neoliberalismus." Querelles-net. Rezensionszeitschrift für Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung 10.3 (2009). , 2009

Geschlechtliche und sexuelle Differenz/en werden gegenwärtig häufig nicht mehr als Problem versta... more Geschlechtliche und sexuelle Differenz/en werden gegenwärtig häufig nicht mehr als Problem verstanden, sondern zunehmend als kulturelles Kapital zelebriert. Diese Form der Wertschätzung von Diversität in der Spätmoderne, so Antke Engel, ist eng mit neoliberalen Entwürfen von Subjektivität verwoben. Sie bietet „projektive Integration“ – ein Begriff, der die affektive Besetzung von Bildern beschreibt – als Analysewerkzeug an und fragt anhand differenzierter Bildlektüren nach queeren und neoliberalen Topoi und Diskursen, die in diesen Bildern miteinander verwoben werden. Sie macht so Widersprüche sichtbar, die sowohl der neoliberalen Marktlogik als auch dem queeren Projekt inhärent sind, und führt vor, wie sich unter diesen Bedingungen der Unentscheidbarkeit queere Politik denken ließe. Mit diesem Band formuliert Engel einen wichtigen Beitrag zur kritischen Reflexion von sowohl Neoliberalismus als auch queerer Politik.

Schwarz, Anja. "Ross Gibson. Seven Versions of an Australian Badland St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2002." Gast Newsletter (2006)., 2006

Schwarz, Anja. "Naja Zierott. Aboriginal Women's Narratives: Reclaiming Identities. Münster: LIT Verlag, 2005." Gast Newsletter (2006)., 2006