Mediale Konflikte um postkoloniale Studien und Antisemitismus in Deutschland
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The increasing recognition of postcolonial studies gave rise to a revision-ist countermovement on the conservative side, which went largely unnoticed until 2019. In the course of media conflicts over anti-Semitism in recent years, however, a majority opinion emerged in the liberal and left-wing camps that fundamentally suspected and criticized postcolonial studies as antisemitic. The article traces some of these conflicts in the German public sphere (around Achille Mbembe, the so-called Second Historians’ Controversy and the reactions to October 7, 2023) and develops a model of three approaches (delimited concept of antisemitism, historical context of the FRG, Eurocentrism) to explain this hegemony.
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Die zunehmende Anerkennung postkolonialer Studien rief eine revisionistische Gegenbewegung auf konservativer Seite hervor, die bis 2019 weitgehend unbeachtet blieb. Im Zuge medialer Konflikte im Antisemitismus in den letzten Jahren bildete sich jedoch bis ins liberale und linke Lager eine Mehrheitsmeinung, die postkoloniale Studien grundsätzlich des Antisemitismus verdächtigte und kritisierte. Der Beitrag zeichnet einige dieser Konflikte in der deutschen Öffentlichkeit nach (um Achille Mbembe, den sogenannten Zweiten Historikerstreit und die Reaktionen auf den 7. Oktober 2023) und entwickelt ein Modell dreier Ansätze (entgrenzter Antisemitismusbegriff, historischer Kontext der BRD, Eurozentrismus), um diese Hegemonie zu erklären.
Translated Abstract
The increasing recognition of postcolonial studies gave rise to a revision-ist countermovement on the conservative side, which went largely unnoticed until 2019. In the course of media conflicts over anti-Semitism in recent years, however, a majority opinion emerged in the liberal and left-wing camps that fundamentally suspected and criticized postcolonial studies as antisemitic. The article traces some of these conflicts in the German public sphere (around Achille Mbembe, the so-called Second Historians’ Controversy and the reactions to October 7, 2023) and develops a model of three approaches (delimited concept of antisemitism, historical context of the FRG, Eurocentrism) to explain this hegemony.
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October 7 2023 attacks + aftermath Post-Colonial Media Main Topic: Antisemitism Antisemitism Conflict
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55(2)
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421–439
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Link to article including link to pdf, Mediale Konflikte um postkoloniale Studien und Antisemitismus in Deutschland
Bibliographic Information
Mediale Konflikte um postkoloniale Studien und Antisemitismus in Deutschland. 2025: 421–439. https://archive.jpr.org.uk/10.32387/prokla.v55i219.2176
