Antke Engel

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Antke Engel (born September 21, 1965 in Hamburg ) is a German philosopher and publicist. Together with Sabine Hark, she is one of the pioneers of butler reception in Germany, teaches as a visiting professor for queer studies at various universities and is the founder and director of the Institute for Queer Theory in Berlin.

Career

Antke Engel studied philosophy, education and geography in Bielefeld and Hamburg. In 1995 she obtained her Magistra Artium in Philosophy at the University of Hamburg with the thesis “Farewell to Binarity? The Gender Category in the Feminist-Philosophical Discourse ”. In 2001 she received her doctorate in philosophy at the University of Potsdam with a queer theoretical thesis, which was published under the title “Against Uniqueness”. As a visiting professor, she taught at the Universities of Hamburg (2003/04 and 2005), Vienna (2011), the Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin (2015) and the TU Darmstadt (2018/2019). From 2007–2009 she was a Research Fellow at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry (ICI) Berlin, which resulted in the publication of her second monograph "Images of Sexuality and Economy" (2009). She held further fellowships in 1995 at the Institute for Human Sciences , in 2018 at the London School of Economics and in 2018/2019 as an Asa Briggs Visiting Fellow at the University of Sussex .

In 2006, Engel founded the Institute for Queer Theory (iQt), which she has headed ever since. Opened in Hamburg in the Prinzenbar des Docks and launched with lectures by Lisa Duggan and Judith Butler , it is now located on the site of the former Berlin Kindl brewery in Neukölln in the immediate vicinity of the Schwuz . As the head of the iQt, Engel designs and organizes events that are oriented towards a "queer politics of representation". It promotes international scientific exchange through lecture series and conferences, with experimentation with event formats and the participatory involvement of visitors playing an important role. Together with Jess Dorrance, she organized the project “Bossing Images: The Power of Images, Queer Art and Politics”, launched by the New Society for Fine Arts between 2012 and 2016 .

Antke Engel is on the scientific advisory board of Femina Politica , the IPAK Research Center for Cultures, Politics and Identities in Belgrade, an associate member of the Center for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin and a member of the College of Expert Reviewers of the European Science Foundation . From 2010 to 2012 she was on the founding board of the Gender Studies Society .

Journalistic activities

From 1990 to 1997 Engel was co-editor, editor and author of the Hamburger Frauenzeitung , an independent feminist magazine that is now archived in the Digital German Women's Archive. As a queer theorist, she co-edited two monographs and various anthologies, including the volume "Queering Demokratie" (2000), which documents the first international queer conference in Germany, which was organized by the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Berlin in 1998 and was co-organized by Engel. With the volumes "Hegemony and Heteronormativity" and "Global Justice and Desire" she contributed as editor to the international debate on queer studies .

Engel has a basic essay on the terms gender and sexuality in the introductory volume " Poststructuralist Social Science" published by Stephan Moebius and Andreas Reckwitz , as well as a treatise on queer methods in the multiple-edition volume "Dis / Continuities" edited by Sabine Hark . Feminist Theory ”published.

In addition, Engel has published numerous scientific articles, including in peer-reviewed journals such as Feministische Studien , Femina Politica , NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, Qualitative Inquiry, where in 2018 her queer-theoretical method of a "committed ecphrasis" was introduced into the international discussion on qualitative social research has been introduced, as well as essays on art theory, including in Kunstforum International , FKW - magazine for gender research and visual culture and in the e-flux Journal.

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Engel coined the term “strategy of ambiguity” to distinguish queer political approaches from identity or minority political strategies. Her approach focuses on the criticism of identity politics and the normalizations, hierarchizations and exclusion processes that go with them. In this way, it differs from approaches that understand queer as the short form of LGBTTIA and understand politics that aim at visibility and recognition. According to Engel, queer politics is characterized by questioning and undermining the stability and uniqueness of identity categories, norms and prevailing power constellations. Engel formulates that it is not a question of either duplicating or dissolving the gender category, but rather making the clear distinction between two genders and unambiguous gender assignments generally questionable.

Engel advocates an understanding of the queer theory as a critique of power and domination, which aims to reduce all inequality, exploitation and dominance relationships. She connects the critical examination of gender, sexuality and desire as dimensions of social norms and inequality with the concern of promoting an understanding of comprehensive justice and non-hierarchical forms of difference .

Engel's scientific work is characterized by the fact that she systematically combines social and cultural science approaches in her philosophical thinking. She works on post-structuralist philosophy, representation criticism and political theory ( Judith Butler , Gilles Deleuze / Félix Guattari , Jacques Derrida , Michel Foucault , Ernesto Laclau / Chantal Mouffe , Teresa de Lauretis ). Against the background of the picture readings in “Pictures of Sexuality and Economy”, she developed a method of discourse analysis of visual material, which she describes as “committed ecphrasis ”. It is based on analyzing interwoven dynamics of power and desire that unfold in dealing with artistic works and visual material.

“Ekphrasis, that is, the precise description of an image using language, produces reproductions of the image, which opens up access and resistance on the part of the visual material and the viewer [sic]. Desire moves in the space and uses images as a means of transport. "

- Daphne - Lesben Kunst Salon : Announcement of a workshop with Antke Engel in the Schwules Museum , Berlin 2018

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • Against the unambiguity. Sexuality and gender in the focus of queer politics of representation , Campus, Frankfurt / M 2002, ISBN 978-3-593-37117-7 .
  • Images of sexuality and economics. Queer cultural politics in neoliberalism , transcript, Bielefeld 2009, ISBN 978-3-89942-915-2 . ( Review )

Anthologies

Trade journal

Essays

  • Gender and sexuality. Beyond bisexuality and heteronormativity , in: Moebius, Stephan / Reckwitz, Andreas (Ed.): Poststructuralist Social Science , Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt / M 2008, pp. 330-346, ISBN 978-3-518-29469-7 .
  • Decisive interventions in undecidability. From queer identity criticism to misunderstanding as a method , in: Harders, Cilia / Kahlert, Heike / Schindler, Delia (eds.): Forschungsfeld Politik , VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2005, pp. 261-282; Reprint in: Hark, Sabine (Ed.): Dis / Continuities. Feminist theory , VS Verlag, Wiesbaden, 2nd revised edition, 2007, pp. 285-304, ISBN 978-3-531-15217-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eva von Redecker: On the topicality of Judith Butler. Introduction to their work . Springer-Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-531-16433-5 , pp. 146 .
  2. ^ German Think Tanks - Research and Science in Germany - Gender - Goethe-Institut. Retrieved December 25, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Yumpu.com: Farewell to binary? The gender category ... - Antke Engel. Retrieved December 25, 2018 .
  4. ↑ a b Engel, Antke: Against the unambiguity. Sexuality and gender in the focus of queer politics of representation . Campus, Frankfurt am Main and New York 2002, ISBN 978-3-593-37117-7 , pp. 255 .
  5. ^ Dutch Art Institute: Antke Engel. Accessed December 25, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Dr. phil. Antke Engel - Brief portraits website TU Darmstadt. Retrieved December 16, 2018.
  7. ^ Antke Engel - Visiting Fellow Website Institute for Cultural Inquiry ICI Berlin. Retrieved December 16, 2018.
  8. ↑ Anja Schwarz, Kateřina Kolářová: Review of: Antke Engel: Images of sexuality and economy. Queer cultural politics in neoliberalism. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag 2009. In: querelles-net . tape 10 , no. 3 , October 23, 2009, ISSN  1862-054X ( querelles-net.de [accessed December 25, 2018]).
  9. ^ Antke Engel: Images of sexuality and economy. Queer cultural politics in neoliberalism . Transcript, Bielefeld 2009, ISBN 978-3-89942-915-2 , p. 258 .
  10. ^ London School of Economics and Political Science: Antke Engel. Retrieved December 19, 2018 (UK English).
  11. ^ Antke Engel - Caring for Conflict. Retrieved December 25, 2018 (German).
  12. ^ Antke Engel, Tanja Paulitz: Queer Studies. Power analysis, criticism of power and pleasure in irritation . In: Department 2 of the TU Darmstadt (Ed.): FB2.aktuell . tape 4 , no. 2 . Darmstadt 2018, p. 7-9 .
  13. ↑ Bossing Images project blog . Retrieved December 16, 2018.
  14. ↑ María do Mar Castro Varela, Nikita Dhawan, Antke Engel (eds.): Hegemony and Heteronormativity: Revisiting 'The Political' in Queer Politics . Routledge, London and New York 2011, ISBN 978-1-138-27041-1 , pp. 224 .
  15. ↑ Nikita Dhawan, Antke Engel, Christoph Holzhey, Volker Woltersdorff (eds.): Global Justice and Desire: Queering Economy . Routledge, London and New York 2015, ISBN 978-1-138-24182-4 , pp. 218 .
  16. ↑ Antke Engel: Gender and Sexuality. Beyond bisexuality and heteronormativity . In: Stephan Moebius, Andreas Reckwitz (Hrsg.): Poststructuralist social science . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-518-29469-7 , pp. 330-346 .
  17. ↑ Antke Engel: Decisive interventions in undecidability. From queer identity criticism to disambiguation as a method . In: Sabine Hark (Ed.): Dis / Continuities: Feminist Theory . 2nd Edition. VS, Wiesbaden 2007, ISBN 978-3-531-15217-2 , pp. 285-304 .
  18. ^ A b Antke Engel: Queer Reading as Power Play: Methodological Considerations on Discourse Analysis of Visual Material . In: Boris Traue, Mathias Blanc, Carolina Cambre (eds.): Qualitative Inquiry . Sage, 2018, doi : 10.1177 / 1077800418789454 .
  19. ↑ Kirstin Mertlitsch: Sisters - Cyborgs - Drags: Thinking in terms of gender studies . transcript Verlag, 2016, ISBN 3-8394-3349-5 .
  20. ↑ Antke Engel: Desire for complexity. Equality, Anti-Discrimination and the Queerversity Strategy . In: Feminist Studies . No. 1 . Lucius & Lucius, Stuttgart 2013, p. 39-45 .
  21. ↑ Dr. Antke Engel - Institute for Queer Theory. Retrieved December 25, 2018 .
  22. ^ Daphne - Lesbian Art Salon: Antke Engel (workshop) - SMU. Retrieved December 25, 2018 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Engel, Antke
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg