Transverse Disciplines: Queer-Feminist, Anti-racist, and Decolonial Approaches to the University, edited by Simone Pfleger and Carrie Smith
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Queer-Feminist, Anti-racist, and Decolonial Approaches to the University, reflects on the ways that academic disciplines can be reimagined through transformative collaborations and commitments to decolonial and anti-racist work.The collected essays focus specifically on the future that can be imagined for German studies.This volume asks difficult questions about how the discipline, and academia, might navigate changes necessitated by neoliberal policies, institutional mandates, financial urgencies, and other sociopolitical realities, and push back against other converging crises in our society.The authors answer these questions by focusing on our conceptions of disciplinary boundaries, through the reflection and contemplation of "transverse" orientations that cut across contexts, disrupt linear thinking, and destabilize normative systems embedded within our institutions (14).The selected chapters do this thoughtfully, by demonstrating how transverse thinking has long been nurtured by Black, queer, neurodivergent, and other minoritized scholars and activists.Altogether, this volume provides ways of re-orienting and re-imagining disciplinary fields and their relationships to other disciplines by discussing ways to foreground marginalized voices and center anti-racist, decolonial, queer, and anti-capitalist frameworks in practice (7).While a discourse of crisis frames the volume, these essays are grounded in strategies of care, cooperation, and collaboration, and the shared implicative responsibility to reshape the future of academic work and institutional structures alongside these theoretical and activist frameworks.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".