{"pk":45262,"title":"Gegenwartsbewältigung [Overcoming the Present]","subtitle":null,"abstract":"I’m used to being solicited as a Jewish author. Or as I prefer to call it: a Jew-author. And now I’m already in the thick of things. Because in this text, I’ll be investigating how normalized understandings of belonging and the return of rightwing thought are intertwined. I contend that these understandings are manifest in the demand for integration whose all-but-universal presence is the reason I describe this as an integration paradigm. And I’d like to explain why I believe that \nGegenwartsbewältigung\n [overcoming the present][1] is an appropriate counterstrategy. This text, then, is a kind of assembly kit for the construction of an alternative to the integration paradigm. But it’s up to you, dear reader, to make something out of it.\n \n[1] A play on the much-lauded German (World War 2-related) memory culture of “overcoming / coming to terms with the past” [\nVergangenheitsbewältigung\n].","language":"en","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives  4.0","short_name":"CC BY-NC-ND 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\n\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\n\nNoDerivatives — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.\n\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0"},"keywords":[],"section":"Open Forum","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/82j1524z","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Max","middle_name":"","last_name":"Czollek","name_suffix":"","institution":"","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Jon","middle_name":"","last_name":"Cho-Polizzi","name_suffix":"","institution":"","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2020-03-29T16:29:18Z","date_accepted":"2020-03-29T16:29:18Z","date_published":"2020-03-30T07:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/transit/article/45262/galley/34054/download/"}]}