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Shape/Shift: Imagining a Discipline of Care through Mutual Aid.

How can a mutual aid network reshape German studies to challenge structural inequities and difficulties, and to create meaningful communities of care that generate sustainable support? In this contribution we reflect on the work of the Diversity, Decolonization, and the German Curriculum mutual aid...

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Published in:Feminist German Studies Vol. 40; no. 1; pp. 94 - 109
Main Authors: Kost, Kiley, Neuman, Nichole M.
Format: Article
Published: University of Nebraska Press Spring/Summer2024
Subjects:
Mutual aid
Kinship
Self-efficacy
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