“I Am Trying to Improve the Care of Women, That Is My Goal.”

Sahra Rausch is a doctoral candidate at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) at Justus Liebig University in Giessen. Sahra graduated in Political Science at the Otto-Suhr-Institute at Freie Universität Berlin. Before, she studied Social Sciences, History, Economy and Jurisprudence in Erfurt, Berlin, Lyon and Ankara. In her PhD project she is focusing on emotions in postcolonial memory politics by integrating a comparative perspective on Germany and France. Her main academic interests are the fields of postcolonial theory, emotion research, gender studies and discourse analysis.