Archive for month: March, 2016

In the german weekly magazine “The time” Judith Butler wrote in 2008 that for her “the radical democracy is the only feasible politic”. In this article not the question of feasibility will be discussed but the question of the theoretical conditions of such a feasibility. Thereto the overlap between Butler’s theory and feminist-marxist conceptualizations will be analysed.

The whole article on feministische-studien.de: http://blog.feministische-studien.de/2016/03/staat-demokratie-und-machbarkeit/

The workaday life in the service center for labour market (AMS) shows a social change. Scientists in Vienna now analysed the situation of the consultants in Austria, Germany and Switzerland. The research showed that the staff are becoming social workers and therapists more and more and that they are working under particular pressure of time in Austria.

The whole article at ORF.at: http://science.orf.at/stories/1766683/

Making gender studies visible at the University of Vienna, bundling them and establishing them as an interdisciplinary subject: These are the primary goals of the research association “gender and the power to act” which exists since 2014 under the direction of the political scientist Birgit Sauer.

Link: http://medienportal.univie.ac.at/uniview/forschung/detailansicht/artikel/geschlecht-und-gesellschaft/

Viennese Political Scientists analysed the argumentation patterns of european right-wing populists: They discovered similarities and differences.

Whole Article at Die Presse.com: http://diepresse.com/home/science/4790604/Europas-rechte-Rechtfertigungen