Archiv für das Jahr: 2022

Ein neuer Artikel von Prof. Dr. Birgit Sauer, in Zusammenarbeit mit Daniel Thiele und Otto Penz ist erschienen.

ABSTRACT
In the aftermath of the ‘summer of migration’ of 2015, right-wing populist discourses became increasingly commonplace. This article by Thiele, Sauer and Penz investigates the resurgence of nativist and anti-migration attitudes in Austria by focusing on parliamentary debates between 2015 and 2019 concerned with migration, asylum policies and integration measures. Their theoretical approach builds first on Cas Mudde’s conception of right-wing populism—which proceeds from the premise of corrupt ‘elites’ and threatening Others—and then combines it with theories on the politics of emotion and affects. By employing a critical affective frame analysis, the study examines how right-wing populist arguments by political actors are always intertwined with affects, like anger, fear and hope, in order to mobilize followers and voters. They regard these connections as governing strategy aiming at right-wing exclusion, a mode of governing through affects, which tends to change the affective atmosphere in Austria, that is, what is conceivable, speakable and feelable with regard to migration and refugees. As it turns out, not only the notorious Freedom Party (FPÖ) (with a longstanding far-right tradition) but also the refurbished People’s Party (ÖVP) under their new leader Sebastian Kurz, draw on discourses that are exclusionary as well as affective, encouraging the Austrian population rather to fear migrants and to feel anger, in order to mobilize them against threatening ‘migration waves’ and ‘illegal immigration’.

Link: Full article: Right-wing populist affective governing: a frame analysis of Austrian parliamentary debates on migration (tandfonline.com)

Femizide als solche erkennen, benennen und einordnen – das war die Idee einer EU-weiten Studie des Instituts für Gender Equality. Denn eine bessere Definition verbessert die Datenlage und in weiterer Folge auch den Kampf gegen Femizide, erklärt Politikwissenschafterin Birgit Sauer.

Der ganze Artikel kann unter folgendem Link abgerufen werden:
https://rudolphina.univie.ac.at/femizide-erfassen-und-einordnen

The Video clip „How right-wing politics are made acceptable in Europe today“ of the project CuRe is now available under the following link
http://www.culturesofrejection.net/

Further information on the project:
CULTURES OF REJECTION
Conditions of acceptability in socio-spatial and digital environments
CuRe brings together five research teams from Austria, Croatia, Germany, Serbia and Sweden. Its goal is to better understand the shift in everyday life towards polarization and radicalization that has occurred in recent years, and the successes of right-wing movements and parties in Europe. Our research starts from the premise that cultures of rejection emerge as the result of crises in Europe’s democracies, as well as due to changes in national institutions and civil society. Since rejection is a threat to all forms of social cohesion and peaceful coexistence, the project seeks to study the conditions that have led to the rejection of, among else, immigration, political elites, media and cultural values such as gender equality and sexual liberty.
via: http://www.culturesofrejection.net/about

In this video, the researchers from the Univeristy of Vienna share their experiences in the MiCREATE project, and the work they have carried out in schools.

Migrant Children and Communities in a Transforming Europe
The overall objective of the project is to stimulate inclusion of diverse groups of migrant children by adopting child-centered approach to migrant children integration on educational and policy level. Stemming from the need to revisit the existing integration policies, the research project aims at comprehensive examination of contemporary integration processes of migrant children in order empower them. The project is problem-driven and exploratory at the same time. Its exploratory part mainly concerns child-centered approach to understanding integration challenges, migrant needs and their well-being. However, the findings of the open-ended exploratory research will be used in an explicitly problem-driven way – with an aim to stimulate migrant inclusion, to empower migrants and build their skills already within the (participatory) research.

Find more information about the project at http://micreate.eu