Dr. Stefanie Mayer

Junior Researcher/Coordinator at the Public Management at the University FH-Campus Wien

Research Interests

  • Feminist Theory and Politics
  • Critical Research on “Anti-gender” Mobilisation
  • Racism
  • Right-wing Extremism and Populism

Biography

At the moment Stefanie Mayer works as teacher and researcher at the FH Campus Wien/Public Management. She studied political science and a combination of disciplines (contemporary history, women’s studies, communication/media studies) at the University of Vienna. In 2004 she finished her master thesis in the field of politics of history and started to work in a number of research projects in non-university research institutes (i.a. in the fields of historical migration studies and bioethics). From 2009 to 2012 she participated in the post-graduate course “Sociology of Social Practices” at the Sociology Department of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna. Afterwards she spent two years researching right-wing populist online communication as a junior researcher in the EU-funded project “e-Engagement against Violence in Europe” (e-EAV) at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Vienna. From August 2015 until June 2016 she was head of the center for women’s and gender studies at the University of Klagenfurt as maternity leave replacement. She finished her dissertation on “Politics of Differences”, which deals with white feminist activism in Vienna and its engagement with racism and anti-racism, in February 2016. Feminist theories and politics are also the main focus of her teaching. She was affiliated to the project “Gender Ideology”: Mobilization of conservative groups against gender equality and sexual citizenship in Europe. Besides her scientific work she likes to dabble in journalism.

Contact

Dr. Stefanie Mayer
Public Management
FH Campus Wien
Mauerbachstraße 43
A-1140 Wien
Phone: +43-1-606-68-77-3818
Email: stefanie.mayer@fh-campuswien.ac.at

Publications

Selected Publications

  • Politik der Differenzen. Ethnisierung, Rassismen und Antirassismus im weißen feministischen Aktivismus in Wien. Bielefeld (Barbara Budrich), 2018, online: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Stefanie_Mayer/research

  • Pädagogik gegen Rechts: Ein Kampf gegen Windmühlen? Gesellschaftliche Beschränkungen politischer Bildungs- und Präventionsarbeit, in: FIPU (Hg.). Rechtsextremismus. Band 2: Prävention und politische Bildung. Wien (Mandelbaum), 2016 (gem. mit Bernhard Weidinger)
  • Gendering “the people”. Heteronormativity and “ethnomasochism” in populist imaginary, in: Ranieri, Maria (ed.), Populism, Media and Education. Challenging discrimination in contemporary digital societies, London (Routledge), forthcoming 2016 (together with Iztok Šori and Birgit Sauer)
  • Provincialising Feminism. Ein Plädoyer für die Verortung akademischer Theoriebildung in feministischen Aktivismen, in: Bargetz, Brigitte/Fleschenberg, Andrea/Kerner, Ina/Kreide, Regina/Ludwig, Gundula (ed.), Kritik und Widerstand. Feministische Praktiken in androzentrischen Zeiten, Opladen (Barbara Budrich), 2015
  • „Freie Frauen“ gegen den „Genderwahn“. Paradoxe (neue) Allianzen in der (extremen) Rechten, in: Femina Politica, 24(2), 2015 (gem. mit Edma Ajanovic)
  • Bedrohte Räume. Antipluralismus in rechtsextremen bzw. rechtspopulistischen Diskursen in Österreich, in: ÖZP (Österreichische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft), 44(2), 2015 (together with Edma Ajanovic and Birgit Sauer)
  • Natural Enemies – Articulations of Racism in Right-Wing Populism in Austria, in: Časopis za kritiko znanosti, domišljijo in novo antropologijo (Journal for the Critique of Science, Imagination, and New Anthropology), 260, 2015 (together with Edma Ajanovic und Birgit Sauer)
  • Intersections and Inconsistencies. Framing Gender in Right-Wing Populist Discourses in Austria, in: NORA (Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research), 22(4), 2014 (together with Edma Ajanovic and Birgit Sauer)
  • Kritisch, feministisch, akademisch – ein Widerspruch in progress, in: Kurswechsel. Zeitschrift für gesellschafts-, wirtschafts- und umweltpolitische Alternativen, 1, 2013
  • Debating Migration. Political Discourses on Labor Immigration in Historical Perspective, Innsbruck/Wien/Bozen (Studienverlag), 2009 (ed. together with Mikael Spång)
  • “Totes Unrecht”? Die “Beneš-Dekrete” – eine geschichtspolitische Debatte in Österreich, Frankfurt (Peter Lang Verlag), 2009