Migrations: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
In contemporary Europe and beyond, the concept of migration has acquired multiple distinct meanings. The range of reactions to migrants depends on the country of origin, their symbolic capital (education, professional background, language skills) as well as on aspects of gender, religion, cultural tradition, and social class. Various legal regulations on citizenship and employment are currently being debated and implemented across Europe, fuelled by a politics of fear propagated by mainstream and populist parties alike. Counter-discourses are rare and limited. This volume incorporates contributions from the international symposium Migrations:…
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Weitere Autoren: Schroeder, Renee (Hrsg.) / Wodak, Ruth (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-3-7091-0949-6
- EAN: 9783709109496
- Produktnummer: 12240926
- Verlag: Springer-Verlag Kg
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 358 S.
- Masse: H24.1 cm x B16.0 cm x D2.5 cm 735 g
- Auflage: 2012
- Abbildungen: 15 schwarz-weiße und 18 farbige Abbildungen, 1 schwarz-weiße Tabellen
- Gewicht: 735
Über den Autor
Michi Messer studied Psychology and Applied Linguistics at the University of Vienna. Currently s/he is working on a thesis about the discursive construction of sex- and gender differences in science by analysing biology textbooks within the framework of critical discourse analysis. Besides CDA and social studies of science, s/he is especially interested in feminist and queer theories and politics, focusing on non-conforming bodies, transgressing genders and deviant desires. Since 2009, Michi works for IDee, the Forum for Interdisciplinary Dialogue, at the University of Vienna. Together with Ruth Wodak and Renée Schroeder s/he organized the symposium Migrations: Interdisciplinary Perspectives in 2010, at the University of Vienna. Renée Schroeder is the Head of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Cellbiology at the Max F. Perutz Laboratories, University of Vienna in Austria. She was born in Joao Monlevade, Brazil in 1953 and migrated to Austria in 1967. After studying biochemistry at the University of Vienna, she received a PhD in 1981 and spent several years as a post-doc at the Munich University in Germany, at the CNRS in Gif sur Yvette in France and at the New York State Department of Heath at Albany, New York. Since 1989, Renée Schroeder is a group leader and her research is centered around the function and structure of non-coding RNAs. She was a member of the Austrian Bioethics commission (2001 - 2005), the Austrian Delegate at EMBO (1998 - 2004) and Vice President of the Austrian Science Fund FWF (2005 - 2010). Currently, Renée Schroeder is the Editor in chief of RNA Biology. She received the Wittgenstein award in 2003 and the Eduard Buchner award in 2011. She is an elected member of EMBO and of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.Ruth Wodak is Distinguished Professor of Discourse Studies at Lancaster University since 2004 and has remained affiliated to the University of Vienna where she became full professor of Applied Linguistics 1991. Besides various other prizes, she was awarded the Wittgenstein Prize for Elite Researchers in 1996. 2008, she was awarded the Kerstin Hesselgren Chair of the Swedish Parliament and an honorary doctorate 2010 (university Örebro). Her research interests focus on discourse studies, gender studies, language and/in politics, prejudice and discrimination, and on ethnographic methods of linguistic field work. She is co-editor of the journals Discourse and Society, Critical Discourse studies, and Language and Politics, and of the book series Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture (DAPSAC). Recent books include Ist Österreich ein 'deutsches' Land? (with R. de Cillia, 2006); Migration, Identity and Belonging (with G. Delanty, P. Jones, 2008), The Discursive Construction of History. Remembering the Wehrmacht's War of Annihilation (with H. Heer, W. Manoschek, A. Pollak, 2008), The Politics of Exclusion (with M. Krzyzanowski, 2009), Gedenken im Gedankenjahr (with R. de Cillia, 2009) and The construction of politics in action: 'Politics as Usual' (Palgrave, 2009), revised edition (2011). For a list of publications, recent articles, resources for discourse studies and other information, see http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/profiles/265.
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