Macht und Expansion
Wenn ich mit einer persönlichen Erinnerung beginnen darf: 1990 konnte ich als Gast des Instituts für Philosophie der sowjetischen Akademie der Wissenschaften vier Monate in Moskau verb…
Archiv für Mai 2015
Dialektik der Autonomie
Moderne, demokratische und freiheitlich verfasste Gesellschaften sind ohne die Vorstellung, dass Menschen autonom entscheidungsfähig sind, nicht denkbar. Gleichzeitig können wir zivili…
Militanter Antikommunismus
Nur Zeitzeugen und Kennern der frühen Nachkriegsgeschichte wird die „Kampfgruppe gegen Unmenschlichkeit“ (KgU) heute noch etwas sagen. Das war in der Hochzeit des Kalten Krieges…
Chronik des Monats April 2015
1.4. – IStGH. Der Beitritt Palästinas zum Römischen Statut des Internationalen Strafgerichtshofs wird wirksam. Präsident Abbas ermächtigt das Gericht in Den Haag, sämtliche seit Juni 2014 (Beginn des Gazakrieges) begangenen mutmaßlichen Verbrechen auf palästinensischem Gebiet zu untersuchen (vgl.
Trotsky and the Russian Revolution
10.1080/09546545.2015.1037112<br/>Lara Cook
A Trajectory of Globalization
Journal Name: New Global StudiesVolume: 9Issue: 2Pages: 159-165
„Inside“ and „Outside“ of What or Where? Researching Migration Through Multi-Positionalities
Drawing upon my long experience of qualitative migration research, this article uses the concept of „multiple positionalities“, to challenge the fixity of positionality underpinning constructions of „insiders“ versus „outsiders“ in the research process. While „insider“ status is usually associated with shared ethnicity/ nationality, migration studies have been urged to go beyond the ethnic lens (AMELINA & FAIST, 2012; GLICK SCHILLER & CAGLAR, 2009). I argue that migrants cannot be neatly contained within fixed „insider“ ethnic categories; instead it is more illuminating to consider how identities are re-constructed through migration. In this contribution I use moments from a range of research studies with migrant women in London. In comparing and contrasting my encounters with these migrants, who come from Ireland and Poland, I critically reflect upon how empathy and rapport were negotiated through dynamic rhythms of positionalities—gender, age, professional and parental status and migratory experience, as well as nationality. In so doing, I consider the challenges but also the opportunities of researching within as well as across migrant populations and how this may inform an attempt to go beyond the ethnic lens.
„We Don’t See Things as They Are, We See Things as We Are“: Questioning the „Outsider“ in Polish Migration Research
This article offers a reflexive account of conducting research on Polish migration to Scotland from the perspective of the „outsider.“ The contribution argues for a revision to the insider/outsider dichotomy viewing it as inadequately nuanced in relati…
Researching Coethnic Migrants: Privileges and Puzzles of „Insiderness“
This article reflects on fieldwork experiences with coethnic migrants in London to challenge understandings of insiderness centred in shared ethnicity, as well as the usefulness of the insider-outsider divide in migration research more generally. Drawing on examples from a study of migrants‘ social relations, it shows how gender, migrant status, and occupational position sometimes shape research encounters in more important ways than shared ethnicity. Furthermore, whilst shared ethnicity is undoubtedly useful in certain respects, participants‘ ethnicised discourses and practices may also generate feelings of distance in the coethnic researcher. Whilst supporting the „ethnic bias“ critique to migration studies (GLICK SCHILLER, ÇAĞLAR & GULDBRANDSEN, 2006), the analysis thus highlights how both ethnic and non-ethnic factors alternate or interact to create perceptions of insiderness or outsiderness in specific research contexts
„Talk to Her, She is also Chinese“: A Reflection on the Spatial-Temporal Reach of Co-Ethnicity in Migration Research
This article rejects the insider/outsider dichotomy as a framework for understanding researcher-researched relationship. It complicates the over-simplified, bounded and binary construct by underlining how insiderness-outsiderness is dynamic and multipl…