Ulrike M Vieten
Biographic Data
| ID | 150900 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ulrike M Vieten |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ulrike M |
| FAMILY NAME | Vieten |
| SIGNATURE | VIETEN U M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen's University Belfast |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6397-0528 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 106 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Toxic Gender Essentialism: Normalising Far-Right Orientations in Gender, Sexuality, and Race Relations’
This is the introduction to a special section we co-edited
Shifts, Changes and Missed Opportunities? Reflection on the 2016 Special Issue Contemporary Far Right Racist Populism in Europe
In 2026, the racist far right is no longer on the rise but is itself an established political power formation in countries across the world: Donald Trump defeated the Democratic candidate, Kamala H
The Far-Right, Gender In/Equalities and Liberal Feminism: Scrutinising EU Narratives of Gender Equality in Italy, France and Germany
The paper focuses on the question of what ‘gender equality’ means in the European context and how EU policies on gender equality might impact the success of female leadership with respect to far-right parties in Italy, France and Germany, appealing increasingly to some (white) sections of the female electorate in their countries. Female Far-Right party leadership illustrates a paradox between an individual image of liberal modern ‘gender equality…
Decolonising refugee integration paradigms: Visions for a new politics of inclusion and participation in Europe and beyond
Raising concerns on the dangers of linking biological invasions to human migration
Did someone say European Parliament elections? Quo Vadis Europe
Did someone say European Parliament elections?Quo Vadis Europe?Have you heard the one that the European Parliament elections were held on 6 to 9 June 2024, and none of the citizens of the 27 EU Member States bothered to come and vote?Writing this editorial in Marchone week before the Christian festival of Easterand with only three months to go, it is remarkable that we hardly see any political statements of European parties or hear about the poli…
Accomplices to Social Exclusion? Analyzing Institutional Processes of Silencing
The editorial notes contextualize the theme of “silencing” and processes of un‐silencing before briefly outlining the central arguments of the different contributions assembled in this thematic issue
Post-pandemic journeys into the unknown: Challenging autocracy
At the end of June 2023, the International Sociological Association (ISA) stages its World Congress of Sociology in Melbourne, Australia.The rise of the global far right, in Europe and beyond, got traction post-2008 financial crisis.It seems the urgency to counter the global threat by far-right populism and regional forms of authoritarianism has finally reached mainstream sociology: the 2023 ISA Congress theme is 'Resurgent Authoritarianism'.With…
Devout, profane and hard’, – chasing integration policy in Northern Ireland
This paper considers the experience of asylum seekers and refugees in Northern Ireland against the background of different periods of non-governance, arguing that consociationalism is hindering the implementation of an integration strategy.Northern Ireland is one of the only regions in the UK without a dedicated refugee integration strategy, in spite of one existing in draft form.As a devolved region, it sits outside the UK policy of asylum dispe…
Fear and uncertainty in late modern society
Remembering catastrophe through listening to the ‘Death fugue’
Insular or multi-level anti-Covid-19 strategies, national lenses, and the question of mobility
We are writing late summer 2021. We are more than a year into daily reports of mass loss of life due to the SARS-Covid 19 virus (across the globe), everyday experiences of lockdown and crackdown (p
Power as a cultural phenomenon
Structures of political power, as well as power differentials and social inequality, are reproduced by means of culture, symbols, ideologies, and imaginaries. The material bases of power, including
Cultural and political sociology for the new decade
The many flavours of politics
Politics is a slippery research object – for sociologists, at least. Sometimes we envy the relatively easier life of the political scientist: to observe elections, parliamentary deliberations, or p
Thinking and writing in the time of pandemic Covid-19
When we presented the early 2020 issue of the European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology, no one comprehended what the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, in Wuhan province, Chin
The "New Normal" and "Pandemic Populism: The Covid-19 Crisis and Anti-Hygienic Mobilisation of the Far-Right
The paper is meant as a timely intervention into current debates on the impact of the global pandemic on the rise of global far-right populism and contributes to scholarly thinking about the normalisation of the global far-right. While approaching the tension between national political elites and (far-right) populist narratives of representing "the people", the paper focuses on the populist effects of the "new normal" in spatial national governan…
The Imagination of the Other in a (Post-)Sectarian Society: Asylum Seekers and Refugees in the Divided City of Belfast
This article explores the ways a salient sectarian community division in Northern Ireland frames the imagination of newcomers and the experiences of asylum seekers and refugees. We examine the dominant ethno-national Christian communities and how their actions define the social-spatial landscape and challenges of manoeuvring everyday life in Northern Ireland as an ‘Other’. We argue all newcomers are impacted to some degree by sectarianism in Nort…
Europe is for being recognized for more than an ethnic background: Middle class British, Dutch and German minority citizens’ perspectives on EU citizenship and belonging to Europe
The paper pinpoints some crucial themes of European belonging arising in the narratives of minority key activists with various hyphened legal national citi-zenship status, e.g. South Asian Brits, Moroccan-Dutch and Turkish/ Kurd-ish-Germans. The interviews capture how visible minorities’ perspectives on European belonging are influenced by structural racism, but also by national-ly specific discourses of symbolic inclusion or exclusion of ethnic …
Cartographies of Differences: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
This volume investigates the process of learning how to live with individual and group differences in the twenty-first century and examines the ambivalences of contemporary cosmopolitanism. Engaging with the concept of ?critical cartography?, it emphasizes the structural impact of localities on the experiences of those living with difference, while trying to develop an account of the counter-mappings that follow spatial and social transformations…
Contemporary Far-Right Racist Populism in Europe
A spectre is haunting Europe. Not for the first time, right-wing racist movements are on the march across that continent, with parliamentary beachheads in a number of nations, as well, of course, a
Far Right Populism and Women: The Normalisation of Gendered Anti-Muslim Racism and Gendered Culturalism in the Netherlands
The paper approaches the rise of far right populism in Europe with a feminist lens and on the background of the discursively constructed sexist and racist features of the current moral panic. It is argued that we can follow up a continuum of normalised culturalist gendered discourses in Europe, and for some time, in the Netherlands in particular. The paper is organised by looking, first, at the place of gender in far right discourses and the role…
European urban spaces in crisis: The mapping of affective practices with living with difference : introduction
The notion of crisis seems very much overloaded these days; the financial crisis in Europe post-2008 and ongoing social–political uprisings in different countries capture moments of ‘moral-panic cy
Revisiting Iris Marion Young on Normalisation, Inclusion and Democracy
Revisiting Iris Marion Young on Normalisation, Inclusion and Democracy presents an innovative collection of politically and theoretically inspiring papers by feminist, queer and postcolonial writers.
Female narratives of ‘new’ citizens’ belonging(s) and identities in Europe: Case studies from the Netherlands and Britain
Public discourses on citizenship, identity and nationality, which link geographical borders and the political boundaries of a community, are infused with tensions and contradictions. This paper illustrates how these tensions are interwoven with multilayered notions of home, belonging, migration, citizenship and individual's 'longing just to be', focusing on the Dutch and the British context. The narratives of a number of Dutch and British women, …
The "New Normal" and "Pandemic Populism: The Covid-19 Crisis and Anti-Hygienic Mobilisation of the Far-Right
The paper is meant as a timely intervention into current debates on the impact of the global pandemic on the rise of global far-right populism and contributes to scholarly thinking about the normalisation of the global far-right. While approaching the tension between national political elites and (far-right) populist narratives of representing "the people", the paper focuses on the populist effects of the "new normal" in spatial national governan…
Contemporary Far-Right Racist Populism in Europe
A spectre is haunting Europe. Not for the first time, right-wing racist movements are on the march across that continent, with parliamentary beachheads in a number of nations, as well, of course, a
The Imagination of the Other in a (Post-)Sectarian Society: Asylum Seekers and Refugees in the Divided City of Belfast
This article explores the ways a salient sectarian community division in Northern Ireland frames the imagination of newcomers and the experiences of asylum seekers and refugees. We examine the dominant ethno-national Christian communities and how their actions define the social-spatial landscape and challenges of manoeuvring everyday life in Northern Ireland as an ‘Other’. We argue all newcomers are impacted to some degree by sectarianism in Nort…
Female narratives of ‘new’ citizens’ belonging(s) and identities in Europe: Case studies from the Netherlands and Britain
Public discourses on citizenship, identity and nationality, which link geographical borders and the political boundaries of a community, are infused with tensions and contradictions. This paper illustrates how these tensions are interwoven with multilayered notions of home, belonging, migration, citizenship and individual's 'longing just to be', focusing on the Dutch and the British context. The narratives of a number of Dutch and British women, …
Far Right Populism and Women: The Normalisation of Gendered Anti-Muslim Racism and Gendered Culturalism in the Netherlands
The paper approaches the rise of far right populism in Europe with a feminist lens and on the background of the discursively constructed sexist and racist features of the current moral panic. It is argued that we can follow up a continuum of normalised culturalist gendered discourses in Europe, and for some time, in the Netherlands in particular. The paper is organised by looking, first, at the place of gender in far right discourses and the role…
Decolonising refugee integration paradigms: Visions for a new politics of inclusion and participation in Europe and beyond
Out in the blue of Europe’: Modernist cosmopolitan identity and the deterritorialization of belonging
Vieten attempts to intervene in the ongoing ideological attempt to present a particular (modernist) European culture as a founding myth for a European Union identity. Taking the recent debate on transnationalism as a point of departure, she uses some aspects of the life story of the Austrian British writer Hilde Spiel as a case study to discuss deterritorialized belonging, the impact of insecure citizenship and the meaning of a particular cosmopo…
Fear and uncertainty in late modern society
Devout, profane and hard’, – chasing integration policy in Northern Ireland
This paper considers the experience of asylum seekers and refugees in Northern Ireland against the background of different periods of non-governance, arguing that consociationalism is hindering the implementation of an integration strategy.Northern Ireland is one of the only regions in the UK without a dedicated refugee integration strategy, in spite of one existing in draft form.As a devolved region, it sits outside the UK policy of asylum dispe…
European urban spaces in crisis: The mapping of affective practices with living with difference : introduction
The notion of crisis seems very much overloaded these days; the financial crisis in Europe post-2008 and ongoing social–political uprisings in different countries capture moments of ‘moral-panic cy
Did someone say European Parliament elections? Quo Vadis Europe
Did someone say European Parliament elections?Quo Vadis Europe?Have you heard the one that the European Parliament elections were held on 6 to 9 June 2024, and none of the citizens of the 27 EU Member States bothered to come and vote?Writing this editorial in Marchone week before the Christian festival of Easterand with only three months to go, it is remarkable that we hardly see any political statements of European parties or hear about the poli…
Thinking and writing in the time of pandemic Covid-19
When we presented the early 2020 issue of the European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology, no one comprehended what the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, in Wuhan province, Chin
Europe is for being recognized for more than an ethnic background: Middle class British, Dutch and German minority citizens’ perspectives on EU citizenship and belonging to Europe
The paper pinpoints some crucial themes of European belonging arising in the narratives of minority key activists with various hyphened legal national citi-zenship status, e.g. South Asian Brits, Moroccan-Dutch and Turkish/ Kurd-ish-Germans. The interviews capture how visible minorities’ perspectives on European belonging are influenced by structural racism, but also by national-ly specific discourses of symbolic inclusion or exclusion of ethnic …
The Situated Politics of Belonging
Introduction - Nira Yuval-Davis, Kalpana Kannabiran and Ulrike M Vieten PART ONE MULTICULTURALISM, COSMOPOLITANISM AND CONTEMPORARY POLITICS OF BELONGING Belongings in a Globalising and Unequal World - Floya Anthias Rethinking Translocations Culture, Identity and Rights - Gurminder K Bhambra Challenging Contemporary Discourses of Belonging Domestic Cosmopolitanism and Structures of Feeling - Mica Nava The Specifity of London A Cartography of Resi…
Out in the blue of Europe’: Modernist cosmopolitan identity and the deterritorialization of belonging
Vieten attempts to intervene in the ongoing ideological attempt to present a particular (modernist) European culture as a founding myth for a European Union identity. Taking the recent debate on transnationalism as a point of departure, she uses some aspects of the life story of the Austrian British writer Hilde Spiel as a case study to discuss deterritorialized belonging, the impact of insecure citizenship and the meaning of a particular cosmopo…
Hanna Behrend: Socialist Intellectual
Female narratives of ‘new’ citizens’ belonging(s) and identities in Europe: Case studies from the Netherlands and Britain
Public discourses on citizenship, identity and nationality, which link geographical borders and the political boundaries of a community, are infused with tensions and contradictions. This paper illustrates how these tensions are interwoven with multilayered notions of home, belonging, migration, citizenship and individual's 'longing just to be', focusing on the Dutch and the British context. The narratives of a number of Dutch and British women, …
Sensed victims - Illusions of a coming to terms with the past
Revisiting Iris Marion Young on Normalisation, Inclusion and Democracy
Revisiting Iris Marion Young on Normalisation, Inclusion and Democracy presents an innovative collection of politically and theoretically inspiring papers by feminist, queer and postcolonial writers.
European urban spaces in crisis: The mapping of affective practices with living with difference : introduction
The notion of crisis seems very much overloaded these days; the financial crisis in Europe post-2008 and ongoing social–political uprisings in different countries capture moments of ‘moral-panic cy
Cartographies of Differences: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
This volume investigates the process of learning how to live with individual and group differences in the twenty-first century and examines the ambivalences of contemporary cosmopolitanism. Engaging with the concept of ?critical cartography?, it emphasizes the structural impact of localities on the experiences of those living with difference, while trying to develop an account of the counter-mappings that follow spatial and social transformations…
Contemporary Far-Right Racist Populism in Europe
A spectre is haunting Europe. Not for the first time, right-wing racist movements are on the march across that continent, with parliamentary beachheads in a number of nations, as well, of course, a
Far Right Populism and Women: The Normalisation of Gendered Anti-Muslim Racism and Gendered Culturalism in the Netherlands
The paper approaches the rise of far right populism in Europe with a feminist lens and on the background of the discursively constructed sexist and racist features of the current moral panic. It is argued that we can follow up a continuum of normalised culturalist gendered discourses in Europe, and for some time, in the Netherlands in particular. The paper is organised by looking, first, at the place of gender in far right discourses and the role…
Europe is for being recognized for more than an ethnic background: Middle class British, Dutch and German minority citizens’ perspectives on EU citizenship and belonging to Europe
The paper pinpoints some crucial themes of European belonging arising in the narratives of minority key activists with various hyphened legal national citi-zenship status, e.g. South Asian Brits, Moroccan-Dutch and Turkish/ Kurd-ish-Germans. The interviews capture how visible minorities’ perspectives on European belonging are influenced by structural racism, but also by national-ly specific discourses of symbolic inclusion or exclusion of ethnic …
The Imagination of the Other in a (Post-)Sectarian Society: Asylum Seekers and Refugees in the Divided City of Belfast
This article explores the ways a salient sectarian community division in Northern Ireland frames the imagination of newcomers and the experiences of asylum seekers and refugees. We examine the dominant ethno-national Christian communities and how their actions define the social-spatial landscape and challenges of manoeuvring everyday life in Northern Ireland as an ‘Other’. We argue all newcomers are impacted to some degree by sectarianism in Nort…
Cultural and political sociology for the new decade
The many flavours of politics
Politics is a slippery research object – for sociologists, at least. Sometimes we envy the relatively easier life of the political scientist: to observe elections, parliamentary deliberations, or p
Thinking and writing in the time of pandemic Covid-19
When we presented the early 2020 issue of the European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology, no one comprehended what the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, in Wuhan province, Chin
The "New Normal" and "Pandemic Populism: The Covid-19 Crisis and Anti-Hygienic Mobilisation of the Far-Right
The paper is meant as a timely intervention into current debates on the impact of the global pandemic on the rise of global far-right populism and contributes to scholarly thinking about the normalisation of the global far-right. While approaching the tension between national political elites and (far-right) populist narratives of representing "the people", the paper focuses on the populist effects of the "new normal" in spatial national governan…
Insular or multi-level anti-Covid-19 strategies, national lenses, and the question of mobility
We are writing late summer 2021. We are more than a year into daily reports of mass loss of life due to the SARS-Covid 19 virus (across the globe), everyday experiences of lockdown and crackdown (p
Power as a cultural phenomenon
Structures of political power, as well as power differentials and social inequality, are reproduced by means of culture, symbols, ideologies, and imaginaries. The material bases of power, including
Fear and uncertainty in late modern society
Remembering catastrophe through listening to the ‘Death fugue’
Post-pandemic journeys into the unknown: Challenging autocracy
At the end of June 2023, the International Sociological Association (ISA) stages its World Congress of Sociology in Melbourne, Australia.The rise of the global far right, in Europe and beyond, got traction post-2008 financial crisis.It seems the urgency to counter the global threat by far-right populism and regional forms of authoritarianism has finally reached mainstream sociology: the 2023 ISA Congress theme is 'Resurgent Authoritarianism'.With…
Devout, profane and hard’, – chasing integration policy in Northern Ireland
This paper considers the experience of asylum seekers and refugees in Northern Ireland against the background of different periods of non-governance, arguing that consociationalism is hindering the implementation of an integration strategy.Northern Ireland is one of the only regions in the UK without a dedicated refugee integration strategy, in spite of one existing in draft form.As a devolved region, it sits outside the UK policy of asylum dispe…
Did someone say European Parliament elections? Quo Vadis Europe
Did someone say European Parliament elections?Quo Vadis Europe?Have you heard the one that the European Parliament elections were held on 6 to 9 June 2024, and none of the citizens of the 27 EU Member States bothered to come and vote?Writing this editorial in Marchone week before the Christian festival of Easterand with only three months to go, it is remarkable that we hardly see any political statements of European parties or hear about the poli…
Accomplices to Social Exclusion? Analyzing Institutional Processes of Silencing
The editorial notes contextualize the theme of “silencing” and processes of un‐silencing before briefly outlining the central arguments of the different contributions assembled in this thematic issue
Shifts, Changes and Missed Opportunities? Reflection on the 2016 Special Issue Contemporary Far Right Racist Populism in Europe
In 2026, the racist far right is no longer on the rise but is itself an established political power formation in countries across the world: Donald Trump defeated the Democratic candidate, Kamala H
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