B Weber
Biographic Data
| ID | 17273 |
|---|---|
| NAME | B Weber |
| GIVEN NAMES | B |
| FAMILY NAME | Weber |
| SIGNATURE | WEBER B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Colorado Boulder |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9838-7714 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 58 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1955 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Burdened Solidarities Beyond the Impasse
This special issue focuses on sites of relational and cultural practice at which border violence is challenged by solidarity, a major technology of resistance to border regimes. This form of collective action describes the social formation among displaced peoples crossing borders. It also describes the social formation of anyone who enters into solidarity with those displaced people crossing borders. The issue assembles articles that highlight so…
Gifts of welcome: Precarity, intimacy and the gift in Die Farbe des Ozeans (Peren, 2011) and Welcome (Lioret, 2009)
This article examines the role of Europe as gift in Lioret's Welcome (2009) and Peren's Die Farbe des Ozeans (2011) by focusing on gestures of welcome extended by white European characters to undocumented migrants. In both films, these gestures include gifts, in the form of money, shelter or skills taught, that play an important narrative role, but subordinate refugee characters' lives and stories to the emotional needs of white European 'givers'…
Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare Vol. 47 No. 1
Welfare participation has been a longstanding issue of public debate for 50 years but remains largely understudied in welfare literature.The purpose of this research is to challenge the flawed assumptions of welfare participation by examining the varying spatial inequalities that influence U.S. welfare participation rates among eligible poor.This comparative analysis uses spatial inequality theory to examine welfareto-work participation rates in …
Islamophobia East-West and the politics of hospitality in contemporary Germany
In this article I trouble the terms of hospitality and guest, as well as of east and west, in relationship to Islamophobia. In particular, I consider the graphic novel Im Land der Frühaufsteher, by Paula Bulling with sections written by Noël Kaboré. By focusing specifically on the notion of hospitality, I suggest that any narrative of racisms east/west cannot be disentangled into two separate stories, and that we should approach narratives of eas…
Heimat , Sustainability, Community: A Conversation with Karina Griffith and Peggy Piesche
Introduction: Precarity/Heimatlosigkeit
In Permanent Crisis: Ethnicity in Contemporary European Media and Cinema
The German Refugee ‘Crisis’ After Cologne: The Race of Refugee Rights
Research Article| September 01 2016 The German Refugee 'Crisis' After Cologne: The Race of Refugee Rights Beverly Weber Beverly Weber University of Colorado Boulder [email protected] Beverly Weber is Associate Professor of German Studies and Jewish Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her most recent publications on race, gender and Islam in Europe appear in German Politics & Society, Feminist Media Studies, European Journal of…
We Must Talk about Cologne: "Race, Gender, and Reconfigurations of "Europe
The perceived crisis triggered by the current refugee influx highlights the contradiction at the heart of human rights discourse. Modern humanity has been constructed as both European and as universal; the racialized "Other" against whom the "modern human" disturbs this construction by laying claim to human rights from the very heart of Europe. The sexualized violence reported in Cologne on New Year's Eve fed into racialized fears of refugees and…
Sociologie de l'énergie: Gouvernance et pratiques sociales
Affaire de société, enjeu politique, objet de controverses, l'énergie est devenue depuis une quinzaine d'années un sujet de recherche de première importance pour les sociologues. Alors que les débats autour de la transition énergétique s'animent, ce livre réunit les analyses scientifiques de chercheurs issus d'horizons institutionnels différents. L'objectif est de mutualiser, en un seul ouvrage et pour la première fois, les connaissances et les a…
Kübra Gümüşay, Muslim digital feminism and the politics of visuality in Germany
Muslim women’s digital activism exists in complexly racialized visual contexts. This is exemplified in the journalism and activism of Kübra Gümüşay, who first gained public attention as the purportedly first “hijabi columnist” in Germany. This essay draws on her series “50 Thoughts” as an entry point into her digital activism. I suggest that Gümüşay uses this series to reveal the larger visual dilemmas with which she engages. Her digital activism…
Turkish Berlin: Integration Policy and Urban Space
Precarious Intimacies: Yoko Tawada's Europe
Gender, race, religion, faith? Rethinking intersectionality in German feminisms
Despite the recent wave of scholarship on intersectionality, as well as a surge in feminist scholarship on Islam in German feminist studies, feminist research has yet to adequately engage with the role of religion in intersectionality. In this article the author draws on the work of the Aktionsbündnis muslimischer Frauen in Germany to explore the possibility for incorporating religion and faith into intersectional frameworks, which requires atten…
The Role of Middle-Class Status in Payday Loan Borrowing: A Multivariate Approach
Payday loans refer to small-dollar, high-interest, short-term loans usually extended to lower-income consumers. Despite much research to the contrary, the payday loan industry asserts that it primarily serves middle-class Americans. This article discusses the authors' investigation of the industry's claim, by analyzing data from a U.S. bankruptcy court serving a Southern district. Results of the multivariate binary logistic regression analysis sh…
Troubling Headscarves: Covering, Artistic Reconfigurations of Public Space, and the Muslim Woman’s Body
In the ten photographs that make up Iranian artist Shadi Ghadirian’s 2006 series Ctrl+Alt+Del , a black-clad woman’s body disappears into the black background against which she is photographed, preventing any sense of depth or perspective within the image. Only her face, hands, and feet—those parts of the body traditionally considered “naturally” visible and therefore not subject to laws of covering—are visible, as pale white contrasts to the bla…
Conclusion
In the early 2000s I presented work examining Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s various engagements with German literary tradition in her own literary texts, at several academic conferences. Inevitably, the conversation during the question-and-answer periods turned to the headscarf debates, despite the fact that this had nothing to do with the work at hand. As the decade continued, whenever presenting or teaching Turkish German literary texts, the “irrelevan…
A Regime of Gender Violence: Honor Killings, Familial Violence, and Muslim Women’s Subjectivities
In 2005, 23-year-old Hatun Sürücü was standing at a bus stop in Berlin when her youngest brother, Ayhan, shot and killed her. This act not only tragically ended Hatun Sürücü’s life but also led to a new chapter in representations of Islam and violence in Germany and Europe. Her death sparked massive national and international attention, accompanied by sensationalist headlines such as “Strangled, Stabbed, Drowned—the ‘Honor Killings’ in Berlin Pil…
Introduction: Undoing the Connections between Muslim Violence, “Culture,” and Secularism
In 2007, a German judge denied a woman an expedited divorce with the words, “The exercise of the right to corporal punishment does not constitute an extreme hardship according to federal law” (Kirschstein; Oswald). The 26-year-old woman filing for divorce had been the victim of domestic violence and death threats at the hand of her husband; under German domestic abuse laws, courts had already awarded her sole access to the apartment and a restrai…
Freedom to Imagine the World: Violence and the Writing of Self
In 2012, Necla Kelek, a German feminist of Turkish heritage, who has become notorious for her positions on Islam and Turkish integration into German society, gave a talk that elicited the following response on the satirical blog AggroMigrant. The blog entry laments the rudeness of somebody who arrives late but preaches German punctuality, and then asks: So are you Muslim, or not? What is really your take on Sarrazin’s statements about biological …
Contentious Headscarves: Cleaning Woman, Forbidden Schoolteacher, Hijab Martyr
The immense and ongoing attention received by Sürücü’s murder stands in stark contrast to coverage of the xenophobically motivated murder of another Muslim woman, Marwa el-Sherbini, in a German courtroom in 2009. The incident began when el-Sherbini, wearing a hijab, asked Alex Wiens to make space for her three-year-old son on a playground swing. He responded by accusing her of being an Islamist. She brought charges, and Wiens was subsequently fin…
Violent Authenticities: The Work of Emine Sevgi Özdamar and Feridun Zaimoglu
In 2002 I attended a play based on the life of Emine Sevgi Özdamar, Die Deutschlandtür geht auf und gleich wiederzu [The Germany-Door Opens and Closes Immediately] at the Prater, a small experimental stage associated with the Volksbühne on Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz in Berlin. The Germany-Door humorously highlights the paradoxical nature of the characters that Özdamar has conceived of and played. Promotional materials repeat a line from the play: “I al…
German Soccer, the 2010 World Cup, and Multicultural Belonging
The celebrations of the “multicultural” German national soccer team for the 2010 World Cup and the subsequent declaration of the failure of German multiculturalism reveal complex constructions of national belonging and of postnational identity constructions, and affective ties to the idea of Europe in twenty-first century Germany. Within what appears to be an enthusiastic celebration of a multicultural German team, we uncover a set of converging …
Violence and Gender in the "New" Europe: Islam in German Culture
Weber contributes to the ongoing scholarly discussion about Islam in the West, demonstrating how current thinking about gender violence prohibits the intellectual inquiry necessary to act against such
From sex shacks to mega-brothels: The politics of anti-trafficking and the 2006 soccer World Cup
This article examines the discourses of forced prostitution that circulated in the US and European media and government publications in the context of the soccer World Cup in 2006. This analysis of the public discourse around prostitution reveals two themes: concerns about immigration and border security, and representations of gender binaries that serve to relegate migrant women to the status of victim. The fears of increased sex trafficking and…
We Must Talk about Cologne: "Race, Gender, and Reconfigurations of "Europe
The perceived crisis triggered by the current refugee influx highlights the contradiction at the heart of human rights discourse. Modern humanity has been constructed as both European and as universal; the racialized "Other" against whom the "modern human" disturbs this construction by laying claim to human rights from the very heart of Europe. The sexualized violence reported in Cologne on New Year's Eve fed into racialized fears of refugees and…
Gender, race, religion, faith? Rethinking intersectionality in German feminisms
Despite the recent wave of scholarship on intersectionality, as well as a surge in feminist scholarship on Islam in German feminist studies, feminist research has yet to adequately engage with the role of religion in intersectionality. In this article the author draws on the work of the Aktionsbündnis muslimischer Frauen in Germany to explore the possibility for incorporating religion and faith into intersectional frameworks, which requires atten…
Violence and Gender in the "New" Europe: Islam in German Culture
Weber contributes to the ongoing scholarly discussion about Islam in the West, demonstrating how current thinking about gender violence prohibits the intellectual inquiry necessary to act against such
German Soccer, the 2010 World Cup, and Multicultural Belonging
The celebrations of the “multicultural” German national soccer team for the 2010 World Cup and the subsequent declaration of the failure of German multiculturalism reveal complex constructions of national belonging and of postnational identity constructions, and affective ties to the idea of Europe in twenty-first century Germany. Within what appears to be an enthusiastic celebration of a multicultural German team, we uncover a set of converging …
The Role of Middle-Class Status in Payday Loan Borrowing: A Multivariate Approach
Payday loans refer to small-dollar, high-interest, short-term loans usually extended to lower-income consumers. Despite much research to the contrary, the payday loan industry asserts that it primarily serves middle-class Americans. This article discusses the authors' investigation of the industry's claim, by analyzing data from a U.S. bankruptcy court serving a Southern district. Results of the multivariate binary logistic regression analysis sh…
Hijab Martyrdom, Headscarf Debates: Rethinking Violence, Secularism, and Islam in Germany
Fereshta Ludin’s struggle to be appointed as a public school teacher while wearing a hijab received massive media attention in Germany, while the xenophobically motivated murder of Marwa el-Sherbini, who was eventually dubbed the “hijab martyr” internationally, elicited muted response. Yet interpreting the reactions to these two cases together reveals much about the existence of racism and Islamophobia in contemporary Germany. In this article I j…
Kübra Gümüşay, Muslim digital feminism and the politics of visuality in Germany
Muslim women’s digital activism exists in complexly racialized visual contexts. This is exemplified in the journalism and activism of Kübra Gümüşay, who first gained public attention as the purportedly first “hijabi columnist” in Germany. This essay draws on her series “50 Thoughts” as an entry point into her digital activism. I suggest that Gümüşay uses this series to reveal the larger visual dilemmas with which she engages. Her digital activism…
From sex shacks to mega-brothels: The politics of anti-trafficking and the 2006 soccer World Cup
This article examines the discourses of forced prostitution that circulated in the US and European media and government publications in the context of the soccer World Cup in 2006. This analysis of the public discourse around prostitution reveals two themes: concerns about immigration and border security, and representations of gender binaries that serve to relegate migrant women to the status of victim. The fears of increased sex trafficking and…
Cloth on her Head, Constitution in Hand: Germany's Headscarf Debates and the Cultural Politics of Difference
As the current debates about the headscarf in Germany and Francedemonstrate, "Islamic" veils and headscarves garner attention forminority women in Europe to an unparalleled degree.2 For centuries,Islamic veils and headscarves have served as powerful symbols inOrientalist discourse, functioning as markers of the Oriental woman'ssupposed eroticism as well as convenient tropes for philosophers.3Recent kidnappers' demands in Iraq that France lift its…
In Permanent Crisis: Ethnicity in Contemporary European Media and Cinema
Post‐war Trends in Industrial Output, Employment and Productivity: An International Comparison
Fluctuations in Building in Great Britain, 1785-1849
A New Index of House Rents for Great Britain 1874‐19131
Our Multi-Ethnic Origins and American Literary studies
Journal Article Our Multi-Ethnic Origins and American Literary studies* Get access Brom Weber Brom Weber Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 2, Issue 1, March 1975, Pages 5–18, https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/2.1.5 Published: 01 March 1975
A Literature of Theory: Christa Wolf's Kassandra Lectures as Feminist Anti-Poetics
Christa Wolf's Frankfurt lectures, delivered in May 1982, have enjoyed (or suffered) a critical reception that adequately addresses the narrative as literary discourse, while generally neglecting the theoretical import of the accompanying lectures.1 In the five lectures, Wolf deliberately avoids providing a unified poetics. However, she does present theories of literature that are key to understanding her more recent writing and illustrate affini…
Cloth on her Head, Constitution in Hand: Germany's Headscarf Debates and the Cultural Politics of Difference
As the current debates about the headscarf in Germany and Francedemonstrate, "Islamic" veils and headscarves garner attention forminority women in Europe to an unparalleled degree.2 For centuries,Islamic veils and headscarves have served as powerful symbols inOrientalist discourse, functioning as markers of the Oriental woman'ssupposed eroticism as well as convenient tropes for philosophers.3Recent kidnappers' demands in Iraq that France lift its…
Work, Sex, and Socialism: Reading Beyond Cultural Hybridity in Emine Sevgi Özdamar's Die Brücke vom Goldenen Horn
Emine Sevgi Özdamar's work reveals and challenges two dominant images of the immigrant woman in circulation in Germany. When she superimposes the images of the headscarf and the cleaning woman, she reveals the often hidden intersections of representations of the veiled immigrant woman and her role in the German service industry. As ‘the Other’ within Germany, the Muslim woman's veiled body constructs emancipated, democratic Germanness while effec…
From sex shacks to mega-brothels: The politics of anti-trafficking and the 2006 soccer World Cup
This article examines the discourses of forced prostitution that circulated in the US and European media and government publications in the context of the soccer World Cup in 2006. This analysis of the public discourse around prostitution reveals two themes: concerns about immigration and border security, and representations of gender binaries that serve to relegate migrant women to the status of victim. The fears of increased sex trafficking and…
Hijab Martyrdom, Headscarf Debates: Rethinking Violence, Secularism, and Islam in Germany
Fereshta Ludin’s struggle to be appointed as a public school teacher while wearing a hijab received massive media attention in Germany, while the xenophobically motivated murder of Marwa el-Sherbini, who was eventually dubbed the “hijab martyr” internationally, elicited muted response. Yet interpreting the reactions to these two cases together reveals much about the existence of racism and Islamophobia in contemporary Germany. In this article I j…
Troubling Headscarves: Covering, Artistic Reconfigurations of Public Space, and the Muslim Woman’s Body
In the ten photographs that make up Iranian artist Shadi Ghadirian’s 2006 series Ctrl+Alt+Del , a black-clad woman’s body disappears into the black background against which she is photographed, preventing any sense of depth or perspective within the image. Only her face, hands, and feet—those parts of the body traditionally considered “naturally” visible and therefore not subject to laws of covering—are visible, as pale white contrasts to the bla…
Conclusion
In the early 2000s I presented work examining Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s various engagements with German literary tradition in her own literary texts, at several academic conferences. Inevitably, the conversation during the question-and-answer periods turned to the headscarf debates, despite the fact that this had nothing to do with the work at hand. As the decade continued, whenever presenting or teaching Turkish German literary texts, the “irrelevan…
A Regime of Gender Violence: Honor Killings, Familial Violence, and Muslim Women’s Subjectivities
In 2005, 23-year-old Hatun Sürücü was standing at a bus stop in Berlin when her youngest brother, Ayhan, shot and killed her. This act not only tragically ended Hatun Sürücü’s life but also led to a new chapter in representations of Islam and violence in Germany and Europe. Her death sparked massive national and international attention, accompanied by sensationalist headlines such as “Strangled, Stabbed, Drowned—the ‘Honor Killings’ in Berlin Pil…
Introduction: Undoing the Connections between Muslim Violence, “Culture,” and Secularism
In 2007, a German judge denied a woman an expedited divorce with the words, “The exercise of the right to corporal punishment does not constitute an extreme hardship according to federal law” (Kirschstein; Oswald). The 26-year-old woman filing for divorce had been the victim of domestic violence and death threats at the hand of her husband; under German domestic abuse laws, courts had already awarded her sole access to the apartment and a restrai…
Freedom to Imagine the World: Violence and the Writing of Self
In 2012, Necla Kelek, a German feminist of Turkish heritage, who has become notorious for her positions on Islam and Turkish integration into German society, gave a talk that elicited the following response on the satirical blog AggroMigrant. The blog entry laments the rudeness of somebody who arrives late but preaches German punctuality, and then asks: So are you Muslim, or not? What is really your take on Sarrazin’s statements about biological …
Contentious Headscarves: Cleaning Woman, Forbidden Schoolteacher, Hijab Martyr
The immense and ongoing attention received by Sürücü’s murder stands in stark contrast to coverage of the xenophobically motivated murder of another Muslim woman, Marwa el-Sherbini, in a German courtroom in 2009. The incident began when el-Sherbini, wearing a hijab, asked Alex Wiens to make space for her three-year-old son on a playground swing. He responded by accusing her of being an Islamist. She brought charges, and Wiens was subsequently fin…
Violent Authenticities: The Work of Emine Sevgi Özdamar and Feridun Zaimoglu
In 2002 I attended a play based on the life of Emine Sevgi Özdamar, Die Deutschlandtür geht auf und gleich wiederzu [The Germany-Door Opens and Closes Immediately] at the Prater, a small experimental stage associated with the Volksbühne on Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz in Berlin. The Germany-Door humorously highlights the paradoxical nature of the characters that Özdamar has conceived of and played. Promotional materials repeat a line from the play: “I al…
German Soccer, the 2010 World Cup, and Multicultural Belonging
The celebrations of the “multicultural” German national soccer team for the 2010 World Cup and the subsequent declaration of the failure of German multiculturalism reveal complex constructions of national belonging and of postnational identity constructions, and affective ties to the idea of Europe in twenty-first century Germany. Within what appears to be an enthusiastic celebration of a multicultural German team, we uncover a set of converging …
Violence and Gender in the "New" Europe: Islam in German Culture
Weber contributes to the ongoing scholarly discussion about Islam in the West, demonstrating how current thinking about gender violence prohibits the intellectual inquiry necessary to act against such
Gender, race, religion, faith? Rethinking intersectionality in German feminisms
Despite the recent wave of scholarship on intersectionality, as well as a surge in feminist scholarship on Islam in German feminist studies, feminist research has yet to adequately engage with the role of religion in intersectionality. In this article the author draws on the work of the Aktionsbündnis muslimischer Frauen in Germany to explore the possibility for incorporating religion and faith into intersectional frameworks, which requires atten…
The Role of Middle-Class Status in Payday Loan Borrowing: A Multivariate Approach
Payday loans refer to small-dollar, high-interest, short-term loans usually extended to lower-income consumers. Despite much research to the contrary, the payday loan industry asserts that it primarily serves middle-class Americans. This article discusses the authors' investigation of the industry's claim, by analyzing data from a U.S. bankruptcy court serving a Southern district. Results of the multivariate binary logistic regression analysis sh…
Sociologie de l'énergie: Gouvernance et pratiques sociales
Affaire de société, enjeu politique, objet de controverses, l'énergie est devenue depuis une quinzaine d'années un sujet de recherche de première importance pour les sociologues. Alors que les débats autour de la transition énergétique s'animent, ce livre réunit les analyses scientifiques de chercheurs issus d'horizons institutionnels différents. L'objectif est de mutualiser, en un seul ouvrage et pour la première fois, les connaissances et les a…
Kübra Gümüşay, Muslim digital feminism and the politics of visuality in Germany
Muslim women’s digital activism exists in complexly racialized visual contexts. This is exemplified in the journalism and activism of Kübra Gümüşay, who first gained public attention as the purportedly first “hijabi columnist” in Germany. This essay draws on her series “50 Thoughts” as an entry point into her digital activism. I suggest that Gümüşay uses this series to reveal the larger visual dilemmas with which she engages. Her digital activism…
Turkish Berlin: Integration Policy and Urban Space
Precarious Intimacies: Yoko Tawada's Europe
The German Refugee ‘Crisis’ After Cologne: The Race of Refugee Rights
Research Article| September 01 2016 The German Refugee 'Crisis' After Cologne: The Race of Refugee Rights Beverly Weber Beverly Weber University of Colorado Boulder [email protected] Beverly Weber is Associate Professor of German Studies and Jewish Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her most recent publications on race, gender and Islam in Europe appear in German Politics & Society, Feminist Media Studies, European Journal of…
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