Heidi Armbruster
Biographic Data
| ID | 220568 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Heidi Armbruster |
| GIVEN NAMES | Heidi |
| FAMILY NAME | Armbruster |
| SIGNATURE | ARMBRUSTER H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southampton |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5630-5896 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Curating connections: Exploring a British national park with young asylum seekers
This article reflects upon the authors' involvement with a walking project in the New Forest, a national park in the United Kingdom, for which we collaborated with a group of young male asylum seekers, community partners, and multimodal artists. Through the use of visual and digital media as sensory and collaborative tools of sense making, we explore the nested meanings of walking and of curated nature contact. The article reveals how walking may…
Between redemption and affirmation: German identity in affective narratives of the ‘refugee crisis
The German ‘refugee crisis’ produced formidable levels of civil society assistance, involving citizens and locations with no previous experience in refugee support. Grounded in research with citizen volunteers in a rural region in southern Germany conducted at a time when rightwing populism gained strength, this article explores how volunteers reflect on their relations with refugees while negotiating distinctly German identities. Scholarship on …
Trajectories of Mobility: Intergenerational Narratives of Relocation and Achievement among Viennese Syriac Christian Men
This article analyzes narratives of emigration among Syriac Christians who migrated from Turkey to Vienna, Austria. It sets out from a starting point of exploring the different ways that migration affects family life and reproduction. By using “linked biographies,” the discussion focuses upon intergenerational aspects in order to explore the ways in which history is understood and reproduced by individuals with their own narrative but interconnec…
Between Loss and Salvage: Kabyles and Syrian Christians Negotiate Heritage, Linguistic Authenticity and Identity in Europe
This paper brings together two different communities, Kabyles (Amazighs) and Syrian Christians, who are nevertheless marked by some commonalities: a strong diasporic dispersal as a historical experience, political, cultural and linguistic marginalization in their countries of origin, the deep association of collective identity with an “endangered” heritage language, a lived experience of multilingualism, and a post-emigration struggle of language…
Teaching ethnography as Modern Languages method: Legacies and future practices for global citizens
Most modern languages degrees in the UK include a Residence Abroad component, the key aims of which are to help students acquire a greater understanding of a new language and culture and to develop research skills. While the acquisition of linguistic competences has been well documented, cultural learning on the year abroad is less well researched. This article is based on an innovative pedagogic project carried out at the University of Southampt…
It was the photograph of the little boy: Reflections on the Syrian Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Programme in the UK
This article examines the "Syrian Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Programme" (SVPRP) as a specific British response to the "European refugee crisis". Based on an analysis of media reporting (2014-17) and empirical evidence from agencies and volunteers tasked with implementing the programme, this essay reveals the ethical and political ambiguities at its heart. By focusing on the notion of "vulnerability" I argue that the humanitarian configuratio…
Linked Biographies in Changing Times. Syriac Christians in Vienna
Cet article étudie les relations entre l'histoire et la biographie dans un contexte international. Il est fondé sur une recherche ethnographique parmi les Chrétiens syriaques à Vienne, originaires de Turquie. Dans la construction de leur identité, deux évènements historiques ont été particulièrement importants : d'abord les massacres des Chrétiens en Anatolie orientale en 1915-1916 qui ont réduit et traumatise leur communauté puis les processus d…
Realising the Self and Developing the African: German Immigrants in Namibia
This paper is based on research among German immigrants in Namibia, a country with a long history of colonisation. After Germany, the first colonial power, ceded the territory as a consequence of the First World War, South Africa effectively ruled the country until 1990. Both former colonial powers established principles of white rule and initiated settler communities, whose descendants still live in the country. This article examines biographica…
Taking Sides: Ethics, Politics, and Fieldwork in Anthropology
Taking Sides: Ethics, Politics, and Fieldwork in Anthropology
Concerns with research ethics have intensified over recent years, in large part as a symptom of "audit cultures" (M. Strathern) but also as a serious matter of engagement with the ethical complexities in contemporary research fields. This volume, written by a new generation of scholars engaged with contemporary global movements for social justice and peace, reflects their efforts in trying to integrate their scholarly pursuits with their understa…
With Hard Work and Determination You Can Make it Here: Narratives of Identity among German Immigrants in Post-Colonial Namibia
This article is based on ethnographic pilot research among German immigrants in Namibia. It employs content and discourse analysis of interview narratives emerging in conversations with two generations of German migrants: individuals who settled in the 1950s and 1960s and a younger cohort who immigrated in the 1980s and 1990s. Interview extracts in which respondents address their arrival and adjustment are chosen to explore narrative reconstructi…
Imagining Europe: Everyday narratives in European border communities
This article examines the role of 'Europe' in our border narratives. One of the most striking parallels across our entire data set was the absence of Europe or 'Europeanness' as a self-chosen category of identification. In contrast to other categories, European references only appeared in response to direct questions by the interviewers. This article shows how people conceptualised Europe and the EU, once invited to do so by the interviewer. Both…
It was the photograph of the little boy: Reflections on the Syrian Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Programme in the UK
This article examines the "Syrian Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Programme" (SVPRP) as a specific British response to the "European refugee crisis". Based on an analysis of media reporting (2014-17) and empirical evidence from agencies and volunteers tasked with implementing the programme, this essay reveals the ethical and political ambiguities at its heart. By focusing on the notion of "vulnerability" I argue that the humanitarian configuratio…
Realising the Self and Developing the African: German Immigrants in Namibia
This paper is based on research among German immigrants in Namibia, a country with a long history of colonisation. After Germany, the first colonial power, ceded the territory as a consequence of the First World War, South Africa effectively ruled the country until 1990. Both former colonial powers established principles of white rule and initiated settler communities, whose descendants still live in the country. This article examines biographica…
Imagining Europe: Everyday narratives in European border communities
This article examines the role of 'Europe' in our border narratives. One of the most striking parallels across our entire data set was the absence of Europe or 'Europeanness' as a self-chosen category of identification. In contrast to other categories, European references only appeared in response to direct questions by the interviewers. This article shows how people conceptualised Europe and the EU, once invited to do so by the interviewer. Both…
Between redemption and affirmation: German identity in affective narratives of the ‘refugee crisis
The German ‘refugee crisis’ produced formidable levels of civil society assistance, involving citizens and locations with no previous experience in refugee support. Grounded in research with citizen volunteers in a rural region in southern Germany conducted at a time when rightwing populism gained strength, this article explores how volunteers reflect on their relations with refugees while negotiating distinctly German identities. Scholarship on …
Between Loss and Salvage: Kabyles and Syrian Christians Negotiate Heritage, Linguistic Authenticity and Identity in Europe
This paper brings together two different communities, Kabyles (Amazighs) and Syrian Christians, who are nevertheless marked by some commonalities: a strong diasporic dispersal as a historical experience, political, cultural and linguistic marginalization in their countries of origin, the deep association of collective identity with an “endangered” heritage language, a lived experience of multilingualism, and a post-emigration struggle of language…
Linked Biographies in Changing Times. Syriac Christians in Vienna
Cet article étudie les relations entre l'histoire et la biographie dans un contexte international. Il est fondé sur une recherche ethnographique parmi les Chrétiens syriaques à Vienne, originaires de Turquie. Dans la construction de leur identité, deux évènements historiques ont été particulièrement importants : d'abord les massacres des Chrétiens en Anatolie orientale en 1915-1916 qui ont réduit et traumatise leur communauté puis les processus d…
With Hard Work and Determination You Can Make it Here: Narratives of Identity among German Immigrants in Post-Colonial Namibia
This article is based on ethnographic pilot research among German immigrants in Namibia. It employs content and discourse analysis of interview narratives emerging in conversations with two generations of German migrants: individuals who settled in the 1950s and 1960s and a younger cohort who immigrated in the 1980s and 1990s. Interview extracts in which respondents address their arrival and adjustment are chosen to explore narrative reconstructi…
Curating connections: Exploring a British national park with young asylum seekers
This article reflects upon the authors' involvement with a walking project in the New Forest, a national park in the United Kingdom, for which we collaborated with a group of young male asylum seekers, community partners, and multimodal artists. Through the use of visual and digital media as sensory and collaborative tools of sense making, we explore the nested meanings of walking and of curated nature contact. The article reveals how walking may…
Imagining Europe: Everyday narratives in European border communities
This article examines the role of 'Europe' in our border narratives. One of the most striking parallels across our entire data set was the absence of Europe or 'Europeanness' as a self-chosen category of identification. In contrast to other categories, European references only appeared in response to direct questions by the interviewers. This article shows how people conceptualised Europe and the EU, once invited to do so by the interviewer. Both…
Taking Sides: Ethics, Politics, and Fieldwork in Anthropology
Taking Sides: Ethics, Politics, and Fieldwork in Anthropology
Concerns with research ethics have intensified over recent years, in large part as a symptom of "audit cultures" (M. Strathern) but also as a serious matter of engagement with the ethical complexities in contemporary research fields. This volume, written by a new generation of scholars engaged with contemporary global movements for social justice and peace, reflects their efforts in trying to integrate their scholarly pursuits with their understa…
With Hard Work and Determination You Can Make it Here: Narratives of Identity among German Immigrants in Post-Colonial Namibia
This article is based on ethnographic pilot research among German immigrants in Namibia. It employs content and discourse analysis of interview narratives emerging in conversations with two generations of German migrants: individuals who settled in the 1950s and 1960s and a younger cohort who immigrated in the 1980s and 1990s. Interview extracts in which respondents address their arrival and adjustment are chosen to explore narrative reconstructi…
Realising the Self and Developing the African: German Immigrants in Namibia
This paper is based on research among German immigrants in Namibia, a country with a long history of colonisation. After Germany, the first colonial power, ceded the territory as a consequence of the First World War, South Africa effectively ruled the country until 1990. Both former colonial powers established principles of white rule and initiated settler communities, whose descendants still live in the country. This article examines biographica…
Linked Biographies in Changing Times. Syriac Christians in Vienna
Cet article étudie les relations entre l'histoire et la biographie dans un contexte international. Il est fondé sur une recherche ethnographique parmi les Chrétiens syriaques à Vienne, originaires de Turquie. Dans la construction de leur identité, deux évènements historiques ont été particulièrement importants : d'abord les massacres des Chrétiens en Anatolie orientale en 1915-1916 qui ont réduit et traumatise leur communauté puis les processus d…
Teaching ethnography as Modern Languages method: Legacies and future practices for global citizens
Most modern languages degrees in the UK include a Residence Abroad component, the key aims of which are to help students acquire a greater understanding of a new language and culture and to develop research skills. While the acquisition of linguistic competences has been well documented, cultural learning on the year abroad is less well researched. This article is based on an innovative pedagogic project carried out at the University of Southampt…
It was the photograph of the little boy: Reflections on the Syrian Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Programme in the UK
This article examines the "Syrian Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Programme" (SVPRP) as a specific British response to the "European refugee crisis". Based on an analysis of media reporting (2014-17) and empirical evidence from agencies and volunteers tasked with implementing the programme, this essay reveals the ethical and political ambiguities at its heart. By focusing on the notion of "vulnerability" I argue that the humanitarian configuratio…
Trajectories of Mobility: Intergenerational Narratives of Relocation and Achievement among Viennese Syriac Christian Men
This article analyzes narratives of emigration among Syriac Christians who migrated from Turkey to Vienna, Austria. It sets out from a starting point of exploring the different ways that migration affects family life and reproduction. By using “linked biographies,” the discussion focuses upon intergenerational aspects in order to explore the ways in which history is understood and reproduced by individuals with their own narrative but interconnec…
Between Loss and Salvage: Kabyles and Syrian Christians Negotiate Heritage, Linguistic Authenticity and Identity in Europe
This paper brings together two different communities, Kabyles (Amazighs) and Syrian Christians, who are nevertheless marked by some commonalities: a strong diasporic dispersal as a historical experience, political, cultural and linguistic marginalization in their countries of origin, the deep association of collective identity with an “endangered” heritage language, a lived experience of multilingualism, and a post-emigration struggle of language…
Between redemption and affirmation: German identity in affective narratives of the ‘refugee crisis
The German ‘refugee crisis’ produced formidable levels of civil society assistance, involving citizens and locations with no previous experience in refugee support. Grounded in research with citizen volunteers in a rural region in southern Germany conducted at a time when rightwing populism gained strength, this article explores how volunteers reflect on their relations with refugees while negotiating distinctly German identities. Scholarship on …
Curating connections: Exploring a British national park with young asylum seekers
This article reflects upon the authors' involvement with a walking project in the New Forest, a national park in the United Kingdom, for which we collaborated with a group of young male asylum seekers, community partners, and multimodal artists. Through the use of visual and digital media as sensory and collaborative tools of sense making, we explore the nested meanings of walking and of curated nature contact. The article reveals how walking may…
Political science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Immigration (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · History (5 works) · Narrative (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Ethnography (4 works)