Kira Kosnick
Biographic Data
| ID | 295335 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kira Kosnick |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kira |
| FAMILY NAME | Kosnick |
| SIGNATURE | KOSNICK K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Goethe University Frankfurt |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5901-5547 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Temporary Lives: Border Temporalities and Retirement Mobilities in a Turkish Tourism Hot Spot
The recognition that state borders operate not only through a production and ordering of space but also of time has recently led to a more concerted interest in the temporal dimensions of borders. In the fields of migration and border studies, researchers have suggested that borders are implicated in the creation and transformation of particular “time-spaces” that hierarchically order space and time. These b/ordering practices tend to be examined…
Tactical mobility: Navigating mobile ageing and transnational retirement between Turkey and Germany. A comparison between Turkish-German and German retirees
Retirement migration from Germany to Turkey is practiced by both former labour migrants from Turkey who spent their working lives in Germany, and by German retirees without prior migration backgrounds who have discovered Turkey as a retirement destination in the context of tourism. This article presents findings from the empirical investigation of cross-border mobility patterns and motivations among both groups of retirees who are mobile between …
Out on the Scene. Queer Migrant Clubbing and Urban Diversity
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Out on the Scene
Reprinted from Ethnologia Europaea 38:2, 2008. This article develops a critique of identity-focused approaches to ethno-cultural diversity in urban settings by shifting attention from categorical identities to the question of socialities. Taking the example of a queer migrant club night as its point of departure, it shows how a focus on the forms of social engagement that are particular to migrant club scenes can contextualize identity claims but…
Postmigrant Club Cultures in Urban Europe
Contents: Kira Kosnick: Introduction: New (Post-)Migrant Socialities - Ethnic Club Cultures in Urban Europe - Harpreet Kaur Cholia: Moving on up? Navigating Through Urban Nightlife as a Racialised Body: The Case of the Young British Asian in London - Sabina Rossignoli: Appropriating the banlieue through Leisure. The Social and Spatial Dimensions of French Caribbean Clubbing in Paris - Vanessa Thompson: On the Move! The Rise of a Black LGBT*Q Club…
A Clash Of Subcultures? Questioning Queer-Muslim Antagonisms in the Neoliberal City
This article explores the framing of conflicts over public space as they unfold in a climate of neoliberal urban transformation in contemporary Germany. Examining how the alleged concerns of a 'queer community' have been pitted against the alleged moral agenda of Muslim immigrants in the country, examples of conflicts over 'queer' public leisure spaces in Berlin will give insights into how different cultural minority positions are mobilized again…
Sexualität und Migrationsforschung: Das Unsichtbare, das Oxymoronische und heteronormatives „Othering“1
To whom honor is due: Mediated crime-scenes and minority stigmatization in a border-crossing context
This article focuses on a scandal surrounding the airing of an episode of Germany's most famous TV crime series, in which there occurred a murder in an Alevi immigrant family originally attributed to a Sunni Muslim who had just arrived from Turkey. The Alevi father and head of the family was then found out to have murdered his own daughter after she had threatened to reveal that he was sexually abusing her sister. The episode was met with an enor…
Sexualität und Migrationsforschung: Das Unsichtbare, das Oxymoronische und heteronormatives „Othering“
Im Rahmen der feministischen Theoriebildung zum Konzept der Intersektionalität, defi niert als die Verwobenheit oder Überlagerung hierarchisch angeordneter Achsen der Differenz, wird die „klassische Triade“ von „Rasse“, Klasse und Geschlecht zunehmend um weitere Dimensionen soziokultureller und ökonomischer Ungleichheit ergänzt, darunter auch um die Dimension der sexuellen Orientierung. Zeitgenössische Paradigmen der Intersektionalität unterschei…
Migrant Publics: Mass Media and Stranger-Relationality in Urban Space
The development of ethnic minority broadcasting in Germany that aims to give a voice to immigrants and minorities can easily be read as a story of decline. Challenging the focus on discursive deliberation that has marked major debates on minority representation and the public sphere, this article suggests a reconceptualization of the concept of the public in order to highlight different aspects of urban space-making and social imaginaries that ar…
Mit eigener Stimme? Migrantische Medien und alevitische Strategien der Repräsentation
Ethnic Media, Transnational Politics: Turkish Migrant Media in Germany
The past fifteen years have witnessed a veritable explosion of mass media productions that cross the boundaries of nation-states. Whereas the early 20th century saw territorial nation-states as the main container of broadcast media both structurally and politically, the late 20th century witnessed an interlinked de-territorialization and commercialization of electronic mass media. These developments have most prominently been linked to the emerge…
Speaking in One's Own Voice: Representational Strategies of Alevi Turkish Migrants on Open-Access Television in Berlin
The article takes up current scholarly and policy discussions on mass media and minority participation in Western Europe, where the prerogative of letting minorities 'speak in their own voice' occupies a central place. The article presents the mass media activities of Turkish Alevi migrants at a local open-access television station in Berlin, and problematises the notion of 'voice' with regard to cultural representations in their programmes and I…
Ethnicizing the Media: Multicultural Imperatives, Homebound Politics, and Turkish Media Production in Germany
The past fifteen years have witnessed a veritable explosion of mass media productions aimed at immigrant populations in Germany. Facilitated by new communication technologies, television channels and radio stations from former “home countries” and elsewhere have become available to immigrants via satellite and the internet. Daily newspapers produced in Ankara, Belgrade, or Warsaw can be bought at German newspaper stands. There has also been a pro…
Building bridges: Media for migrants and the public-service mission in Germany
This article examines the changing conceptions of minority programming for Turkish and other immigrant groups in public-service broadcasting in Germany. Still the major producers of foreign-language programmes on German television and radio stations, public-service broadcasters are trying to redefine their mission. As the classical format of ‘guestworker programming’ as a bridge to the home country has now been judged inadequate, new approaches a…
Speaking in One's Own Voice: Representational Strategies of Alevi Turkish Migrants on Open-Access Television in Berlin
The article takes up current scholarly and policy discussions on mass media and minority participation in Western Europe, where the prerogative of letting minorities 'speak in their own voice' occupies a central place. The article presents the mass media activities of Turkish Alevi migrants at a local open-access television station in Berlin, and problematises the notion of 'voice' with regard to cultural representations in their programmes and I…
Tactical mobility: Navigating mobile ageing and transnational retirement between Turkey and Germany. A comparison between Turkish-German and German retirees
Retirement migration from Germany to Turkey is practiced by both former labour migrants from Turkey who spent their working lives in Germany, and by German retirees without prior migration backgrounds who have discovered Turkey as a retirement destination in the context of tourism. This article presents findings from the empirical investigation of cross-border mobility patterns and motivations among both groups of retirees who are mobile between …
A Clash Of Subcultures? Questioning Queer-Muslim Antagonisms in the Neoliberal City
This article explores the framing of conflicts over public space as they unfold in a climate of neoliberal urban transformation in contemporary Germany. Examining how the alleged concerns of a 'queer community' have been pitted against the alleged moral agenda of Muslim immigrants in the country, examples of conflicts over 'queer' public leisure spaces in Berlin will give insights into how different cultural minority positions are mobilized again…
Building bridges: Media for migrants and the public-service mission in Germany
This article examines the changing conceptions of minority programming for Turkish and other immigrant groups in public-service broadcasting in Germany. Still the major producers of foreign-language programmes on German television and radio stations, public-service broadcasters are trying to redefine their mission. As the classical format of ‘guestworker programming’ as a bridge to the home country has now been judged inadequate, new approaches a…
Ethnicizing the Media: Multicultural Imperatives, Homebound Politics, and Turkish Media Production in Germany
The past fifteen years have witnessed a veritable explosion of mass media productions aimed at immigrant populations in Germany. Facilitated by new communication technologies, television channels and radio stations from former “home countries” and elsewhere have become available to immigrants via satellite and the internet. Daily newspapers produced in Ankara, Belgrade, or Warsaw can be bought at German newspaper stands. There has also been a pro…
Migrant Publics: Mass Media and Stranger-Relationality in Urban Space
The development of ethnic minority broadcasting in Germany that aims to give a voice to immigrants and minorities can easily be read as a story of decline. Challenging the focus on discursive deliberation that has marked major debates on minority representation and the public sphere, this article suggests a reconceptualization of the concept of the public in order to highlight different aspects of urban space-making and social imaginaries that ar…
Building bridges: Media for migrants and the public-service mission in Germany
This article examines the changing conceptions of minority programming for Turkish and other immigrant groups in public-service broadcasting in Germany. Still the major producers of foreign-language programmes on German television and radio stations, public-service broadcasters are trying to redefine their mission. As the classical format of ‘guestworker programming’ as a bridge to the home country has now been judged inadequate, new approaches a…
Ethnicizing the Media: Multicultural Imperatives, Homebound Politics, and Turkish Media Production in Germany
The past fifteen years have witnessed a veritable explosion of mass media productions aimed at immigrant populations in Germany. Facilitated by new communication technologies, television channels and radio stations from former “home countries” and elsewhere have become available to immigrants via satellite and the internet. Daily newspapers produced in Ankara, Belgrade, or Warsaw can be bought at German newspaper stands. There has also been a pro…
Speaking in One's Own Voice: Representational Strategies of Alevi Turkish Migrants on Open-Access Television in Berlin
The article takes up current scholarly and policy discussions on mass media and minority participation in Western Europe, where the prerogative of letting minorities 'speak in their own voice' occupies a central place. The article presents the mass media activities of Turkish Alevi migrants at a local open-access television station in Berlin, and problematises the notion of 'voice' with regard to cultural representations in their programmes and I…
Ethnic Media, Transnational Politics: Turkish Migrant Media in Germany
The past fifteen years have witnessed a veritable explosion of mass media productions that cross the boundaries of nation-states. Whereas the early 20th century saw territorial nation-states as the main container of broadcast media both structurally and politically, the late 20th century witnessed an interlinked de-territorialization and commercialization of electronic mass media. These developments have most prominently been linked to the emerge…
Mit eigener Stimme? Migrantische Medien und alevitische Strategien der Repräsentation
Sexualität und Migrationsforschung: Das Unsichtbare, das Oxymoronische und heteronormatives „Othering“
Im Rahmen der feministischen Theoriebildung zum Konzept der Intersektionalität, defi niert als die Verwobenheit oder Überlagerung hierarchisch angeordneter Achsen der Differenz, wird die „klassische Triade“ von „Rasse“, Klasse und Geschlecht zunehmend um weitere Dimensionen soziokultureller und ökonomischer Ungleichheit ergänzt, darunter auch um die Dimension der sexuellen Orientierung. Zeitgenössische Paradigmen der Intersektionalität unterschei…
Migrant Publics: Mass Media and Stranger-Relationality in Urban Space
The development of ethnic minority broadcasting in Germany that aims to give a voice to immigrants and minorities can easily be read as a story of decline. Challenging the focus on discursive deliberation that has marked major debates on minority representation and the public sphere, this article suggests a reconceptualization of the concept of the public in order to highlight different aspects of urban space-making and social imaginaries that ar…
To whom honor is due: Mediated crime-scenes and minority stigmatization in a border-crossing context
This article focuses on a scandal surrounding the airing of an episode of Germany's most famous TV crime series, in which there occurred a murder in an Alevi immigrant family originally attributed to a Sunni Muslim who had just arrived from Turkey. The Alevi father and head of the family was then found out to have murdered his own daughter after she had threatened to reveal that he was sexually abusing her sister. The episode was met with an enor…
Sexualität und Migrationsforschung: Das Unsichtbare, das Oxymoronische und heteronormatives „Othering“1
Postmigrant Club Cultures in Urban Europe
Contents: Kira Kosnick: Introduction: New (Post-)Migrant Socialities - Ethnic Club Cultures in Urban Europe - Harpreet Kaur Cholia: Moving on up? Navigating Through Urban Nightlife as a Racialised Body: The Case of the Young British Asian in London - Sabina Rossignoli: Appropriating the banlieue through Leisure. The Social and Spatial Dimensions of French Caribbean Clubbing in Paris - Vanessa Thompson: On the Move! The Rise of a Black LGBT*Q Club…
A Clash Of Subcultures? Questioning Queer-Muslim Antagonisms in the Neoliberal City
This article explores the framing of conflicts over public space as they unfold in a climate of neoliberal urban transformation in contemporary Germany. Examining how the alleged concerns of a 'queer community' have been pitted against the alleged moral agenda of Muslim immigrants in the country, examples of conflicts over 'queer' public leisure spaces in Berlin will give insights into how different cultural minority positions are mobilized again…
Out on the Scene. Queer Migrant Clubbing and Urban Diversity
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Out on the Scene
Reprinted from Ethnologia Europaea 38:2, 2008. This article develops a critique of identity-focused approaches to ethno-cultural diversity in urban settings by shifting attention from categorical identities to the question of socialities. Taking the example of a queer migrant club night as its point of departure, it shows how a focus on the forms of social engagement that are particular to migrant club scenes can contextualize identity claims but…
Tactical mobility: Navigating mobile ageing and transnational retirement between Turkey and Germany. A comparison between Turkish-German and German retirees
Retirement migration from Germany to Turkey is practiced by both former labour migrants from Turkey who spent their working lives in Germany, and by German retirees without prior migration backgrounds who have discovered Turkey as a retirement destination in the context of tourism. This article presents findings from the empirical investigation of cross-border mobility patterns and motivations among both groups of retirees who are mobile between …
Temporary Lives: Border Temporalities and Retirement Mobilities in a Turkish Tourism Hot Spot
The recognition that state borders operate not only through a production and ordering of space but also of time has recently led to a more concerted interest in the temporal dimensions of borders. In the fields of migration and border studies, researchers have suggested that borders are implicated in the creation and transformation of particular “time-spaces” that hierarchically order space and time. These b/ordering practices tend to be examined…
Political science (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Geography (6 works) · Immigration (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Turkish (6 works) · German (5 works) · Law (5 works) · German Colonialism and Identity Studies (4 works) · Media studies (4 works)