E Piwoni
Biographic Data
| ID | 32381 |
|---|---|
| NAME | E Piwoni |
| GIVEN NAMES | E |
| FAMILY NAME | Piwoni |
| SIGNATURE | PIWONI E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Passau |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4567-3175 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 57 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
“Terms such as ‘true German’ […] belong in the history books”: How Germans with and without migrant backgrounds understand concepts used in survey research on national attachments
Whilst survey research on national attachments has used various measures, the question of how respondents understand these measures, and especially the highly ambiguous concepts they entail, has remained understudied. Moreover, scholars have used samples consisting of “citizens”, thereby not distinguishing between citizens with and citizens without a migrant background. Drawing on qualitative evidence from six focus group discussions in Germany i…
Different understandings, different responses: Experiences of racism among highly educated, second generation Black Germans
This article argues that there is a close relationship between individuals' understandings of specific incidents of racism, their ideas of how racism operates, and their (repertoires of) responses to such incidents. The argument is based on a qualitative interview study with 21 highly educated Black Germans with at least one parent born outside Germany, and draws on both the extant literature on responses to experiences of ethnoracial exclusion a…
The duty to remember “it”: How Germans with and without a migration history discuss the role of the Holocaust
Contributing to research on how the Holocaust is interpreted in contemporary Germany, an increasingly pluralistic immigrant society with an official memory culture that has been criticized as hegemonic and univocal, this exploratory study investigates how Germans with and without a migration history talk about the Holocaust. It asks whether the emotions and attitudes of people with a migration history differ from those of Germans without a migrat…
Don’t complain. Adapt. Be successful”: How highly educated, middle-class Germans of Polish, Turkish, and sub-Saharan African background respond to racism
[You Are German] When You no Longer Stick Out: The Meaning of Being German From the Perspective of Germans With and Without a Migrant Background
While several quantitative studies have examined civic and ethno‐cultural notions of nationhood among German citizens, the meaning of being German in general and the ambiguities of the term in particular have remained underexplored. Furthermore, this line of scholarship has examined German citizens but has neglected the perspective of Germans with a migrant background. Drawing on six focus group discussions conducted in Germany in 2023, we explor…
Where are you from?’ The affective and emotional dimensions of an ambiguous event of everyday racism
This article discusses the various affective and emotional dimensions of how racialised individuals understand and cope with the ambiguous question of ‘Where are you (really) from?’ Theoretically, the article argues that people do not necessarily ‘comprehend’ racism but sense it, and that it is through affects and being affected that they understand the nature of an encounter. Empirically, the article is based on 21 in-depth interviews conducted …
The evolution of the civic–ethnic distinction as a partial success story: Lessons for the nationalism–patriotism distinction
This article brings, for the first time, two of the most pivotal distinctions in nationalism studies into extended dialogue: the civic–ethnic distinction (CED) and the nationalism–patriotism distinction (NPD). By reviewing both the evolution of those distinctions over the previous decades and the ways in which they have been used in quantitative empirical research, we argue that the CED's evolution has been a partial success story, whereas discou…
Improving the study of responses to experiences of ethnoracial exclusion—a heuristic for comparative qualitative research
This article advances the debate on responses to experiences of ethnoracial exclusion by proposing a heuristic for comparative qualitative research. The heuristic is developed based on an overview of the literature and of existing classifications of responses. It first introduces a differentiation between cognitive and practice-based responses to experiences of ethnoracial exclusion and, second, a differentiation between responses to incidents of…
Exploring disjuncture: Elite students’ use of cosmopolitanism
This paper addresses current debates around elites, education and cosmopolitanism. It studies disjuncture (and interaction) between cosmopolitan practices and aspirations on the basis of 24 interviews with international students at a British elite university. Specifically, the article discusses four cases of elite students’ use of cosmopolitanism by drawing on Ann Swidler’s concepts of ‘strategies of action’ and her distinction between ‘unsettled…
The Pursuit of Happiness: Black Women, Diasporic Dreams, and the Politics of Emotional Transnationalism
Mass-mediated discourse on emotion, and the feeling rules it conveys: The case of the Sarrazin debate
This article argues that mass-mediated public discourse produces a discourse on emotion and disseminates specific feeling rules for different groups of people by studying one of the most heated debates on immigrant integration in Germany during the past decade - that surrounding Thilo Sarrazin's book Germany Does Itself In. Adapting and further developing Arlie Hochschild's notion of feeling rules as a 'sensitising concept' within a grounded theo…
Giving Back to the World, the Nation and the Family: Cosmopolitan Meaning-making and Notions of Solidarity Among Young Elite Students
This article addresses debates on the relationship between elite cosmopolitanism and localism through the study of young elite cosmopolitans’ rationales in the context of talking about their future lives. Drawing on interviews with 24 students at an elite university, the article delineates three types of cosmopolitan meaning-making. Students embracing the first type talked about their cosmopolitanism in terms of individually chosen actions. They …
Targeting dominant publics: How counterpublic commenters align their efforts with mainstream news
This study illustrates how the emphasis structure of counterpublic discourses surfacing online can be predicted by that of the dominant publics that these counterpublics—at the argumentative level—so resolutely oppose. Deploying a single common case study design, the article scrutinizes a counterpublic discourse that surfaced in the comment sections of Germany’s opinion-leading news websites in the week after the surprising electoral success of a…
Public Spheres in Interaction: Comment Sections of News Websites as Counterpublic Spaces
Research scrutinizing political talk online has been developed largely against the backdrop of deliberative discursive norms and considered political talk without a systematic analysis of surrounding mass-mediated discourses. By contrast, this study operationalizes counterpublic theory as an alternative theoretical perspective and analyzes comments on news websites as a reaction to hegemonic mainstream public spheres. It juxtaposes a qualitative …
Claiming the nation for the people: The dynamics of representation in German public discourse about immigrant integration
Against the backdrop of the current trend to criticise elite‐centred approaches to the study of nationalism, this article sheds light on ways in which elite and popular notions of nationhood are mediated. Thus, public discourse on national identity is explored as a discourse that ordinary people can influence and in which elites make claims to represent the people. To illustrate the dynamics of representative claim‐making and reception, the artic…
Latent but Not Less Significant: The Holocaust as an Argumentative Resource in German National Identity Discourse
There seems to be a wide consensus in the academic community that the Holocaust is gradually losing significance in the German public. This development is clearly reflected in public elite discourse on national identity, where "Holocaust-centered memory" has ceased to be hegemonic. In the literature, several interpretations and reasons have been presented to explain this development. This paper contributes to the debate by arguing that the declin…
Nationale Identität im Wandel
Die Konstruktion nationaler Identität im Intellektuellendiskurs hat sich in Deutschland grundlegend verändert. Wie ist dieser Wandel zu beschreiben, was waren wichtige Etappen und in welchen Dimensionen hat sich der Wandel vollzogen? Fragen wie diese beantwortet Eunike Piwoni anhand einer komparativen Analyse von sieben für die deutsche Zeitgeschichte relevanten Debatten zur Frage nationaler Identität über einen Zeitraum von 25 Jahren. Dabei steh…
Targeting dominant publics: How counterpublic commenters align their efforts with mainstream news
This study illustrates how the emphasis structure of counterpublic discourses surfacing online can be predicted by that of the dominant publics that these counterpublics—at the argumentative level—so resolutely oppose. Deploying a single common case study design, the article scrutinizes a counterpublic discourse that surfaced in the comment sections of Germany’s opinion-leading news websites in the week after the surprising electoral success of a…
The evolution of the civic–ethnic distinction as a partial success story: Lessons for the nationalism–patriotism distinction
This article brings, for the first time, two of the most pivotal distinctions in nationalism studies into extended dialogue: the civic–ethnic distinction (CED) and the nationalism–patriotism distinction (NPD). By reviewing both the evolution of those distinctions over the previous decades and the ways in which they have been used in quantitative empirical research, we argue that the CED's evolution has been a partial success story, whereas discou…
Improving the study of responses to experiences of ethnoracial exclusion—a heuristic for comparative qualitative research
This article advances the debate on responses to experiences of ethnoracial exclusion by proposing a heuristic for comparative qualitative research. The heuristic is developed based on an overview of the literature and of existing classifications of responses. It first introduces a differentiation between cognitive and practice-based responses to experiences of ethnoracial exclusion and, second, a differentiation between responses to incidents of…
Claiming the nation for the people: The dynamics of representation in German public discourse about immigrant integration
Against the backdrop of the current trend to criticise elite‐centred approaches to the study of nationalism, this article sheds light on ways in which elite and popular notions of nationhood are mediated. Thus, public discourse on national identity is explored as a discourse that ordinary people can influence and in which elites make claims to represent the people. To illustrate the dynamics of representative claim‐making and reception, the artic…
Latent but Not Less Significant: The Holocaust as an Argumentative Resource in German National Identity Discourse
There seems to be a wide consensus in the academic community that the Holocaust is gradually losing significance in the German public. This development is clearly reflected in public elite discourse on national identity, where "Holocaust-centered memory" has ceased to be hegemonic. In the literature, several interpretations and reasons have been presented to explain this development. This paper contributes to the debate by arguing that the declin…
Mass-mediated discourse on emotion, and the feeling rules it conveys: The case of the Sarrazin debate
This article argues that mass-mediated public discourse produces a discourse on emotion and disseminates specific feeling rules for different groups of people by studying one of the most heated debates on immigrant integration in Germany during the past decade - that surrounding Thilo Sarrazin's book Germany Does Itself In. Adapting and further developing Arlie Hochschild's notion of feeling rules as a 'sensitising concept' within a grounded theo…
Different understandings, different responses: Experiences of racism among highly educated, second generation Black Germans
This article argues that there is a close relationship between individuals' understandings of specific incidents of racism, their ideas of how racism operates, and their (repertoires of) responses to such incidents. The argument is based on a qualitative interview study with 21 highly educated Black Germans with at least one parent born outside Germany, and draws on both the extant literature on responses to experiences of ethnoracial exclusion a…
Giving Back to the World, the Nation and the Family: Cosmopolitan Meaning-making and Notions of Solidarity Among Young Elite Students
This article addresses debates on the relationship between elite cosmopolitanism and localism through the study of young elite cosmopolitans’ rationales in the context of talking about their future lives. Drawing on interviews with 24 students at an elite university, the article delineates three types of cosmopolitan meaning-making. Students embracing the first type talked about their cosmopolitanism in terms of individually chosen actions. They …
Don’t complain. Adapt. Be successful”: How highly educated, middle-class Germans of Polish, Turkish, and sub-Saharan African background respond to racism
[You Are German] When You no Longer Stick Out: The Meaning of Being German From the Perspective of Germans With and Without a Migrant Background
While several quantitative studies have examined civic and ethno‐cultural notions of nationhood among German citizens, the meaning of being German in general and the ambiguities of the term in particular have remained underexplored. Furthermore, this line of scholarship has examined German citizens but has neglected the perspective of Germans with a migrant background. Drawing on six focus group discussions conducted in Germany in 2023, we explor…
Nationale Identität im Wandel
Die Konstruktion nationaler Identität im Intellektuellendiskurs hat sich in Deutschland grundlegend verändert. Wie ist dieser Wandel zu beschreiben, was waren wichtige Etappen und in welchen Dimensionen hat sich der Wandel vollzogen? Fragen wie diese beantwortet Eunike Piwoni anhand einer komparativen Analyse von sieben für die deutsche Zeitgeschichte relevanten Debatten zur Frage nationaler Identität über einen Zeitraum von 25 Jahren. Dabei steh…
Latent but Not Less Significant: The Holocaust as an Argumentative Resource in German National Identity Discourse
There seems to be a wide consensus in the academic community that the Holocaust is gradually losing significance in the German public. This development is clearly reflected in public elite discourse on national identity, where "Holocaust-centered memory" has ceased to be hegemonic. In the literature, several interpretations and reasons have been presented to explain this development. This paper contributes to the debate by arguing that the declin…
Public Spheres in Interaction: Comment Sections of News Websites as Counterpublic Spaces
Research scrutinizing political talk online has been developed largely against the backdrop of deliberative discursive norms and considered political talk without a systematic analysis of surrounding mass-mediated discourses. By contrast, this study operationalizes counterpublic theory as an alternative theoretical perspective and analyzes comments on news websites as a reaction to hegemonic mainstream public spheres. It juxtaposes a qualitative …
Claiming the nation for the people: The dynamics of representation in German public discourse about immigrant integration
Against the backdrop of the current trend to criticise elite‐centred approaches to the study of nationalism, this article sheds light on ways in which elite and popular notions of nationhood are mediated. Thus, public discourse on national identity is explored as a discourse that ordinary people can influence and in which elites make claims to represent the people. To illustrate the dynamics of representative claim‐making and reception, the artic…
Targeting dominant publics: How counterpublic commenters align their efforts with mainstream news
This study illustrates how the emphasis structure of counterpublic discourses surfacing online can be predicted by that of the dominant publics that these counterpublics—at the argumentative level—so resolutely oppose. Deploying a single common case study design, the article scrutinizes a counterpublic discourse that surfaced in the comment sections of Germany’s opinion-leading news websites in the week after the surprising electoral success of a…
Giving Back to the World, the Nation and the Family: Cosmopolitan Meaning-making and Notions of Solidarity Among Young Elite Students
This article addresses debates on the relationship between elite cosmopolitanism and localism through the study of young elite cosmopolitans’ rationales in the context of talking about their future lives. Drawing on interviews with 24 students at an elite university, the article delineates three types of cosmopolitan meaning-making. Students embracing the first type talked about their cosmopolitanism in terms of individually chosen actions. They …
Exploring disjuncture: Elite students’ use of cosmopolitanism
This paper addresses current debates around elites, education and cosmopolitanism. It studies disjuncture (and interaction) between cosmopolitan practices and aspirations on the basis of 24 interviews with international students at a British elite university. Specifically, the article discusses four cases of elite students’ use of cosmopolitanism by drawing on Ann Swidler’s concepts of ‘strategies of action’ and her distinction between ‘unsettled…
The Pursuit of Happiness: Black Women, Diasporic Dreams, and the Politics of Emotional Transnationalism
Mass-mediated discourse on emotion, and the feeling rules it conveys: The case of the Sarrazin debate
This article argues that mass-mediated public discourse produces a discourse on emotion and disseminates specific feeling rules for different groups of people by studying one of the most heated debates on immigrant integration in Germany during the past decade - that surrounding Thilo Sarrazin's book Germany Does Itself In. Adapting and further developing Arlie Hochschild's notion of feeling rules as a 'sensitising concept' within a grounded theo…
Improving the study of responses to experiences of ethnoracial exclusion—a heuristic for comparative qualitative research
This article advances the debate on responses to experiences of ethnoracial exclusion by proposing a heuristic for comparative qualitative research. The heuristic is developed based on an overview of the literature and of existing classifications of responses. It first introduces a differentiation between cognitive and practice-based responses to experiences of ethnoracial exclusion and, second, a differentiation between responses to incidents of…
The evolution of the civic–ethnic distinction as a partial success story: Lessons for the nationalism–patriotism distinction
This article brings, for the first time, two of the most pivotal distinctions in nationalism studies into extended dialogue: the civic–ethnic distinction (CED) and the nationalism–patriotism distinction (NPD). By reviewing both the evolution of those distinctions over the previous decades and the ways in which they have been used in quantitative empirical research, we argue that the CED's evolution has been a partial success story, whereas discou…
Where are you from?’ The affective and emotional dimensions of an ambiguous event of everyday racism
This article discusses the various affective and emotional dimensions of how racialised individuals understand and cope with the ambiguous question of ‘Where are you (really) from?’ Theoretically, the article argues that people do not necessarily ‘comprehend’ racism but sense it, and that it is through affects and being affected that they understand the nature of an encounter. Empirically, the article is based on 21 in-depth interviews conducted …
“Terms such as ‘true German’ […] belong in the history books”: How Germans with and without migrant backgrounds understand concepts used in survey research on national attachments
Whilst survey research on national attachments has used various measures, the question of how respondents understand these measures, and especially the highly ambiguous concepts they entail, has remained understudied. Moreover, scholars have used samples consisting of “citizens”, thereby not distinguishing between citizens with and citizens without a migrant background. Drawing on qualitative evidence from six focus group discussions in Germany i…
Different understandings, different responses: Experiences of racism among highly educated, second generation Black Germans
This article argues that there is a close relationship between individuals' understandings of specific incidents of racism, their ideas of how racism operates, and their (repertoires of) responses to such incidents. The argument is based on a qualitative interview study with 21 highly educated Black Germans with at least one parent born outside Germany, and draws on both the extant literature on responses to experiences of ethnoracial exclusion a…
The duty to remember “it”: How Germans with and without a migration history discuss the role of the Holocaust
Contributing to research on how the Holocaust is interpreted in contemporary Germany, an increasingly pluralistic immigrant society with an official memory culture that has been criticized as hegemonic and univocal, this exploratory study investigates how Germans with and without a migration history talk about the Holocaust. It asks whether the emotions and attitudes of people with a migration history differ from those of Germans without a migrat…
Don’t complain. Adapt. Be successful”: How highly educated, middle-class Germans of Polish, Turkish, and sub-Saharan African background respond to racism
[You Are German] When You no Longer Stick Out: The Meaning of Being German From the Perspective of Germans With and Without a Migrant Background
While several quantitative studies have examined civic and ethno‐cultural notions of nationhood among German citizens, the meaning of being German in general and the ambiguities of the term in particular have remained underexplored. Furthermore, this line of scholarship has examined German citizens but has neglected the perspective of Germans with a migrant background. Drawing on six focus group discussions conducted in Germany in 2023, we explor…
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