Strasser
Biographic Data
| ID | 37126 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Strasser |
| FAMILY NAME | Strasser |
| SIGNATURE | STRASSER |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bern |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3741-4672 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 106 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The affective economy of removal: Ethnographic perspectives on deportation and (In)voluntary return
Hiking Ethnography: A Short Essay on Fieldwork Mobility on Foot
Children of the crisis: Ethnographic perspectives on unaccompanied refugee youth in and en route to Europe
This special issue explores the ways unaccompanied refugee youth in and en route to Europe actively deal with the intensification of exclusionary practices towards migrants and refugees. In the Introduction we aim to set the scene for the individual articles by sketching the various political, historical and discursive levels at which the unaccompanied minor has come to be constructed as a crisis figure in Europe. We show how the sense of excepti…
The border event in the everyday: Hope and constraints in the lives of young unaccompanied asylum seekers in Turkey
This article addresses the everyday lives of young male migrants in a state care facility for unaccompanied minor asylum seekers in Istanbul, Turkey. We focus on how the EU-Turkey Statement, which came into force in March 2016, affected the young people's options and hopes and how they responded to the resultant strengthening of border control. Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Istanbul and the Aegean area between 2015 and 2016 we sh…
Politics of precarity: Neoliberal academia under austerity measures and authoritarian threat
In recent years, precarity has become the norm rather than an exception in contemporary European academia. This special issue on politics of precarity examines the economic, social and political crisis‐effects of the neoliberal turn in academia. It analyses how austerity measures and authoritarian politics have led to a proliferation of precarity among, mostly young, scholars
On politics and precarity in academia
The terror of the neoliberal markets and the terror of politics both threaten academic freedom - sometimes subtly, sometimes more openly. In this Forum, we ask our contributors to reflect on the entanglements between economy and politics and how they contribute to the ongoing precaritisation in academia, how they shape individual researchers' biographies and how they influence academic research. But more importantly, beyond analysis, this Forum a…
Transnational moralities: The politics of ir/responsibility of and against the EU border regime
The death of Alan Kurdi, the boy washed ashore in Turkey in September 2015, provoked a global moral outcry. The pictures of the toddler went viral across social networks and in the media. Following these images across borders, we analyse moral and political responses to the ‘EU refugee crisis’ by illuminating the circumstances under which people feel, take on, and demand responsibility. Considering EU policies and their lethal consequences as mec…
Intimate Uncertainties
For this special issue we are bringing together six ethnographic cases of intimate uncertainties that are situated within different regimes of reproduction, healthcare and borders in and beyond Europe. These ethnographic inquiries exemplify unprecedented settings of moral ir/responsibility shaping the intimate on different scales and in various sites of power (agencies, clinics, borderlands). These uncertainties in times of major transitions from…
On the New Politics of Distribution: A Conversation with James Ferguson
In this interview, conducted during Anthro-pology Talks 2015 at the University of Bern, James Ferguson engages with the key ideas guiding his thinking on new politics of distribution
Localising moralities: Power and temporality in Southeastern Europe
Reflection on moral orders and values lies at the core of the current global moment. Moreover, precisely this focus on ‘morality’ is among prominent recent modes of making sense of global processes
Repressive autonomy: Discourses on and surveillance of marriage migration from Turkey to Austria
Transnational marriages and family reunification have recently been assessed as one of the main obstacles to integration in Austria. They have been increasingly problematized and kept under surveillance when partners from third countries, in Austria particularly from Turkey, have been involved. Nonetheless, a great number of Turkish migrants and their descendants prefer to marry partners from their ‘country of origin’. In this paper I discuss pra…
Bewegte Zugehörigkeiten
Transnationale Migration
Multikulturalismus
Blut, Milch und Ehre. Feministische Debatten zu Modernisierung und Multikulturalismus in der Türkei und in Europa
Migration within, from and to the Middle East
During the last few decades, the range of key anthropological issues in the Middle East has changed remarkably. Along with relations between tribes and states, nomadism, kinship, ethnic and national conflicts, and tensions caused by oil and water, today’s post-9/11 effects and diversifying patterns of migration have increasingly attracted scholarly interest. Although they have entered the field of migration studies surprisingly late, social anthr…
Reports: Publications, Films, and Conferences
PUBLICATIONS ‘Parallel Societies’ and ‘No Integration’: Interventions of Social Sciences to the ‘Outside-World’ Schiffauer, Werner (2008), Parallelgesellschaften: Wie viel Wertekonsens braucht unsere Gesellschaft? Für eine kluge Politik der Differenz (Bielefeld: transcript). 147 pp., ISBN 978-3-89942-643-4. Hess, Sabine, Binder, Jana and Moser, Johannes (eds.) (2009), No Integration?! Kulturwissenschaftliche Beiträge zur Integrationsdebatte in Eu…
Europe's Other
As ‘Eurobarometer’ surveys indicate, European populations are increasingly sceptical about further EU enlargement, especially as far as Turkey is concerned. Austria's rejection of negotiations with Turkey has been remarkable. While the Austrian government has been in line with European council resolutions, policy makers of different parties have reiterated their claim for alternatives to full membership for Turkey. Furthermore, opinion polls have…
The necessary impossibility: Dynamics of identity among young people of different backgrounds in Vienna
Children of the crisis: Ethnographic perspectives on unaccompanied refugee youth in and en route to Europe
This special issue explores the ways unaccompanied refugee youth in and en route to Europe actively deal with the intensification of exclusionary practices towards migrants and refugees. In the Introduction we aim to set the scene for the individual articles by sketching the various political, historical and discursive levels at which the unaccompanied minor has come to be constructed as a crisis figure in Europe. We show how the sense of excepti…
The border event in the everyday: Hope and constraints in the lives of young unaccompanied asylum seekers in Turkey
This article addresses the everyday lives of young male migrants in a state care facility for unaccompanied minor asylum seekers in Istanbul, Turkey. We focus on how the EU-Turkey Statement, which came into force in March 2016, affected the young people's options and hopes and how they responded to the resultant strengthening of border control. Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Istanbul and the Aegean area between 2015 and 2016 we sh…
The affective economy of removal: Ethnographic perspectives on deportation and (In)voluntary return
On politics and precarity in academia
The terror of the neoliberal markets and the terror of politics both threaten academic freedom - sometimes subtly, sometimes more openly. In this Forum, we ask our contributors to reflect on the entanglements between economy and politics and how they contribute to the ongoing precaritisation in academia, how they shape individual researchers' biographies and how they influence academic research. But more importantly, beyond analysis, this Forum a…
Europe's Other
As ‘Eurobarometer’ surveys indicate, European populations are increasingly sceptical about further EU enlargement, especially as far as Turkey is concerned. Austria's rejection of negotiations with Turkey has been remarkable. While the Austrian government has been in line with European council resolutions, policy makers of different parties have reiterated their claim for alternatives to full membership for Turkey. Furthermore, opinion polls have…
The necessary impossibility: Dynamics of identity among young people of different backgrounds in Vienna
Europe's Other
As ‘Eurobarometer’ surveys indicate, European populations are increasingly sceptical about further EU enlargement, especially as far as Turkey is concerned. Austria's rejection of negotiations with Turkey has been remarkable. While the Austrian government has been in line with European council resolutions, policy makers of different parties have reiterated their claim for alternatives to full membership for Turkey. Furthermore, opinion polls have…
Blut, Milch und Ehre. Feministische Debatten zu Modernisierung und Multikulturalismus in der Türkei und in Europa
Migration within, from and to the Middle East
During the last few decades, the range of key anthropological issues in the Middle East has changed remarkably. Along with relations between tribes and states, nomadism, kinship, ethnic and national conflicts, and tensions caused by oil and water, today’s post-9/11 effects and diversifying patterns of migration have increasingly attracted scholarly interest. Although they have entered the field of migration studies surprisingly late, social anthr…
Reports: Publications, Films, and Conferences
PUBLICATIONS ‘Parallel Societies’ and ‘No Integration’: Interventions of Social Sciences to the ‘Outside-World’ Schiffauer, Werner (2008), Parallelgesellschaften: Wie viel Wertekonsens braucht unsere Gesellschaft? Für eine kluge Politik der Differenz (Bielefeld: transcript). 147 pp., ISBN 978-3-89942-643-4. Hess, Sabine, Binder, Jana and Moser, Johannes (eds.) (2009), No Integration?! Kulturwissenschaftliche Beiträge zur Integrationsdebatte in Eu…
Transnationale Migration
Multikulturalismus
Bewegte Zugehörigkeiten
Repressive autonomy: Discourses on and surveillance of marriage migration from Turkey to Austria
Transnational marriages and family reunification have recently been assessed as one of the main obstacles to integration in Austria. They have been increasingly problematized and kept under surveillance when partners from third countries, in Austria particularly from Turkey, have been involved. Nonetheless, a great number of Turkish migrants and their descendants prefer to marry partners from their ‘country of origin’. In this paper I discuss pra…
Localising moralities: Power and temporality in Southeastern Europe
Reflection on moral orders and values lies at the core of the current global moment. Moreover, precisely this focus on ‘morality’ is among prominent recent modes of making sense of global processes
On the New Politics of Distribution: A Conversation with James Ferguson
In this interview, conducted during Anthro-pology Talks 2015 at the University of Bern, James Ferguson engages with the key ideas guiding his thinking on new politics of distribution
Transnational moralities: The politics of ir/responsibility of and against the EU border regime
The death of Alan Kurdi, the boy washed ashore in Turkey in September 2015, provoked a global moral outcry. The pictures of the toddler went viral across social networks and in the media. Following these images across borders, we analyse moral and political responses to the ‘EU refugee crisis’ by illuminating the circumstances under which people feel, take on, and demand responsibility. Considering EU policies and their lethal consequences as mec…
Intimate Uncertainties
For this special issue we are bringing together six ethnographic cases of intimate uncertainties that are situated within different regimes of reproduction, healthcare and borders in and beyond Europe. These ethnographic inquiries exemplify unprecedented settings of moral ir/responsibility shaping the intimate on different scales and in various sites of power (agencies, clinics, borderlands). These uncertainties in times of major transitions from…
Politics of precarity: Neoliberal academia under austerity measures and authoritarian threat
In recent years, precarity has become the norm rather than an exception in contemporary European academia. This special issue on politics of precarity examines the economic, social and political crisis‐effects of the neoliberal turn in academia. It analyses how austerity measures and authoritarian politics have led to a proliferation of precarity among, mostly young, scholars
On politics and precarity in academia
The terror of the neoliberal markets and the terror of politics both threaten academic freedom - sometimes subtly, sometimes more openly. In this Forum, we ask our contributors to reflect on the entanglements between economy and politics and how they contribute to the ongoing precaritisation in academia, how they shape individual researchers' biographies and how they influence academic research. But more importantly, beyond analysis, this Forum a…
Children of the crisis: Ethnographic perspectives on unaccompanied refugee youth in and en route to Europe
This special issue explores the ways unaccompanied refugee youth in and en route to Europe actively deal with the intensification of exclusionary practices towards migrants and refugees. In the Introduction we aim to set the scene for the individual articles by sketching the various political, historical and discursive levels at which the unaccompanied minor has come to be constructed as a crisis figure in Europe. We show how the sense of excepti…
The border event in the everyday: Hope and constraints in the lives of young unaccompanied asylum seekers in Turkey
This article addresses the everyday lives of young male migrants in a state care facility for unaccompanied minor asylum seekers in Istanbul, Turkey. We focus on how the EU-Turkey Statement, which came into force in March 2016, affected the young people's options and hopes and how they responded to the resultant strengthening of border control. Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Istanbul and the Aegean area between 2015 and 2016 we sh…
Hiking Ethnography: A Short Essay on Fieldwork Mobility on Foot
The affective economy of removal: Ethnographic perspectives on deportation and (In)voluntary return
Political science (15 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Anthropology (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (6 works) · Ethnography (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works)