Katharina Fritsch
Biographic Data
| ID | 4377412 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katharina Fritsch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katharina |
| FAMILY NAME | Fritsch |
| SIGNATURE | FRITSCH K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Vienna |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1524-7263 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Being Moved by (Research on) Protest Repression and States of Emergency
This article addresses the role of emotions and positionality in research on protest repression in the context of states of emergency in France. The analysis is based on a qualitative study (2023–2025) concerning the experiences of protest repression among activists of antiracist, environmental, and social justice movements in Marseille. Drawing on emotion-based and performativity approaches to research methodologies and ethics, the article shows…
Framing Covid-19 through memes
The Covid-19 pandemic and the intensified digitalization of life-worlds has especially affected younger generations, also in Austria. In this paper, we approach digital practices of 43 young adults between 16 and 18 years in a frame-analytical perspective to understand forms of politicization during the Covid-19 pandemic. We analyze memes in order to make sense of youth’s life-worlds during the pandemic. The memes were created by youth as a resul…
Diaspora of the Comoros in France
Trans-skin
This essay analyses skin bleaching among middle-class Tanzanian women as performative practice. It draws on empirical material from interviews with middle-class Tanzanian women as well as from advertisements in Dar es Salaam. Skin bleaching is situated at a ‘site of ambivalence’ (Butler), revolving around ‘light beauty’ as postcolonial regulatory ideal. Thus on the one hand, skin bleaching is analyzed as a practice of ‘passing for light(-skinned)…
Reinventing and multiplying ‘Comorian diaspora’ within popular culture
Popular culture is an important domain in which postcolonial notions of diaspora are being negotiated. In this article, we focus on Marseilles, France, and the Comorian diaspora that currently represents one of the city’s major migrant populations. More precisely, we focus on the talent show Étoiles Rasmi (2013) as well as the oeuvre by Franco-Comorian slam artist Ahamada Smis. While situated in different spheres of popular culture, Étoiles Rasmi…
Trans-skin
This essay analyses skin bleaching among middle-class Tanzanian women as performative practice. It draws on empirical material from interviews with middle-class Tanzanian women as well as from advertisements in Dar es Salaam. Skin bleaching is situated at a ‘site of ambivalence’ (Butler), revolving around ‘light beauty’ as postcolonial regulatory ideal. Thus on the one hand, skin bleaching is analyzed as a practice of ‘passing for light(-skinned)…
Reinventing and multiplying ‘Comorian diaspora’ within popular culture
Popular culture is an important domain in which postcolonial notions of diaspora are being negotiated. In this article, we focus on Marseilles, France, and the Comorian diaspora that currently represents one of the city’s major migrant populations. More precisely, we focus on the talent show Étoiles Rasmi (2013) as well as the oeuvre by Franco-Comorian slam artist Ahamada Smis. While situated in different spheres of popular culture, Étoiles Rasmi…
Reinventing and multiplying ‘Comorian diaspora’ within popular culture
Popular culture is an important domain in which postcolonial notions of diaspora are being negotiated. In this article, we focus on Marseilles, France, and the Comorian diaspora that currently represents one of the city’s major migrant populations. More precisely, we focus on the talent show Étoiles Rasmi (2013) as well as the oeuvre by Franco-Comorian slam artist Ahamada Smis. While situated in different spheres of popular culture, Étoiles Rasmi…
Trans-skin
This essay analyses skin bleaching among middle-class Tanzanian women as performative practice. It draws on empirical material from interviews with middle-class Tanzanian women as well as from advertisements in Dar es Salaam. Skin bleaching is situated at a ‘site of ambivalence’ (Butler), revolving around ‘light beauty’ as postcolonial regulatory ideal. Thus on the one hand, skin bleaching is analyzed as a practice of ‘passing for light(-skinned)…
Diaspora of the Comoros in France
Framing Covid-19 through memes
The Covid-19 pandemic and the intensified digitalization of life-worlds has especially affected younger generations, also in Austria. In this paper, we approach digital practices of 43 young adults between 16 and 18 years in a frame-analytical perspective to understand forms of politicization during the Covid-19 pandemic. We analyze memes in order to make sense of youth’s life-worlds during the pandemic. The memes were created by youth as a resul…
Being Moved by (Research on) Protest Repression and States of Emergency
This article addresses the role of emotions and positionality in research on protest repression in the context of states of emergency in France. The analysis is based on a qualitative study (2023–2025) concerning the experiences of protest repression among activists of antiracist, environmental, and social justice movements in Marseille. Drawing on emotion-based and performativity approaches to research methodologies and ethics, the article shows…
Gender Studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Performativity (2 works)