Wiebke Sievers
Biographic Data
| ID | 641001 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wiebke Sievers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wiebke |
| FAMILY NAME | Sievers |
| SIGNATURE | SIEVERS W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Austrian Academy of Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0090-4347 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Cultural Change in Post-Migrant Societies
This open access book Cultural Change in Post-Migrant Societies discusses migrants as agents of cultural change in European migration societies. Free read!
Jenseits der Migrantologie
Die Migrationsforschung hat sich lange hauptsächlich damit befasst, aus der Perspektive der Mehrheitsgesellschaften Migrant*innen aus unterschiedlichen Herkunftsgesellschaften zu beforschen. Diese Ansätze sind inzwischen als "Migrantologie" in Kritik geraten. Insbesondere wird beanstandet, dass sie Migrant*innen in ihrem Herkunftsland verorten und nicht in dem Land, in dem sie leben. Damit schreiben sie nationale Grenzen fort, die gerade aufgrund…
Towards equality
There is a tendency in migration research to view artistic and cultural practices of immigrants and their descendants as well as the research of such practices as less relevant for our understanding of migration. This explains why it has long been a neglected area of research in the social sciences, as Marco Martiniello explains in his contribution to this volume. The present article argues that drawing such boundaries prevents us from seeing the…
Silence is golden’
Journal Article 'Silence is golden': Vladimir Vertlib's literary explorations of silence in migration Get access Wiebke Sievers Wiebke Sievers Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Migration Studies, Volume 9, Issue 4, December 2021, Pages 1857–1862, https://doi.org/10.1093/migration/mnab006 Published: 06 May 2022
Globalising the West
Literary actors in Western countries have long ignored authors who came as immigrants or are members of ethnic minorities. This article discusses the upscaling of these authors in the West since the 1960s as an international process related to other processes of globalisation, namely the recognition of non-Western writers and the emergence of transnational literary fields. Moreover, it compares the effects of this process in the British and Germa…
Scale Shifting
This special issue on scale shifting brings into sharper focus the complexity of global literary circulation, especially when viewed from the perspective of global literary peripheries. In this introduction, we present the idea of scale shifting, a concept we use to move beyond translation to include circulation in global languages, such as English and French. We build on earlier analyses that mapped previous literary worlds and shed light on the…
Immigrant and Ethnic-Minority Writers since 1945
Mainstage theatre and immigration
Recent studies have shown that mainstage theatre has largely remained closed to immigrants and their descendants who want to enter the cultural institution as actors, directors and playwrights. This was explained with persistent homogeneous national narratives, gatekeepers denying immigrants and their descendants access and cultural policies pushing them into niches. This article adds to this the dimension of theatre history to understand first, …
Introduction – Diversity incorporation in the cultural policy mainstream
The point of departure of this special issue is that in spite of the existence of a large debate on cultural policies, on the one hand, and on migration-related diversity policies, on the other hand, there are still few studies that deal with the intersection between these two policy fields. All contributions of the special issue bridge this gap by analysing if and how cultural policies, cultural institutions and artistic activities have changed …
Turkish Migrant Writers in Europe
The literatures that have emerged from post-war Turkish migration to Europe have become a topic of discussion since the 1980s. However, studies comparing the emergence of these literatures in different European contexts are rare. This article compares Sweden and West Germany, two contexts where migration from Turkey has a similar history, but where the resulting literatures differ massively due to different political and literary conditions. Mult…
Migration from the Middle East and North Africa to Europe
The IMISCOE Research Network unites researchers from some 30 institutes specialising in studies of international migration, integration and social cohesion in Europe. What began in 2004 as a Network of Excellence sponsored by the Sixth Framework Programme of the European Commission became, as of April 2009, an independent self-funding endeavour. IMISCOE promotes integrated, multidisciplinary and globally comparative research led by scholars from …
Migration from the Middle East and North Africa to Europe
The IMISCOE Research Network unites researchers from some 30 institutes specialising in studies of international migration, integration and social cohesion in Europe. What began in 2004 as a Network of Excellence sponsored by the Sixth Framework Programme of the European Commission became, as of April 2009, an independent self-funding endeavour. IMISCOE promotes integrated, multidisciplinary and globally comparative research led by scholars from …
A contested terrain
Culture in Vienna has become more diverse with successive waves of immigration since the 1960s, but Austrian cultural policies have been slow in picking up this trend. While the federal state has been focusing on maintaining traditional cultural institutions in Vienna such as the Staatsoper, the Burgtheater and the Kunsthistorisches Museum, the city of Vienna has pushed integration and later diversity in cultural policies since the 1990s, albeit …
How Turkish is it? Art and culture in Vienna
The Viennese Turkish community constitutes 4% of all people residing in Vienna. This considerable presence has also brought with it many artistic and cultural activities. In this paper I question how far these activities have diversified Viennese cultural life. The results are two-fold: my quantitative analysis of public-funding data shows that Viennese Turkish artistic activities are still perceived as a marginal addendum to Viennese cultural li…
Migration und Integration - wissenschaftliche Perspektiven aus Österreich
Statistics and Reality
Outlook
Writing Politics
This paper compares the emergence of immigrant writing in Germany and Austria with a view to explaining why a guestworker literature emerged in Germany in the 1970s but not in Austria despite the fact that the two countries’ immigration histories were comparable. Whilst these differing developments can be traced back to a number of factors, the paper argues that a critical factor is the opportunity structure within the receiving countries. Using …
Orientalist Kitsch? Edgar Hilsenrath's Novel Das Märchen vom letzten Gedanken
Halbmond uber den runden Gesasen christlicher Braute und ihrer muselmanischen Schander. With these words Michael Bauer concludes his review of Edgar Hilsenrath's Das Marchen vom letzten Gedanken, which focusses on the Turkish massacres of the Armenians between World War I and the founding of the Turkish Republic in 1923. Bauer does not totally condemn Hilsenrath's work. On the contrary, just like many other reviewers, such as Cornelia Staudacher,…
Writing Politics
This paper compares the emergence of immigrant writing in Germany and Austria with a view to explaining why a guestworker literature emerged in Germany in the 1970s but not in Austria despite the fact that the two countries’ immigration histories were comparable. Whilst these differing developments can be traced back to a number of factors, the paper argues that a critical factor is the opportunity structure within the receiving countries. Using …
Mainstage theatre and immigration
Recent studies have shown that mainstage theatre has largely remained closed to immigrants and their descendants who want to enter the cultural institution as actors, directors and playwrights. This was explained with persistent homogeneous national narratives, gatekeepers denying immigrants and their descendants access and cultural policies pushing them into niches. This article adds to this the dimension of theatre history to understand first, …
Introduction – Diversity incorporation in the cultural policy mainstream
The point of departure of this special issue is that in spite of the existence of a large debate on cultural policies, on the one hand, and on migration-related diversity policies, on the other hand, there are still few studies that deal with the intersection between these two policy fields. All contributions of the special issue bridge this gap by analysing if and how cultural policies, cultural institutions and artistic activities have changed …
Orientalist Kitsch? Edgar Hilsenrath's Novel Das Märchen vom letzten Gedanken
Halbmond uber den runden Gesasen christlicher Braute und ihrer muselmanischen Schander. With these words Michael Bauer concludes his review of Edgar Hilsenrath's Das Marchen vom letzten Gedanken, which focusses on the Turkish massacres of the Armenians between World War I and the founding of the Turkish Republic in 1923. Bauer does not totally condemn Hilsenrath's work. On the contrary, just like many other reviewers, such as Cornelia Staudacher,…
Writing Politics
This paper compares the emergence of immigrant writing in Germany and Austria with a view to explaining why a guestworker literature emerged in Germany in the 1970s but not in Austria despite the fact that the two countries’ immigration histories were comparable. Whilst these differing developments can be traced back to a number of factors, the paper argues that a critical factor is the opportunity structure within the receiving countries. Using …
Statistics and Reality
Outlook
Migration und Integration - wissenschaftliche Perspektiven aus Österreich
Migration from the Middle East and North Africa to Europe
The IMISCOE Research Network unites researchers from some 30 institutes specialising in studies of international migration, integration and social cohesion in Europe. What began in 2004 as a Network of Excellence sponsored by the Sixth Framework Programme of the European Commission became, as of April 2009, an independent self-funding endeavour. IMISCOE promotes integrated, multidisciplinary and globally comparative research led by scholars from …
Migration from the Middle East and North Africa to Europe
The IMISCOE Research Network unites researchers from some 30 institutes specialising in studies of international migration, integration and social cohesion in Europe. What began in 2004 as a Network of Excellence sponsored by the Sixth Framework Programme of the European Commission became, as of April 2009, an independent self-funding endeavour. IMISCOE promotes integrated, multidisciplinary and globally comparative research led by scholars from …
A contested terrain
Culture in Vienna has become more diverse with successive waves of immigration since the 1960s, but Austrian cultural policies have been slow in picking up this trend. While the federal state has been focusing on maintaining traditional cultural institutions in Vienna such as the Staatsoper, the Burgtheater and the Kunsthistorisches Museum, the city of Vienna has pushed integration and later diversity in cultural policies since the 1990s, albeit …
How Turkish is it? Art and culture in Vienna
The Viennese Turkish community constitutes 4% of all people residing in Vienna. This considerable presence has also brought with it many artistic and cultural activities. In this paper I question how far these activities have diversified Viennese cultural life. The results are two-fold: my quantitative analysis of public-funding data shows that Viennese Turkish artistic activities are still perceived as a marginal addendum to Viennese cultural li…
Turkish Migrant Writers in Europe
The literatures that have emerged from post-war Turkish migration to Europe have become a topic of discussion since the 1980s. However, studies comparing the emergence of these literatures in different European contexts are rare. This article compares Sweden and West Germany, two contexts where migration from Turkey has a similar history, but where the resulting literatures differ massively due to different political and literary conditions. Mult…
Mainstage theatre and immigration
Recent studies have shown that mainstage theatre has largely remained closed to immigrants and their descendants who want to enter the cultural institution as actors, directors and playwrights. This was explained with persistent homogeneous national narratives, gatekeepers denying immigrants and their descendants access and cultural policies pushing them into niches. This article adds to this the dimension of theatre history to understand first, …
Introduction – Diversity incorporation in the cultural policy mainstream
The point of departure of this special issue is that in spite of the existence of a large debate on cultural policies, on the one hand, and on migration-related diversity policies, on the other hand, there are still few studies that deal with the intersection between these two policy fields. All contributions of the special issue bridge this gap by analysing if and how cultural policies, cultural institutions and artistic activities have changed …
Immigrant and Ethnic-Minority Writers since 1945
Globalising the West
Literary actors in Western countries have long ignored authors who came as immigrants or are members of ethnic minorities. This article discusses the upscaling of these authors in the West since the 1960s as an international process related to other processes of globalisation, namely the recognition of non-Western writers and the emergence of transnational literary fields. Moreover, it compares the effects of this process in the British and Germa…
Scale Shifting
This special issue on scale shifting brings into sharper focus the complexity of global literary circulation, especially when viewed from the perspective of global literary peripheries. In this introduction, we present the idea of scale shifting, a concept we use to move beyond translation to include circulation in global languages, such as English and French. We build on earlier analyses that mapped previous literary worlds and shed light on the…
Towards equality
There is a tendency in migration research to view artistic and cultural practices of immigrants and their descendants as well as the research of such practices as less relevant for our understanding of migration. This explains why it has long been a neglected area of research in the social sciences, as Marco Martiniello explains in his contribution to this volume. The present article argues that drawing such boundaries prevents us from seeing the…
Silence is golden’
Journal Article 'Silence is golden': Vladimir Vertlib's literary explorations of silence in migration Get access Wiebke Sievers Wiebke Sievers Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Migration Studies, Volume 9, Issue 4, December 2021, Pages 1857–1862, https://doi.org/10.1093/migration/mnab006 Published: 06 May 2022
Jenseits der Migrantologie
Die Migrationsforschung hat sich lange hauptsächlich damit befasst, aus der Perspektive der Mehrheitsgesellschaften Migrant*innen aus unterschiedlichen Herkunftsgesellschaften zu beforschen. Diese Ansätze sind inzwischen als "Migrantologie" in Kritik geraten. Insbesondere wird beanstandet, dass sie Migrant*innen in ihrem Herkunftsland verorten und nicht in dem Land, in dem sie leben. Damit schreiben sie nationale Grenzen fort, die gerade aufgrund…
Cultural Change in Post-Migrant Societies
This open access book Cultural Change in Post-Migrant Societies discusses migrants as agents of cultural change in European migration societies. Free read!
Political science (14 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Art (7 works) · Immigration (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (4 works)