by Dr. Eunike Piwoni.

Within the framework of this project I conduct interviews with three groups of "Germans with a migration background": Germans with Polish background, Germans with Turkish background and black Germans. I am interested in whether, despite their German citizenship (and thus formal membership), they perceive symbolic boundaries between their groups and "the Germans" and how they deal with them. The central question here is what answers they develop when they are discriminated against or stigmatized. In this context I am also and above all interested in the cultural resources (specific discourses and patterns of interpretation, but also emotions, religion and law) that are available to them in dealing with symbolic boundaries (or perceived discrimination and stigmatization) and the factors that influence access to these resources (media, networks, social positions). The project is comparative in nature and ties in with debates on emotional sociology, migration sociology and cultural sociology.

Carried out at the University of Haifa and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel (funded by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economics and the Comper Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Antisemitism and Racism, University of Haifa)

The research project, carried out at the Comper Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Antisemitism and Racism and the European Forum of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem between March 2017 and March 2018, focused on current challenges of feminism in connection with theories of racism and antisemitism. Using social movements such as the Women's March on Washington, Dyke Marches, and the "Day Without a Women Strike," the project analyzed how feminist, queer, and pro-Palestinian activism are linked in practice and to what extent Jewish experiences of global antisemitism are included or excluded.

Publications relevant to the project:

Karin Stögner: Intersectionality and Antisemitism – Strange Alliances, in: Armin Lange, Dina Porat, Lawrence Schiffman (eds.): An End to Antisemitism. Theoretical approaches and practical challenges, Berlin: de Gruyter (to be published in 2020).

Karin Stögner: Wie inklusiv ist Intersektionalität? Neue Soziale Bewegungen, Identitätspolitik und Antisemitismus, in: Samuel Salzborn (ed.): Antisemitismus seit 9/11. Ereignisse, Debatten, Kontroversen. (Interdisziplinäre Antisemitismusforschung, Bd. 11) Baden-Baden: Nomos 2019, 385-402.

Karin Stögner: Intersectionality and anti-Zionism. New Challenges in Feminism, in: Alvin Rosenfeld (ed.), Anti-Zionism and Antisemitism. The Dynamics of Delegitimization, Bloomington: Indiana University Press 2019, 84-111.

Carried out at Lancaster University, UK, at Georgetown University, Washington DC, and at the University of Vienna
(Erwin Schrödinger-Excellence Grant, FWF - Austrian Science Fund)

This research project aimed at analysing relations and intersections of nationalism and antisemitism using the print media debates on the global economic crisis (2008-2012) in Austria and England. The focus was on the complex and seemingly paradoxical relationship between the potential of a "post-national constellation" (Habermas), characterized by pluralism and cultural mobility, globalized economy and a changing role of nation states, on the one hand, and the persistence of nationalism and antisemitism, on the other. Traditionally, in times of economic crisis, there is an increased tendency towards nationalist and antisemitic reactions, and explanatory patterns based on a traditional horizon of understanding and perception, an archive of traditional ideologies that traditionally contain nationalism and antisemitism as central moments.

Publications relevant to the project:

Karin Stögner: “We are the new Jews!” and “The Jewish Lobby” – Holocaust inversion, antisemitism and the construction of a national identity by the Austrian Freedom Party, in: Nations and Nationalism, 2016, 22(3), 484-504.

Karin Stögner, Ruth Wodak: “The Man Who Hated Britain” – The Discursive Construction of National Unity in the Daily Mail, in: Critical Discourse Studies, 13(2), April 2016, 193-209.

Karin Stögner, Ruth Wodak: „Nationale Einheit“ und die Konstruktion des „fremden Juden“: die politische Instrumentalisierung rechtspopulistischer Ausgrenzung in der Daily Mail, in: Osnabrücker Beiträge zur Sprachtheorie, Heft 86/2014: Populismus im Zeitalter von Mediendemokratie und medialer Erlebnisgesellschaft (ed. by Franz Januschek and Martin Reisigl), 131-160.

Karin Stögner: Sekundärer Antisemitismus – Aktualisierung eines Beitrags der Kritischen Theorie zur Nachkriegssoziologie, in: Christoph Reinprecht, Andreas Kranebitter (eds.), Die Soziologie und der Nationalsozialismus in Österreich. Sondierungen und Perspektiven, Wien: Mandelbaum 2019, 261-277.

Carried out at the Institute for Conflict Research, Vienna

(funded by the Federal Ministry of Science and Research, Austria)

Against the background of the broad political reorganization of the Central European region in the course of the 20th century and the European integration efforts, the aim of this history book is to trace the historical, social, cultural, political and economic starting point for selected Central European countries. The volume comprises seven country studies, all of which revolve around the development of national narratives from the late 19th century to the present. The included countries are the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Poland and Austria. The contributions were written by internationally renowned authors who were selected through a peer selection process based on their expertise. The authors were guided by a catalogue of focal points developed by the editorial team, which enabled a comparison of parallel and opposing narratives prepared by scientific analysis. In the final phase of the project, a broad comparative part was drawn up by the project staff at the Institute for Conflict Research on the basis of these country studies. The comparative part is structured in four phases: Fin de Siècle and the First World War, the interwar period and the Second World War, the end of the Second World War up to the "Wende", and the period up to the present - and thus reflects the chronology which is also consistently followed in the individual country studies.

Publications relevant to the project:

Anton Pelinka, Karin Bischof, Walter Fend, Thomas Köhler, Karin Stögner (Hg.): Geschichtsbuch Mitteleuropa, Wien: New Academic Press 2016.

Karin Stögner: Narrative des Nationalen in Mittel- und Osteuropa in der Zwischenkriegszeit, in: Anton Pelinka, Karin Bischof, Walter Fend, Thomas Köhler, Karin Stögner (Hg.): Geschichtsbuch Mitteleuropa, Vienna: new academic press 2016, 42-61.

Carried out at the Central European University, Budapest

(EU FP7 Marie Curie Excellence Grant for Career Development)

This project, carried out as part of a Marie Curie Excellence Grant at the Central European University in Budapest, aimed to trace and analyze the connections and mediations between antisemitism and nationalism in the historical development. At the core of the project were in-depth theoretical studies, particularly in the field of critical theory of the Frankfurt School (Horkheimer, Adorno, Benjamin, Habermas), on the concept of nationalism and its interrelation with antisemitism.

Publications relevant to the project:

Karin Stögner, Thomas Schmidinger (eds.): Antisemitismus und die Transformation des Nationalen, Schwerpunktheft der Österreichischen Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft, 39(4), 2010.

Karin Stögner, Johannes Höpoltseder: Nationalism and Antisemitism in the Postnational Constellation. Thoughts on Horkheimer, Adorno and Habermas, in: Charles A. Small (ed.): Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity, Boston: Brill-Nijhoff 2013, 121-134.

Karin Stögner: On Antisemitism and Nationalism at the Fin de Siècle: Walter Benjamin’s Critique of German Youth Movement, in: Felicity Rash, Geraldine Horan, Daniel Wildmann (eds.): English and German Nationalist and anti-Semitic Discourse 1871-1945, Frankfurt a. M./New York: Peter Lang 2013, 117- 144.

Karin Stögner: The Feminization of Fascism and National Identity Construction after 1945, in: David Seymour, Ruth Wodak (eds.): Contested Memories. Antisemitism and the Holocaust in the Twenty-first Century, London: Routledge 2017, 223-243.

Carried out at the Institute for Conflict Research, Vienna

(funded by the Jubilee Fond of the Austrian National Bank)

The research project focused on the coverage of the economic and financial crisis in Austrian print media in the years 2008-2010 under the aspect of a thereby transported antisemitism. Methodologically, the project was oriented towards discourse analysis.

Publications relevant to the project:

Karin Stögner, Karin Bischof, Elke Rajal: Antisemitismus und Finanzkrise. Eine Untersuchung österreichischer Printmedien, Wien: Institut für Konfliktforschung (IKF) 2011.

Karin Stögner: Economic Crisis and Blaming You Know Who: Antisemitism and Nationalism in Austria, in: Journal for the Study of Antisemitism, vol. 3(2), 2012, 711-729.

Karin Stögner: Secondary antisemitism, the economic crisis and the construction of national identity, in: Critical Sociology, 2018, 44(4-5), 719-732.

Karin Stögner, Karin Bischof: “International High Finance Against the Nation”. Antisemitism and Nationalism in Austrian Print Media Debates on the Economic Crisis, in: Journal of Language and Politics, 2018, 17(3), 428-446.

Carried out at the Institute for Conflict Research, Vienna

(funded by the Research Programme NODE - New Orientation of Democracy in Europe, Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Arts (Austria))

In a comparative empirical study of the media discourse in Austria and France (2005-2007), this project studies the question of how gender and religion/secularity are linked in the discourse on Turkey's EU accession in French and Austrian print media. The focus was on specific representations of the other and the self, in which gender constructions intersected with constructions of religious alterity. Thereby, ideal-typical contrasting national narratives emerged: While the modes of representation of Turkey and the accession debates examined in France were linked in particular to universalist ideas of a "mission civilisatrice", in Austria various threat scenarios increasingly came into effect, in which historical lines of conflict were reactivated.

Publications relevant to the project:

Karin Bischof, Florian Oberhuber, Karin Stögner: Geschlecht und Religion im Diskurs um den EU-Beitritt der Türkei – eine vergleichende Perspektive auf Frankreich und Österreich, in: Österreichische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft, 37(4), 2008, 419-434 (SSCI; Impact Factor: 0.11).

Karin Bischof, Florian Oberhuber, Karin Stögner: Gender-specific constructions of the ‘other religion’ in French and Austrian discourse on Turkey’s accession to the European Union, in: Journal of Language and Politics 9(3), 2010, 364-392 (SSCI; Impact Factor: 0.558, Q2).

Karin Bischof, Florian Oberhuber, Karin Stögner: Images of Turkey and Their Religious and Gender-Specific Connotations, in: Kadın Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2(11), 2012, 43-57 (http://journals.istanbul.edu.tr/tr/index.php/kadin/article/view/22481/0997).

Karin Bischof, Florian Oberhuber, Karin Stögner: Religion, Säkularisierung und Geschlecht – Debatten um den EU-Beitritt der Türkei, Bremen: Wiener Verlag für Sozialforschung 2014.

Anti-Semitic-misogyne stereotypes and their effects on the identity of Jewish women in Austria (2004-2005)

Carried out at the Institute for Conflict Research, Vienna

(funded by the Jubilee Fond of the Austrian National Bank)

These two projects had the goal of analyzing the complex mediation of antisemitism and antifeminism. This approach to the subject area took place from the perspective of political, economic, and intellectual-historical explanations, each of which was examined with regard to the characteristics, correspondence, and differences between antisemitism and antifeminism. The aim was to reconstruct the subjective and objective structures of both ideologies through condition analysis, in order to enable a conceptual understanding of their interdependency. The differences as well as the similarities between antisemitism and antifeminism were taken into account by illuminating the specific constellations in which they stand through this archaeology of mediation.

Publications relevant to the project:

Konstellationen von Antisemitismus und Sexismus, in: Lieselotte Homering, Sybille Oßwald-Bargende, Mascha Riepl-Schmidt, Ute Scherb (eds.): Antisemitismus – Antifeminismus. Ausgrenzungsstrategien im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, Roßdorf: Ulrike Ulmer Verlag 2019, 15-35.

Karin Stögner: Double-Others – Relations of Antisemitism and Misogyny in Theory and History, in: Vienna Wiesenthal Institute (ed.), Modern Antisemitisms in the Peripheries. Europe and its Colonies 1880-1945, Vienna: New Academic Press 2019, 97-108.

Karin Stögner: Natur als Ideologie. Zum Verhältnis von Antisemitismus und Sexismus, in: Marc Grimm, Bodo Kahmann (eds.), Antisemitismus in der Gegenwart – Aktuelle Perspektiven der Antisemitismusforschung (Reihe Europäisch-jüdische Studien – Beiträge, ed. By the Moses Mendelsohn Zentrum in cooperation with the Zentrum Jüdische Studien Berlin Brandenburg), Berlin: De Gruyter 2018, 65-86.

Karin Stögner: Nature and Anti-Nature – Constellations of Antisemitism and Sexism, in: Ulrike Brunotte, Barbara Breysach, Jürgen Späti, Christina Späti (eds.), Internal Outsiders – Imagined Orientals? Antisemitism, Colonialism and Modern Constructions of Jewish Identity, Würzburg: Ergon Verlag 2017, 157-170.

Karin Stögner: Antisemitismus und Sexismus. Historisch-gesellschaftliche Konstellationen, Baden-Baden: Nomos 2014.

Antisemitisch-misogyne Repräsentationen und die Krise der Geschlechtsidentität im Fin de Siècle, in: Barbara Eichinger, Frank Stern (eds.), Wien und die jüdische Erfahrung 1900 – 1938. Akkulturation, Antisemitismus, Antizionismus, Wien: Böhlau 2009, 229-256.

Zum Verhältnis von Antisemitismus und Geschlecht im Nationalsozialismus, in: Dokumentationsarchiv des österreichischen Widerstandes (ed.), Jahrbuch 2008. Schwerpunkt Antisemitismus, Wien: LIT Verlag 2008, 70-85.

Über einige Gemeinsamkeiten von Antisemitismus und Antifeminismus, in: Dokumentationsarchiv des österreichischen Widerstandes (ed.), Jahrbuch 2005. Schwerpunkt Frauen in Widerstand und Verfolgung, Wien: LIT Verlag 2005, 38-51.

Carried out at the Institute for Conflict Research, Vienna

(funded by the Voest Alpine AG)

The Handbook consists of two main parts: In the first part, six socially relevant prejudices (antisemitism; sexism/homophobia; prejudices against age, illness, disability; religious prejudices; racism; class prejudice) are analyzed in detail, taking into account both the historical dimension of the respective prejudices and "good practices". The second part brings together articles that deal with prejudices from the perspective of various academic disciplines (history and art history; social and economic sciences; psychology and education; natural sciences and medicine; normative sciences, religious studies and law; linguistics, literature and communication studies). The main focus in these articles is on the use of the term "prejudice" in the respective scientific disciplines as well as on the causes and effects of prejudice. Furthermore, the societal function of prejudices was described from the perspective of the respective discipline.

These two main parts are framed by two detailed introductory articles, which deal with the main concepts and problem areas of prejudice research in general, and a concluding résumé, in which the theoretical strands and central themes of the articles collected in this handbook are contrasted in a structured way.

The Handbook was published in both English and German. The IKF was supported by an advisory board in the selection of the internationally renowned authors, which was made by including scientific peers.

Publications relevant to the project:

Handbook of Prejudice (Cambria Press, New York 2009)

Vorurteile. Ursprünge, Formen, Bedeutung (De Gruyter, Berlin 2012)

Austrian Legacies. Fault Lines of Austrian and Jewish Identities (2003-2004)

Carried out at the Institute for Conflict Research, Vienna in cooperation with the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism, Hebrew University   of Jerusalem
(funded by the Jubilee Fond of the Austrian National Bank)

Project publications:

Kreisky – Haider. Bruchlinien österreichischer Identitäten (together with Anton Pelinka and Hubert Sickinger), Wien: Braumüller 2008.