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Research Statement
Dr Ulrike M Vieten is a Lecturer in Sociology (of Gender, Migration and Difference), who joined Queen's University Belfast as one of the QUB Fellows, in 2015.
Dr Vieten was awarded a Doctor in Philosophy (PhD) by the University of East London (UEL), England, in 2008, and a MA in Gender & Ethnic Studies by the University of Greenwich, also Britain, in 2004. In Germany she read Law (Bremen) and Social Sciences (Oldenburg, MA), and worked on gender equality implementation and law in the 1990s.
Dr Vieten held various post-doc positions and Research Fellowships at the VU Amsterdam, the University of Sheffield and the University Luxembourg, beforehand.
Going beyond the nation state sociological lens she incorporates cosmopolitan and interdisciplinay (feminist-intersectional) methodologies in her research. She is a comparativist, looking at the transformation of (European) societies and considering the increasing meaning of transnational identities.
Theoretically, Dr Vieten is inspired by feminist thinkers such as Nancy Fraser, Iris Marion Young, bell hooks, Kimberle Crenshaw, Nira Yuval-Davis, but also Sylvia Walby with respect to her work on the notion of 'European societalization'.
Closely working with British scholar Nira Yuval-Davis (UEL) in the past, and further today (Social Scientists Against Hostile Environment -Social Scientists Against the Hostile Environment (wordpress.com) ) Dr Vieten explores the historical and contemporary impact of the politics of belonging and racisms on individual positionality, notions of migration and citizenship.
Related to Dr Vieten's publications on racialised and gendered group boundaries ('othering of difference'), culturalism and racism, her expertise on gender, far right populism and racism in contemporary Europe, is internationally recognized and she contributes regularly to media debates ( e.g. EURONEWS feature; BBC/Ulster Radio or political blogs).
- Her new monograph (co-authored with Scott Poynting), Normalization of the Global Far-Right: Pandemic Disruption? (2022, Emerald Points) is a timely intervention in ongoing debates on everyday racisms, and the normalization of extremist views in and across different societies, also taking into account the post March 2020 pandemic situtation and implications for this debate.
https://books.emeraldinsight.com/book/detail/normalization-of-the-global-far-right/?k=9781839099571
- Since January 2020, Dr Vieten is Editor-in- Chief of the refereed European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology.
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/recp20/current
Currently, Dr Vieten is working on a new monograph, Loss and Liquid Citzenship: the postmigration condition in a populist age, commissioned by ROUTLEDGE. The monograph investigates the shifting boundaries of the migration-citizenship nexus in different countries considering the post-Brexit situation and using a de-colonial feminist lens. The argument is inspired by Zygmunt Bauman's notion of liquid modernity combining it with Judith Butler's work on temporality.
Between April and July 2023, Dr Vieten will be a Visiting Research Fellow in Australia, being based at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Alfred Deakin University, Melbourne (Australia). She will continue writing her book manuscript, giving guest lectures, and also explore possibilities for further research collaboration with Australian colleagues.
Research Focus
Dr Vieten does have particular expertise in Gender, Ethnic and Sexualities Studies.
Her research engages theoretically and empirically with the (de-)construction of racialised, classed and gendered group boundaries, looking at processes of normalization and the critique of it. Another way of capturing this is asking how othering operates in discourses and in different situated historical contexts. Dr Vieten published widely on the shifting notions of difference and otherness, in the context of gendered cosmopolitanisms, far-right populisms and archives of racisms, in Europe.
Foremost, Dr Vieten is interested in processes of European societalisation, and the emergence of multi-layered transnational identities. She is a comparativist, who applies a range of qualitative methods (e.g. Critical Discourse Analysis; visual methods/ semiotics; narrative methods). Having worked academically in the Netherlands, Luxembourg and England before coming to Northern Ireland, countries of expertise include: Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Poland, Austria and Turkey.
Dr Vietens' research has been funded by the British Council/ Newton Fund; Northern Ireland Department for the Economy (DfE)/ Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) and the Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister (OFMDFM), Stormont. The pilot study 'Loss and the Language of Dance' (2017-2018), for example, explored how the experience of loss can be culturally translated across different countries and collective memories, such as Northern Ireland and Turkey'.
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/refugees-displacement-and-moving-bodies-studying-loss-and-language-of-dance/
Achievements
Before 2002
Before migrating to London/ UK, in 2002, and embarking on an academic career, Dr Vieten worked professionally (Organisational Sociology) on gender equality implementation as far as Germany is concerned.
The legal commentary in the field of gender equality and German anti-discimination law was published in 2002:
'Frauengleichstellungsgesetze des Bundes und der Laender', (2002), co-authored with Prof Dr Dagmar Schiek, Prof Dr Heike Dieball et al., published with the BUND Verlag in Frankfurt/ Main.
Beyond 2002
Dr Vieten co-edited with Prof Nira Yuval-Davis (UEL), The Situated Politics of Belonging (also with Prof Kalpana Kannabiran), published in 2006 (with SAGE).
Achievements
In 2012, Dr Vieten's first MONOGRAPH was published with ASHGATE (by now with ROUTLEGE):
Gender and Cosmopolitanism in Europe: A Feminist Approach
https://www.routledge.com/Gender-and-Cosmopolitanism-in-Europe-A-Feminist-Perspective/Vieten/p/book/9781138250734
Book Reviews are here:
In 2016, Dr Vieten published the co-edited book (with G. Valentine) 'Cartographies of Differences: Interdisciplinary Perspectives', this book is now available (August 2018) as OPEN ACCESS.
https://www.peterlang.com/view/product/46955?tab=aboutauthor&format=MOBI
Achievements
Dr Vieten's theoretical interest in the tension between processes of normalisation (and the critique of it) on the one hand and notions of democratic inclusion led first to a symposium she organised in Amsterdam in 2012; and second, in 2014 to an edited collection:
REVISITING IRIS MARION YOUNG ON NORMALISATION, INCLUSION and DEMOCRACY
Particulars
Dr Vieten will be a Visiting Research Fellow in Melbourne (Australia), at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, between mid of April and beginning of July 2023.
Internationally and professionally Dr Vieten is organised with the International Sociological Association (ISA), since 2003. Between 2010 and summer 2018 she was elected Board Member of the ISA Research Committee on Racism, Nationalism, Indigeneity and Ethnicity (RC05).
As part of these international activities she convened and contributed to different ISA Forum and World Congresses of Sociology, e.g. in Durban/ SA (2006), Goeteborg/ Sweden (2010) Buenos Aires/ Argentina (2012), Yokohama/ Japan (2014), Vienna/ Austria (2016), Toronto/ Canada (2018) and Porto Allegre/ Brazil (2020).
The 2023 ISA World Congress with take place enf of June until beginning of July, in Melbourne, and Dr Vieten is convening a RC05 panel on the Normalization of the Global Far Right (with Prof Scott Poynting), and further giving a paper at another panel releated to her new book project, on 'Liquid Citizenship and the post-migration condition'.
Since 2019, Dr Vieten is member of the Irish Sociological Association (SAI), and the European Association of Sociology (ESA).
Since January 2020, she is Editor-in-Chief of the refereed European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology.
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/recp20/current
Teaching
TEACHING at QUB - Convenor of:
- MA Conflict and Social Justice - Dissertation Module (Mitchell Institute) CSJ7002 (2017-2019)
- Dr Vieten also contributed with a specially designed slot on 'gender, conflict and justice' to the Theoretical Core Module Global Concepts and Practices of Conflict Transformation - CSJ7001 (2017-2019)
In the School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work (SSESW) she convened in 2019/2020
- MRes Module - Approaches to Social Research, SOC9012
and continues convenining modules in Undergraduate Teaching:
- Sociology elective - Understanding Gender & Migration (SOC2051) - since 2019/ 2020
This module - newly designed in 2019 - responds to the need to expand an explicit focus on gender in mainstream sociological teaching and thinking in SSESW, and connecting gender to ongoing international debates on migration. In the previous years global, regional as well as intra-Europan migration issues (e.g. EU citizenship, cross border mobility) were prominent, but due to the Brexit situation (post-2020) the module will deliver a slightly revised approach focusing on global migration, also taking into account the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic crisis, in autumn 2021.
- Sociology - mandatory - Qualitative Research Skills, SOC2003 (since 2020/2021)
Dr Vieten also is involved in the curriculum development and delivery of the theory module ('Theories, Frameworks and Concepts') as part of the innovative Integrated PhD (IPhD), launched in 2020.
Before coming to NI, and teaching at QUB, Dr Vieten was involved in teaching, designing and convening modules at British universities (UEL/ London Metropolitan University), in the Netherlands (VU Amsterdam) as well as in Germany (University of Applied Studies, Hanover) on
Undergraduate Teaching/ modules (between 2004 and 2008)
- Communication and Media
- Youth Cultures
- Media Meanings
- Global Justice and Human Rights
- Globalisation and Society
- Gender & Race
- Diversity, Difference and Identity in Organisations, Winter term 2011/2012 (VU Amsterdam)
Postgraduate module/ workshop
on 'Roma Studies' (2001-2002), University of Applied Studies Hanover ('Social Work')
Successfully supervised PhDs:
- Netherlands
Dr Melanie Eijberts (2013). Migrant Women Shout It Out Loud. The Integration/ Participation Strategies and Sense of Home of First- and Second-Generation Women of Moroccan and Turkish Descent. VU University Amsterdam (cuma sum laude).
- UK/ Northern Ireland
Emily Mitchell-Bajic (2022), The Silencing of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence Survivors in the Post-Yugoslav Space, Belfast, DfE funded scholarship
Ongoing PhD supervision:
Salah Uddin, Forced Migration of Rohingya refugees to Bangladesh
Judith Atwell, An Ethnographic challenge to Resettlement as a “durable solution”: Syrian refugees and Northern Ireland. - DfE funded scholarship.
Achievements
In September 2022, Dr Vieten was appointed as the External Examiner to the MA program 'Refugee Integration', Dublin City University, Ireland.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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R3754MAE: Asylum Seeker's and Refugee's Experiences of Living in Northern Ireland
Murphy, F. & Vieten, U. M.
12/04/2016 → …
Project: Research
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R3735SSP: Counting our Losses: The politics of loss and social transformation in the context of migration and displacement in Turkey
Vieten, U. M., Chatzipanagiotidou, E., Donnan, H. & Murphy, F.
09/12/2015 → …
Project: Research
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R3995SSP: Loss and the Language of Dance
Vieten, U. M. & Murphy, F.
16/11/2017 → 31/03/2018
Project: Research
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R3883HAP: Evropi Chatzipanagiotidou GCRF Application
Chatzipanagiotidou, E., Murphy, F. & Vieten, U. M.
07/02/2017 → 31/07/2017
Project: Research
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Countering the Normalization of the German Far Right: Heinrich XIII and the threat by anti-democratic Reichsbuerger (Reich Citizens)
Vieten, U. M., 21 Dec 2022, QPol 2 p.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
Open Access -
Fear and uncertainty in late modern society
Blokker, P. & Vieten, U. M., 17 Feb 2022, In: European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology. 9, 1, p. 1-6 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › peer-review
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Normalization of the Global Far Right: Pandemic Disruption?
Vieten, U. M. & Poynting, S., 26 Sep 2022, Emerald Publishing.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Remembering catastrophe through listening to the 'Death Fugue'
Vieten, U. M. & Blokker, P., 18 May 2022, In: European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology. 9, 2, p. 141-145 5 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › peer-review
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Special issue: Decolonialising refugee integration paradigms: visions for a new politics of inclusion and participation in Europe and beyond
Vieten, U. M. (ed.) & Murphy, F. (ed.), 01 Oct 2022, (Accepted) In: Ethnic and Racial Studies.Research output: Contribution to journal › Special issue › peer-review
Prizes
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Editor in Chief of the Refereed Journal 'European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology'
Vieten, Ulrike M (Recipient), 14 Jul 2019
Prize: National/international honour
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Elected Board Member of the International Sociological Association (ISA) RCO5
Vieten, Ulrike M (Recipient), 10 Jul 2010
Prize: Appointment
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Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
Vieten, Ulrike M (Recipient), 24 Jun 2019
Prize: Appointment
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Nominated as 'Equality & Diversity Champion' - 2018
Vieten, Ulrike M (Recipient), 2018
Prize: Other distinction
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Activities
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Liquid Citizenship and the Post-Migration Condition
Ulrike M Vieten (Advisor)
25 Jun 2023 → 01 Jul 2023Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation
Ulrike M Vieten (Advisor)
15 Apr 2023 → 03 Jul 2023Activity: Visiting an external institution types › Visiting an external academic institution
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The Normalization of Colonial Continuity: anti-migration discourse and gender toxicology
Ulrike M Vieten (Advisor)
22 Feb 2023Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Remote Expert - Advanced Grant Application
Ulrike M Vieten (Advisor)
01 Dec 2022 → 25 Jan 2023Activity: Consultancy types › Contribution to the work of national or international committees and working groups
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External Examiner to MA Program 'Refugee Integration' - Dublin City University
Ulrike M Vieten (Examiner)
01 Oct 2022 → 30 Sep 2026Activity: Examination types › PGT external examination
Press/Media
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Podcast talk on the ' A Northern Ireland bill of rights'
10/12/2020
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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Deutsche, Britische und Niederlaendische Stimmen des Aufbruchs
28/05/2019
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
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'Neonazis en el "paraíso": por qué crece la extrema derecha en los países con mayor bienestar'
29/09/2018
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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'Is Trumps' colourful language on migrants changing our political discourse' - EURONEWS feature
16/01/2018
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment