Sabine Strasser | |
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Born | 1962 (age 61–62) Wernstein am Inn, Austria |
Occupation | academic |
Years active | 1995–present |
Known for | Migration studies and the humanitarian treatment of migration and integration |
Sabine Strasser (born 1962) is an Austrian social anthropologist who specializes in migration and gender issues. She evaluates the political nature of transnational relationships, particularly with regard to diversity and multiculturalism. She was one of the first researchers hired when the University of Vienna's founded its Inter-University Coordination Center of Women's Studies in 1993. She has taught at the University of Vienna and the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. Since 2013, she has served as a professor at the University of Bern.
Early life and education
Sabine Strasser was born in 1962 in Wernstein am Inn, Austria. In 1981, she began her undergraduate studies at the University of Vienna in social and cultural anthropology with an emphasis on African and Turkish studies. During the same time frame, she began working at the Birlikte Ögrenelim (Women's Association for Turkish Migrant Women Continuing her studies at the University of Vienna, she graduated with a PhD in social anthropology in 1994, completing her thesis on gender concerns and obsession, which analyzed observations in a Turkish village located on the Black Sea.
Career
In 1995, Strasser began working as a researcher at the Inter-University Coordination Center of Women's Studies in Vienna. The office to coordinate women's studies had been founded in 1993 and Ingvild Birkhan was appointed as its director in 1994. That year, the inaugural staff, including Strasser, Margit Baier, Anette Baldauf, Andrea Eckhart, Renate Retschnig, and Susanne Rieser, were hired to begin work the following term. Though continuing to work at the Coordinating Center through 1999, Strasser began teaching as a lecturer at the University of Vienna in 1997. In 2002, she became a Senior Lecturer and in 2004, habilitated after completing a thesis evaluating how transnational politics impacted Turkish and Kurdish activists.
From 2007 to 2011, Strasser was an Associate Professor at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. In May 2011, she was awarded a full professorship at the University of Vienna in the faculty of social sciences. In 2013, she became the director of Social Anthropology Studies at the University of Bern and since 2021, has also served as co-chair, with Bilgin Ayata of the University of Basel, for the Research Association of Switzerland and Turkey.
Research
From the beginning of her career, Strasser has evaluated the ethics and political implications of policy on migrant communities as they relate to class, cultural, and religious differences of women. She explores differing notions of citizenship and how those intersect with rights, particularly as changing means of policing borders impacts migrants. In works such as the anthology Multikulturalismus queer gelesen (Multiculturalism, Read Queer), Strasser evaluates how social concepts of tolerance play out with ethnic and gender minorities in a multicultural environment. The essays evaluate how cultural attitudes, practices, and norms are disrupted as society transforms. Drawing from field evidence collected in an Austrian village with decades of migration history, the collection focused on how knowledge of societal norms is integrated in native and migrant communities and disconnect forms with regard to integration. Covering issues ranging from forced marriage, to gender violence, to homophobia, and sexual autonomy, the study questioned whether tolerance and assimilation of varying cultural norms can occur when there are varying and complex views of arrangement, coercion, and self-determination within the scheme of equality and freedom.
Selected works
- Strasser, Sabine; Kronsteiner, Ruth (1993). "Impure or Fertile?: Two Essays on the Crossing of Frontiers Through Anthropology and Feminism". In del Valle, Teresa (ed.). Gendered Anthropology. Translated by Gingrich, Michael. London: Routledge. pp. 162–192. ISBN 978-0-415-06127-8. OCLC 605952434.
- Strasser, Sabine (2009). Bewegte Zugehörigkeiten: nationale Spannungen, transnationale Praktiken und transversale Politik [Moving Affiliations: National Tensions, Transnational Practices and Transversal Affiliations] (in German). Vienna: Turia + Kant. ISBN 978-3-85132-539-3.
- Strasser, Sabine; Holzleithner, Elisabeth, eds. (2010). Multikulturalismus queer gelesen: Zwangsheirat und gleichgeschlechtliche Ehe in pluralen Gesellschaften [Multiculturalism, Read Queer: Forced Marriage and Same-Sex Marriage in Plural Societies] (in German). Frankfurt am Main: Campus Verlag. ISBN 978-3-593-39172-4.
- Strasser, Sabine (2012). "2. Rethinking Citizenship in Multicultural Europe: Critical Encounters with Feminist, Multicultural and Transnational Citizenship". In Halsaa, Beatrice; Roseneil, Sasha; Sümer, Sevil (eds.). Remaking Citizenship in Multicultural Europe. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 21–40. ISBN 978-1-349-32511-5. OCLC 6994598572.
- Perl, Gerhild; Strasser, Sabine (September 2018). "Transnational Moralities: The Politics of Ir/Responsibility of and against the EU Border Regime". Identities. 25 (5). London: Routledge: 507–523. ISSN 1070-289X. OCLC 7850356514.
References
Citations
- Minoriten Kultur 2010, p. 24.
- ^ University of Vienna 2007, p. personal data.
- ^ University of Vienna 2007, p. Academic History.
- ^ University of Bern 2016.
- University of Vienna 2020.
- Sökefeld & Strasser 2016, p. 159.
- Uni:View Magazin 2011.
- Studien- und Forschungsstelle Schweiz-Türkei 2021.
- ^ Cowan 1995, p. 876.
- ^ Baxter 2014, p. 87.
- ^ de Jong & Dannecker 2018, p. 499.
- Lembke 2011.
- ^ Halsaa, Roseneil & Sümer 2010, p. xv.
Bibliography
- Baxter, Jacqueline (April 2014). "Book Review: Remaking Citizenship in Multicultural Europe: Women's Movements, Gender and Diversity Edited by Beatrice Halsaa, Sasha Roseneil and Sevil Sümer London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, pp.296, £58.00 (Hb) ISBN: 978 02 3027 628 4" (PDF). People, Place and Policy. 8 (1). Sheffield, South Yorkshire: Sheffield Hallam University: 86–88. doi:10.3351/ppp.0008.0001.0007. ISSN 1753-8041. OCLC 5584867062. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 August 2017. Retrieved 15 April 2022.
- Cowan, Jane (December 1995). "Book Reviews: Valle, Teresa del (ed.) Gendered Anthropology (EASA Ser.). xii, 227 pp., illus., bibliogr. London, New York: Routledge, 1993, £35.00 (cloth), £11.99 (paper)". Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 1 (4). London: Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland: 876–877. ISSN 0025-1496. Retrieved 15 April 2022.
- de Jong, Sara; Dannecker, Petra (2018). "Connecting and Confronting Transnationalism: Bridging Concepts and Moving Critique" (PDF). Identities. 25 (5). London: Routledge: 493–506. doi:10.1080/1070289x.2018.1507962. ISSN 1070-289X. OCLC 7853163130. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 April 2019. Retrieved 15 April 2022.
- Halsaa, Beatrice; Roseneil, Sasha; Sümer, Sevil, eds. (2010). "Contributors". Remaking Citizenship in Multicultural Europe: Women's Movements, Gender and Diversity. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. x–xvi. ISBN 978-0-230-27628-4.
- Lembke, Ulrike (2011). "Rezension zu: Sabine Strasser, Elisabeth Holzleithner (Hg.): Multikulturalismus queer gelesen. Zwangsheirat und gleichgeschlechtliche Ehe in pluralen Gesellschaften. Frankfurt am Main u.a.: Campus Verlag 2010" [Review of: Sabine Strasser, Elisabeth Holzleithner (Hg.): Multikulturalismus queer gelesen. Zwangsheirat und gleichgeschlechtliche Ehe in pluralen Gesellschaften. Frankfurt am Main u.a.: Campus Verlag 2010]. Querelles-Net. 12 (1). Berlin, Germany: Free University of Berlin. doi:10.14766/936. ISSN 1862-054X. Archived from the original on 9 February 2022. Retrieved 15 April 2022.
- Sökefeld, Martin; Strasser, Sabine (2016). "Introduction: Under Suspicious Eyes – Surveillance States, Security Zones and Ethnographic Fieldwork". Zeitschrift für Ethnologie. 141 (2). Berlin, Germany: Dietrich Reimer Verlag: 159–176. ISSN 0044-2666. OCLC 7973242456. Retrieved 15 April 2022.
- "Einblick in die Geschichte des Referats Genderforschung der Universität Wien" [Insight into the History of the Department of Gender Research at the University of Vienna]. Referats Genderforschung (in German). Vienna, Austria: University of Vienna. 2020. Archived from the original on 2 March 2022. Retrieved 15 April 2022.
- "Neue Professuren im Mai 2011" [New Professorships in May 2011]. Uni:View Magazin (in German). Vienna, Austria: University of Vienna. 2011. Archived from the original on 27 November 2020. Retrieved 15 April 2022.
- "Prof. Dr. Sabine Strasser". Institute of Social Anthropology. Bern, Switzerland: University of Bern. 2016. Archived from the original on 26 November 2021. Retrieved 15 April 2022.
- "Kunstler Biografien" [Artist Biographies]. Minoriten Kultur (in German). Graz, Austria: Kulturzentrum bei den Minoriten: 23–24. March 2010. Archived from the original on 15 April 2022. Retrieved 15 April 2022.
- "Univ.-Prof. Dr. Sabine Strasser". univie.ac.at (in German). Vienna, Austria: University of Vienna. 2007. Archived from the original on 15 April 2022. Retrieved 15 April 2022.
- "Vorstand" [Board]. sfst.ch (in German). Basel, Switzerland: Studien- und Forschungsstelle Schweiz-Türkei. 23 April 2021. Archived from the original on 10 May 2021. Retrieved 15 April 2022.
- 1962 births
- Living people
- People from Schärding District
- University of Vienna alumni
- Academic staff of Middle East Technical University
- Academic staff of the University of Vienna
- Academic staff of the University of Bern
- Gender studies academics
- Austrian anthropologists
- Austrian women anthropologists
- Social anthropologists