The University of Sheffield
Department of Geography

Dr Ulrike M Vieten

LIVEDIFFERENCE Postdoctoral Program Coordinator

Address: 4th Floor, ICoSS Building
Telephone (internal): 26285
Telephone (UK): 0114 222 6285
Telephone (International): +44 114 222 6285
Email: U.Vieten@sheffield.ac.uk
Website: LIVEDIFFERENCE

Previous Research (2009 – 2012)

Project title: Modes of intersectional complexity and “new” citizen’s inclusion in the Netherlands, Britain and Germany since 1970 – pathways towards empowerment beyond assimilation

The project focused on the perceptions and experiences of key minority activists (Moroccan-Dutch, South Asian-Brits and Turkish-Germans) in these three countries. It clarified further how the dialectics of processes of inclusion and exclusion have developed in the last four decades, and in what ways symbolic belonging and the multi-layered positioning of “new” citizens intersect. Further it explored how to enhance the democratic participation of diverse populations across Europe.

From 2009 to 2013, Ulrike held the position of a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Faculty of Social Science, Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Ulrike’s research was part of an interdisciplinary project (Inclusive Thinking: the Policy and Practice of Diversity in the Netherlands in Historical Context) involving academics based at the VU and the University of Amsterdam (Professor Halleh Ghorashi [Anthropology/ Sociology]; Professor James Kennedy [History] & Thomas Spiejkerboor [Law]).

Ulrike studied Social Science (MA) and Law in Germany (Carl v. Ossietzky University Oldenburg, and the University of Bremen). In 2002 she moved to Britain (London) working and continuing studies with Professor Nira Yuval-Davis. She obtained a MA in Gender & Ethnic Studies (with Distinction) University of Greenwich, 2004. In 2008, she received her PhD for the thesis (Situated Cosmopolitanisms: the notion of the Other in discourses on cosmopolitanism in Britain and Germany), the University of East London (UEL). In 2012 she published with Ashgate her first monograph, Gender and Cosmopolitanism in Europe.

Special expertise

Critical Cosmopolitanism; Feminist Theory; intersectionality; EU-antidiscrimination Law; Gender, Ethnicity and Transnationalism, Critical Race and Whiteness debates in Europe; Comparative Research Methods on Mobility and Migration.

International scholarly activities

Member of the International Sociological Association (ISA) since 2003, and of the RC05 (Research Committee on Racism, Nationalism and Ethnic Relations)
Member of the TC03 (Human Rights and Global Social Justice)

Board Member and co-editor of the RC05 newsletter since 2010

Peer reviewer for the Franco-Canadian Journal Sociologie et Societes and the Dutch Journal of Social Intervention: Theory and Practice.

Publications

Monograph

  • Ulrike M. Vieten (2012). Gender and Cosmopolitanism in Europe: a Feminist Perspective. Farnham: Ashgate.

Co-edited books and co-edited refereed journals

  • Yuval-Davis, N.; Kannabiran, K. and Vieten, U.M. (eds.) (2006). The Situated Politics of Belonging. London: Sage (ISBN-10 1 4129 2101 5; ISBN-13 978 1 4129 2101 5)
  • Also co-authored ‘Introduction’ to Yuval-Davis, N.; Kannabiran, K. and Vieten, U.M. (eds.) (2006). The Situated Politics of Belonging. London: Sage, 1-14.
  • Kalpana Kannabiran, Nira Yuval-Davis and Ulrike M. Vieten (eds.) Boundaries, Identities and Belonging, special issue of Patterns of Prejudice, 40(3).
  • Also co-authored ‘Introduction’ to Kalpana Kannabiran, Nira Yuval-Davis and Ulrike M. Vieten (eds.) Boundaries, Identities and Belonging, special issue of Patterns of Prejudice, 40(3), 189-195.

Co-authored books

  • Dagmar Schiek, Heike Dieball, Inge Horstkötter, Lore Seidel and Sybille Wankel und Ulrike M. Vieten (2002).   Frauengleichstellungsgesetze des Bundes und der Länder – Kommentar für die Praxis. 2. Aufl.. Frankfurt a. M.: Bund Verlag,
    (ISBN 3 – 7663-2936-3)
    3rd edition in preparation, forthcoming 2014
  • Dagmar Schiek, Ulrike M. Vieten and Inge Horstkötter; edited by VERDI. Leitfaden zum Bundesgleichstellungsgesetz (BgleiG), Berlin: Verdi.
  • Dagmar Schiek und Ulrike M. Vieten (1999). Edited by ÖTV Thüringen, Das Thüringer Gleichstellungsgesetz in der praktischen Anwendung. Erfurt: ÖTV.

Refereed journal articles

  • Halleh Ghorashi and Ulrike M. Vieten (2013). Female narratives of “new” citizens belonging(s) and identities in Europe: case studies from the Netherlands and Britain. Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, 1(1), 1-17.
  • Ulrike M. Vieten (2006). “Out in the Blue of Europe”: modernist cosmopolitan identity and the deterritorialization of belonging. In: Kalpana Kannabiran, Nira Yuval-Davis and Ulrike M. Vieten (eds.) Boundaries, Identities and Belonging, special issue of Patterns of Prejudice, 40(3), 259-279.
    (ISSN 0031-322x print/ ISSN 1461-7331 online)
  • Ulrike M. Vieten (1992). Ein symphilosophisches Gespräch aus der Zwischenwelt, oder welche Voraussetzungen das Sprechen von ethischen Möglichkeiten of annimmt. IHRSINN – eine radikalfeministische Lesbenzeitschrift; 5, Die Qual der Wahl, 85-94.

Chapters (edited collections)

  • Ulrike M. Vieten (forthcoming). "If I land in Islamabad I feel home; if I land in Heathrow I feel home” – gendered belonging and diasporic identities of South Asian British citizens in London, the Midlands and North England. In: G. Tsolidis (ed.) Living Diaspora – family, education and identity. Netherlands: Springer.
  • Ulrike M. Vieten (2011). The conceptual order of multiple discrimination: situating difficult genealogies of race and ethnicity. In: Dagmar Schiek and Anna Lawson (eds.) EU Non-Discrimination Law and Intersectionality – Investigating the triangle between racial, gender and disability discrimination. Farnham: Ashgate. 63-76.
  • Ulrike M. Vieten (2010). Situating Contemporary Discourses on Cosmopolitanism in Britain and Germany: Who is the Other, anyway?. In: Patrick O’Donovan and Laura Rascaroli (eds.) The Cause of Cosmopolitanism: Dispositions, Models and Transformations. Bern; Berlin; Bruxelles; Frankfurt a. M.; New York; Oxford; Wien: Peter Lang Publishing Group. 89-114.
  • Ulrike M. Vieten (2009). Intersectionality scope and multidimensional equality within the European Union: Traversing national boundaries of inequality? In; Dagmar Schiek and Victoria Chege (eds.) European Union anti-Discrimination Law: comparative perspectives on multidimensional equality Law. London: Routledge-Cavendish. 93-113.
  • Ulrike M. Vieten (2007). Situated outlooks on discourses of Europeanised cosmopolitanism: all-inclusive or exclusive? In: Derek M. Robbins (ed.), UEL Yearbook I – Research in Progress. London: UEL.

Book reviews

  • Ulrike M. Vieten (2012). Book Review of Jewish Memory and the Cosmopolitan Order by Natan Sznaider. The Sociological Review, 60(3), 560-562.
  • Ulrike M. Vieten (2012). Book Review of ‘Sensed victims – Illusions of coming to terms with the past’ (Ulrike Jureit & Christian Schneider Gefühlte Opfer- Illusionen der Vergangenheitsbewältigung). Time & Society, 21, 143-148.
  • Ulrike M. Vieten (2010). Book review, ‘Hanna Behrend: the gendered struggle of a socialist Intellectual’. Women – A Cultural Review, 2010, 21(1), 346-349.
  • Ulrike M. Vieten (2010). Book Review of ‘Ethnicities and Values in a changing World’ by Gargi Bhattacharyya (ed.). Journal of Intercultural Studies, 31(4), 439-441.
  • Ulrike M. Vieten (2009). 'Vier Leben - Rezension der Autobiographie von Dr. Hanna Behrend, Die Überleberin – Jahrzehnte in Atlantis', AN.SCHLÄGE, Feministisches Magazin. Wien, 5/2009.

Contact details

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