PROJECTS
EUROPE

RESEARCH ON POST-SOCIALISM
(1) Jelena Tošic | Global Rights and Local Contexts: The Discourse of Human Rights, Democratization and Globalization in Post-socialist Transformations in Serbia and Montenegro.
(2) Andrea Strasser-Camagni | Global Rights and Local Contexts: Human Rights for Women and their Transformation in the Daily Lives of Women in Armenia.
(3) Johanna Riegler | The Transformation of Labor: An East-West Comparison.
 
 GLOBALIZATION, MIGRATION, NATIONALISM AND IDENTITY RESEARCH IN THE EUROPEAN CONTEXT
 (4) Susanne Binder | Cross Cultural Learning from the Perspectives of Ethnicity- and Socialization- Research Techniques.
 
 INTERACTIONS BETWEEN TECHNOLOGY, GENDER AND SOCIETY
 (5) Eva-Maria Knoll | Techno-Medical Developments in Social and Cultural Contexts.
 
 METHODOLOGICAL CHANGE OF PERSPECTIVE
 (6) Susanne Binder and Gebhard Fartacek | Alpine Popular Culture, Seen from Outside: The Austrian Musikantenstadl.
 
 
 
 ANDREA STRASSER-CAMAGNI | GLOBAL RIGHTS AND LOCAL CONTEXTS
Human Rights for Women and their Transformation in the Daily Lives of Women in Armenia.
  
The collapse of the Soviet Union and postsocialist transformations changed the ideological landscape for women in Eastern Europe. In Armenia (as in other successor states of the Soviet Union) it has been possible to observe an increasing trend toward “traditionalization” in gender roles, which now rests upon the significance of the family for society. As a result, social roles of women largely are conceptualized as mother and wife. An analysis of the transformation of gender roles in the workplaces of the new market economy shows the same trend; women occupy lower positions. New gender hierarchies also are observable in the political arena, where men occupy formal government positions, and women now occupy an above-average number of positions in the new NGO sector.
 
With special focus on Women’s Rights, Andrea Strasser-Camagni applied a social-anthropological perspective to the “Human Rights Teaching and Training” programs of international organizations. She spent two years in Armenia studying the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). Her research activities drew from the anthropology of organizations in combination with local case studies of human rights conceptions in daily life. More precisely, she asked how a transfer of knowledge from the global to the local level through implementation and application of human rights programs occurs, and what effects this transfer creates. She observed what perceptions of human rights and their abuses are at work in the local Armenian context, and considered the ways in which global discourses are transformed into negotiation strategies at the local level, creating the potential for change through traditional empowerment resources.
 
 
 
Strasser, Andrea (2005): Globale Netzwerke - Lokale Perspektiven. Frauenrechte in Armenien. In: Riegler, Johanna (ed.): Kulturelle Dynamik der Globalisierung. Ost- und Westeuropäische Transformationsprozesse aus sozialanthropologischer Perspektive. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press. 153-174
-> see publications

Strasser, Andrea (2006): Menschenrechte von Frauen im postsozialistischen Armenien. Umsetzung, Transformation und Widerstand. Dissertation, University of Vienna.

 
     
 
 

Wittgenstein-Preis 2000
Kommission für Sozialanthropologie
Schwindgasse 14/6
A-1040 Wien

Tel.: 0043/1/515 81 - 6677
Fax: 0043/1/503 68 73 - 6680
wittgenstein2000@oeaw.ac.at

Notice: We want to inform you that the research program will come to an end on the 31st of March 2007. Since that time this homepage will not be updated anymore.