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.
 
 
 
 SUSANNE BINDER | CROSS CULTURAL LEARNING
Cross Cultural Learning from the Perspectives of Ethnicity- and Socialization- Research Techniques.
  
European societies, particularly those within the EU, are increasingly shaped by cultural and linguistic diversity through migration. The impact of growth in diversity can be monitored through several institutions of the nation state, particularly the school system. Susanne Binder conducted a comparative research project with the school systems in Austria and the Netherlands. The issues of cross-cultural learning and of cultural diversity within the school systems were the focus of her attention. In contrast to The Netherlands, where principles of cross-cultural learning have been incorporated into school curricula since the 1980s, cross-cultural learning in Austria is a relatively new reaction to the social changes brought about by migration.
 
In her study Binder shows similarities and differences in these social spaces and their reactions to global pressure on three levels: First, between local and global pressures, second, the nation state and local schools as national institutions, and third, the classroom as cross-cultural meeting space. She concludes by considering how the interactions and exchanges between these levels influence one another.
 
Her ensuing book came out in 2004 with Lit-Publishers, Interkulturelles Lernen aus ethnologischer Perspektive. Konzepte, Ansichten und Praxisbeispiele aus Österreich und den Niederlanden.
 
 
 
Binder, Susanne (2005): Wie der Staat Schule macht: Sozialisation im interkulturellen Kontext - ein Ländervergleich. In: Riegler, Johanna (ed.): Kulturelle Dynamik der Globalisierung. Ost- und Westeuropäische Transformationsprozesse aus sozialanthropologischer Perspektive. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press. 175-202
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Binder, Susanne et al. (ed.) (2005): Heraus Forderung Migration. Contributions to the "Aktions- und Informationswoche 'Heraus Forderung Migration'", December 2001. Book series "Abhandlungen zur Geographie und Regionalforschung", Vienna.
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Binder, Susanne (2004): Interkulturelles Lernen aus ethnologischer Perspektive. Konzepte, Ansichten und Praxisbeispiele aus Österreich und den Niederlanden. Münster, Vienna: LIT-Verlag.
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 Tošic, Jelena and Susanne Binder (2005): Refugees as a Particular Form of Transnational Migrations and Social Transformations. Socio-anthropological and Gender Aspects. In: Schuerkens, Ulrike (ed.): Transnational Migrations and Social Transformation. Current Sociology, Vol.53 No.4, Monograph 2. Sage Publications. pp.607-625
 
 		 
     
 
 

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