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PROJECTS
MIDDLE
EAST
LOCALITY AND PIETY IN ISLAMIC NORTH AFRICA AND WEST ASIA
(1) Gebhard Fartacek
| Zones of Uncertainty: Ritual and Taboo in the Near East from the Perspectives of Space and Time.
(2) Gebhard Fartacek
| Pilgrimage Cities in the Syrian Periphery. An Ethnographic Study of the Cognitive Construction of Sacred Places and their Practical Relevance.
(3) Günther
Windhager | From Lemberg to Mecca (1900-1927).The early biography of Leopold Weiss, alias Muhammad Asad.
(4) Barbara Danczul
| “An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth?” Local Strategies for Conflict Resolution of Violence and Revenge in Egypt.
(5) Ines Kohl
| Identities between Boundaries: Strategies of Belonging among the Imajeghen (Tuareg) of Libya.
(6) Gudrun Kroner
| Beyond the Ties of Home. A Comparison of Female Refugees in the Arabic-Islamic world.
(7) Johann Heiss
| Anthropological Interpretations in Southwest Arabia.
GUDRUN KRONER | BEYOND THE TIES OF HOME
A Comparison of Female Refugees in the Arabic-Islamic world.
In this project Gudrun Kroner analyzed refugees’biographies from women among two different refugee groups: Somalis in Egypt and Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Through her presentation of individual refugee biographies, the author attempted to work against the general trend to portray refugees’ mass experience in anonymous ways.
In addition, to avoid the danger of a European one-sidedness (that is, the tendency to focus on the refugee situation in Europe), Kroner concentrated on refugees within the Islamic world. Kroner focused on specific individuals, looking at their active and creative responses to both surviving displacement and adapting to their new surroundings.
Through extensive field research (two years in Egypt and nine months in Gaza), Kroner developed the following categories of analysis for both groups of women: The problems of negotiating between the receiving society and the refugee groups, the effects of asylum and refugee politics on the situations and identity constructions of refugees, the effects of transnational kinship relationships, the dynamic development of new survival strategies among refugees, and the changes in gender roles among these female refugees. The central feature of this project is the personal case studies involving women in small personal networks.
-> Further information: research design (PDF/German)
Kroner, Gudrun (2006): Flüchtlingsbiographien
von Somalis in Ägypten und PalästineserInnen im Gazastreifen. Dissertation. University of Vienna.
Gingrich, Andre and Gudrun Kroner
(2006): Comment on: Nathalie Peutz: Embarking on an Anthropology
of Removal. Current Anthropology Vol.47
No.2. April 2006. 234-235
Kroner, Gudrun (2005): Zwischen
Flucht, Okkupation und "Tradition": Dimensionen von
Identität in Gaza. In: Heiss, Johann
(ed.): Veränderung und Stabilität. Normen
und Werte in islamischen Gesellschaften, Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press,
169-200
-> see publications
Kroner, Gudrun (2005): Somali
Refugees in Cairo. In: KOLOR - Journal
on Moving Communities Vol. 5 No.1, 7-25
Kroner, Gudrun (2004): Identity Constructions and Living Conditions
of Somali Refugees in Egypt. In: Richard Ford, Hussein M. Adam and Edna Adan Ismail (eds.): War Destroys, Peace Nurtures:
Somali Reconciliation and Development, Lawrenceville. Asmara,
Red Sea Press.
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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.
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