The paper uses the concept of intersectionality to examine the experiences of politicians with migrant backgrounds in Germany. The last decade has seen a significant increase in the number of persons with migrant backgrounds integrating into political parties and winning elections to both federal and regional legislatures. Do the migrant experiences of these persons shape their politics? Theories of substantive representation have suggested that gender shapes representation. What about the racial and ethnic identities that often coexist with immigrant status? Moreover, how do those identities and experiences interact with the prerogatives of party, partisanship, and regional representation? This study uses data gathered from both the federal and regional level to explore and explain the role of migrant-related concerns in the political behavior and articulated preferences of politicians with migrant background in Germany. It further explores how these relate to gender, careers, representational roles, and partisan identification. The article concludes that a consideration of the interaction of migrant identity with other factors allows us to see multiple dimensions of representation in Germany today.
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Barbara Donovan
In German Politics and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2012
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 23–44 (21 total)
Jeremy Ekberg
Because Sartre's theatre is one of representation and authenticity, plays like The Victors offer Sartrean philosophical explorations of subjects pushed to the limits of existence by torture and oppressive social edicts. It is in extreme situations that a subject most clearly exercises or fails to exercise his freedom and therefore his authenticity. But Sartre's interest in a complete explication of this process wanes before he fully outlines his project of self formation, which leaves the present paper to prove: (1) the unattainability of any final or permanent authenticity, since each subject represents itself alternately in authentic and inauthentic ways and because the representations of a single subject are constantly in flux; (2) the primacy of representation as the force by which the self is formed and authenticity achieved or avoided; and (3) the criteria for the assessment of authenticity levels and how these processes come to light in plays like The Victors.
In Sartre Studies International
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2011
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 75–92 (18 total)
Beyond Representation
Technofeminisms and the Promise of Computing for Girls
Amélie Lemieux
Book Review Kristine Blair. 2019. Technofeminist Storiographies: Women, Information Technology, and Cultural Representation. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. Attuning to technofeminism requires more than an understanding of the historical
Representation and Self-representation
Archaeology and Ethnology Museums and Indigenous Peoples in Brazil
Marília Xavier Cury and Rebeca Ribeiro Bombonato
Indigenous logics in the museum space, at other times sharing perspectives with mainstream representation. Collaboration is a positive response from the museum to joint work with Indigenous groups. Collaboration, whose application takes place in different
Redefining Representation
Black Trans and Queer Women’s Digital Media Production
Moya Bailey
the power of queer of color cultural production in shifting our attention away from mainstream representation to the representations people create for themselves. This project builds on these conversations by addressing not so much the content as the
Gustavo H. Dalaqua
You sit here more like spectators … than men taking decisions for their city Thucydides , History of the Peloponnesian War, III, 38, 7 Introduction The expectation to find an anchor for democratic representation has animated the
Kari Palonen
Speaking of a ‘crisis of representation’ is commonplace today in both public and academic discourse. There are good grounds to view this claim with suspicion. Nonetheless, it is worth reconsidering the concept of representation itself. Frank
Representation of Innovation in Seventeenth-Century England
A View from Natural Philosophy
Benoît Godin
, and the contexts that explain these uses. This article extends and refines the analysis made of an eminent example of the early modern representation of innovation: Francis Bacon (1561–1626). To Bacon, innovation is pejorative, as it is to most people
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2016
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 24–42 (19 total)
Men and Boys
Representations of Israeli Combat Soldiers in the Media
Zipi Israeli and Elisheva Rosman-Stollman
In this article we examine the representation of combat soldiers in Israel through their media image. Using two major national Israeli newspapers, we follow the presentation of the Israeli combat soldier over three decades. Our findings indicate that the combat soldier begins as a hegemonic masculine figure in the 1980s, shifts to a more vulnerable, frightened child in the 1990s, and attains a more complex framing in the 2000s. While this most recent representation returns to a hegemonic masculine one, it includes additional, 'softer' components. We find that the transformation in the image of the Israeli soldier reflects changes within Israeli society in general during the period covered and is also indicative of global changes in masculinity to a certain extent. We conclude by analyzing two possible explanations: the perception of the threat and changes in the perception of masculine identity.
In Israel Studies Review
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2015
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 66–85 (20 total)
Ernst van der Wal
project, The Story That Travelled , 2 specifically responded to the German context where issues surrounding the representation and integration of refugees have been an issue of great concern over the last few years. One of the most significant factors