Islamophobia and 'Intersectional Stereotyping' and in the Mass media’s representation of Migrant Muslim men in Germany - Seminar by Dr. Iris Wigger

The next seminar in our series is by Iris Wigger

'Islamophobia and 'Intersectional Stereotyping' and in the Mass media’s representation of Migrant Muslim men in Germany'

Thursday, 4 April, 1pm, D418, Newman Building

Bio

Dr Iris Wigger studied Sociology at the University of Hamburg and the University of Essex after completing a vocational training as a social worker. She works as a lecturer in Sociology in the School of Social Sciences at Loughborough University and is a new Visiting Assistant Professor in Sociology at University College Dublin (2018-2013).

Iris was Programme Director for Sociology at Loughborough between 2013- 2015 and external examiner in Sociology at the University of Northampton (2014-2016). Before coming to Loughborough, she was a temporary lecturer in the School of Sociology at University College Dublin and a Research Associate at the History Department of the University of Hamburg. Iris became a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in 2011. Her research interests are in historical sociology and racism analysis, migration discourses, nationalism and imperialism, social theory, stereotyping and the History of Ideas. She has written on the sociology of racism, intersectionality and the History of Ideas and was awarded a Research Grant by the British Academy/Leverhulme Trust for her research project: ‘The end of tolerance?! Race, Sex and Violence in Germany’s media discourse on migration’ (2017-2018).

Her publications include 

‘Anti-Muslim racism and the racialisation of sexual violence: Intersectional stereotyping in the Mass Media’s representation of male Muslim migrants in Germany’ (2019), under review with Culture and Religion; ‘Wigger, I and Yendell, A The end of tolerance?! Race, sex, religion and violence in Germany’s media discourse on migration (2019), under review with Immigrant and Refugee Studies; Wigger, I. (2017). The 'Black Horror on the Rhine. Intersections of Race, Nation, Gender and Class in 1920s Germany '. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK; Wigger, I (2014), Ein eigenartiges Volk. Die Ethnisierung des Zigeunerstereotyps im Spiegel von Enzyklopädien und Lexika [The racialisation of the gypsy stereotype in encyclopaedias and dictionaries]. In: W.D. Hund, ed, Faul, fremd und frei. Dimensionen des Zigeunerstereotyps. Munster, Westf: Unrast, 44-69; I. Wigger, S. Ritter (eds.): Racism and Modernity. Edited collection in honour of Wulf D. Hund, 2012; A 'Race' in the Making. Robert Knox and the Racialisation of the Irish in Nineteenth Century British Anthropology, in I. Wigger, S. Ritter (eds.): Racism and Modernity, 2012, 131-148; 'Black Shame' - the campaign against 'racial degeneration' and female degradation in interwar Europe, RACE & CLASS (2010); and Wigger, I, Klein, K, Bruder Mohr. Angelo Soliman und der Rassismus der Aufklaerung. [Brother Moor. Angelo Soliman and the Racism of the Enlightenment] in Wulf D. Hund (ed) Entfremdete Koerper. Rassismus als Leichenschaendung [Alienated Bodies. Racism as Body Snatching], 2009, 81-115

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