Univ.-Ass.ⁱⁿ Anita Rotter, BA MA PhD

Vita

Publications (a selection)

Monograph

Rotter, Anita (2023): Postmigrant generation. Intergenerational family memory as an educational process.
Series Postmigrantische Studien, edited by Erol Yildiz/Marc Hill. transcript Verlag, Bielefeld.
Postmigrant Generation at transcript Verlag (transcript-verlag.de)

Editorship

Böttcher, Alexander/Hill, Marc/Rotter, Anita/Schacht, Frauke/Wolf, Maria A./Yildiz, Erol (2019) (eds.): Migration moves and educates. Counterpoint considerations. Innsbruck university press, Innsbruck.

Book and journal articles (peer reviewed/double-blind)

Rotter, Anita (2024, forthcoming): Biographical storytelling in post-migrant urban society: the example of London. In: Migration and Social Work, 4/24 Urban Societies, Beltz, Weinheim.

Rotter, Anita (2024, forthcoming): Transformative learning in post-migrant alliances. In: Donlic, Jasmin/Schmitt, Caroline (eds.): Power Guide "Arts-based Methods". Transformative alliances in social education spaces. Power Guide "Arts-based Methods". Transformative Alliances in Social Educational Spaces

Rotter, Anita (2024, forthcoming): "Mehrheimischkeit" als Ausdruck postmigrantischer Lebensrealität - "Wir sind türkisch, irgendwie deutsch und aus Griechenland" In: Meixner, Wolfgang/Yildiz, Erol (eds.): Heimat sind wir! Multi- and cosmopolitan perspectives in the post-migrant society. Postmigrant Studies. transcript, Bielefeld.

Rotter, Anita (2024): Critical voices on school as an educational (dis)place and the attempt at postmigrant exits and detours. In: Hummrich, Merle/Hinrichsen, Merle (eds.): School and transnationalisation. Educational Sciences: Defining Relationships. S. 203-216.

Rotter, Anita (forthcoming): Postmigrant alliances from a gender perspective. Feminist rage as a catalyser within postmigrant alliances. In: Peterlini, Hans-Karl/Donlic, Jasmin (eds.): Jahrbuch Migration und Gesellschaft / Yearbook Migration and Society 2023/2024 Focus: "Gender*Queen". transcript, Bielefeld.

Yildiz, Erol/Rotter, Anita (2023): Postcolonialism and Postmigration: Re-Mapping the Topography of the Possible. In: Hallensleben, Markus/Schramm, Moritz (eds.): Crossings. Journal of Migration & Culture. SPRING 2023. Intellect Books, Bristol, pp. 19-35.

Rotter Anita/Yildiz, Erol (2023): Postmigration practices and political subjectification. In: Hallensleben, Markus/Schramm, Moritz (eds.): Europe Now 51, Council for European Studies (CES) at Columbia University, n.p. https://www.europenowjournal.org/2023/05/01/postmigrant-practices-and-political-subjectification/

Yildiz, Erol/Rotter, Anita (2022): Postmigrant articulations as dissent. In: Leviathan. Journal of Social Science, Nomos Verlag, Baden-Baden, pp. 359-382.

Rotter, Anita/Ohnmacht, Florian/Yildiz, Erol (2021): Solidarity read post-migrantically. In: Social Magazine 7-8 2021, BELTZ Juventa, Weinheim, pp. 42-49.

Book and journal articles

Ohnmacht, Florian/Rotter, Anita/Yildiz, Erol (2024): Everyday racism in academic discourse: A critical examination of the "Academic Freedom Network". In: Polat, Ayça/ Joseph-Magwood, Abigail M. (eds.): Everyday racism. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart.

Rotter, Anita (2023): Critical voices on school as an educational (dis)place and the attempt at post-migrant exits and detours. In: Hummrich, Merle/Hinrichsen, Merle (eds.): Transnationalisation and school. Springer VS, Wiesbaden.

Rotter, Anita (2022): "I'll tell you one thing: I'll keep this -ic in my surname because I want people to know that we belong too." Young women of the post-migrant generation complain. In: Schmidt, Jara/Thiemann, Jule (eds.): Postmigrantische und widerständige Praxen der Aneignung. Neofelis, Berlin, pp. 133-146.

Yildiz, Erol/Rotter, Anita (2022): Community. In: Kessl, Fabian/Reutlinger, Christian: Sozialraum. An elementary introduction. Springer VS, Wiesbaden, pp. 405-414.

Rotter, Anita (2022): Defne. In: Leitner, Ulrich/Augschöll-Blasbichler, Annemarie (eds.): Kindheitsgeschichten/Storie dinfanzia. innsbruck university press, Innsbruck, pp. 318-323.

Rotter, Anita/Yildiz, Erol (2021): Opening up Localities to the Wider World and the Postmigrant Generation: New Forms of Resistance and Self-Assertion. In: Knapp, Gerald/Krall, Hannes (eds.): Youth Cultures in a Globalised World. Developments, Analyses and Perspectives. Springer Nature, Switzerland, pp. 173-191.

Rotter, Anita (2020): Youth, generation and (post-)migration. In: Blumenthal, Sara-Friederike/Sting, Stephan/Zirfas, Jörg (Eds.): Pedagogical Anthropology of Adolescents. Beltz Juventa, Weinheim Basel, pp. 216-233.

Rotter, Anita: (2020): Youth as a space of opportunity. Why is a gap year (meaningful time out between two stages of life) particularly important in adolescence? In: Province of Tyrol and Autonomous Province of South Tyrol (ed.): e.g. For example. Contributions to youth work in South Tyrol and Tyrol. No. 3/2020. p. 6-7.

Rotter, Anita (2019): "Hey Nazan, wow, you're actually almost like us!" - An insight into the (inter)generational and urban biography of a young post-migrant. In: Böttcher, Alexander/Hill, Marc/Rotter, Anita/Schacht, Frauke/Wolf, Maria A./Yildiz, Erol (eds.): Migration moves and educates. Counterpoint reflections. innsbruck university press, Innsbruck.

Rotter, Anita/Schacht, Frauke (2018): Moving biographies in the post-migrant society. In: Hill, Marc/Yildiz, Erol (eds.): Postmigrant visions. Ideas, urbanity and interventions. transcript, Bielefeld, pp. 147-159.

Further

Rotter, Anita (2023): London Postmigrant!? In: Blog Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies. School of Advanced Study, University of London. London Postmigrant!? | Institute of Languages, Cultures & Societies (sas.ac.uk).

Rotter, Anita (2023): London postmigrant!? - Research Visit by Dr Anita Rotter. In: Britinn. Academic Network Britain-Innsbruck. "London postmigrant!?" - Research Visit by Dr Anita Rotter - BritInn University of Innsbruck.

Rotter, Anita (2019): "If Grandma and Grandpa hadn't migrated, I wouldn't be where I am now!" - Remembering and storytelling from the perspective of the next generation of "guest workers". In: Research Area "Cultural Encounters - Cultural Conflicts" (ed.): Young Research.

Rotter, Anita (2019): More than Money. Remittances as Social Practice. International Conference of the SIEF Working Group Migration & Mobility and the Department of History and European Ethnology at the University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, 26-28 September 2018. In: Zeitschrift für Volkskunde, Vol. 115, Issue 1, Waxmann, Münster, pp. 101-104.

Lectures

• "From Stage to Society: The Origins of the Postmigrant and its Transformative Power in (Post-)Migration Research" (together with Jasmin Donlic). 8th Annual Conference on Migration Research in Austria, University of Innsbruck, 18.09-20.09.2024

• "Radicalism And Dissensus As Political Practices: A Postmigrant Perspective", Radical Europe: Violence, Emancipation, Reaction, 30th International Conference of Europeanists,Sciences Po Lyon & Université Lyon, Lyon, France, 04.07.2024

• Guest lecture, German Rap and Slam Lyrics in the Postmigrant Society | Séminaire NarraMuse 2023-2024. Le tournant postmigratoire: enjeux et questionnements d'une mutation socio-culturelle et religieuse annoncée. ULC, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, 10 May 2024
• Postmigrant Generation | Guest lecture as part of my research stay at the Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi, Bursa, Turkey, 29.03.2024
• Rap (and Slam) Fragments as an Expression of Postmigrant Life Realities | Postmigration et postcolonialisme dans les littératures et les musiques francophones et germanophones: nouvelles approches des migrations, Maison Heinrich Heine, Paris, France, 14.03.2024
• The second generation between two cultures - Dynamics of post-migration or The generation 'in-between' on the move: Eine andere Sicht der Dinge | (together with Jasmin Donlic) Holding a summer university lasting several days, summer university in Meißen near Dresden, Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst, 18/09 - 22/09/2023
• Postmigrant perspectives on the family memory and multi-domestic lifeworlds of young people | Congress of the Austrian Sociological Association, University of Vienna, 3 July 2023
• On The Genealogy Of The Idea Of Postmigration: From Utopias To Transtopias | (together with Jasmin Donlic and Erol Yildiz). Twenty-Ninth International Conference of Europeanists. Europe's Past, Present, and Future: Utopias and Dystopias. University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland, 27.06.2023
• Cultures of memory and forgetting within the postmigrant generation | Lecture at the 23rd International Migration Conference Youth in Migration Societies, University of Cologne, 15 June 2023
• Postmigrant Generation: Family Memory and Postmigrant Perspectives on Solidarity | Lecture at the School of Advanced Study, University of London (as part of the Fellowship at the University of London), 06.03.2023
• The situation of unaccompanied minor refugee children from a postmigrant perspective | "Creating Care", Cerignola, Bari, Italy, 24.01.203
• Discussant in panel discussion: Online conference, mikopa. Topic: Powerful knowledge Remembering and storytelling in the post-migrant society. Conference title: Dialogues of the generations in the post-migrant society. In: mikopa Leipzig, 16 November 2021 mikopa21 Panel Powerful knowledge - YouTube
• Discussant at panel discussion. Okto TV, Austrian Integration Summit, Okto TV, Studio Vienna. Topic: Education in the post-migrant society. Austrian Integration Summit: Day 1 / Part 1 | OKTO
• "And now I'm at university and studying!" - Transnational educational processes of young adults: a post-migrant perspective. | Online conference Transnationalisation. Crossing borders and entanglements. Educational Sciences Perspectives on School and Transnationalisation, University of Frankfurt am Main. 27.05.-28-05.2021
• "I'll tell you one thing: I'm keeping this -ic in my surname because I want people to know that we belong too." Young women of the post-migrant generation accuse. | Reclaim! Postmigrant discourses of appropriation. Interdisciplinary conference, University of Hamburg. 17.09.-18.09.2020
• Familial cultures of remembrance: Young adults with a family history of migration remember and recount | International Conference "Exile - Flight - Persecution / Exil - Flucht - Verfolgung", University of Göttingen, 28.11.2019 - 30.11.2019
• The successor generations of migrant workers remember and tell their stories | 19th International Migration Conference "Mapping The Nation", Centre de documentation sur les Migrations Humaines, Dudelange (Luxembourg), 27.06. - 28.06.2019
• From guest worker research to post-migrant research (together with Claudius Ströhle) | Cultural Encounters - Cultural Conflicts: Lecture series "Dynamics of Inequality and Difference in the Age of Globalisation", University of Innsbruck, 14.03.2019
• Generation Migration. Educational expectations of parents towards their children │ Migration and Generation: International Migration Conference, University of Innsbruck, 23-25 June 2016
• Faces of Migration - Project Report │ Research Meeting Sparkling Science Project Faces of Migration, Department of Educational Science, Innsbruck, 31 January 2018
• Faces of Migration - Youths from Tyrol Researching Together Their Family Migration History (together with Miriam Hill) │ European Conference on Educational Research (ECER), Free University of Bozen/Bolzano, Italy, 04 - 07 September 2018
• The third generation │ Youths: Annual Conference of the DGfE - Commission for Educational Anthropology, Department of Educational Science and Educational Research, Alpen-Adria-Universität, Klagenfurt, 29/09/2018.
• Lifeworlds and everyday practices of young people from migrant families (together with Miriam Hill) │ Youth - Lifeworld - Education - Perspectives for youth research in Austria: Interdisciplinary conference, University of Innsbruck, 16 November 2018
• Diversity in Tyrol - How young people research and narrate their family migration history (together with Miriam Hill)| Fifth Annual Conference on Migration and Integration Research in Austria, Vienna, 05.12. - 08.12.2018

Memberships

• Member of the interdisciplinary research network "WIDERSTÄNDIGE PRAXEN. Postmigration in Contemporary Literature, Media and Language", University of Hamburg. RESISTING PRACTICES : Department of German Studies : Universität Hamburg (uni-hamburg.de)

• Fellow in the doctoral programme "Dynamics of Inequality and Difference in the Age of Globalisation" at the Research Area "Cultural Encounters - Cultural Conflicts", University of Innsbruck

• Substitute member of the EZW appointment committee specialising in social inequality and social education (appointed in 2019)

• Co-opted member of the selection committee for the appointment procedure "Educational Sciences with a focus on post-migrant studies" (appointed in 2021)

• Since 11/2023: Member of the Council for Migration
• Since 01/2024: Mentor in the buddy/mentoring system of the Faculty of Educational Sciences at the University of Innsbruck
• Since 04/2024: Main member of the Faculty Council of the Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Innsbruck
• Since 04/2024: Substitute member of the QV Advisory Board of the Faculty of Educational Sciences (Mittelbau), University of Innsbruck