Kira Kosnick

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Kira Kosnick (born August 29, 1966 ) is a German sociologist.

Life

She earned an MA in Sociology (1991) from the New School for Social Research and a PhD there in 2003 . In 2001 she was a Marie Curie Research Fellow (European Commission), Sussex Center for Migration Research, University of Sussex . From 2002 to 2003 she was a research assistant in World Heritage Studies (International Postgraduate Program), Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus-Senftenberg . From 2003 to 2004 she was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Southampton as a member of the 5th EU framework program project "Changing City Spaces: New Challenges to Cultural Policy in Europe". From 2004 to 2006 she was a lecturer in cultural analysis, Institute for Cultural Analysis, School of Arts, Communication and Culture, Nottingham Trent University . From 2006 to 2010 she was Junior Professor of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology at the Institute for Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology at Goethe University . In 2013/2014 she taught as Hannah-Arendt DAAD Visiting Professor for German and European Studies at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto . She is professor for sociology with a focus on culture and migration at the Institute for Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, in Frankfurt am Main .

Her main research interests are migrant media production in transnational spaces, new forms of urban sociality, European cultural policy, neoliberalism and changes in the working society, cultural theories.

Fonts (selection)

  • Reaching beyond the local. A study of Turkish migrant broadcasting in Berlin, Germany . Ann Arbor 2003, OCLC 1062376657 .
  • as editor with Anke Bentzin, Jeanine E. Dagyeli, Ayfer Durdu, Riem Spielhaus and Peter Heine : Islam on the air. Islamic TV programs on the open channel . Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-935597-45-6 .
  • Migrant media. Turkish broadcasting and multicultural politics in Berlin . Bloomington 2007, ISBN 978-0-253-21937-4 .
  • as editor: Postmigrant club cultures in urban Europe . Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 3-631-64295-4 .

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SURNAME Kosnick, Kira
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1966