Thomas Schmidinger

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Thomas Schmidinger, 2012

Thomas Schmidinger (born August 25, 1974 in Feldkirch ) is an Austrian political scientist and social and cultural anthropologist with a focus on Kurdistan , Jihadism , the Middle East and international politics .

Life

Schmidinger was born in Feldkirch in 1974 , but also spent a lot of time with his father's family in Fusch an der Glocknerstrasse . He attended elementary and secondary school in Feldkirch and was at the HTL Rankweil for communications technology from 1988 to 1990, from which he switched to the technical college for communications technology at the HTL Rankweil in 1990. Schmidinger was active in various left, ecological and anti-fascist groups since he was fifteen, founded the youth initiative Pangea in Vorarlberg and the regional organization of green alternative youth .

From 1994 to 1996 he was also the first and only federal coordinator of the Green Alternative Youth , but resigned in autumn 1996 and was only active in non-party left-wing projects afterwards. As part of his anti-racist activities, he was banned from parliament for one year after the death of Marcus Omofuma with leaflets during the speech of the then Interior Minister Karl Schlögl in parliament.

Schmidinger appeared as a youngster in Vorarlberg as a dialect songwriter, was involved in several pirate radio stations and published poems and short stories.

In 1995 the university entrance examination took place. From 1995 to 2003 he studied political science and social and cultural anthropology at the University of Vienna and did his doctorate in political science with Eva Kreisky . He has been a lecturer at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Vienna since 2004, since 2011 as a lecturer at the Vorarlberg University of Applied Sciences in the Master's for Intercultural Social Work and since 2016 at the Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences , also in the MA Social Work. Furthermore, he repeatedly holds individual courses at universities of teacher education, v. a. in training.

During his studies Schmidinger u. a. as coordinating editor of the magazine Context XXI, coordinator of the research of the exhibition Gastarbajteri in the Wien Museum and in the refugee and integration area of Caritas Austria .

Schmidinger's study and research visits took him to Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Egypt, Sudan, Jordan, Turkey, Israel, the Palestinian autonomous regions, Iraq and Iran. In 2010/2011 he received a Research Fellowship at the Center for Austrian Studies at the University of Minnesota . In 2012 a Research Fellowship at the University of Pristina with the MOEL-Plus funding program of the Austrian Research Association. Schmidinger appears again and again at various international conferences and has repeatedly been a guest speaker in the EU Parliament on the topics of jihadism and Kurdistan. a. in the Subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI). In February 2016 he was a guest lecturer at the traditional Mülkiye of the University of Ankara.

He is also active in refugee care and integration work and in 2014 co-founded the “Network Social Cohesion” for the deradicalization of jihadist youth and young adults and prevention work, which in autumn 2015 received the European Citizens' Prize from the EU Parliament. However, after falling out between the chairman, Moussa al-Hassan Diaw , and part of the board and advisory board, the association was dissolved in January 2016. Since then, Schmidinger has no longer been a consultant, but only active scientifically and in the area of ​​further training on the subject of jihadism . He is a member of the Expert Forum on Prevention, Deradicalization and Culture of Democracy of the City of Vienna and continues to be a speaker on the topic of adult education, in the training of social workers, police officers, probation officers and educators. From February 2016 to December 2017, Schmidinger was a research fellow at the Institute for Legal and Criminal Sociology, where he worked on a study on jihadists in custody and a study on young IS sympathizers.

Schmidinger has also produced smaller documentaries and is occasionally present in the media in public debates in Austria. He took part in television discussions on ORF, Puls 4 and Servus TV, but also took part in debates with migrant and Muslim associations.

In July 2016 Schmidinger opened an exhibition with his photos about Rojava in the European Parliament. Although different Kurdish actors were on display, some of them competing with one another, the exhibition was condemned by the Turkish mass media as “terrorist propaganda”. The Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu and İbrahim Kalın , Erdogan's foreign policy advisor, officially protested against the exhibition, as it was “propaganda for a terrorist group that attacks Turkish citizens daily” under the umbrella of the EU Parliament the exhibition was finally shown in the premises of the parliamentary club of the SPÖ in the parliament in Vienna.

In September 2019, despite a valid visa and invitations from three American universities, Schmidinger was prevented by the Department of Homeland Security from boarding a plane to the USA at the airport in Amsterdam, where he should have presented the English translation of his book about Afrin in bookshops and universities . Protested against this procedure u. a. also the American PEN club.

Research priorities

Schmidinger's research focuses on the Middle East , political Islam , jihadism , Iraq , Sudan , anti-Semitism , migration , state collapse , Kurdistan , international politics , state and religion.

Memberships

Schmidinger is a board member of the aid organization League for Emancipatory Development Cooperation LeEZA, which is active in the Middle East. He is co-founder and general secretary of the Austrian Society for the Promotion of Kurdology / European Center for Kurdish Studies. He is a member of the Austrian Society for Political Science and the Sudan Studies Association. He was a board member of the IG Lectors and Freelance Scientists, the Austrian-Iraqi Friendship Association Iraquna, the Society for Critical Antisemitism Research, a member of the Senate of the University of Vienna (Mittelbau) and from 2012 to 2015 a member of the Works Council for Scientific Staff at the University of Vienna.

Publications

  • Iraq - From a republic of fear to parliamentary democracy? , Ed. Together with Mary Kreutzer, Freiburg, 2004
  • Workers' movement in Sudan , Frankfurt / Vienna a. a., 2004
  • “This is not a state of God!” Terrorism and the rule of law using the example of the trial against Mohamed M. and Mona S. , ed. Together with Eva Pentz, Georg Prack and Thomas Wittek, Vienna, 2008
  • Between the state of God and democracy. Handbook of Political Islam. , Ed. With Dunja Larise, Vienna, 2008.
  • From the same beat ... Migration and integration in the Lower Austrian industrial district Wiener Neustadt , 2008
  • Escape the war? Chechnya and Chechen people in Austria. Wiener Neustadt , ed. With Herwig Schinnerl 2009
  • The Art of Teaching University Didactics in Discussion Berlin, Vienna , Ed. With Johanna Muckenhuber and Claus Tieber, et.al., 2010
  • Talking together debates about integration in Austrian municipalities Wiener Neustadt , with Alicia Allgäuer and Mary Kreutzer, 2010
  • Looming Shadows. Migration and Integration at a time of Upheaval. European and American Perspectives Washington DC , with Vedran Džihić, 2011
  • Kurdistan in transition. Conflicts, statehood, society and religion between the Middle East and the Diaspora Frankfurt am Main , 2011
  • Gora. Slavic-speaking Muslims between Kosovo, Albania, Macedonia and the Diaspora , Wiener Verlag für Sozialforschung. Vienna, 2013
  • Vienna Yearbook for Kurdish Studies No. 1/2013 Focus: Transnationality and Kurdish Diaspora in Austria (together with Ferdinand Hennerbichler, Maria Anna Six-Hohenbalken, Christoph Osztovics). Vienna, 2013
  • The Kurdish Spring in Diaspora? Austria and its Kurds , in: Ahmad, Mohammed M. / Gunter, Michael: The Kurdish Spring.
  • War and Revolution in Syrian Kurdistan Analyzes and Voices from Rojava. Fourth, expanded and updated edition Vienna 2017 (first in 2014), ISBN 978-3-85476-665-0
  • Jihadism. Ideology, prevention and deradicalization. Mandelbaum Verlag , Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-85476-481-6 .
  • Battle for the mountain of the Kurds - past and present of the Afrin region. Bahoe Books , Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-903022-84-3
  • Kosovo - past and present of a para-state. Bahoe Books , Vienna 2019. ISBN 978-3-903290-01-3
  • Rascal slime and slime home. Children's book, illustrations by Afnan Al-Jaderi, Bahoe Books , Vienna 2019.
  • "The world has forgotten us", The genocide of the "Islamic State" against the Yazidis and the consequences , Mandelbaum Verlag June 2019, ISBN 978-385476-590-5
  • The Battle for the Mountain of the Kurds: Self-Determination and Ethnic Cleansing in the Afrin Region of Rojava , PM Press, USA 2019. (Translated by Michael Schiffmann, with a foreword by Andrej Grubačić)
  • Sudan - unfinished revolutions in a fragile country. Bahoe Books , Vienna 2020.
  • Virus regime - How the corona crisis is changing our world. Findings, analysis, suggestions. Anthology, ed. with Josef Weidenholzer , Bahoe Books , Vienna 2020.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Context archive of the journal Conctext XXI, text by Thomas Schmidinger: “The Armenian is like the Jew, a parasite outside his home country” ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked . Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , 5-6 / 2005. Retrieved August 27, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.contextxxi.at
  2. ↑ Team / Participants ( Memento of the original from August 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. the exhibition “Gastarbajteri”. Retrieved August 27, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / gastarbajteri.at
  3. ↑ Mülkiye'den Haberler on Twitter. Retrieved July 13, 2016 .
  4. ^ Website of the Social Cohesion Network . Retrieved August 27, 2015.
  5. ↑ Citizen Prize 2015 awarded by the European Parliament to the Network Social Cohesion. In: www.europarl.at. Retrieved July 8, 2016 .
  6. ^ Website of the City of Vienna. Retrieved August 5, 2016 .
  7. ↑ BildungsTV: Dr. Thomas Schmidinger: Syria - Civil War and Flight. October 14, 2015, accessed July 8, 2016 .
  8. ^ Institute for Legal and Criminal Sociology - De-Radicalization in Prison. (No longer available online.) In: www.irks.at. Archived from the original on April 1, 2016 ; Retrieved July 8, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.irks.at
  9. ↑ Ways to radicalization. In: www.irks.at. Retrieved February 9, 2018 .
  10. ↑ ozdergecko: IN THE CENTER - The Terror of the Divine Warriors - October 12, 2014. October 13, 2014, accessed on July 8, 2016 .
  11. ↑ Minotheras: False Tolerance - Alice Schwarzer at Pro and Contra February 22, 2016. February 29, 2016, accessed on July 8, 2016 .
  12. ↑ Talk in Hangar-7 at ServusTV. Retrieved July 8, 2016 .
  13. ↑ Aeoej Vienna: Panel Discussion: Sharia and democratic constitutional state. March 17, 2013, accessed July 8, 2016 .
  14. ↑ Rojava IN THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT. In: Josef Weidenholzer. Retrieved July 13, 2016 .
  15. ↑ schmidiblog: An exhibition on Rojava and Erdoğan's long arm in the academic world. In: schmidiblog. July 13, 2016, accessed July 13, 2016 .
  16. ↑ DIPLOMACY - 'Pro-PKK exhibition' at European Parliament angers Turkey. Retrieved July 13, 2016 .
  17. ↑ EU parliament criticized over terrorist photo exhibit. July 13, 2016, accessed on July 13, 2016 (ru-RU).
  18. ^ The Society Pages: Scholar on the Middle East Denied Entry into the United States by Homeland Security Raises Disturbing Political Questions - Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies. Retrieved September 17, 2019 .
  19. ↑ PEN America condemns US decision to bar entry to Austrian Academic. In: PEN America. September 13, 2019, accessed on September 17, 2019 .
  20. ↑ Employees of LeEZA | about Leeza. (No longer available online.) In: www.leeza.at. Archived from the original on June 24, 2016 ; Retrieved July 8, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.leeza.at
  21. ↑ KURDOLOGI E. (No longer available online.) In: www.kurdologie.at. Archived from the original on September 30, 2013 ; Retrieved July 8, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kurdologie.at
  22. ^ Senate of the University of Vienna »Members. In: senat.univie.ac.at. Retrieved January 30, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Schmidinger, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian political scientist, social and cultural anthropologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Feldkirch