Yasemin Shooman

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Yasemin Shooman (2014)

Yasemin Shooman (* 1980 ) is a German historian . Since September 2019 she has been Scientific Director of the German Center for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM Institute). Before that, she headed the programs of the Academy of the Jewish Museum Berlin since it was founded in 2013. Her work focuses on racism , Islamophobia , anti-Semitism , media analysis , Jewish-Muslim relations in the past and present, and cultures of remembrance in the migration society. She is a member of the Council for Migration and the Historical Advisory Board of the Governing Mayor of Berlin as well as the Scientific Advisory Board of the Avicenna-Studienwerk . In 2019, she was appointed by the federal government to the specialist commission on the framework conditions for integrability .

Live and act

Yasemin Shooman, who, according to her own account, grew up trilingual in a “multi-religious family” and whose grandfather was interned in the Majdanek concentration camp , studied Modern History and Modern German Philology at the Technical University of Berlin (TU). She wrote her master's thesis on the forced Germanization of Polish children during World War II . From 2009 to 2013 she was a doctoral candidate with Wolfgang Benz at the Center for Research on Antisemitism (ZfA) at the TU Berlin. In her dissertation, she dealt with Islamophobic discourses in Germany. Yasemin Shooman has worked at the Center for Research on Anti-Semitism since 2002. She organized a series of events Testimonies (readings with witnesses) that the ZfA in cooperation with the Literature Forum in the Brecht House conducted. In 2006/2007 she worked in the research project The Place of Terror - History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps . In 2008 she organized a summer university against anti-Semitism at the TU Berlin. In 2008/2009 she headed the project office denk! Mal 09 in the Berlin House of Representatives , a youth forum against anti-Semitism, racism and right-wing extremism on the occasion of the day of remembrance for the victims of National Socialism . At the symposium hostility to Muslims - phenomenon and counter-strategies of the German Islam Conference in 2012, Yasemin Shooman analyzed Islamophobia on the Internet, referring primarily to the Politically Incorrect website . At an expert talk to which Federal President Joachim Gauck had invited in January 2015, Shooman gave a lecture on the subject of Islamophobia and described it as “a phenomenon of the middle of society”. Islamophobia has also "in many cases replaced the old slogan 'foreigners out'". Shooman pointed out that "exclusion affects not only practicing Muslims, but also those who are marked as Muslims because of their appearance or name". In an interview with the Integration media service , she described the anti-Islam rhetoric of the AfD and other right-wing populists as “'detour communication': In order to ward off the accusation of racism, Islamophobes disguise their resentment as criticism of religion and try to legitimize it,” said Shooman .

In 2013 she received her doctorate with her dissertation on the interplay of culture, religion, ethnicity, gender and class in anti-Muslim racism at the Center for Research on Antisemitism at the TU Berlin. The work was published in 2014 by transcript Verlag under the title "... because their culture is like this" - narratives of anti-Muslim racism .

From May 2013 to August 2019, Shooman headed the academy programs of the Jewish Museum Berlin and was responsible for the programs on “ Migration and Diversity ” and the Academy's Jewish-Islamic Forum. Shooman saw the academy as a “place for the general public” where knowledge about immigration and social diversity is imparted. “Migration as normal, not as a disruptive incident in history” should be made clear about the history of minorities.

In September 2019, Shooman took over as Scientific Managing Director of the science department of the German Center for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM Institute).

Publications

Books

Book chapters (selection)

  • On the debate on the relationship between anti-Semitism, racism and Islamophobia. In: Katharina Rauschenberger, Werner Konitzer on behalf of the Fritz Bauer Institute (ed.): Antisemitism and other hostilities. Interactions of resentments. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main / New York 2015, ISBN 978-3-593-50469-8 , pp. 125–156.
  • Fear of Islam or Racism Against Muslims? On the classification of anti-Muslim discourses from a racism-theoretical perspective. In: Reinhold Bernhardt, Ernst Fürlinger (ed.): Public annoyance? Mosque construction conflicts in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Theological Publishing House Zurich, Zurich 2015, ISBN 978-3-290-17780-5 , pp. 141–159.
  • Provide insight into the world of Muslims. ›Authentic Voices‹ and ›Crown Testimony‹ in Anti-Muslim Discourses. In: Iman Attia, Swantje Köbsell, Nivedita Prasad (eds.): Dominanzkultur reloaded. New texts on social power relations and their interactions. transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2015, ISBN 978-3-8376-3061-9 , pp. 47-58. (books.google.de)
  • Muslim, feminine, oppressed and dangerous. Stereotyping of Muslim women in current discourses on Islam. In: Wolfgang Benz (Ed.): Resentment and conflict. Prejudices and enemy images in flux. Wochenschau Verlag, Schwalbach / Ts. 2014, ISBN 978-3-7344-0009-4 , pp. 86-98.
  • Between everyday racism and conspiracy theories. Islamophobia on the Internet. In: Muslim hostility - phenomenon and counter-strategies. Contributions to the symposium of the German Islam Conference on December 4th and 5th, 2012 in Berlin, ed. by the Federal Ministry of the Interior on behalf of the German Islam Conference. 2013, ISBN 978-3-00-041851-8 . (can be viewed here: conference proceedings "Muslim Hostility - Phenomenon and Counter-Strategies" )
  • From the enemy outside to the other inside. Anti-Muslim Racism in the Context of European Migration Societies. In: Kien Nghi Ha (Ed.): Asiatic Germans. Vietnamese Diaspora and Beyond. Verlag Association A, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86241-409-3 , pp. 305-320.
  • Not a question of belief. On the racialization of “culture” and “religion” in anti-Muslim racism. In: Sebastian Friedrich: Racism in the achievement society. Analyzes and critical perspectives on the racist normalization processes of the "Sarrazine debate". Münster 2011, ISBN 978-3-942885-01-0 , pp. 59-76.
  • with Iman Attia: “Out of sheer hatred of Muslims”, on the reception of the murder of Marwa el-Sherbini in German print media and on the German-language Internet. In: Yearbook for Islamophobia Research Germany - Austria - Switzerland. 2010, ISBN 978-3-7065-5021-5 , pp. 23-46.
  • Prosecution key witnesses? On the role of Muslim speakers in current Islam debates. In: Sibylle Schmidt, Sybille Krämer , Ramon Voges (Hrsg.): Politics of witnessing. To the criticism of a knowledge practice. transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2010, ISBN 978-3-8376-1552-4 , pp. 331-352. (books.google.de)
  • with Riem Spielhaus : The concept of the Muslim enemy in the public discourse. In: Jocelyne Cesari (ed.): Muslims in the West after 9/11: religion, politics, and law . Routledge, 2010, ISBN 978-0-415-77654-7 , pp. 198-228.
  • Islamophobia on the World Wide Web. In: Wolfgang Benz (Ed.): Islamophobia and its context . Documentation of the conference Feindbild Muslim - Feindbild Jude . Metropol Verlag , Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-940938-32-9 , pp. 70-84.

Professional article (selection)

Lectures and interviews

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dr. Yasemin Shooman becomes Scientific Director at the DeZIM Institute Press release of the DeZIM Institute
  2. ^ Jewish Museum Berlin , Jüdische Allgemeine August 29, 2019
  3. ^ Member profile on the Migration Council website
  4. ↑ rat-fuer-migration.de
  5. ↑ berlin.de
  6. ↑ avicenna-studienwerk.de
  7. ↑ bmi.bund.de
  8. ↑ SPD expert answers Thilo Sarrazin, interview, Der Tagesspiegel, January 30, 2020, accessed on January 30, 2020.
  9. ↑ denk! Mal 09 project management
  10. ^ German Islam Conference 2012, proceedings, p. 68 ff., Pdf on Academia
  11. ↑ “ Holding together” panel discussion with Federal President Joachim Gauck . January 21, 2015
  12. ↑ Florian Gathmann, Anna Reimann: Debate about inner peace with Gauck: What goes wrong in the country. In: Spiegel online. January 21, 2015.
  13. ↑ Islamophobes disguise resentment as criticism of religion. Media service integration, April 28, 2016.
  14. ↑ Faculty I - Spiritual Knowledge, TU Berlin, PhDs 2013
  15. ↑ "... because that's their culture." - anti-Muslim racism . Review by Jihan Jasmin Dean, MiGAZIN, February 6, 2015
  16. ↑ Barbara Mahmoud. Review of August 17, 2015 to: Yasemin Shooman: »... because their culture is like that«. In: socialnet reviews , ISSN  2190-9245
  17. ↑ «Muslims are viewed as foreign bodies». Interview by Antonia Moser with Yasemin Shooman, Swiss Radio and Television (SRF), March 2, 2015
  18. ↑ a b Personnel: Dr. Yasemin Shooman becomes Scientific Director of the DeZIM Institute. Press release from the Jewish Museum Berlin
  19. ^ A salon for the immigration society. In: Der Tagesspiegel. November 14, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Shooman, Yasemin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1980