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Neue Publikation von Anna Spiegel

Veröffentlicht am 14. Dezember 2021

Spiegel, Anna (2021): ‘Permanent provisionality: The homes of mobile managerial professionals between temporariness and permanence’, Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration, 5:2, pp. 89–108, https://doi.org/10.1386/tjtm_00034_1

This article ‐ based on ethnographic research on German and American managers conducted in China, Germany and the United States between 2011 and 2014 ‐ examins how mobile professionals make sense of the transience of their current homes and how transience is reflected in their homemaking practices. The article argues that for mobile professionals the home becomes a critical place not only because of new multilocal spatialities but also because of new transient temporalities. Due to the corporate practice of giving successive temporary contracts, the mobile managers’ everyday life is characterized by a ‘permanent provisionality’, that is, an incongruence of the initially imagined and the actual time horizons of their mobility. The article shows how this ‘permanent provisionality’ is worked into the material and social textures of expatriate homes.

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Einladung zum Vortrag/Invitation “Global work, transnational life and (im)mobility in pandemic times"

Veröffentlicht am 14. Juni 2021

On Tuesday, 22nd of June, 2021 at 12:15, Irene Skovgaard Smith (University of East Anglia, UK) will present her current research in a talk entitled “Global work, transnational life and (im)mobility in pandemic times". The talk is part of the seminar „ Mobile Professionals. Transnational labour markets, careers and occupational cultures” organized by Anna Spiegel in the summer term 2021. It will take place in English via zoom. For further information and to register for the zoom session, please contact anna.spiegel@uni-bielefeld.de

Abstract:
The COVID-19 pandemic transformed our globally interconnected world almost overnight as cross-border immobility was enforced, striking at the heart of globalisation as we knew it. The coronavirus spread along international network ties and the response across the globe was travel bans, entry bans and border restrictions. The present study explores the impact of this disruption on the everyday transnationalism driven by international business, global work, career mobility and high skilled migration. The study focuses on the lived experience of transnational professionals in global corporations whose lives and work span geographical boundaries. 23 narrative interviews were conducted (virtually) from May 2020 onwards. The participants come from across Europe and beyond (Azerbaijan, Australia, Brazil, Canada, India, Indonesia, Mexico and the US) and live in Amsterdam, Berlin, Dubai, Geneva, Hamburg, Liechtenstein, London, Oslo, Perth, Vancouver and Singapore working for 20 different global corporations. The study explores how the pandemic has impacted the global work and transnational lives of these professionals and their sense of ‘home’ and belonging.

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Einladung zum Vortrag "The Passport(s) of a Virtuoso: Transnational -- International -- Cosmopolitan Careers?"

Veröffentlicht am 10. Juni 2021

Wir möchten Sie herzlich zum Vortrag "The Passport(s) of a Virtuoso: Transnational -- International -- Cosmopolitan Careers?"von Izabela Wagner (Collegium Civitas, Polen) einladen. Die Veranstaltung ist Teil des von Anna Spiegel angebotenen Seminars „Kunst als Arbeit. Arbeit und Beschäftigung in der Kultur- und Kreativwirtschaft" im Sommersemester 2021. Sie findet am Montag, dem 21. Juni 2021 von 12 bis 14 Uhr c.t. in englischer Sprache via Zoom statt. Für weitere Informationen und zur Anmeldung zur Zoom Sitzung kontaktieren Sie anna.spiegel@uni-bielefeld.de

We would like to cordially invite you to the presentation "The Passport(s) of a Virtuoso: Transnational -- International -- Cosmopolitan Careers?" by Izabela Wagner (Collegium Civitas, Poland). The event is part of the seminars „Art as Work. Work and Employment in artistic and creative labour markets” organized by Anna Spiegel in the summer term 2021. It will take place on Monday, 22nd of June, 2021 from 12:15 to 13:45 in English via zoom. For further information and to register for the zoom session, please contact anna.spiegel@uni-bielefeld.de

Abstract:
According to the romantic idea, artists are cosmopolitans — they are citizens of the world. This deep conviction seems to be shared by sociologists because only recently appeared specific literature dealing with a problem of cultural differences in art worlds. The seminar is devoted to the analysis of the international dimension of creative careers focusing on objective and subjective elements. I focus on the creative careers of violin virtuoso and my work is based on the ethnographic research conducted over 10 years in the young violin virtuoso world.

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Review of Book "Expatriate Managers: The Paradoxes of Working and Living Abroad"

Veröffentlicht am 15. Dezember 2020

The Book "Expatriate Managers: The Paradoxes of Working and Living Abroad" by Anna Spiegel, Ursula Mense-Petermann and Bastian Bredenkötter has been reviewed by Helena Hof. The review has been published in 'Transitions. Journal of transient Migration'.

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Blog post by Anna Spiegel about expatriates' paradoxical practices of dealing with privilege

Veröffentlicht am 28. Oktober 2020

Anna Spiegel wrote a blog post on Expatriates' paradoxical practices of dealing with privilege. The blog is part of the IMISCOE Research Network on Privileged Mobilites (PriMob), to which she is a member.

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Neues Buch zum Thema "Expatriate Managers" erschienen

Veröffentlicht am 14. November 2017

Das Buch "Expatriate Managers: The Paradoxes of Working and Living Abroad" ist von Anna Spiegel, Ursula Mense-Petermann und Bastian Bredenkötter gerade erschienen:

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Seit den 1990er Jahren hat die ökonomische Globalisierung zu einem rasanten Anstieg von transnationaler Arbeitsmobilität und grenzüberschreitenden Karrieren geführt. Einige Autoren behaupten, durch die Globalisierung habe sich eine globale Elite mit kosmopolitischen mind-sets und homogenem Lebensstil herausgebildet. Andere verweisen dagegen darauf, dass das Leben transnational mobiler Manager typischerweise in nationalen ‚Bubbles‘ und Diasporas stattfindet. Von kosmopolitischen Orientierungen und inter-kulturellen Kompetenzen könne keine Rede sein. Vor diesem Hintergrund präsentiert das Buch die Ergebnisse einer vergleichenden ethnographischen Studie zu Expatriate Managern unterschiedlicher Herkunft in unterschiedlichen Gastländern und arbeitet die Paradoxien des Lebens und Arbeitens im Ausland heraus.

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Call for Papers for "Transnationalisation and Knowledge The Ubiquity of Translation and the Crisis it Faces"

Veröffentlicht am 6. März 2017

The International Conference "Transnationalisation and Knowledge. The Ubiquity of Translation and the Crisis it Faces" of the Research Network “Trans|Wissen” (Trans|Knowledge) at the University of Trier, Germany on Thursday 12 October to Saturday 14 October 2017 will involve several panels and is intended to centre in on the topic of “Transnationalisation and Knowledge”. Potential speakers are invited to submit proposals on four sets of topics (see below). Abstracts should be no more than 500 words in length and may be submitted to info@trans-wissen.de by 31 March 2017.

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Call for Papers "Transnational Knowledge"

Veröffentlicht am 13. Januar 2017

Call for Papers "Transnational Knowledge"

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