Dr. Andrea Fischer-Tahir

Vita

• Humanities scholar and social scientist
• 1990-1996 Studied Arabic and Oriental Philology, Ethnology and History of Religion at the University of Leipzig
• 1996-1998 Studied German as a foreign language at the University of Leipzig
• 2002 Doctorate at the University of Leipzig
• Research and teaching activities at the Zentrum Moderner Orient Berlin, Koya University Kurdistan-Iraq, Philipps University Marburg, TU Dresden, among others

Core research areas

• Disability and inclusion
• Social production of space
• Collective memory and historical politics
• Gender relations
• Knowledge production

Publications (selection)

Latest book contribution

Fischer-Tahir, Andrea (2024): Disability. In: Belina, Bernd et al. (eds.): Handbook of Critical Urban Geography. 6th, completely revised and expanded edition. Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot, pp. 349-355.

Monographs

Fischer-Tahir, Andrea (2021): Visual impairment and work. Reconfigurations in digital capitalism. Bielefeld: transcript. Open Access: https://www.transcript-open.de/isbn/6049

Fischer-Tahir, Andrea (2009): Brave men, pretty women? Gender and Symbolic Violence in Iraqi-Kurdish Urban Society. Berlin: EZKS. (translated into Kurdish, 2011)

Fischer-Tahir, Andrea (2003): "We gave many martyrs." Resistance and collective identity formation in Iraqi Kurdistan. Münster: Unrast-Verlag (dissertation).

Editorships

Wippe, Steffen/ Fischer-Tahir, Andrea [ed.] (2018): Beyond established meta-geographies. The Middle East and North Africa in transregional perspective. Baden-Baden: Nomos.

Fischer-Tahir, Andrea/Wagenhofer, Sophie [eds.] (2017): Disciplinary Spaces: Spatial Control, Forced Assimilation and Narratives of Progress since the^19th Century. Bielefeld: transcript.

Fischer-Tahir, Andrea/Lange, Katharina [eds.] (2016): Ethnographies of Change in the Middle East and North Africa. Leipzig: Leipzig University Press.

Fischer-Tahir, Andrea/Soudias, Dimitris [eds.] (2015): "Periphery". Middle East Topics & Arguments (5).

Fischer-Tahir, Andrea/Naumann, Matthias [eds.] (2013): Peripheralization: The Making of Spatial Dependencies and Social Injustice. Berlin: Springer VS.

Contributions to peer-reviewed journals

Fischer-Tahir, Andrea/Langner, Anke (2021): "Don't write us off, but don't force us either". Power and powerlessness in vocational rehabilitation for people with visual impairments. Journal for Inclusion-online (1-2021). URL: https://www.inklusion-online.net/index.php/inklusion-online/article/view/582/431

Fischer-Tahir, Andrea (2013): "Science-based Truth as News: Knowledge Production and Media in Iraqi Kurdistan", Kurdish Studies (1/1): 28-43.

Fischer-Tahir, Andrea (2012): "Gendered Memories and Masculinities: Kurdish Peshmerga on the Anfal Campaign in Iraq", Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (8:1): 92-114.

Fischer-Tahir, Andrea (2011): "Representations of Peripheral Space in Iraqi Kurdistan: The Case of the Qaradagh District Centre", Études Rurales (186): 117-130.

Fischer-Tahir, Andrea (2010): "Competition, Cooperation and Resistance: Women in the Political Field in Iraq", International Affairs (86: 6): 1381-1394.

Fischer-Tahir, Andrea (2008): "Black-white Man, White-red Woman: Representations of Gender in Kurdish Urban Society", The International Journal of Kurdish Studies (21): 123-143.