Gertrude Eilmsteiner-Saxinger

PhD. cand. at the University of Vienna (A)

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Since 2004 she holds a diploma in Cultural and Social Anthropology (MA thesis title: Systems of Inequality - Life Plans and Future Perspectives of Students at Moscow Universities). From 1999 on, she received several scholarships and small grants from the University of Vienna for field-trips as well as a joint-study-scholarship in 2002/03 for Russian language studies at the Russian State University RGGU in Moscow. 2000 to 2001 she studied Regional Development and Spatial Planning at the Vienna University of Technology (TU) and took part in a joint project of TU and University of Peshawar, Pakistan on integrated regional development in high-lying regions of Himalaya, Hindukush, Karakorum.

Since 2005 she is collaborator with the Institute for Educational and Vocational Research at the Johannes Kepler University Linz (A).

Since 2006 she is training students in History of Theory in Social and Cultural Anthropology as tutor to Prof. Andre Gingrich at the Institute for Cultural- und Social Anthropology, University of Vienna. Within a joint lecture of the A.A.S. she presented the topics "Urban Live in Northern Siberia - Spatial Development and Integration" as well as "Migration in Siberia - Ideology, Policy, Needs and Wishes" at the same Institute in January 2008.

Current research interests: migration, gender, space, labour, post-socialist countries, Russian Federation with focus on northern Siberia.

For her dissertation research on "Labour Migration in North-Western Siberia - the Lives of Vakhtoviki" (supervised by Prof. Peter Schweitzer) she received the Dissertation Award in Migration Studies 2007 of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, ÖAW. Together with Russian historian and A.A.S. member Elena Aleshkevich and Prof. Heinz Fassmann (Department for Geography and Spatial Research at the Universtity of Vienna) as project leader, she currently elaborates a three years research project, looking interdisciplinarily on selected aspects of vakhtovyj metod (fly-in/fly-out shift work) in oil and gas industry in the Former Soviet Union and the Russian Federation. Therein, Gerti and Elena established a cooperation with NII, the Institute for Development of Education under Sub-Polar Conditions of the ural branch of the Russian Academy of Education and the Centre for Socio-Psychological Help, both in Novyj Urengoj, on the purpose of joint surveys on family-life of Vakhtoviki as well as on teenagers growing up with parents working on vakhtovyj metod. Since she met Alla Bolotova and Florian Stammler at their field-sites in Karelia respectively Novyj Urengoj in 2007 she is closely cooperating with their ESF funded project BOREAS MOVE-INOCOMM at the Arctic Centre of the Lapland University in Rovaniemi, Finland: "Assessing senses of place, mobility and viability in industrial northern communities".

Since 2001 she published various scientific and journalist articles as well as radio documentaries. Currently she is working on her first monograph "Russia´s young Intelligence" .

Publications

· Eilmsteiner-Saxinger, G. (2001a) "Participative and Protective Tourism Development in Pakistan". In Encounters - Integrated Regional Development in Pakistan, Nepal and Bhutan. Hg. Verein Mountains_2001 Wien pp. 87-124.

· Marouschek B. and Eilmsteiner-Saxinger G. (2001b) "Are women equal to men?". In Encounters - Integrated Regional Development in Pakistan, Nepal and Bhutan. Hg. Verein Mountains_2001 Wien; pp. 309-330.

· Eilmsteiner-Saxinger, G.(2003a) "Grenzüberschreitende Frauenpolitik. Vernetzung von Akteurinnen in Mittel- und Osteuropa". In Frauensolidarität. Nr. 85. Jg. 3/03. pp. 20-22.

· Eilmsteiner-Saxinger, G. (2004a) "Systeme von Ungleichheiten - Lebensplanung und Zukunftsperspektiven von Moskauer StudentInnen" Diplomarbeit an der Universität Wien, 210 pp.

· Eilmsteiner-Saxinger, G.(2004b) "Immer mehr Frauen nutzen die Chancen der Migration". In Frauen im neuen Europa - Beispiele aus Österreich, der Slowakei, der Tschechischen Republik und Ungarn. Frauenabteilung der Stadt Wien. pp. 19.

· Eilmsteiner-Saxinger, G. (2004c) "Hlidaci Fena - Gegen die politische Kultur der Missachtung von Frauen". In Frauen im neuen Europa - Beispiele aus Österreich, der Slowakei, der Tschechischen Republik und Ungarn. Frauenabteilung der Stadt Wien. pp. 33

· Eilmsteiner-Saxinger, G. (2004d) "L-Platforma - Lesbische Frauen in der Tschechischen Republik". In Frauen im neuen Europa - Beispiele aus Österreich, der Slowakei, der Tschechischen Republik und Ungarn. Frauenabteilung der Stadt Wien. P. 34.

· Eilmsteiner-Saxinger, G. (2004f) "Frauen in Wissenschaft und Forschung - Förderungs- und Vernetzungsperspektiven in der erweiterten EU" In milena talk 2004. Frauenabteilung der Stadt Wien. pp. 15-23.

· Niederberger/Stadlmayr/Eilmsteiner-Saxinger/Aleshkevich/Lentner (2008) "Bildungsstruktur am Schwarzen Meer". Institut für Berufs- und Erwachsenenbildungsforschung an der Universität Linz. pp.108

· Aleshkevich, E. / Eilmsteiner-Saxinger G. (2008) Integrazija Kul'tur: Opyt Jazykovoj Adaptazii. In: Evropejskie Jazyki v Sovremennom Mire: Teorija I Praktika. Monografia/Nauchn. Red. G. A. Dzinda. Moskva: Izd-vo Sputnik+. pp. 187

· Eilmsteiner-Saxinger, Gertrude (2008) "Commuting to the Siberian Far North - when Extreme becomes Normality". Upcoming in TRANS 17. TRANS - Internet-Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften: http://www.inst.at/trans. pp.8

Radio documentaries and other journalist publications not listed.

Conferences/Workshops/Presentations

Accepted Paper: State and Shift Labor in Western Siberia at the 6th International Congress on Arctic Social Sciences, ICASS VI, Nuuk, Greenland 22-26 th August 2008 *

· Joint paper presentation with Peter P. Schweitzer at the panel session Indigeneity and Indigenism, BOREAS Workshop "Heading North, Heading South: Arctic social-sciences research in a global dialogue" hosted by Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany, March 2008 *

· Exploring the Construction of Space among Vakhtoviki Life of Commuters in the North-West- Siberian Oil and Gas Regions. Paper presentation at the KCTOS: Knowledge, Creativity and Transformations of Societies. INST Conference 6 to 9 December 2007 Vienna, Austria. Section: Arctic, Antarctica, Alps, Art - Imagining the Extreme, Natural Sciences, Humanities, Arts - Dialoguing*

· Labour Migration in Siberian North - Lives of Vahoviki. Informal presentation at the Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, August 2007, Rovaniemi,Finland *

· Methodological Approaches towards Labour Migration in Siberian North - Lives of Vahoviki. Presentation at the International Summerschool "Social Production of Space: Field experiences in the Russian European North",Centre for Independent Social Research, August 2007, St.Petersburg, Russia.*

· Power and Systems of Inequality in Russia. Tage der Kultur, Department for Cultural and Social Anthropology, University of Vienna, Juli 2005, Austria*

· Women in Austrian Media. Conference "Women in Media" by Friedrich Ebert Stiftung and Centre for Gender Studies o.p.s, at the national parliament in Prague, Czech Republic, November 2003*

· International women's conference: Framing Gender - European perspectives for gender equality in a merging region. Organised by Frauenbüro der Stadt Wien at the town hall in Vienna, October 2004, Austria ***

· milena.talk im math.space. Frauen in Wissenschaft und Forschung - Förderungs- und Vernetzungsperspektiven in der erweiterten EU. Aktionstag mit internationalen Wissenschafterinnen und von Forschungs-(förd.)einrichtungen; Museumsquartier Vienna, May 2004, Austria ***

· Networking to promote women´ s and gender topics in the media. Workshop with experts from CZ, SK, HU, A; Denkfabrik, Vienna June 2003, Austria ***

· Language - a means or an obstacle to gender equality? Panel discussion with linguists from CZ, SK, HU, A; Museumsquartier Vienna Vienna, December 2003, Austria ***