Profile of Karin Liebhart

About

Senior Lecturer at the Department of Political Science, University of Vienna Erasmus and Mobility Coodinator Department of Political Science, University of Vienna Lecturer at the Postgraduate Program “Master of European Studies” and the Interdisciplinary Master Program “Contemporary History and Media”, University of Vienna Research Director Institute for Conflict Research, Vienna Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology, University of Trnava Lecturer at Karlshochschule International University, Karlsruhe Member of the management team of the Postgraduate Program "Global Citizenship Education), University of Klagenfurt Vice Chair of the Research Committee 47 “Local-Global Relations”, International Political Science Association (IPSA) Senior President of the Central European Political Science Association (CEPSA) 2022 (spring term) Botstiber Visiting Professor at the University of Californi, Berkeley 2018 (winter term) Fulbright Visiting Professor and Scholar at the Department of Political Science, University of Minnesota Visiting Professor and Marshall Plan Anniversary Chair 2014-2015 at the Department of Political Science, University of New Orleans Mainly interested in Visual Political Communication Discursive and Visual Representations of Politics Rightwing Populism and Rightwing Extremism Gender Studies Memory Politics and Remembrance Cultures Qualitative Methods Publications since 2017 (i.a.) 2020 Wie Bilder Wahlkampf machen. Mandelbaum. Vienna (with Petra Bernhard). 25 years later – Austria’s shift to the populist right: national characteristics of a pan-European trend. Central European Political Science Review. Special Issue. Fall 2000. The Normalization of Right-Wing Populist Discourses and Politics in Austria. In: Wöhl, Stefanie/ Springler, · Elisabeth/Pachel, Martin/Zeilinger Bernhard (eds.): The State of the European Union-Fault Lines in European Integration. Springer. Wiesbaden. 79-100. Storytelling im digitalen Wahlkampf. Analysen transmedialer Kampagnen am Beispiel der österreichischen Bundesprasidentschaftswahl 2016. In: Brantner Cornelia/Götzenbrucker, Gerit/Schreiber, Maria (eds.): Vernetzte Bilder. Köln. Herbert von Halem Verlag. 110-131 (with Petra Bernhardt). 2019 The Use of Social Media in the 2016 Presidential Election Campaign: Reframing the Homeland-Story as an InclusiveConcept. In: Bischof, Guenter/ Wineroither,David M. (eds.): Democracy in Austria (Contemporary Austrian Studies 28). New Orleans/Innsbruck: Innsbruck University Press, 177−198 (with Petra Bernhardt). Gedenkjahr 2018: Erinnern im Fokus politischer Online-Kommunikation. Zeitgeschichte 4/2019. 479-500 (withPetra Bernhardt). Visuelle Politik: Perspektiven eines politikwissenschaftlichen Forschungsbereichs. Österreichische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft, 48(2)2019, 44−54 (with Petra Bernhardt, Andreas Pribersky). Terrorbilder in den Medien: eine Analyse journalistischer Diskussionen zu visueller Terrorberichterstattung. In: Brantner, Cornelia/Lobinger, Katharina/Schwentner, Clemens (eds.): „zeigen - andeuten – verstecken“. Herbert von Halem Verlag: Cologne (with Petra Bernhardt). 2018 Secession conflicts in the EU – Spain and United Kingdom by comparison. European Review of Law and International Relations, 1/2018, 23-34. The unsettling shadow of the past: National-populism in Austria. In: Martinelli, Alöberto (ed.): When populism meets nationalism. Refelctions on Parties in Power. Milano: ISPI. 95-110. Rechtspopulismus als Teil der “politischen Mitte”. In: Weiss, Alexandra/Liebhart, Karin (2018): Spuren des Widerständigen: Forschung für Emanzipation und Demokratie. Innsbruck University Press. 121-131. 2017 Political Storytelling on Instagram: Key Aspects of Alexander Van der Bellen’s Successful 2016 Presidential Election Campaign. Media and Communication 2017, Vol. 5, Issue 4. 1525 (with Petra Bernhardt). Zur symbolischen Bevölkerung ›identitärer‹ Landschaften. In: Bargetz, Brigitte/Kreisky, Eva/Ludwig, Gundula (eds.): Dauerkämpfe. Feministische Zeitdiagnosen und Strategien. Campus Verlag. Frankfurt/M. 217-227. Diskursive Konstruktionen Osteuropas in Zeiten europäischer Krisen. In: Olteanu, Tina/Spöri, Tobias/Jaitner, Felix/Asenbaum, Hans (eds.): Osteuropa transformiert. Sozialismus, Demokratie und Utopie. Springer VS. Berlin. 229-243. Politik auf Instagram: Bildstrategien von Norbert Hofer und Alexander Van der Bellen im Bundespräsidentschaftswahlkampf 2016. SWS-Rundschau Vol. 57, 2/2017. 156-167 (with Petra Bernhardt).

Research Interests

Europe (Central and Eastern), Civil Society, Conflict, Conflict Resolution, Democratisation, Elections, European Union, Extremism, Gender, Media, National Identity, Nationalism, Political Participation, Populism, Social Movements, USA, Campaign, Candidate, Constructivism, Feminism, Methods, Qualitative Comparative Analysis, Qualitative, Social Media, Communication, Comparative Perspective, Euroscepticism, Memory, Narratives, Political Activism, Protests, LGBTQI, Political Cultures