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Türkei geboren, ebenso viele verfügten 2001 über die türki-
sche Staatsangehörigkeit.
[Not less than 37.5% of the population in the district had a
birthplace outside of Austria. At the time the percentage
of non-Austrian citizens was at 32.1%. In keeping with Vi-
enna’s immigration history of the last decades groups with
ex-Yugoslav and Turkish backgrounds dominated: 17.4% of
the population living there had been born in the former Yu-
goslavia (10.3% in Serbia and Montenegro) while 16.8% were
citizens of states resulting from the breakup of Yugoslavia.
8.0% of inhabitants had been born in Turkey, and as many
were Turkish citizens in 2001.] (Antalovsky et al. 2008, 42)
Unlike culture-clash comedies, Riebl’s film does not play up
the unsettling, “uncivilized” habits of non-Christian groups
for laughs (they slaughter lambs and donkeys! They circum-
cise their sons!). Rather, Planet Ottakring depicts a community
whose members all face the same debilitating financial forces,
which serves to draw attention to the working-class status of the
majority of immigrants and to question why racialized groups
are denied access to working-class identities in the Austrian
mainstream. While neither Sammy nor Valerie has a “migra-
tional” background, many of their friends and neighbors do,
such as Sammy’s girlfriend at the beginning of the film and the
bartender in his establishment. Sammy and Valerie serve as a
linchpin around which an alternative community emerges, in
Gibson-Graham and the Community Economies Collective’s
sense of “not a fixed identity nor a bounded locality, but […] a
never-ending process of being together, of struggling over the
boundaries and substance of togetherness, and of coproducing
this togetherness in complex relations of power” (Gibson-Gra-
ham et al 2018, 5). That Christian marriage is not a necessary
foundation for this community is made clear in the fact that
Sammy’s grandparents are divorced and his parents completely
absent, while Valerie’s landlady, Frau Jahn, and Disko are both
Siting Futurity
The “Feel Good” Tactical Radicalism of Contemporary Culture in and around Vienna
- Titel
- Siting Futurity
- Untertitel
- The “Feel Good” Tactical Radicalism of Contemporary Culture in and around Vienna
- Autor
- Susan Ingram
- Verlag
- punctumbooks
- Ort
- New York
- Datum
- 2021
- Sprache
- englisch
- Lizenz
- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- ISBN
- 978-1-953035-48-6
- Abmessungen
- 12.6 x 20.2 cm
- Seiten
- 224
- Schlagwörter
- activism, Austria, contemporary art, contemporary theater, protest culture, radicalism, social protest, Vienna
- Kategorie
- Geographie, Land und Leute
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Preface 11
- Introduction 19
- 1. (Re)Forming Vienna’s Culture of Resistance: The Proletenpassions @ #Arena 39
- 2. Converting Kebab and Currency into Community on Planet #Ottakring 57
- 3. Lazarus’s Necropolitical Afterlife at Vienna’s #Volkstheater 81
- 4. Hardly Homemad(e): #Schlingensief’s Container 101
- 5. From Grand Hotels to Tiny Treasures: Wes Anderson and the Ruin Porn Worlds of Yesterday 119
- 6. Capitalism, Schizophrenia, and #Vanlife: The Alpine Edukation of Hans Weingarter 143
- 7. #Hallstatt: Welcome to Jurassic World 161
- Bibliography 189
- Filmography 215