Melting Pot Ottakring!? Distinktionsprozesse und Disziplinierungsbestrebungen an den Rändern des Urbanen

Abstract: Processes of social distinction and disciplining efforts on the urban margins can be explored historically in different areas such as housing and social politics, both communal and private. During a two-year research project, scholars based at the Kreisky-Archive in Vienna, together with...

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Main Authors: Heidi Niederkofler, Elke Rajal
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Language:deu
Published: StudienVerlag 2017-12-01
Series:Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften
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Online Access:https://journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/oezg/article/view/3336
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spelling doaj-b1cab0a04fb64ccf8eda08425b14685e2021-03-18T20:46:11ZdeuStudienVerlagÖsterreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften1016-765X2707-966X2017-12-0128310.25365/oezg-2017-28-3-9Melting Pot Ottakring!? Distinktionsprozesse und Disziplinierungsbestrebungen an den Rändern des UrbanenHeidi Niederkofler0Elke Rajal1Kreisky-Archiv, WienInstitut für Politikwissenschaft der Universität Wien Abstract: Processes of social distinction and disciplining efforts on the urban margins can be explored historically in different areas such as housing and social politics, both communal and private. During a two-year research project, scholars based at the Kreisky-Archive in Vienna, together with students at a local grammar school (Gymnasium Maroltingergasse) have been investigating these phenomena in relation to early twentieth-century Ottakring, a Viennese suburb. The suburbs of the growing metropolis inhabited by the poor were perceived as the ‘other side of civilization’. This view was accompanied by fascination as well as processes of boundary-drawing and stigmatization and the responses led to various interventions into the suburban spaces concerned. In two case-studies the authors analyze such interventions with a focus on the fantasies and fears concerning the suburban ‘other’: The first focuses on the Ottakringer Notstandsbauten, a shanty town for poor workers with many children which was built by the municipal government in 1911 as a reaction to the rampant housing shortage and homelessness in the urban region. The second focuses on the welfare organisation Wiener Settlement, founded in 1901 by members of the liberal women’s movement. The association’s estate, accessible at the Sammlung Frauennachlässe, University of Vienna, was a primary source for examinating the Viennese Settlement. Concerning the Notstandsbauten, interviews with former residents and biographical narratives of former neighbors have been analyzed along with newspaper articles. https://journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/oezg/article/view/3336Viennaurbanizationsuburbiahousing politicssettlement movementwelfare
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Melting Pot Ottakring!? Distinktionsprozesse und Disziplinierungsbestrebungen an den Rändern des Urbanen
Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften
Vienna
urbanization
suburbia
housing politics
settlement movement
welfare
author_facet Heidi Niederkofler
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title Melting Pot Ottakring!? Distinktionsprozesse und Disziplinierungsbestrebungen an den Rändern des Urbanen
title_short Melting Pot Ottakring!? Distinktionsprozesse und Disziplinierungsbestrebungen an den Rändern des Urbanen
title_full Melting Pot Ottakring!? Distinktionsprozesse und Disziplinierungsbestrebungen an den Rändern des Urbanen
title_fullStr Melting Pot Ottakring!? Distinktionsprozesse und Disziplinierungsbestrebungen an den Rändern des Urbanen
title_full_unstemmed Melting Pot Ottakring!? Distinktionsprozesse und Disziplinierungsbestrebungen an den Rändern des Urbanen
title_sort melting pot ottakring!? distinktionsprozesse und disziplinierungsbestrebungen an den rändern des urbanen
publisher StudienVerlag
series Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften
issn 1016-765X
2707-966X
publishDate 2017-12-01
description Abstract: Processes of social distinction and disciplining efforts on the urban margins can be explored historically in different areas such as housing and social politics, both communal and private. During a two-year research project, scholars based at the Kreisky-Archive in Vienna, together with students at a local grammar school (Gymnasium Maroltingergasse) have been investigating these phenomena in relation to early twentieth-century Ottakring, a Viennese suburb. The suburbs of the growing metropolis inhabited by the poor were perceived as the ‘other side of civilization’. This view was accompanied by fascination as well as processes of boundary-drawing and stigmatization and the responses led to various interventions into the suburban spaces concerned. In two case-studies the authors analyze such interventions with a focus on the fantasies and fears concerning the suburban ‘other’: The first focuses on the Ottakringer Notstandsbauten, a shanty town for poor workers with many children which was built by the municipal government in 1911 as a reaction to the rampant housing shortage and homelessness in the urban region. The second focuses on the welfare organisation Wiener Settlement, founded in 1901 by members of the liberal women’s movement. The association’s estate, accessible at the Sammlung Frauennachlässe, University of Vienna, was a primary source for examinating the Viennese Settlement. Concerning the Notstandsbauten, interviews with former residents and biographical narratives of former neighbors have been analyzed along with newspaper articles.
topic Vienna
urbanization
suburbia
housing politics
settlement movement
welfare
url https://journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/oezg/article/view/3336
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