Schmidtke, Oliver
Oliver Schmidtke is Director of the Centre for Global Studies (CFGS) and Jean Monnet Chair in European Politics and History at the University of Victoria. Dr. Schmidtke, a former director of European Studies and president of the European Community Studies Association in Canada (ECSA-C), holds appointments in the departments of Political Science and History. His research focuses on issues of democracy, populism, memory politics, the labour market inclusion of highly skilled immigrants as well as processes of political advocacy of migrant and minority groups.
Research Interests: Immigration and citizenship, Identity politics, and Comparative European politics
Listing Details
| Institution: | University of Victoria |
| Fields of Expertise: | EU Institutions EU Multi-level Governance EU Policies Memory Politics Migration Nationalism and Extremism Populism Social Movements and Political Mobilization |
| Research groups: | Democracy/Populism/Nationalism,Memory Politics,Migration/Citizenship/Borders,RG ECSA-C Democracy,RG ECSA-C Migration,The ECSA-C members |
| Email: | ofs@uvic.ca |
| Media outreach: | Yes |
| Languages: | English, French, German, Italian |
| Publications: | Mat, F.; Chiodi, L.; Schmidtke, O. "Europeanization as Pragmatic Politics: Italy’s Civil Society Actors Operating in the Face of Right-Wing Populism", Social Sciences. 13, 205, 2024. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci13040205 Schmidtke, O., "Migration as a building bloc of middle-class nation-building? The growing rift between Germany’s centre-right and right-wing parties", Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 50:7, 1677-1695, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2024.2315350 Bodnár, E., Webber, J., and O. Schmidtke, O. "Populism, Democracy, and the Rule of Law in Central and Eastern Europe" (Introduction to special issue). Hague Journal on the Rule of Law. in press, summer 2024. Webber, J., Schmidtke, O. and E Bodnár. Introduction: Democratic Constitutionalism in a Populist Age (Introduction to special issue). Social & Legal Studies, 2023 https://doi.org/10.1177/09646639231198649 Mobilizing History: European Integration and its Legitimizing Narrative. Special issue: Journal of European Integration History (Oliver and Birte Wassenberg), summer 2023: https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/0947-9511-2023-1/jeih-journal-of-european-integration-history-jahrgang-29-2023-heft-1. Reimagining Political Identity and Ideology in Europe: Memory Politics and the Resurgence of Nationalism and Right-Wing Populism; special issue of Social Sciences (Oliver Schmidtke), fall 2023: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci/special_issues/A231NZBEKD. Schmidtke, O. and James, M. The Legacy of Canada's Residential School System. Addressing Past Injustices from a Canadian-German Perspective. Report for the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, 2022 (64 pages) available in English and German at: https://www.kas.de/en/web/canada/publications/single-titles/-/content/the-legacy-of-canada-s-residential-school-system |
