Utta Isop

Utta Isop (born 1974 in Klagenfurt) is an Austrian philosopher and gender researcher, author and editor. Her main focuses are gender democracy, unconditional basic income, solidarity economy, and social movements. Utta Isop studied law from 1992 to 1994, and from 1992 to 2002 a double degree in teaching (philosophy, psychology, pedagogics, and German) and philosophy as a combination of subjects at the University of Vienna. In May 2002 she received her diploma in philosophy with a thesis entitled "Sociogenesis of the Social. Reflections based on Bourdieu, Groeben, Mead, Vygotsky." In July 2004, she passed the teacher's examination with the following topics: social sciences as a school subject, Otto Neurath's picture pedagogy, and multilingualism as a national educational concept. In 2005, she was on parental leave. Since 2006 she has been working as a teacher at the Bundesrealgymnasium Klagenfurt-Viktring. From 2005 to 2016, she taught philosophy and gender studies as a staff member of the University of Klagenfurt. She was part of the inter-faculty research network Culture & Conflict, which has existed at the University of Klagenfurt since 2005. The first publication documenting the results of the research project is Spielregeln der Gewalt. Kulturwissenschaftliche Beiträge zur Friedens- und Geschlechterforschung, (2009, edited by Utta Isop, Viktorija Ratković and Werner Wintersteiner). In 2013, she was awarded the Prize for Civic Courage by the Austrian Students' Association in Klagenfurt in the category of teachers, because, according to the jury, she "constantly rises above convention and expresses criticism of unfair conditions." Together with the media and communication scientist Viktorija Ratković, Utta Isop published the volume Differenzen leben in 2011. The review in the journal Femina Politica concluded: "The strengths of the book lie in its diverse examination of different aspects of inclusion and exclusion in relation to the category of gender in connection with - primarily - the categories of ethnicity and sexuality.