Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Institut für Europäische Ethnologie

Books

• 2021 The wolves are coming back. The politics of fear in Eastern Germany. Co-Author, with Rebecca Pates. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications

• 2023 Professorinnen an Kunst- und Musikhochschulen im Spannungsfeld zwischen Theorie und Praxis: Der Einfluss informeller Praktiken und künstlerischer Feldlogiken. Co-Author, with Ricarda Kramer, Tanja Paulitz, & Leonie Wagner. Zeitschrift für empirische Hochschulforschung, 6(1), pp. 45–61.

• 2022 Entre coopération et conflit: La « coopération de confiance » entre la police et les centres de consultation spécialisés dans l’accompagnement des victimes de la traite des êtres humains. Co-Author, with Anne Dölemeyer. Cultures & Conflits, 122, pp. 47–65.

• 2021 Affektive Komplexität in rechten Kontexten – Methodologische Impulse. Co-Author, with Florian Spissinger. In Forum Kritische Psychologie, Neue Folge 3. krise – autoritäre tendenzen – subjektivität, A. Brensell, U. Eichinger, A. Hofmeister, J. Kalpein, C. Küpper, H.-P. Michels, T. Pappritz, K. Reimer-Gordinskaya, S. Vollmer, E. Wengemuth, M. Zander (Eds.). Hamburg: Argument Verlag, pp. 94–112.

• 2020 On the sensory policing of vices. Morality at work in a German vice squad. Journal of Extreme Anthropology, 4(1), pp. 22–44. Open Access.
• 2020 The category of ‘culture’ in vice squad policing in Germany. Sociologus, 70(1), pp. 57–72.
• 2020 The functionality of affects: conceptualizing far-right populist politics beyond negative emotions. Co-Author, with Florian Spissinger. Global Discourse, 10(2), pp. 325–342.
• 2020 Ostdeutsche Identität(en) im Wandel? Perspektiven für Intra- und Interkohortenvergleiche. Co-Author, with Lars Vogel. Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft, 14, pp. 171–197.
• 2019 Performing ‘resistance’ – the far right’s master narrative. Co-Author, with Jamela Homeyer, Florian Spissinger, & Tobias Neidel. The Journal of Culture, 8(1), pp. 13–21.
• 2019 On the affective governmentality of anti-trafficking efforts: an ethnographic exploration. Co-Author, with Rebecca Pates. Journal of Political Power, 12(3), pp. 339–357.
• 2017 The Emotional Leviathan: How street-level bureaucrats govern human trafficking victims. Co-Author, with Rebecca Pates, & Anne Dölemeyer. Digithum, 19, pp. 19–36. Open Access.
• 2016 Schwierige Verhältnisse. Menschenhandelsopfer und Geschlecht vor Gericht. Co-Author, with Rebecca Pates, & Anne Dölemeyer. Femina Politica, 25(1), pp. 24–38.

Chapters in Books and Edited Volumes 

• 2023 Wolf Politics. Modi der (Nicht)Regierbarkeit in den Peripherien Ostdeutschlands. In Rechtspopulismen der Gegenwart. Kulturwissenschaftliche Irritationen, C. Hentschel & S. Wellgraf (Eds.). Spector Books, in press.

• 2023 The Functionality of Affects: Conceptualising Far-Right Populist Politics beyond Negative Emotions. Co-Author, with Florian Spissinger. In The Politics of Negative Emotions, D. Degerman (Ed.). Bristol University Press, pp. 156–176.

• 2022 Negotiating the Territories of Anti-Trafficking Efforts: The “Unlikely Cooperation” Between Police Officers and Social Workers in Germany. Co-Author, with Anne Dölemeyer. In Trafficking and Sex Work, M. Darley (Ed.). Routledge, pp. 68–83.

• 2021 The Framing of Right-Wing Populism: Intricacies of ‘Populist’ Narratives, Emotions, and Resonance. Co-Author, with Rebecca Pates. In The Palgrave Handbook of Populism, M. Oswald (Ed.). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham., pp. 437–450.

• 2021 Die Übersetzung situativer ‚Bauchgefühle’ in eine Analyse politischer Affekte: Potentiale ethnografischer Affektforschung für die Untersuchung von rechter Politik. Co-Author, with Florian Spissinger. In Gesellschaft unter Spannung. Verhandlungen des 40. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie 2020. B. Blättel-Mink (Ed.). Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie, pp. 1–11.

• 2020 Toxische Orte? Faktoren der regionalen Anfälligkeit für völkischen Nationalismus. Co-Author, with Mary Dellenbaugh-Losse, Jamela Homeyer, & Rebecca Pates. In Rechtes Denken – Rechte Räume, L. Berg & J. Üblacker (Eds.). Bielefeld: transcript, pp. 47–82. Open Access.
• 2019 Befindlichkeiten des Demos – Zur politischen Funktion von Affekten im Zeichen des Populismus und einer „Krise“ der Demokratie. Co-Author, with Rebecca Pates, & Florian Spissinger. In Komplexe Dynamiken globaler und lokaler Entwicklungen. Verhandlungen des 39. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie in Göttingen 2018, N. Burzan (Ed.). Göttingen: DGS. Open Access.
• 2018 Policing the absence of a victim: An ethnography of raids in sex trafficking operations. In Policing the Sex Industry: Protection, Paternalism and Politics, T. Sanders & M. Laing (Eds.). Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge, pp. 109–125.
• 2013 Radioactivists: Wurzeln und Dynamiken von Protest und Dissidenz in Japan seit Fukushima. Co-Author, with Maria Trunk. In Lesebuch „Fukushima“: Übersetzungen, Kommentare, Essays, L. Gebhardt & S. Richter (Eds.). Berlin: EB-Verlag Dr. Brandt, pp. 337–348.

Other Academic Writing (Invited Blog Posts, Project Reports, Etc.) 

• 2022 State sensorium. Rethinking the role of senses and affects in street-level bureaucrats’ discretion. PoLAR – Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Virtual Edition on Bureaucracy and Tactics, https://polarjournal.org/2022/12/24/state-sensorium-rethinking-the-role-of-senses-and-affects-in-street-level-bureaucrats-discretion/

• 2022 Museums and populism(s) – Perspectives from an emerging field of research. Co-Author, with Alice Millar, Marlena Nikody and Pia Schramm. CARMAH Reflections, https://www.carmah.berlin/reflections/museums-and-populisms-perspectives/

• 2022 “Vorwort.” In Pauline Betche, Das Politikum Wolf. Spurensuche nach den politischen Funktionalisierungen eines denaturalisierten Tieres, Logos Verlag Berlin, pp. 3–4.

• 2021 Die Nation als Exklusionsmaschine (Interaktives Scrollitelling). Co-Author, with Tobias Neidel, Florian Spissinger, Jamela Stratenwerth. PoliLab, https://www.politische-laboratorien.de/die-nation-erzahlen/die-nation-als-exklusionsmaschine.
• 2020 Affective politics of the far right beyond negative emotions. Co-Author, with Florian Spissinger. Global Discourse Blog, https://globaldiscourseblog.co.uk/2020/03/23/affective-politics-of-the-far-right-beyond-negative-emotions/.

Presentations

• Recalcitrant sex workers & reluctant victims of trafficking: Everyday resistance against police categorizations. Paper presentation. Workshop of the Working Group “Social Movements and the Police” of the Institute for Protest and Social Movement Studies, ‘Policing Resistance in Everyday Life’, TU Berlin, Germany, November 2023.

• Unbehagliche Höflichkeiten: Über Whiteness, Privilegien und politische Implikationen in der ethnografischen Forschung in rechten Feldern. Invited Lecture. Institute’s Colloquium Political Sociology, ‘Kritik – Forschung – Praxis’, Jena University, Germany, October 2023.

• Wolf politics. Modes of (un)governability in the peripheries of Eastern Germany. Paper Presentation. EASA Conference ‘Capitalism, Fascism and the Environment’, Cologne University, Germany, July 2023.

• ’I don’t want you to be nice’: On emotional challenges, privilege, and implicit complicity in white-on-white research on the far right. Paper Presentation. CRASSH Conference ‘Challenges in Studying Right-Wing Populism: A Global Perspective’, Cambridge University, UK, March 2023.

• Understanding the impact of populist politics on museums: Findings from an explorative interview study in the UK, Poland, and Germany. Paper Presentation. MSA Conference ‘Memory, Migration and Populism: Central and Eastern Europe’s post-imperial historical legacy and heritage’, Prague, Czech Republic, Oct. 2022.

• The violence of abjection: Interrogating policing practices in the realm of human trafficking. Paper Presentation, Conference ‘Examining political economies of violence: Ethnographic engagements with border regimes, war economies and racial capitalism’, Humboldt University Berlin, Sept. 2022.

• The wolves are coming back: The politics of fear in Eastern Germany. Book Panel, with Rebecca Pates, Christoffer Kølvraa, and Peter Arnds, 28th International Conference of Europeanists, University of Lisbon, Portugal, July 2022.

• The power of affects and the far right: Stories from the field. Invited Keynote Address, HEPP3 Conference ‘Emotions, Populism and Polarised Politics, Media and Culture’, Helsinki University, Finland, June 2022.

• The roots of populism. Panel Discussion, with Chiara Bonachhi, Matthew Kerry, and Elisabeth Niklasson. History, Heritage and Politics Divisional Research Seminar Series, Stirling University, UK, Oct. 2021.

• State ethnography: Potentials, challenges, and new avenues of inquiry. Paper Presentation, DVPW Congress 2021 “Wir haben die Wahl! Politik in Zeiten von Unsicherheit und Autokratisierung”, Online, Sept. 2021.

• Die Veränderbarkeit nationaler Narrative. Empirische Einsichten in die Wirkungsweisen banaler Nationalismen. Paper Presentation, Symposium “Affektive Narrative des Populismus”, Christian Albrechts University Kiel, July 2021.

• Challenges for Europe revisited: Ten theses. Panel Discussion, with Andreas Zick, and Claudius Wagemann; Chair: Adelheid Wessler. VW Status Symposium “Challenges for Europe”, Hanover, July 2021.

• Challenging Populist Truth-Making in Europe: The Role of Museums in a Digital ‘Post-Truth’ European Society. Project Presentation, VW Status Symposium “Challenges for Europe”, Hanover, July 2021.

• Fremde im eigenen Land? Die Funktionen nationaler Identität. Invited Keynotes Address, Lecture Series on “Nationalismus”, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, June 2021.

• Contested futures of Eastern Germany: Völkisch nationalist visions for a new German identity. Paper Presentation, 27th International Conference of Europeanists ‘Europe’s Past, Present, and Future: Utopias and Dystopias’, Online, June 2021.

• Nationalismus und Ostdeutschland. Invited Lecture, Kulturzentrum Schneeberg, Oct. 2020.

• Ethnographies of the far right: Affekte im Forschungsprozess und ihre epistemischen Funktionen. Paper Presentation, with Florian Spissinger, 40. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie (DGS), Online, Sept. 2020.

• Affektivität und Gemeinschaft. Zur Funktionalität politischer Affekte jenseits negativer Emotionen. Paper Presentation, with Florian Spissinger, Conference ‘Vorstellungen von Gemeinschaft und Nation im Kontext gegenwärtiger rechtspopulistischer Mobilisierungen’, International Psychoanalytic University, Berlin, Feb. 2020.

• Professorale Resonanzräume: Anerkennung von Professorinnen an Musikhochschulen. Paper Presentation, Conference ‘Jenseits der Gläsernen Decke. Professorinnen zwischen Anerkennung und Marginalisierung’, TU Darmstadt, Feb. 2020.

• Ostdeutsche sind keine Deutschen? Praktiken und Politik von (De-)Klassifikation. Paper Presentation, Conference ‘89/90 – Aufbruch ohne Ende?’, Leipzig University, Nov. 2019.

• Doing the nation: How national identities are performed and narrated. Paper Presentation, International Workshop ‘Beyond identity? New avenues for interdisciplinary research on identity’, Wroclaw University, Poland, Nov. 2019.

• Performing the body of normalcy: Vice squad officers as ‘moral bureaucrats.’ Paper Presentation, International Workshop ‘The police and sex work then and now’, Humboldt University Berlin, Aug. 2019.

• Fear of whom? Populist feminism, affective politics, and German angst. Paper Presentation, European Conference of Politics & Gender, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 2019.

• Nationalismus und die Politik der Emotionen. Invited Keynote Address, Lecture Series on “Radikale Rechte, Nationalismus und Rechtspopulismus”, Oldenburg University, June 2019.

• The state of the abject. Paper Presentation, 26th International Conference of Europeanists ‘Sovereignties in Contention: Nations, Regions and Citizens in Europe’, Madrid, Spain, June 2019.

• Befindlichkeiten des Demos: Zur politischen Funktion von Affekten im Zeichen des Populismus und einer ‘Krise’ der Demokratie. Paper Presentation, with Florian Spissinger, 39. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie ‘Komplexe Dynamiken globaler und lokaler Entwicklungen’, Georg-August University Göttingen, Sept. 2018.

• ‘Male Bonding’ and ‘Copsplaining’: Ethnographic explorations of the performances of masculinities in vice squad policing. Paper Presentation, Gender, Work & Organization (GWO) 10th Biennial International Interdisciplinary Conference, Sydney, Australia, June 2018.

• Performance and intimacy: Understanding economies of recognition for women professors in universities of the arts, music, and theatre. Paper Presentation, Gender, Work & Organization (GWO) 10th Biennial International Interdisciplinary Conference, Sydney, Australia, June 2018.

• Doing Concepts: Annäherungen an ein Verständnis von Formation als epistemologische Praxis. Paper Presentation, Interdisciplinary Workshop ‘Fragmentierte Gegenwart. Zur Reichweite von Formationsbegriffen in den Sozial- und Geisteswissenschaften’, Leipzig University, Dec. 2017.

• Die Kategorie der Kultur in affektiven Technologien der Polizei. Paper Presentation, DGV Conference, FU Berlin, Sept. 2017.

• On the affective governmentality of trafficking: The problem of the recalcitrant. Paper Presentation, ProsPol Conference ‘Displacing Sex for Sale’, Copenhagen, Denmark, March 2017.

• The ‘victim’ in police case files: Proposing a truth, translating the world, persuading the court. Paper Presentation, Conference ‘The State of the Abject’, Leipzig University, Jan. 2017.

• Building cases. Victims of trafficking as a socio-legal category. Paper Presentation, International Sociological Association (ISA) Forum ‘The Futures We Want: Global Sociology and the Struggles for a Better World’, Vienna, Austria, July 2016.

• Policing a crime, producing a victim. Paper Presentation, Gender, Work & Organization (GWO) 9th Biennial International Interdisciplinary Conference, Keele, UK, July 2016.

• Putting numbers on the unknown: What is counted in statistics on trafficking cases and why? Paper Presentation, Law & Society Annual Meeting, New Orleans, USA, June 2016.

• Emotions, gender, and the discovery of suitable victims: How police officers regulate through emotional control. Paper Presentation, Law & Society Annual Meeting, New Orleans, USA, June 2016.

• An ethnography of raids in sex trafficking operations. Paper Presentation, 3rd Ethnography Laboratory, ‘Practices of the State and Practices of Bureaucracy’, Vienna University, Austria, June 2016.

• The emotional Leviathan. Documenting feelings in the management of human trafficking victims. Paper Presentation, Conference ‘State, Work and Affects’, Vienna University, Austria, Jan. 2016.

• The role of law in the production of victims in institutional human trafficking discourse. Paper Presentation, European Feminist Research Conference ‘Sex & Capital’, Rovaniemi, Finland, June 2015.

• The production of victims in institutional human trafficking discourse. Paper Presentation, ProsPol Conference ‘Troubling Prostitution. Exploring Intersections of Sex, Intimacy & Labour’, Vienna, Austria, April 2015.