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(2), forthcoming.

• 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, forthcoming.

• 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/.

Paper Presentations at Scientific Conferences

• Oct. 2022 “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.

• Sept. 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. 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”, Panel “More than a fad? – Ethnografische Methoden in der Politikwissenschaft”, Online congress.

• Sept. 2021 “Ethische Herausforderungen der ethnographischen Forschung.” Panel moderation, DVPW Congress 2021 “Wir haben die Wahl! Politik in Zeiten von Unsicherheit und Autokratisierung”, Online congress.

• June 2021  “Contested futures of Eastern Germany – Völkisch nationalist visions for a new German identity.” 27^th International Conference of Europeanists ‘Europe’s Past, Present, and Future: Utopias and Dystopias’, Digital Conference.
• Sept. 2020 “Ethnographies of the far right: Affekte im Forschungsprozess und ihre epistemischen Funktionen.” 40. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie (DGS), Digital Conference.
• June 2020 “Contested futures of Eastern Germany – Völkisch nationalist visions for a new German identity.” 27^th International Conference of Europeanists ‘Europe’s Past, Present, and Future: Utopias and Dystopias’, University of Iceland, Reykjavik (cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic).
• May 2020 “State ethnography – Potentials, challenges and new avenues of inquiry.” Annual Conference of the Section Methods of Political Science, DVPW/GPSA, University Duisburg-Essen (cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic).
• Feb. 2020 “Affektivität und Gemeinschaft. Zur Funktionalität politischer Affekte jenseits negativer Emotionen,” Conference ‘Vorstellungen von Gemeinschaft und Nation im Kontext gegenwärtiger rechtspopulistischer Mobilisierungen’, International Psychoanalytic University, Berlin.
• Feb. 2020 “Professorale Resonanzräume – Anerkennung von Professorinnen an Musikhochschulen.” Conference ‘Jenseits der Gläsernen Decke. Professorinnen zwischen Anerkennung und Marginalisierung’, TU Darmstadt.
• Nov. 2019 “Ostdeutsche sind keine Deutschen? Praktiken und Politik von (De-)Klassifikation.” Conference ‘89/90 – Aufbruch ohne Ende?’, Leipzig University.
• July 2019  “Fear of whom? Populist feminism, affective politics, and German angst.” European Conference of Politics & Gender, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands.
• June 2019 “The state of the abject.” 26^th International Conference of Europeanists ‘Sovereignties in Contention: Nations, Regions and Citizens in Europe’, Madrid, Spain.
• Sept. 2018  “Befindlichkeiten des Demos – Zur politischen Funktion von Affekten im Zeichen des Populismus und einer ‘Krise’ der Demokratie.” 39. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie ‘Komplexe Dynamiken globaler und lokaler Entwicklungen’, Georg-August University Göttingen.
• June 2018 “‘Male Bonding’ and ‘Copsplaining’: Ethnographic Explorations of the Performances of Masculinities in Vice Squad policing.” Gender, Work & Organization (GWO) 10^th 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.” Gender, Work & Organization (GWO) 10^th Biennial International Interdisciplinary Conference, Sydney, Australia.
• Sept. 2017 “Die Kategorie der Kultur in affektiven Technologien der Polizei.” DGV Conference, FU Berlin.
• March 2017 “On the Affective Governmentality of Trafficking: The Problem of the Recalcitrant.” ProsPol Conference “Displacing Sex for Sale“, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• Jan. 2017 “The ‘Victim’ in Police Case Files: Proposing a Truth, Translating the World, Persuading the Court.” Conference ‘The State of the Abject’, Leipzig University.
• July 2016 “Building Cases. Victims of Trafficking as a Socio-Legal Category.” 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.” Gender, Work & Organization (GWO) 9^th Biennial International Interdisciplinary Conference, Keele, UK.
• June 2016 “Putting Numbers on the Unknown: What is Counted in Statistics on Trafficking Cases and Why?” Law & Society Annual Meeting, New Orleans, USA.
• June 2016 “Emotions, Gender, and the Discovery of Suitable Victims: How Police Officers Regulate Through Emotional Control.” Law & Society Annual Meeting, New Orleans, USA.
• Jan. 2016  “The Emotional Leviathan. Documenting Feelings in the Management of Human Trafficking Victims.” Conference ‘State, Work and Affects’, Vienna University, Austria.
• June 2015 “The Role of Law in the Production of Victims in Institutional Human Trafficking Discourse.” European Feminist Research Conference ‘Sex & Capital’, Rovaniemi, Finland.
• April 2015 “The Production of Victims in Institutional Human Trafficking Discourse.” ProsPol Conference ‘Troubling Prostitution. Exploring Intersections of Sex, Intimacy & Labour’, Vienna, Austria.

Invited Keynote Addresses and Lectures

• June 2022 “The power of affects and the far right: Stories from the field”, Invited keynote address, Chair: Sabine Volk. HEPP3 Conference “Emotions, Populism and Polarised Politics, Media and Culture”, Helsinki University, Finland.

• Oct. 2021 “The roots of populism.” Panel discussion, with Chiara Bonachhi, Matthew Kerry, and Elisabeth Niklasson. Part of the History, Heritage and Politics Divisional Research Seminar series, Stirling University, UK.

• July 2021 “Challenges for Europe Revisited: Ten Theses.” Panel discussion, with with Andreas Zick, and Claudius Wagemann; Chair: Adelheid Wessler. Part of the 2021 VW Status Symposium “Challenges for Europe”, Hanover.

• July 2021 “Die Veränderbarkeit nationaler Narrative. Empirische Einsichten in die Wirkungsweisen banaler Nationalismen.” Christian-Albrechts University Kiel.
• June 2021 “Fremde im eigenen Land? Die Funktionen nationaler Identität.” Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg.
• Oct. 2020 “Nationalismus und Ostdeutschland.” Kulturzentrum Schneeberg.
• July 2019 “Feeling Blue: Affective rationalities in vice squad policing.” Leipzig University.
• June 2019 “Nationalismus und die Politik der Emotionen.” Oldenburg University.
• Jan. 2019 “Die Rolle von Affekten in der Identitätspolitik.” Leipzig University.
• Jan. 2019 “Fremde im eigenen Land? Eine Studie über die Veränderbarkeit nationaler Narrative mithilfe Politischer Laboratorien.” Leipzig University.
• April 2018 “Kollektive Identitäten im Zeichen rechtspopulistischer Strömungen.” Leipzig University.
• Jan. 2016 “Experteninterview und Expertenwissen.” Leipzig University.
• June 2015 “Akteure und ihre Logiken im Produktionsprozess des ‘Menschenhandelsopfers’.” Leipzig University.

Workshops

• Sept. 2022 “The Limits of Dialogue?” Workshop, MPI Halle.
• March 2020 “Fear of whom? Affective politics and gender in the German far right.” UCSIA Workshop ‘Gender, Conflict, Citizenship and Belonging’, University of Antwerp (cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic).
• Nov. 2019 “Doing the nation – How national identities are performed and narrated.” International Workshop ‘Beyond identity? New avenues for interdisciplinary research on identity’, Wroclaw University, Poland.
• Aug. 2019 “Performing the body of normalcy: vice squad officers as ‘moral bureaucrats.’” International Workshop ‘The police and sex work then and now’, Humboldt University Berlin.
• Dec. 2017 “Doing Concepts – Annäherungen an ein Verständnis von Formation als epistemologische Praxis.” Interdisciplinary Workshop ‘Fragmentierte Gegenwart. Zur Reichweite von Formationsbegriffen in den Sozial- und Geisteswissenschaften’, Leipzig University.
• June 2016 “An Ethnography of Raids in Sex Trafficking Operations.” 3^rd Ethnography Laboratory, ‘Practices of the State and Practices of Bureaucracy’, Vienna University, Austria.