research profile

• science studies, sociology of knowledge, sociological theory
• feminist theories
• post/de-colonial perspectives
• gender studies
• fandom studies (sociological approach)

theoretical frame

• new materialism and actor-network-theory (ANT, Bruno Latour)
• historic materialism (Karl Marx)
• poststructuralist deconstruction
• general complexity (Edgar Morin)

concept focus

• the figure of the stranger in sociology (Georg Simmel, Alfred Schütz, Robert E. Park)
• alienation (Karl Marx)
• othering, the Other (Emmanuel Lévinas)
• state of exception and Homo Sacer (Giorgio Agamben)

research fields

• artificial intelligence (AI), AI as co-producer
• unpaid labour (e.g. care-work, voluntary work, creative work and the commons)
• voluntary work, civil society and ‚Spontanhilfe‘ during the so-called ‚refuee crisis‘ of 2015 in Germany