research profile

• science studies, sociology of knowledge
• sociological theory
• feminist theories (e.g. marxist feminism, intersectionality, ecofeminism)
• decolonial approach
• gender studies
• fandom studies (sociological approach)

theoretical frame

• new materialism and actor-network theory (ANT, Bruno Latour, Michel Callon)
• historical materialism (Karl Marx)
• poststructuralist deconstruction (e.g., Michel Foucault, Jacques Lacan, Julia Kristeva, Judith Butler)
• general complexity (Edgar Morin)

concept focus

• commons and commoning (Silvia Federici)
• 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
• labour (e.g. care work, voluntary work, creative work, exploitation, unpaid labour, commons and commoning)
• voluntary work, civil society, and ‚Spontanhilfe‘ during the ‚refugee crisis‘ of 2015 in Germany