Hi, my name is Manuel Dieterich. This is a blog mainly about sociology, my researches, events and publications. Welcome! 

Internationale Konferenz 11.-13. Mai 2023, Universität Tübingen People’s relation to the world changes when they consider something under the auspices of morality. In order to explore this process we understand moralisation as practice, a modulative intervention that triggers those changes of relationship to the world.

I was absolutely delighted when I learnt that my essay 'Urban Threat Figurations' had been awarded the Christel Hopf Prize 2023! This prize is awarded annually by the Section of Qualitative Social Research of the German Sociological Association (DGS) (more information here). This award is…

The LoKoNet Travelling Conference in Dortmund was a very exciting encounter between various academics and practitioners who exchanged views on the interactions between urban planning and local conflicts. In addition to various interesting presentations and entertaining panel discussions, one highlight was the excursion to the…

The chapter, co-authored with Boris Nieswand and Damian Martinez, examines how different moral bodies of knowledge emerge around the topic of crime in Johannesburg, Murcia and Santiago de Chile, which guide local border and boundary-making practices. Despite local particularities, an astonishing degree of similar mechanisms…

At the 41st Congress of the German Sociological Association (DGS) “Polarisierte Welten” from 26.-30.09.2022 at Bielefeld University, I will organize the panel ‘Urban Moral Economies and the Sociology of Polarization in Global Perspective’ together with my two colleagues Boris Nieswand and Damián Martinez. We have…

I am very pleased to announce the release of this anthology, which I am co-editing with Jan Lange. It contains many interesting contributions, for example about the possible pitfalls of migration-related participation formats, the construction of ‘migrants in the neighborhood’, governmental practices in dialogue forums,…

In July the series of lectures starts that I and my two colleagues Damián Martinez and Boris Nieswand are organizing. The global contributions will offer different perspectives on urban phenomena. For this purpose, we have planned six exciting and very diverse lectures: All events will…