Insights and Updates

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.

Zeitschrift für Soziologie 52 (2), S. 157-171.

(mit Damián Omar Martínez und Boris Nieswand). In: Frie, Ewald / Meier, Mischa / Dürr, Renate / Franke, Astrid / Patzold, Steffen / Nieswand, Boris / Rhiem, Max (Hrsg.) Krisen anders Denken. Wie Menschen mit Bedrohungen umgegangen sind und was wir daraus lernen können. Berlin:…

(mit Boris Nieswand). In: Lange, Jan / Liebig, Manuel / Räuchle, Charlotte (Hrsg.) Lokale Wissensregime der Migration. Akteur*innen, Praktiken, Ordnungen. Wiesbaden: Springer, S. 51-81.

as part of the G-TURN team

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…

Presentation at the conference ‘Between Emotion and Reason. Exploring the Operational Logic of Morality’

together with Damián Martínez and Boris Nieswand, 11-12.05.2023

Talk at the RN 37 Urban Sociology conference ‘Seeing Like a City / Seeing the City Through’, Session ‘Seeing the City through Emotions’

Talk (together with Damián Martínez and Boris Nieswand) at the 41. DGS conference ‚Polarisierte Welten‘, Panel ‘Urban Moral Economies and the Sociology of Polarization in Global Perspective’

together with Damián Martínez and Boris Nieswand

Presentation at the 41. DGS conference ‚Polarisierte Welten‘, Ad-hoc Group ‚Stadt und politische Gewalt‘

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…