News aus dem Department of Society, Knowledge and Politics

Invitation to the research colloquium of the Institute for Society, Knowledge and Politics: How to know a national park? Monitoring practices and the enactment of biodiversity in Neusiedler See – Seewinkel National Park Austria. Ass.-Prof.Dr. Erik Aarden am 28. November 2024 von 15:15-16:45 Uhr im S.2.05

How to know a national park? Monitoring practices and the enactment of biodiversity in Neusiedler See – Seewinkel National Park, Austria To confront the ongoing global ‘biodiversity crisis’ various international […]

Christof Lammer: Performing State Boundaries. Food Networks, Democratic Bureaucracy and China. 2024 Berghahn Books.

Jakob Glasner

New Book on an Ecological Village and Democratic Bureaucracy in China

Christof Lammer’s fine-grained ethnography describes the complexity of political processes in an eco-village in Sichuan. The usual pigeonholing of the Chinese state does not work here. An exciting read for […]

New Publication in Special Issue on Labour and Welfare in the Global South

In his contribution to this special issue of Global Social Policy, Christof Lammer examines social policy as a knowledge process and shows how the minimum livelihood guarantee (dibao) in China […]

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inherit fellowship at HU Berlin for Christof Lammer

From April 2024 to March 2025, Christof Lammer will be researching at the Humboldt University of Berlin how kinship measurements make giant pandas a natural heritage worth protecting. The social […]

Christof Lammer, Andre Thiemann: Infrastructure of Value - New and Historical Materialities in Agriculture. 2024, Ethnos 89(2).

Roswitha Weingrill

Special Issue “Infrastructures of Value in Agriculture” now in press

Values—whether financial profit or moral and social values such as justice and sustainability—often appear as abstract and intangible. Infrastructure allows us to explore the materiality of seemingly immaterial value. […]

New FWF-Project on governance through COVID-testing

The new FWF-funded project “Testing (bio) governance” is a comparative study on how testing capacities for the SARS-CoV-2 virus were established and maintained over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic […]