Dr.*in habil. Mareike Gebhardt 

Research Focus

• Political theory, especially democratic theories and post-structuralism
• Feminist political science and political science gender studies
• Postcolonial studies
• Critical refugee and border regime research - focus: Europe
• Power and inequality
• Politics of gender relations; democracy and gender
• Knowledge production
• Mourning and letting die
• Time and temporality
• Discourse and dispositive analysis
• Deconstruction

Lectures (selection)

September 9, 2024: The Gendered Chronopolitics of Authoritarian Populism. Workshop “The Governmentality of Populism and its Counter-Conduct”, University of California Berkeley

April 26, 2023: Un-Possible Solidarity: Civil Sea Rescue as a Coming Democracy. Lecture as part of the Forum Internationale Wissenschaft lecture series “Perspektiven der Moderne: Konflikte um Grenzen und Mobilität”, University of Bonn

March 17, 2023: Nomadisch statt monadisch: Kritische Methodologien und epistemologische Brüche, conference of the DVPW Section Political Theory and History of Ideas "Kämpfe um Diversität. Theory at the Boundary of Science and Politics", University of Duisburg-Essen

January 20, 2023: Roundtable "Thirty Years of Political Theory and the Displacement of Politics. A Symposium with Bonnie Honig", FU Berlin

July 19, 2022: Democratic Closure. Radical democratic theoretical perspectives on flight and migration, colloquium by Prof. Ina Kerner, Institute for Cultural Studies, University of Koblenz-Landau

June 29, 2022: Mediterranean ‘Border Assemblage’: From Opposition to Interdependencies, together with Lena Laube and Maria Ullrich, 28th Conference of Europeanists “The Environment of Democracy”, Iscte - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa

May 17, 2022: Democratic Closure. Perspektiven der radikalen Demokratietheorie und Kritischen Migrationsforschung, colloquium “Wilde Theorie” by Prof. Martin Nonhoff, Institute for Intercultural and International Studies, University of Bremen

January 19, 2021: The Populist Moment: Affective Orders, Protest Movements and Political Belonging, Conference of the Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics, & Ethics (CAPPE) “Democracy and Populisms: Equality, Truth, and Disagreement in the Age of Covid”, University of Brighton

July 8, 2020: Of Border Spaces and Landscapes of Death. The Material Culture of the Borders of ‘Europe’, online lecture series "Borders, Turnings, Upheavals. Falls of the Wall in Literature, Music and Film", FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg

Publikationen

Monography

2014
Gebhardt, Mareike. Politisches Handeln in der postmodernen Konstellation. Kritische Demokratietheorie nach Hannah Arendt und Jürgen Habermas (Reihe: Zeitgenössische Diskurse des Politischen, vol. 6, hg. Andreas Hetzel und Oliver Flügel-Martinsen). Baden-Baden: Nomos.

Editorship/ Publication of anthologies

Bloemen, Henrike, Christiane Bomert, Stephanie Dziuba-Kaiser und Mareike Gebhardt (Hg.). 2023. Machtverhältnisse. Kritische Perspektiven auf Geschlecht und Gesellschaft (Reihe: Politik der Geschlechterverhältnisse, hg. Ina Kerner, Cornelia Klinger, Eva Kreisky, Andrea Maihofer und Birgit Sauer). Frankfurt a.M.: Campus.

Gebhardt, Mareike (Hg.). 2020. Staatskritik und Radikaldemokratie. Das Denken Jacques Rancières (Reihe: Staatsverständnisse, hg. Rüdiger Voigt). Baden-Baden: Nomos.

Engel, Juliane, Mareike Gebhardt, Heike Paul und Kay Kirchmann (Hg.). 2019. Zeitlichkeit und Materialität. Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf Theorien und Phänomene der Präsenz (Reihe: Präsenz und implizites Wissen). Bielefeld: transcript.

Herb, Karlfriedrich, Mareike Gebhardt und Kathrin Morgenstern (Hg.) (2014): Raum und Zeit. Denkformen des Politischen bei Hannah Arendt. Frankfurt a.M.: Campus.

Guest editorship/ Journals

Gebhardt, Mareike, Lena Laube und Maria Ullrich. Sommer 2025 (forthcoming): Zivile Seenotrettung im mediterranen Grenzregime / Civil Search and Rescue in the Mediterranean Border Regime (bilingual). Issue bei movements. Journal for Critical Migration and Border Regime Studies

Barbehön, Marlon und Mareike Gebhardt. 2026 (forthcoming). When is Democracy? Towards a Political Theory of Time, Special Issue bei Democratic Theory

Journal Paper

Gebhardt, Mareike. 2024. Feminist Arrivals: The Arc of Refusal and the Right to (Leave) the City. Res Publica 27 (1): 37–43. https://doi.org/10.5209/rpub.90695

Gebhardt, Mareike. 2023. Un-Mögliche Solidarität. Zivile Seenotrettung zwischen radikaler Demokratie und kolonialen Kontinuitäten. Geneaology+Critique 9 (1): 1–26. https://doi.org/10.16995/gc.10500

Gebhardt, Mareike. 2023. (Post-)Truth, populism and the simulation of parrhesia: A feminist critique of truth-telling after Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault. Philosophy & Social Criticism 49 (2): 178–191. https://doi.org/10.1177/01914537221147843

Gebhardt, Mareike, Daniel Kersting, Moritz Riemann, Maria Becker, Lena Laube, Maria Ullrich und Christin Younso. 2022. Fluchtforschung als Demokratieforschung: Ein Dialog zwischen politischer Philosophie und empirischen Sozialwissenschaften. Z'Flucht. Zeitschrift für Flucht- und Flüchtlingsforschung 6 (2): 284-302.

Gebhardt, Mareike. 2021. Die Regierung der Anderen. Von der mediterranen Todeslandschaft des europäischen Grenzregimes. Zeitschrift für Praktische Philosophie 8 (1): 467-498. DOI: https://doi.org/10.22613/zfpp/8.1.19.

Gebhardt, Mareike, and Matilde Rocchi. 2021. „I have no clue about my future (…) (if) I stay here or not.” A Participatory Research with Unaccompanied Minors in the German Reception System. Journal of Refugee Studies 34 (3): 3288–3316. https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/feab028

Gebhardt, Mareike. 2020. To Make Live and Let Die: On Sovereignty and Vulnerability in the EU Migration Regime. Redescriptions 23 (2): 120-137. http://doi.org/10.33134/rds.323

Gebhardt, Mareike. 2019. The Populist Moment: Affective Orders, Protest, and Politics of Belonging. Distinktion 22 (2): 129-151. https://doi.org/10.1080/1600910X.2019.1653346

Gebhardt, Mareike. 2019. Flüchtige Präsenz. Umkämpfte Solidaritäten des EU-Migrationsregimes. Femina Politica 28 (2): 54-67. https://doi.org/10.3224/feminapolitica.v28i2.05

Gebhardt, Mareike. 2018. Zwischen Repräsentation und (Real-)Präsenz. Populistische Intervalle und demokratische Temporalstrukturen aus politiktheoretischer Perspektive. diskurs 3: 21-45.

Articles and chapters in anthologies

Gebhardt, Mareike. 2024. The Dirty Secret of New Beginnings: Founding a Democracy between Nothing and Narration. In Constitutional Moments: Founding Myths, Charters and Constitutions through History, hg. Xavier Gil. Leiden/Boston: Brill, S. 491-512. Double Blind Peer Review.

Gebhardt, Mareike. 2021. Widerständige Gespenster. In Atopien im Politischen. Politische Bildung nach dem Ende der Zukunft, hg. Werner Friedrichs. Bielefeld: transcript, S. 191-196.

Gebhardt, Mareike. 2020. Post-Marxismus oder Neo-Phänomenologie? Jacques Rancières politisches Denken zwischen post-fundamentalistischer Staatskritik und radikaler Demokratietheorie. In Staatskritik und Radikaldemokratie. Das Denken Jacques Rancières, hg. Mareike Gebhardt. Baden-Baden: Nomos, S. 9-27.

Gebhardt, Mareike. 2020. „Ich will bei mir zuhause Herr sein“ – Über die eigentümliche Verbindung zwischen Recht, Sprache und Affekt im Begriff des ‚Flüchtlings‘ (Kommentar). In Der Begriff des Flüchtlings. Rechtliche, moralische und politische Kontroversen, hg. Daniel Kersting und Marcus Leuoth. Berlin: J.B. Metzler, S. 113-123. Peer-Review.

Gebhardt, Mareike and Kay Kirchmann. 2019. (De-)Konstruktionen von Zeitlichkeit. Wahrnehmung – Optimierung – Erzählung. In Zeitlichkeit und Materialität. Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf Theorien und Phänomen der Präsenz, hg. Juliane Engel, Mareike Gebhardt und Kay Kirchmann. Bielefeld: transcript, S. 19-28.

Gebhardt, Mareike and Juliane Engel. 2019. Zeitlichkeit und Materialität. Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf Theorien und Phänomene der Präsenz. In Zeitlichkeit und Materialität. Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf Theorien und Phänomen der Präsenz, hg. Juliane Engel, Mareike Gebhardt und Kay Kirchmann. Bielefeld: transcript, S. 9-15.

Gebhardt, Mareike. 2017. Ökonomien der Un/Sichtbarkeit – Spektakel der Souveränität. Die Figur des Ausnahmezustands im Angesicht des Anderen. In Ausnahmezustand. Grundlagen – Anwendungen – Perspektiven, hg. Matthias Lemke. Wiesbaden: VS Springer, S. 85-101.

Gebhardt, Mareike. 2017. Die demokratische Schließung. Zum Verhältnis von Alterität und liberaler Demokratie in juridico-politischen Diskursen, sozialen Performanzen und räumlichen Manifestationen. In Grenze und Demokratie. Ein Spannungsverhältnis, hg. Nele Kortendiek und Marina Martinez Mateo. Frankfurt a.M.: Campus, S. 81-115.

Gebhardt, Mareike. 2017. Grenzverschiebungen. Überschreitung als demokratische Praxis. In Die Grenzen der Demokratie. Gegenwartsdiagnosen zwischen Politik und Recht, hg. Annette Förster und Matthias Lemke. VS Springer: Wiesbaden, S. 153-180.

Gebhardt, Mareike. 2014. Versprechen, Vergessen, Vereinsamen. Hannah Arendt und Friedrich Nietzsche als Denker politischer Zeitlichkeit. In Raum und Zeit. Denkformen des Politischen bei Hannah Arendt, hg. Karlfriedrich Herb, Mareike Gebhardt und Kathrin Morgenstern. Frankfurt a.M.: Campus, S. 196-225.

Gebhardt, Mareike, Kathrin Morgenstern und Karlfriedrich Herb. 2014. Gegenwärtig sein. Hannah Arendt neu denken. In Raum und Zeit. Denkformen des Politischen bei Hannah Arendt, hg. Karlfriedrich Herb, Mareike Gebhardt und Kathrin Morgenstern. Frankfurt a.M.: Campus, S. 9-24.

Gebhardt, Mareike. 2013. On Dreaming Public: Between the Irony of the Self and the Recognition of the Other. In Narrative, Dreams, Imagination. Israeli and German Youth Imagine their Futures, hg. Karlfriedrich Herb, Eva Marsal, Jen Glaser, Barbara Weber und Takara Dobashi. Wien/Berlin: LIT, S. 139-154.

Manual entries

Gebhardt, Mareike. 2024. Widerstand. Kritische Perspektiven auf die Politische Theorie und Ideengeschichte. In Politik und Geschlecht. Perspektiven der politikwissenschaftlichen Geschlechterforschung, hg. Christine Klapeer, Johanna Leinius, Franziska Martinsen, Heike Mauer und Inga Nüthen. Leverkusen-Opladen: Budrich. Peer-Review.

Gebhardt, Mareike. 2021. Shifting Landscapes: Decolonize International Politics, Migration Studies, and Social Work. In Handbook International Social Work with Refugees. Developments in African, Arab and European Countries, hg. Katharina Heilmann und Ralf Roßkopf. Leverkusen: Budrich academics, S. 233-246.

Gebhardt, Mareike. 2020. Democracy. In Critical Terms in Futures Studies, hg. Heike Paul. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, S. 79-86.

Gebhardt, Mareike. 2019. Populistische Momente. Radikale Demokratietheorien als Hintergrund einer poststrukturalistischen Analyse von Protestbewegungen. In Handbuch Poststrukturalistische Perspektiven auf soziale Bewegungen. Ansätze, Methoden und Forschungspraxis, hg. Judith Vey, Johanna Leinius und Ingmar Hagemann. Bielefeld: transcript, S. 280-297.

Conference Proceedings

Gebhardt, Mareike. 2021. Der Spuk des Politischen. Widerständige Figuren jenseits ethnonationaler und institutioneller Engführung von Politik. In Das Politische (in) der Politischen Theorie, hg. Oliver Flügel-Martinsen, Franziska Martinsen und Martin Saar. Baden-Baden: Nomos, S. 95-120.

Gebhardt, Mareike. 2019. „Pest“ und „Lepra“. Mechanismen der Un/Sichtbarkeit in der europäische Asylpolitik. In Foucault und das Politische. Transdisziplinäre Impulse für die politische Theorie der Gegenwart, hg. Oliver Marchart und Renate Martinsen. Wiesbaden: VS Springer, S. 309-328.

Gebhardt, Mareike. 2018. Kants kosmopolitischer Traum der befriedenden Demokratie. Ein Motiv der Aufklärung zwischen Philosophie und Erzählkunst. In Die Erzählung der Aufklärung, hg. Frauke Berndt und Daniel Fulda. Hamburg: Meiner, S. 127-135.

Gebhardt, Mareike. 2014. Politische Pluralität und philosophischer Wahrheitsanspruch. Hannah Arendt, Jürgen Habermas und Richard Rorty zwischen Kommunikation und Narrativität. In Narrative Formen der Politik, hg. Wilhelm Hofmann, Katja Teich und Judith Renner. Wiesbaden: VS Springer, S. 227-244.

Gebhardt, Mareike. 2012. Von Göttern und Engeln. Die Republik zwischen Ideal und Utopie bei Immanuel Kant und Jean-Jacques Rousseau. In Rousseaus Zauber. Lesarten der Politischen Philosophie, hg. Karlfriedrich Herb und Magdalena Scherl. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, S. 19-31.

Reviews

Jachmich, Laura und Mareike Gebhardt. 2024. Ludwig, Gundula (2023): Körperpolitiken und Demokratie. Eine Geschichte medizinischer Wissensregime. Politische Vierteljahresschrift. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11615-024-00564-9

Gebhardt, Mareike. 2020. Rezension zu markus Wolf, Gerechtigkeit als Dekonstruktion. Zur kulturellen Form von Recht und Demokratie nach Jacques Derrida. Konstanz: Konstanz University Press 2019. 375 Seiten. Zeitschrift für philosophisches Literatur 8 (3): 38-49. https://doi.org/10.21827/zfphl.8.3.36161

Gebhardt, Mareike. 2018. Gerald Posselt, Tatjana Schönwälder-Kuntze, Sergej Seitz (Hg.): Judith Butlers Philosophie des Politischen. Kritische Lektüren. Femina Politica 27 (2): 202-204.

Gebhardt, Mareike. 2016. Formwandel der Verfassung. Die postdemokratische Verfasstheit des Transnationalen von Kolja Möller. Momentum Quarterly 5 (3): 197-199.

Gebhardt, Mareike. 2015. The Reluctant Postmodernism of Barbara Weber. Review on Barbara Weber: Philosophieren mit Kindern zum Thema Menschenrechte. Pedagogical Culture 1 (2): 101-106.

Blog entries and Working Papers

Vehrkamp, Isabel und Mareike Gebhardt. 2023. „So sieht es in der Hölle aus.“ Judith Butlers Konzept der Betrauerbarkeit als Analyseperspektive auf Diskurse der zivilen Seenotrettung. Working Paper Series des Zentrums für Europäische Geschlechterstudien 13: 2 –20. DOI: 10.17879/38948600954. Peer Review.

Gebhardt, Mareike. 2021. Neoliberale Prekarisierung. Eine geschlechtertheoretische Annäherung an das Kreativitätsdispositiv. Working Paper Series des Zentrums für Europäische Geschlechterstudien 12. DOI: 10.17879/45059443951. Peer Review.

Gebhardt, Mareike. 2021. Das Geschlechterregime des Kreativitätsdispositivs. Blog interdisziplinäre Geschlechterforschung. Online: 31. August 2021. https://www.gender-blog.de/beitrag/geschlechterregime-kreativitaetsdispositiv.

Gebhardt, Mareike. 2015. Alterität und Menschenrechte. Webfehler in der juridico-politischen Matrix. Blog des Arbeitskreises junger Völkerrechtswissenschaftler*innen. voelkerrechtsblog. Online: 26. Januar 2015. Abrufbar unter: http://voelkerrechtsblog.com/2015/01/26/alteritat-und-menschenrechte/.

Gebhardt, Mareike. 2014. Postmoderne und Pluralität. Ein demokratischer Aufbruch ins 21. Jahrhundert? Donau-Institut Working Papers 36.

Gebhardt, Mareike und Kathrin Morgenstern. 2011. Raum und Zeit. Denkformen des Politischen bei Hannah Arendt. theorieblog. 28. Dezember 2011. http://www.theorieblog.de/index.php/2011/12/tagungsbericht-raum-und-zeit-denkformen-des-politischen-bei-hannah-arendt.

In publication or in preparation

Gebhardt, Mareike, Leslie Gross-Wyrtzen, Levke Harders, Elissa Helms, and Sabine Hess (2024): Border Internalization as a Gendered Process. A Conversation Among Feminist Scholars. movements.

Gebhardt, Mareike (2025): Another Solidarity is Im-Possible: Mourning and Saving Lives in the Mediterranean Deathscape. movements.

Gebhardt, Mareike (unter Begutachtung): Nomadisch statt monadisch. Feministische Kämpfe um epistemologische Diversität. In Kämpfe um Diversität (Arbeitstitel), hg. von Franziska Martinsen, Karsten Schubert, Frieder Vogelmann und Sabrina Zucca-Soest.

Gebhardt, Mareike (voraussichtlich 2026). Dekonstruktion. In Handbuch Judith Butler, hg. von Sabine_Hark, Ina Kerner und Hanna Meißner. Heidelberg/Berlin: J.B. Metzler.

Gebhardt, Mareike. (in Vorbereitung, voraussichtlich 2026): Masculinist Politics with a Female Touch? Fascist Fragments in Far-Right Populisms. European Journal of Social Theory, Special Issue “Populism: Governmentality and Counter-Conduct“, hg. von Mark Bevir und Julia Simon.

Gebhardt, Mareike (in Vorbereitung, voraussichtlich 2026): Geschlechterverhältnisse. In Handbuch Philosophie und Migration, hg. von Karoline Reinhardt und Gottfried Schweiger. Heidelberg/Berlin: J.B. Metzler.

Science to Public

22 November 2024: Racialization and gendering in the European border regime - a critical perspective on vulnerability, Federal Dialogue Conference “GLEICH teilhaben”, Federal Association of Networks of Migrant Organizations (NeMO), Berlin

May 28, 2024: Lecture "Solidarity is not enough! Civil sea rescue and the coloniality of democracy" followed by a discussion, Sea-Eye Kiel local group

July 2024: Interview with the street magazine “draußen” (Münster) “Wie Menschen das Sterben im Mittelmeer verhindern” (Issue 7 | 2024 “Weg ohne Ausweg?”), p. 12-13.

June 19, 2023: Panel discussion on the occasion of the photo exhibition “Every life counts - on the flight across the Mediterranean”; organized by the local group Sea-Eye Münster, in cooperation with the Catholic Academy Franz Hitze Haus.

18 June 2023 Panel discussion “Flight and power relations”, with Ruprecht Polenz, Kawa Eibesh, Maria Adela Salinas, Aissata Soumaoro, moderated by Salim Yahfoufi, as part of “BUILDING” - an art project by Theater Titanick, Südpark Münster.

May 30, 2023: Roundtable with international experts “Search and Rescue in the Central Mediterranean: Perspectives from Civil Society”, Federal Foreign Office, Berlin

November 23, 2022: Panel discussion "High Risk, No Gain? Gender and precarization in science", organized by the research network Gender am Mittelbau of the University of Münster, University of Münster

November 10, 2021: Research dialog (online - COVID 19) “Teilhabe in der postmigrantischen Gesellschaft”, panel discussion of FB06 Erziehungswissenschaft & Sozialwissenschaften, University of Münster, together with Prof. Ines Michalowski (Sociology), moderated by Prof. Thorsten Quandt (Dean of FB 06).

May 29, 2020: Interview “Demokratie und politisches Handeln in Zeiten von Corona”, conducted by Rüdiger Suchsland, Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen (available online at: https://www.kurzfilmtage.de/en/channel/more/ruediger-suchsland-im-gespraech-mit-dr-mareike-gebhardt-ueber-demokratie-und-politisches-handeln-in-zeiten-von-corona/).

March 2017: Interview “Why is populism so successful?” Interview with the university magazine alexander of FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, issue no. 104 / 23rd vol.

Current Teaching

930005 VU Epistemologies and Methods of Gender Studies

930017 VU Epistemologies and Methods of Gender Studies

Funktionen und Mitgliedschaften

• Deputy spokesperson, DFG network POPMAP (Poststructuralist Protest and Movement Research: A Multi-perspective Analytical Approach), since April 1, 2025
• Member, German Political Science Association (DVPW), esp: Section “Politics and Gender” and Section “Political Theory and History of Ideas”
• Member, Netzwerk Fluchtforschung (NWFF), in particular working groups “Democracy and Flight” and “Gender and Flight”
• Scientific Advisory Board, Nomos publication series Populism, Thematic Group Populism of the DVPW
• Reviewer, Nomos publication series of the Section Political Theory and History of Ideas of the DVPW
• Reviewer, Austrian Science Fund FWF and Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
• Reviewer, incl. including Arendt Studies, Constellations, Deutsche Nachwuchsgesellschaft für Politik- und Sozialwissenschaft (DNGPS), Geneaology+Critique, Redescriptions and Zeitschrift für Politische Theorie

Past

• 2021-2024: Elected member of the 15th Spokesperson Council of the Politics and Gender Section of the DVPW
• 2017-2023: Co-speaker of the AK Flight and Democracy

Fellowships

Since March 2021: Associated Fellow, Forum Internationale Wissenschaft (FIW), Department of Democracy Research, University of Bonn

April 1-30, 2025: Visiting Researcher, MIM Malmö Institute for Migration Studies, University of Malmö, funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation

October 2023-November 2024: Invited Fellowship, incl. Residency (Feb-July 2024), Research Group “Internalizing Borders: The Social and Normative Consequences of the European Border Regime”, ZiF Centre for Interdisciplinary Research, University of Bielfeld

1-30 September 2022: Fellowship “Crises of Solidarity” at the research focus “Cultural Encounters - Cultural Conflicts”, organized by Michaela Bstieler M.A. and Dr. Sergej Seitz (meanwhile University of Vienna), University of Innsbruck/Austria

March 13-16, 2019: Invited Fellow, interdisciplinary workshop “Civil Religion and Civil Sentimentalism: Cultural and Political Imaginaries of Order and Belonging,” Villa Vigoni. German-Italian Centre for European Dialogue, Menaggio/Italy, organized by Prof. Donatella Izzo, Università di Napoli “L'Orientale”, Prof. Dr. Heike Paul, Erlangen-Nuremberg and Dr. Margaretha Schweiger-Wilhelm, Bayerische Amerika-Akademie, Munich; DFG-funding

March-April 2014: Teaching Fellow, Institute of Government and Political Science, University of Karlstad/Sweden, DAAD funding

October-November 2011: Research Fellow, Hebrew University of Jerusalem as part of the German-Israeli Research Group “Narrative, Dreams, Imagination” (DFG partial funding), organized by Prof. Jen Glaser and Prof. Barbara Weber

Awards and scholarships

Since October 2022: Research fellowship of the Gerda Henkel Foundation, research group ZivDem (“Civil Sea Rescue as a Crystallization Point of Democratic Dispute”, 2022-2026), University of Münster and FIW Bonn

July 2021-January 2023: Mentee in the mentoring program “Erstklassig!” for excellent postdocs on their way to a professorship, University of Münster

October 2018-March 2019 : Emerging Talents Initiative, research award for excellent young scientists, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg

September 2017- August 2018: Postdoc scholarship, funding program “Equal Opportunities for Women in Research and Teaching”, Office for Gender & Diversity, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg

Supervised dissertations and final theses

DISSERTATION

Cooperation and refusal. Civil Sea Rescue in the Mediterranean Border Regime (working title, expected delivery in summer 2025)

BACHELOR THESES (FIRST SUPERVISIONS ONLY)

A new protest movement sets sail - Civilian sea rescue in the setting of the current EU border regime (summer semester 2023)

Gender and diversity relations at the university: The benefits and disadvantages of diversity management (summer semester 2023)

Key to the ‘foreign’ territory. On the feminization and appropriation of the ‘Orient’ in the context of (post-)colonial unveiling politics (winter semester 2022/23)

Neo-colonial discourses in the context of the democratization of internet access. A postcolonial frame analysis of the Facebook program Free Basics (summer semester 2022)

Feminist foreign policy as a guarantor of peace? An analysis using the example of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 with the agenda “Women, Peace and Security” (Summer semester 2022)

Speaking and silence. Subalternity and representation according to Gayatri C. Spivak in reports by “weltwärts” volunteers (winter semester 2021/22)

Hegemonic masculinity and protest: An analysis of the Spanish anti-austerity movement (winter semester 2020/21)

Speaking truth together. Parrhesia and Assembly in Michel Foucault and Judith Butler (Winter Term 2020/21)

The Construction of Betrauerbarkeit in the European Discourse on Migration (Winter Term 2020/21)

Language and subject. Recontextualizations of maternity in Hélène Cixcous and Julia Kristeva (Winter Term 2020/21)

Democracy and deconstruction. The question of community in Jacques Derrida (winter semester 2020/21)

Gendering times: The denaturalization of gender according to Judith Butler (winter semester 2020/21)

The Role of Women* in Armed Conflicts: Case study of the Ivorian civil war (winter semester 2019/20)

Power and security. The deconstruction of realist concepts and their feminist reformulations in the context of international relations (summer semester 2020)

Postcolonial perspectives and colonial continuities in German development policy. A qualitative content analysis of the “Marshall Plan with Africa” (summer semester 2020)

Identity Articulation against the Background of Sexism and Racism. An analysis of the social media presence of the Alternative for Germany after “Cologne” (winter semester 2019/2020)

The role of women* in armed conflicts - case study of the Ivorian civil war (winter semester 2019/2020)

The self-sexualization of racialized female rappers in the hip-hop industry (winter semester 2019/2020)

Discourses of hegemonic masculinity. Representations of anti-feminism and anti-genderism in the New Right (summer semester 2019)

#NiUnaMenos and #MeToo. The influence of misogynist structures on the actions of feminist groups (Summer semester 2019)

Anarchism and the emancipation of women - An analysis of the historical development of feminist ideals in anarchist theories of the 19th and early 20th century (winter semester 2018)

The language of the Alternative for Germany - An analysis of the political frames of the AfD based on the 2017 federal election program (summer semester 2018)

How (culturally) racist does Germany vote? Cultural racism and homeland ideologies in the 2017 federal election campaign (Summer semester 2018)

Terrorism and economics. An investigation into the attack on the Borussia Dortmund soccer team bus (summer semester 2018)

Perspectives and limits of left-wing politics - What follows from Chantal Mouffe's agonistic theory of democracy? (Summer semester 2017)

MASTER THESES (FIRST SUPERVISION)

Narratives of lesbian gender identities. An analysis from a performativity-theoretical perspective (summer semester 2022)

Hegemonic Restabilization in the Face of the Discussion of Climate Impacts? A discourse-theoretical approach to milk (Summer semester 2021)

Hegemony on the plate - The role of meat consumption for the discursive (re)production of masculinity (winter semester 2019/20)

Residence Permit, Permit to Live: A Participatory Qualitative Research with Unaccompanied Minors in the German Reception System (winter semester 2018/19)

Research Projects

DFG Network: Poststructuralist Protest and Movement Research: A Multi-perspective Analytical Approach (POPMAP), 2025-2028

Spokesperson team: Judith Vey (University of Bremen), Mareike Gebhardt (University of Münster/University of Innsbruck) and Helge Schwiertz (University of Hamburg)

The academic network “Poststructuralist Protest and Movement Research: A Multi-Perspective Analytical Approach (POPMAP)” aims to develop an independent research approach for the empirical analysis of social movements and protest from a poststructuralist perspective. The systematic discussion of post-structuralist theories in the context of critical protest and movement research is a desideratum in social and cultural studies that the POPMAP network seeks to fill. It brings together theoretically and empirically working academics who research protest and social movements. As the shift in perspective also has an impact on the understanding of research, the network members are developing alternative models of academic work. The decentration of the (researching) subject from a post-structuralist perspective requires reflection on the power and domination relations in science. POPMAP therefore focuses on a collaborative research style. The network ensures a continuous exchange on two levels: On the one hand, with regard to the development of a multi-perspective analytical approach to the empirical study of social movements and protest, and on the other hand, with regard to critical research practice. This enables intensive basic research in the field of movement and protest research and its related disciplines. Based on the development of an analytical approach, different post-structuralist theories, methods and procedures are related to each other in a structured way and brought into a common discussion context.

Research Group: Civil Sea Rescue as a Crystallization Point of the Struggle for Democracy (ZivDem), Gerda Henkel Foundation, 2022-2026

The starting point of the ZivDem research group is the thesis of the crystallization point: A dispute about what is democratic is crystallizing in the practice and discourse on civilian sea rescue (CRS) in the Mediterranean. By interweaving sociological, political science, cultural anthropological and democratic theory perspectives, the project brings the practice of and European discourse on (civilian) sea rescue in the Mediterranean into analytical focus. It assumes that a social movement is forming around the work of sea rescuers, which, based on the claim that refugees should not be left to die in the Mediterranean, criticizes EU border policy and the member states. In the dispute over the reception of refugees in Europe, the central actors of the ZSNR are also becoming a projection screen for authoritarian and anti-migrant positions. The dispute over (civilian) sea rescue therefore manifests itself not only as a debate about the concrete form of common EU migration and asylum policy, but also about the future of European democracy itself.

The interdisciplinary research group is funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation for the period from 2022 to 2026 and by the Forum Internationale Wissenschaft of the University of Bonn. The group works at the Universities of Bonn and Münster.

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