Alienation; Crisis of Democracy/Democratic Pathologies; German History of the 20th Century (esp. National Socialism and GDR); Theories of Society (esp. Frankfurt School, post-structuralism, ANT, practice theory, and new materialism); Theory of Democracy (esp. Hannah Arendt, radical democratic thought, and feminist approaches); Social Movements and Protest
International and Transnational Relations; Political and Social Theory; Biopolitics; Black Studies; Critical Border and Migration Studies; Critical Logistics; New Materialisms and Vitalisms; Political Aesthetics; Politics of Space; Queer Theory
Decolonization of power; Solidarity Economy; Gutes Leben/Buen Vivir/Sumak Kawsay; Feminist Political Ecology; Theory of Space; Anticolonialism and Postcolonialism
Mapping Political Agency of the Marginalised from Everyday Life: Autobiographical Narrative Research on Understanding the Political Agency of North Korean Defectors