Research Projects at Freie Universität Berlin

Feminist Politics and the fight against violence in the era of digitalization

Post-Doc Project

Dr. Marcela Suárez Estrada (Post-Doc)

Institutions: Institute for Latin American Studies
Field/Area of work: International Graduate Programme "Between Spaces"
Subject group: Law, Economics and Social Sciences
Subject classification: Political Science
Funding: DiGiTal - Berliner Hochschulprogramm für Wissenschaftlerinnen und Künstlerinnen
Start: 2017
Status: Ongoing
Short description: Mit meinem Projekt im Verbundprogramm DIGITAL "Feminist Politics and the fight against violence in the era of digitalization" konzentriere ich mich auf die Aneignung neuer digitaler Technologien und Praktiken feministischer Kollektive gegen digitale Gewalt in Mexiko. Dieses Projekt hat das Ziel zu einem besseren Verständnis der Rolle zu gelangen, die diese digitalen Technologien bei der Förderung neuer Formen feministischen politischen Engagements und kollektiver Handlungsstrategien spielen und neue digitale politische Räume zu öffnen, um digitale Gewalt gegen Frauen zu bekämpfen. Das Projekt basiert auf der einen Seite auf einer digitalen Ethnographie, auf der anderen Seite auf digitalen Methoden. Hier werden z. B. Twitter und Facebook als politische Räume erforscht, in denen die Kollektive versuchen, die öffentliche Meinung durch politische Mechanismen wie Hash-Tags zu beeinflussen.

Feministische Sex Wars und Butch/Fem(me)-Kultur. Sexualitätsdiskurse als Aushandlungsorte lesbisch_queerer Identitätskonzeptionen in deutschsprachigen Lesbenbewegungen der 1970er-90er Jahre

Dissertation

Dr. Lorenz Weinberg

Institutions: Philosophy and Humanities
Institute/Seminar: Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut
Field/Area of work: Department of Didactics of History
Subject group: Humanities
Subject classification: History
Start: 2019
End: 2022
Status: Ongoing
Keywords: Sex Wars, Butch/Femme, Lesbian Movement, Queer History, Gender History

Fighting Poverty with Girl Power? Global Advocacy for Girls’ Rights from Nairobi, 1945 - Present

Post-Doc Project

Dr. Sarah Bellows-Blakely (Post-Doc)

Institutions: History and Cultural Studies
Institute/Seminar: Graduate School Global Intellectual History
Subject group: Humanities
Funding: Volkswagen Foundation
Status: Ongoing
Short description: "Sarah is currently working on a book manuscript that explores the growth of the global girls’ rights movement through a transnational network of actors centered in Nairobi and radiating out to places from New York City to Beijing. One of the project’s main arguments is that ideas about “girl power” arose in response to anxieties over growing rates of poverty due to the global economic collapse of the 1970s and Structural Adjustment Programs of the 1980s. Since the late 1970s, girls’ real and imagined sexual suffering has become emphasized in ways that have made the impacts of Structural Adjustment Programs and the global economic collapse appear to be the “natural” results of “African and Asian patriarchy” and a failure to fully utilize girls’ potential, rather than the effects, in part, of tangible economic policymaking and historical contingencies tracing back to colonialism and reinforced during times of economic crisis. This manuscript is based on two years of full-time oral and archival research, mostly in Nairobi but also in Paris, Washington D.C., and New York City. Sarah’s research was conducted in a mixture of Swahili, French, and English. She draws from sources from non-governmental organizations, international institutions, national governments, think tanks, e-mail list serves, poetry, and music."

Figurationen der Differenz in filmischen Bewegungsbildern

Univ. - Prof. Dr. Sabine Nessel

Institutions: Philosophy and Humanities
Institute/Seminar: Institute of Theater Studies
Field/Area of work: Film Studies
Subject group: Humanities
Start: 2019
End: 2022
Status: Completed
Homepage: geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de

Flexibilisierung naturwissenschaftlicher Praktika durch den Einsatz interaktiver Praktikumsexperimente

Research Project

Prof. Dr. Volkhard Nordmeier

Institutions: Physics
Subject group: STEM
Funding: Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
Start: 2009
End: 2015
Status: Completed
Staff: Dr. Beate Schattat
Publications: https://didaktik.physik.fu-berlin.de/projekte/ip/downloads/Handlungsmanual-IPE-Final_Feb_2010.pdf

Food for Justice: Power, Politics, and Food Inequalities in a Bioeconomy

Research Project

Prof. Dr. Renata Campos Motta

Institutions: Institute for Latin American Studies
Field/Area of work: Sociology
Subject group: Law, Economics and Social Sciences
Funding: BMBF
Start: 2019
End: 2024
Status: Ongoing
Short description: The junior research group Food for Justice examines normative questions of inequalities and justice, rights and democracy that arise in disputes surrounding the question “how are we going to feed the world?” There is a growing politicisation of the production, distribution and consumption of food, because food relations are structured by economic, social, political, cultural and environmental inequalities. Increasingly, citizens perceive the global food system as part of the historical causes of the ecological crisis and the persisting hunger in the world. Although reasons for that are long known (the use of food for profit, the gap between production and consumption, conflicts over land and water, exploitative labour relations, the energy matrix and waste generation), research on food security and bioeconomy tend to rely on the same, searching for technological fixes to a profit-oriented model exploiting living matter. What is needed to deepen the debate is more knowledge about which food system citizens desire, which solutions are already there that address social concerns and how to redirect public policies towards a fair and sustainable food system. Combining theoretical perspectives on global inequalities with social movement research on food justice, Food for Justice will look at challenges and solutions both in Europe (with focus on Germany) and in Latin America (focusing on Brazil). On the one hand, major normative challenges will be identified in case studies of social mobilisation and critical consumption over food. On the other hand, the research will map and analyse social and political innovations such as agroecology and alternative food networks, as devised by civil society groups and public policies to achieve food security. In short, Food for Justice is about achieving global food security in a fair and ecological way. It looks into social mobilization targeted at injustices in the food system and into social and political innovations that address inequalities undermining food security such as class, gender, race, ethnicity, nationality.
Homepage 2: lai.fu-berlin.de

Forced Migration and Organized Violence: A Comparative Study in Europe and the Americas

Research Project

Dr. Ximena Alba Villalever (Post-Doc, Ehem. Promovierende), Univ. - Prof. Dr. Stephanie Schütze

Institutions: Institute for Latin American Studies
Field/Area of work: Cultural and Social Anthropology of Latin America
Subject group: Law, Economics and Social Sciences
Funding: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
Status: Completed

Frauen im bewaffneten Kampf: Selbstwahrnehmung und kulturelle Repräsentation von kämpfenden Frauen in der post-Euromaidan Ukraine

Dissertation

Sabine Roßmann

Institutions: Political and Social Sciences
Institute/Seminar: Institute for East European Studies
Field/Area of work: Sociology
Subject group: Law, Economics and Social Sciences
Subject classification: Sociology
Status: Completed

Frauen, Mütter, Göttinen - genealogischen Konstruktionen und Raumordnung im römisch beherrschten Osten

Dissertation

Dr. Sarah Simone Walter

Institutions: History and Cultural Studies
Institute/Seminar: Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut
Field/Area of work: TOPOI
Subject group: Humanities
Subject classification: History
Status: Ongoing

Frauenamateurfußball in Rio de Janeiro – Aushandlung von Gender, sozialer Klasse und urbanem Raum

Dissertation

Dr. Julia Haß

Institutions: Institute for Latin American Studies
Field/Area of work: Cultural and Social Anthropology of Latin America
Subject group: Humanities
Start: 2016
Status: Completed
Keywords: Gender, urban space, sport, amateur football, Brazil
Short description: Sport is an important field for negotiating social conflicts and power struggles, including gender issues. Due to the visibility of many sports, changes in gender relations can effect the gender relations of a society. In the case of football, one of the most popular sports in the world, the urban space is the main scene for the negotiating processes. In my PhD project I will analyze the negotiation processes between women and men in amateur football in the Brazilian metropolis Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo and the access of women to amateur football structures. Football plays an important role in the Brazilian society. Women and girls have been discriminated against as amateur football players in Brazil for a long time. Therefore, I will investigate how women currently gain access to amateur football structures in the Brazilian metropolis, how they negotiate their participation, and what part sports related organizations and public institutions take. I aim to draw conclusions on the positioning of women in the urban sports space in both cities as well as in the Brazilian society. In order to approach this subject, I will examine the current literature, and do both archival research and intensive fieldwork in Brazil. Through participative observations and interviews, I will identify the practices, dynamics, structures and the different players in the women’s amateur football field in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. The presence and the participation of women in the urban sport space and the concrete negotiating processes related to gender are at the center of my analysis. Additionally, I will consider the political framework in both cities as it relates to sports and will also examine the origins of potential inequalities. Former cultural anthropological and sociological research on female and amateur football did not consider the important social significance of football in the Brazilian context. New dynamics in Brazilian women’s amateur football also make it an important social issue. Moreover, the Olympic Games in 2016 in Rio de Janeiro raise new questions about sports politics and gender inequalities that I will consider in my project.
Publications: http://budrich-journals.de/index.php/peripherie/article/viewFile/22901/20033

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Feministische Sex Wars und Butch/Fem(me)-Kultur. Sexualitätsdiskurse als Aushandlungsorte lesbisch_queerer Identitätskonzeptionen in deutschsprachigen Lesbenbewegungen der 1970er-90er Jahre arrow_forward

Fighting Poverty with Girl Power? Global Advocacy for Girls’ Rights from Nairobi, 1945 - Present arrow_forward

Figurationen der Differenz in filmischen Bewegungsbildern arrow_forward

Flexibilisierung naturwissenschaftlicher Praktika durch den Einsatz interaktiver Praktikumsexperimente arrow_forward

Food for Justice: Power, Politics, and Food Inequalities in a Bioeconomy arrow_forward

Forced Migration and Organized Violence: A Comparative Study in Europe and the Americas arrow_forward

Frauen im bewaffneten Kampf: Selbstwahrnehmung und kulturelle Repräsentation von kämpfenden Frauen in der post-Euromaidan Ukraine arrow_forward

Frauen, Mütter, Göttinen - genealogischen Konstruktionen und Raumordnung im römisch beherrschten Osten arrow_forward

Frauenamateurfußball in Rio de Janeiro – Aushandlung von Gender, sozialer Klasse und urbanem Raum arrow_forward

Feminist Politics and the fight against violence in the era of digitalization

Feministische Sex Wars und Butch/Fem(me)-Kultur. Sexualitätsdiskurse als Aushandlungsorte lesbisch_queerer Identitätskonzeptionen in deutschsprachigen Lesbenbewegungen der 1970er-90er Jahre

Fighting Poverty with Girl Power? Global Advocacy for Girls’ Rights from Nairobi, 1945 - Present

Figurationen der Differenz in filmischen Bewegungsbildern

Flexibilisierung naturwissenschaftlicher Praktika durch den Einsatz interaktiver Praktikumsexperimente

Food for Justice: Power, Politics, and Food Inequalities in a Bioeconomy

Forced Migration and Organized Violence: A Comparative Study in Europe and the Americas

Frauen im bewaffneten Kampf: Selbstwahrnehmung und kulturelle Repräsentation von kämpfenden Frauen in der post-Euromaidan Ukraine

Frauen, Mütter, Göttinen - genealogischen Konstruktionen und Raumordnung im römisch beherrschten Osten

Frauenamateurfußball in Rio de Janeiro – Aushandlung von Gender, sozialer Klasse und urbanem Raum