Veranstaltungshinweis: Contested social and ecological reproduction (hybrid symposium)

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Internationales Symposium am 23. September 2022, TU Dresden

Obwohl es potenziell möglich ist, ist es der Menschheit bisher nicht gelungen, die Lebensgrundlagen für alle Menschen zu sichern. Dieser Zustand wird jedoch nicht von allen akzeptiert. Gerade die herrschenden Bedingungen und Möglichkeiten der sozialen und ökologischen Reproduktion werden weltweit zunehmend von sozialen Bewegungen in Frage gestellt. Neben Massendemonstrationen, internationalen Arbeits- und Schulstreiks und Unruhen in feminisierten Beschäftigungssektoren ist in den letzten Jahren ein Erstarken von Kämpfen um Arbeit, Forderungen nach einer Neugestaltung von Care-Beziehungen und für Klimagerechtigkeit zu beobachten.

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Short-Term Conference Support (Vienna)

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Inequalities and the Paradigm of Excellence in Academia

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Fiona Jenkins, Barbara Hoenig, Susanne Maria Weber, Andrea Wolffram, eds. (2022) London: Routledge.

This volume examines the criteria of excellence producing inequalities of gender in the daily working environment and evaluation of academics.

Policymakers have increasingly placed emphasis on gender equality as part of a strategy for achieving research excellence, and efforts to reduce gender bias have become mainstream. This book suggests that this goal has remained elusive in practice due to continuing under-representation of women across many academic and scientific fields. Questioning the old structures of male dominance still prevalent in national research policy, the book explores the effects of institutional values and practices on the careers of academics, particularly the academic identities of women and their career developments.
It focuses on case studies drawn from Europe while also highlighting the rise of new forms of public management and a neoliberal framing of the value of academic work that have a much broader global reach. Using participatory research, the book analyses contemporary forms of “gendered excellence” in an intersectional and international perspective. It will be of interest to junior/ senior researchers, teachers, and scholars in sociology, education, gender studies, history, political science, and science and technology studies.

https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429198625

Sociology in a New Key. Essays in Social Theory and Aesthetics

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Helmut Staubmann 2022
This book presents essays that address fundamental issues in social and cultural theory by viewing them through the lens of aesthetic theory. Drawing on the aesthetic theories of Theodor W. Adorno, Gregory Bateson, Jean-Marie Guyau, Talcott Parsons and Georg Simmel, it suggests a new take on basic sociological concepts and methodologies. The chapters cover a wide range of topics, including the sensuality of social action, social construction of unreality, and The Rolling Stones’ enduring success as a reflection of our society and culture.
The book’s title Sociology in a New Key refers to a classic work by Susanne K. Langer, whose Philosophy in a New Key argued for a reorientation of modern philosophical thought based on a thorough account of symbolism in general and of the arts in particular. In this way, the basic ideas and assumptions of the philosophical tradition are transposed to new understandings and perspectives. After all, it was Georg Simmel himself who claimed to have gained several of his general theoretical insights “via the detour of reflections on the essence of art.” The book will appeal to scholars and students of the sociology of the arts and music, and to anyone interested in the intersection of social theory and aesthetics.