Boris Vormann

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Boris Vormann is a German political scientist and university professor. From 2015 he was a substitute professor for politics at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at the Free University of Berlin . He has been Professor of Political Science at Bard College Berlin since mid-2017 .

Career

education

Vormann studied cultural studies, literature and linguistics at the TU Dresden from 2003 to 2009. Study visits took him to New Jersey and New York. From 2009 to 2013 he did his doctorate in political science at the Graduate School of North American Studies at FU Berlin. His dissertation Blind Spots of Globalization. Neoliberalization Processes, Technological Innovation, and Socio-Spatial Change in North American Port Cities was awarded summa cum laude .

academic career

Vormann is an associate researcher at the Chaire de Recherche du Canada en Études Québécoises et Canadiennes (CRÉQC) of the Université du Québec in Montréal / Canada and has been a visiting researcher at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), at Harvard University and New York University. In 2015 he received the Fulbright American Studies Award from the German Society for American Studies and the Fulbright Commission for his research . From 2015 to 2017 he was a professor in the Politics Department at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at Freie Universität Berlin. Vormann has been Professor of Political Science at Bard College Berlin since mid-2017 .

subjects

The focus of his scientific research is globalization and its effects on political institutions, societies and economic geographic structures. His research compares state-market relationships, re-nationalization and the development of global cities and urban regions and highlights the ongoing importance of the state on a global and subnational level. Boris Vormann's current research focus is on examining the role of the US state in creating global transportation infrastructures.

Boris Vormann commented on current political events in the media for Deutsche Welle, N24 and DeutschlandRadio Kultur, among others. Vormann is the translator of the book Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea by the Scottish political scientist Mark Blyth and the monograph The Age of Uncertainty by Quebec political scientist Alain-G.-Gagnon .

Publications

Monographs

  • Between the old and the new world . Synchron Verlag, Heidelberg. 2012
  • Global Port Cities in North America: Urbanization Processes and Global Production Networks . Routledge, London and New York. 2015

Editorships

  • with Alain-G. Gagnon and Ingo Kolboom : Québec: State and Society , Heidelberg: Synchron Publishers 2011
  • with Christian Lammert and Markus B. Siewert: Handbuch Politik USA (Springer NachschlageWissen) . Springer VS. 2015

Journal articles (peer-reviewed)

  • 2016. "Urban Diversity: Disentangling the Cultural and the Economic Case." New Diversities.
  • 2016. "Infrastructures of the Global: Adding a Third Dimension to Urban Sustainability Discourses" European Journal of American Studies.
  • 2015. "Toward an Infrastructural Critique of Urban Change. Obsolescence and Changing Perceptions of New York City's Waterfront." CITY 19 (2-3): 332-340.
  • Me Christian Lammert. 2015. "Has Quebecois Separatism Run its Course? New Chances for Cooperative Arrangements in Canada." Journal of Canadian Studies 35: 45-62.
  • 2014. "Who Needs American Studies? Globalization, Nationalism, and the Future of Area Studies." American Studies / Amerikastudien 59 (3): 387-406
  • with Gina Caison. 2014. "The Logics and Logistics of Urban Progress. Contradictions and Conceptual Challenges of the Global North-South-Divide." The Global South 8 (2): 65-83.
  • with Christian Lammert. 2014. "A Paradoxical Relationship? Regionalization and Canadian National Identity." American Review of Canadian Studies 44 (4): 385-399.
  • 2014. "Infrastructures of the global city. Contradictions of the urban sustainability discourse using the example of Vancouver." Journal of Canadian Studies 34: 62-86. [Infrastructures of the Global City. Contradictions of Urban Sustainability Discourses in the Case of Vancouver "]
  • with Sonja Schillings. 2013. "The Vanishing Poor. Frontier Narratives in US Gentrification and Security Debates." UCLA Critical Urban Planning 20: 145-165.

Book chapter

  • with Ingo Kolboom. 2016. "Francophonie. Cultural macro-region and global player." In: Oberreuter, Heinrich (ed.) Staatslexikon. 8th edition. Gorres Society. [In print]
  • 2016. "Beneath and Beyond the Sustainable City." In: American Studies - a Monograph Series, University Press C. Winter: Heidelberg.
  • 2016. "Urban and Regional Policy in the US: Global Flows and Local Anchoring." In: Vormann, Boris; Lammert, Christian; Siewert, Markus (eds.). US Policy Manual. Springer VS: Wiesbaden, 403-420.
  • with Christian Lammert. 2016. "Society in Crisis? New Inequalities in the US." In: Vormann, Boris; Lammert, Christian; Siewert, Markus (eds.). US Policy Manual. Springer VS: Wiesbaden, 601-616.
  • with Christian Lammert. 2016. "Local Politics in the US." In: Vormann, Boris; Lammert, Christian; Siewert, Markus (eds.). US Policy Manual. Springer VS: Wiesbaden, 225-240.
  • with Lammert, Christian and Markus Siewert. 2016. "Strange Families: The Politics of the United States of America." In: Vormann, Boris; Lammert, Christian; Siewert, Markus (eds.). US Policy Manual. Springer VS: Wiesbaden, 1-12.
  • 2014. "Playing with fire. Of states, markets and the triumphant advance of austerity." In: Blyth, Mark: How Europe is saving itself to pieces. The failed idea of ​​austerity policy. Dietz: Bonn, 9-15.
  • 2014. "Diversity and Federalism in the Early 21st Century. A German Perspective." In: Gagnon, Alain-G .: The Age of Uncertainties. Essays on Federalism and National Diversity. Nomos: Baden-Baden, 9-23.
  • with Julia Püschel. 2012. "Gray Zones of the Market - Public Services, Education Policies, and Neoliberal Reform in the United Kingdom." In: Lall, Marie (ed.): Policy, Discourse and Rhetoric. How New Labor Challenged Social Justice and Democracy. Sense Publishers: Rotterdam / Boston / Taipei. 15-40.
  • 2011. "Visibilizing Risk. Risk Perception and Maritime Infrastructure in the 'War on Terror'." In: Fluck, Winfried; Motyl, Katharina; Pease, Donald; Raetzsch, Christoph (ed.): REAL Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature Vol 27. Gunter Narr Publisher: Tübingen, 2011. 317-335.
  • with Ingo Kolboom. 2011. "Québec - A country between national self-assertion and globalization. Introduction to the German edition." In: Vormann, Boris; Kolboom, Ingo; Gagnon, Alain-G. (eds.). Quebec. State and society. Synchron Publishers: Heidelberg, 2011, 11-30.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prof. Dr. Boris Vormann. (No longer available online.) In: www.jfki.fu-berlin.de. August 21, 2013, archived from the original on November 4, 2016 ; Retrieved December 4, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jfki.fu-berlin.de
  2. ↑ Boris Vormann. In: www.jfki.fu-berlin.de. April 16, 2010, accessed December 4, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Chaire de recherche du Canada en études québécoises et canadiennes (CREQC). (No longer available online.) In: www.creqc.uqam.ca. Archived from the original on July 11, 2016 ; Retrieved December 4, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.creqc.uqam.ca
  4. ↑ Prof. Dr. Boris Vormann. (No longer available online.) In: www.jfki.fu-berlin.de. August 21, 2013, archived from the original on November 4, 2016 ; Retrieved December 4, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jfki.fu-berlin.de
  5. ^ 10. In: Knowledge Landscapes North America. June 22, 2015, accessed December 4, 2016 .
  6. ^ Entry on the website of Bard College Berlin , accessed on December 5, 2017
  7. ↑ Prof. Dr. Boris Vormann. (No longer available online.) In: www.jfki.fu-berlin.de. August 21, 2013, archived from the original on November 4, 2016 ; Retrieved December 4, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jfki.fu-berlin.de
  8. ↑ a-screen, berlin: SYNCHRON Wissenschaftsverlag of the authors. In: www.synchron-publishers.com. Retrieved December 4, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Global Port Cities in North America: Urbanization Processes and Global Production Networks (Hardback) - Routledge. In: Routledge.com. Retrieved December 4, 2016 .
  10. ↑ America Studies. (No longer available online.) Winter Verlag, archived from the original on December 20, 2016 ; Retrieved December 4, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.winter-verlag.de
  11. ↑ Prof. Dr. Boris Vormann. (No longer available online.) In: www.jfki.fu-berlin.de. August 21, 2013, archived from the original on November 4, 2016 ; Retrieved December 4, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jfki.fu-berlin.de
  12. ^ Deutsche Welle (www.dw.com): Search. In: DW.COM. Retrieved December 4, 2016 .
  13. ↑ Search - N24.de. In: N24.de. Retrieved December 4, 2016 .
  14. ↑ Deutschlandradio Kultur - search results. In: Deutschlandradio Kultur. Retrieved December 4, 2016 .
  15. ↑ How Europe is saving itself to pieces: The failed idea of ​​austerity politics , Dietz 2014
  16. ↑ http://www.nomos-shop.de/_assets/downloads/9783848707089_lese01.pdf
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SURNAME Foreman, Boris
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century