Brigitte Aulenbacher

Brigitte Aulenbacher (* 1959 in Quiiev / Saar, Germany ) is a German sociologist. Since 2008 she has been professor of sociology with a focus on sociological theory and social analysis (with special consideration of the gender dimension) at the Johannes Kepler University (JKU) Linz , Austria. She heads the department for social theory and social analysis at the Institute for Sociology of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Economics.

Life

After starting training as an advertising clerk, Brigitte Aulenbacher studied sociology at Saarland University and Bielefeld University . In 1990 she completed her doctorate at Bielefeld University, and in 2004 she qualified as a professor in sociology at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Hanover University . Between 1990 and 2004 she was a. a. active as a scientific assistant, as a lecturer and as a substitute professor at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . In 2005 she taught as a substitute professor at the Ruhr University in Bochum . From 2004 to 2008 she taught a. a. as a private lecturer at the Leibniz University of Hanover and as a lecturer at the University of Bielefeld. In 2008 she was visiting professor at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen .

Main focus of work and research

In her socio-theoretical work, Brigitte Aulenbacher follows the tradition of critical sociology. It refers to Polanyi, Marx, Weber, Critical Theory and others. In her theory-pluralistic approach, she combines classic recourses with contemporary social analyzes, various approaches to work, organization and welfare state research such as gender and intersectionality research. The crises and transformations of contemporary capitalism are a central theme. Her special focus is on the interplay of economization tendencies with further social developments. In this way, questions of social inequality, phenomena such as precariousness, changes in the welfare state, changes in work, gainful employment and other forms of work come into focus. One focus of her research is the field of care and care work, in which she works empirically and theoretically in international projects. She co-edits the book series "Arbeitsgesellschaft im Wandel", which is published by Beltz Juventa Verlag. As a representative of a public sociology , she promotes the dialogue between science and civil society; in this context she co-edits Global Dialogue, the magazine of the International Sociological Association ISA. She is Vice President of the International Karl Polanyi Society. She was awarded the Kurt Rothschild Prize for her work in economic journalism.

• Social theory and analysis of capitalism
• Gender research
• Rationalization research
• Labor research
• Organizational research
• Care and care work
• Economization of science

Fonts (selection)

• Care: Work, Relations, Regimes , Soziale Welt, special volume 20 (edited with Birgit Riegraf and Hildegard Theobald), Nomos: Baden-Baden 2014, ISBN 978-3-8487-1514-5 .
• Caring for yourself and others. The crisis and future of care in modern society . Series Arbeitsgesellschaft im Wandel. BeltzJuventa: Weinheim and Basel 2014 (edited with Maria Dammayr), ISBN 978-3-7799-3042-6 .
• Feminist criticism of capitalism. Entry into important research fields (with Birgit Riegraf and Susanne Völker). Westfälisches Dampfboot, Münster 2015, 2nd edition 2018, ISBN 978-3-89691-679-2 .
• Brigitte Aulenbacher et al. (Ed.): Achievement and justice. The controversial promise of capitalism , Beltz Juventa, Weinheim 2017, ISBN 978-3-7799-3051-8 .
• Brigitte Aulenbacher et al. (Ed.): Public Sociology, Science in Dialogue with Society , Campus, Frankfurt / M., New York 2017, ISBN 978-3-593-50635-7
• Global Sociology of Care and Care Work , Current Sociology Monograph, Vol. 66, No. 4, Monograph 2 (ed. With Helma Lutz and Birgit Riegraf), Sage, Los Angeles et al., 2018
• Care and Care Work - A Question of Economy, Justice and Democracy , Special Issue, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, Vol. 37, No. 4 (ed. With Birgit Riegraf), Emerald Publishing, United Kingdom, 2018
• Karl Polanyi, “The Great Transformation” and Contemporary Capitalism , Austrian Journal for Sociology, Vol. 44, No. 2 (ed. With Richard Bärnthaler and Andreas Novy), Springer VS, Wiesbaden, 2019
• with Roland Atzmüller et al. (Ed.): Capitalism in Transformation. Movements and Countermovements in the 21st Century , Edward Elgar, Cheltenham 2019, ISBN 978-1-78897-423-3

Web links

• Literature by and about Brigitte Aulenbacher in the catalog of the German National Library
• Brigitte Aulenbacher at the University of Linz
• Publications by Brigitte Aulenbacher