Jörg Niewöhner

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Jörg Niewöhner (* 1975 ) is a German social anthropologist . He is Professor of Urban Anthropology and Human- Environment Relations at the Institute for European Ethnology at the Humboldt University in Berlin .

Life

At Abbey Gymnasium Brauweiler in Pulheim Jörg Niewöhner completed in 1994, the High School . From 1995 to 1998 he completed a bachelor's degree in environmental sciences at the University of East Anglia , where he obtained his doctorate in 2001 with a dissertation on the use of theories of mental models to understand risk discourses, and worked there as a research assistant until 2003 . After working at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine from 2003 to 2004 , he moved to the Institute for European Ethnology at the Humboldt University of Berlin as a research assistant, where he was visiting professor from 2009 to 2010 , and a junior professorship in 2012 and finally in 2016 he was appointed to a full professorship (for urban anthropology and human-environment relations). He works at the Humboldt University of Berlin also on Integrative Research Institute for transformations of human- environment systems (Integrative Research Institute on Transformation of Human-Environment Systems, shortly IRI Thesys), whose deputy director, he from 2013 and managing director since 2018, he is.

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Jörg Niewöhner's work focuses on social anthropological science and technology studies , the relationships between humans and the environment, ecological anthropology, urban anthropology and medical anthropology . Together with Stefan Beck , he established a collaborative research group for social anthropological research in and with the life sciences at the Humboldt University in 2004 , which they called a research laboratory and which has since changed its name and with an expanded research focus. With Stefan Beck and Estrid Sørensen , he published the first German-language social anthropological introduction to science and technology studies in 2012.

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Essays

  • with Patrick Cox, Nick Pidgeon, Simon Gerrard, Baruch Fischhoff, Donna Riley: The Use of Mental Models in Chemical Risk Protection: Developing a Generic Workplace Methodology . In: Risk Analysis . tape 23 , no. 2 , 2003, p. 311-324 , doi : 10.1111 / 1539-6924.00311 (English).
  • Epigenetics: Embedded Bodies and the Molecularization of Biography and Milieu . In: BioSocieties . tape 6 , no. 3 , 2011, p. 279–298 , doi : 10.1057 / biosoc.2011.4 (English).
  • Embedded Body-in-Action: A Social Anthropological Perspective on the Relationship Between Social Inequality and Disease . In Heiner Fangerau, Sebastian Kessler (Ed.): Respect and disrespect in medicine: recognition and self-constitution as key categories for the interpretation of disease and poverty (=  life sciences dialog . No. 16 ). Karl Alber, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-495-48590-3 , p. 139-160 .
  • Space: Anthropological Perspectives . In: Jürgen Oßenbrügge, Anne Vogelpohl (Hrsg.): Theories in spatial and urban research . Westphalian steam boat, Münster 2014, ISBN 978-3-89691-964-9 , p. 14-23 .
  • City Ecologies: On the ethnography of bio- and geopolitical practice . In: Journal of Folklore . tape 110 , no. 2 , 2014, p. 185-214 , doi : 10.18452 / 18543 .
  • Epigenetics: Localizing Biology through Co-laboration . In: New Genetics and Society . tape 34 , no. 2 , 2015, p. 219–242 , doi : 10.1080 / 14636778.2015.1036154 (English).
  • with Martina Klausner, Milena D. Bister, Stefan Beck: Choreographies of clinical and urban everyday life: results of a collaborative ethnography with social psychiatry . In: Journal of Folklore . tape 111 , no. 2 , 2015, p. 214-235 , doi : 10.18452 / 18544 .
  • with Sebastian Peter, Alexandre Wullschleger, Lieselotte Mahler, Ingrid Munk, Manfred Zaumseil, Jörg Niewöhner, Martina Klausner, Milena Bister, Andreas Heinz, Stefan Beck: Chronicity in everyday psychiatric care: A research collaboration between social psychiatry and European ethnology . In: Journal of Psychiatry, Psychology and Psychotherapy . tape 64 , no. 1 , 2016, p. 7-18 , doi : 10.1024 / 1661-4747 / a000255 .
  • Phenomenography: meaningful ethnography beyond the human scale . In: Karl Braun , Claus-Marco Dieterich, Thomas Hengartner , Bernhard Tschofen (eds.): Cultures of the senses: Approaches to the sensuality of the social world . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-8260-6339-8 , p. 78-95 .

Editorships

  • with Christof Tannert (Ed.): Gene Therapy: Prospective Technology Assessment in its Societal Context . Elsevier, Amsterdam 2006, ISBN 978-0-444-52806-3 (English).
  • with Stefan Beck, Christoph Kehl (Ed.): How does culture get under your skin? Emergent practices at the interface of medicine, life and social sciences (=  Embodiments / MatteRealities . No. 1 ). Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2008, ISBN 978-3-89942-926-8 , doi : 10.14361 / 9783839409268 .
  • with Thomas Scheffer (Ed.): Thick Comparison: Reviving the Ethnographic Aspiration (=  International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology . No. 114 ). Brill, Leiden 2010, ISBN 978-90-04-18113-7 (English).
  • with Stefan Beck, Estrid Sørensen (Ed.): Science and Technology Studies: A social anthropological introduction (=  VerKbodyungen / MatteRealities . No. 17 ). Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2012, ISBN 978-3-8376-2106-8 , doi : 10.14361 / transcript.9783839421062 .
  • with Elisa T. Bertuzzo, Eszter B. Gantner, Heike Oevermann (eds.): Control of public spaces: Support, suppress, entertain, infiltrate (=  time horizons . No. 12 ). LIT Verlag, Münster 2013, ISBN 978-3-643-11556-0 .
  • with Milena D. Bister (ed.): Everyday life in psychiatry in transition: Ethnographic perspectives on knowledge, technology and autonomy (=  Berliner Blätter . No. 66 ). Panama Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-938714-32-4 .
  • with Antje Bruns, Patrick Hostert, Tobias Krueger, Jonas Ø. Nielsen, Helmut Haberl, Christian Lauk, Juliana Lutz, Daniel Müller (Eds.): Land Use Competition: Ecological, Economic and Social Perspectives (=  Human-Environment Interactions . No. 6 ). Springer, 2016, ISBN 978-3-319-33628-2 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-319-33628-2 (English).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Prof. Dr. Jörg Niewöhner. In: Institute for European Ethnology at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Archived from the original on April 4, 2020 ; accessed on April 4, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b c d Prof. Dr. Jörg Niewöhner: CV. In: Institute for European Ethnology at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Archived from the original on April 4, 2020 ; accessed on April 4, 2020 .
  3. ↑ IRI THESys - Humboldt University International. Archived from the original on April 4, 2020 ; accessed on April 4, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Board - IRI Thesys. Archived from the original on April 4, 2020 ; accessed on April 4, 2020 (English).
  5. ^ Jörg Niewöhner - Laboratory: Anthropology of Environment | Human relations. Archived from the original on April 4, 2020 ; accessed on April 4, 2020 (English).
  6. ^ About - Laboratory: Anthropology of Environment | Human relations. Archived from the original on April 3, 2020 ; accessed on April 3, 2020 (English).
  7. ^ Tanja Bogusz, Estrid Sørensen: Obituary: Stefan Beck (1960--2015) . In: EASST Review . tape 34 , no. 2 , 2015, p. 35–38 (English, easst.net [accessed on April 3, 2020]).
  8. ^ Stefan Beck - Laboratory: Anthropology of Environment | Human relations. Archived from the original on April 3, 2020 ; accessed on April 3, 2020 (English).
  9. ^ About - Laboratory: Anthropology of Environment | Human relations. Archived from the original on April 3, 2020 ; accessed on April 3, 2020 (English).
  10. ↑ Science and Technology Studies - A Social Anthropological Introduction. Transcript Verlag, archived from the original on April 3, 2020 ; accessed on April 3, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Niewöhner, Jörg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social anthropologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1975