Janne Mende
Janne Mende is a German political scientist . Her research and publications focus on human rights and global governance .
Life
Mende studied political science, ethnology and psychology at the Free University of Berlin (MA) from 2006 to 2010 and was awarded a dissertation on culture by Christoph Menke at the International Graduate Center for the Study of Culture at the Justus Liebig University in Gießen in 2013 with the support of the German Research Foundation and identity in collective human rights claims. Aspects and ambivalences using the example of indigenous rights to the Dr. rer. soc. PhD. In 2018 she completed her habilitation and received the venia legendi in political science. In 2013/14 she taught in the field of globalization and international relations at the University of Kassel . 2014–2017 she was a postdoc at the International Center for Development and Decent Work in Kassel. She was a visiting researcher at the WZB - Wissenschaftszentrum für Sozialforschung Berlin, at the Research Center for Human Rights at the University of Vienna, at the Center for the Study of Social and Global Justice at the University of Nottingham and at the Department of Politics at the New School for Social Research in New York. She researches u. a. on human rights , modern slavery and global governance.
Since June 2018 she has been the project leader in the DFG- funded research project “Business Actors beyond Public and Private: Authority, Legitimacy and Responsibility in the United Nations Human Rights Regime” at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Giessen.
Janne Mendes book Justification Patterns of Female Genital Mutilation from 2011 has been discussed and quoted several times. Rolf Löchel wrote about it in literaturkritik.de : “What is decisive, however, is that the author has published what is probably the most reflective book on his two topics, the relationship between cultural relativism and universalism as well as female genital mutilation . A comparably instructive book on this will not be found anytime soon. "
Fonts (selection)
Monographs
- Patterns of justification for female genital mutilation. To convey cultural relativism and universalism . Transcript , Bielefeld 2011, ISBN 978-3-8376-1911-9 . Second edition 2014.
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Culture as a human right ?. Ambivalences of collective legal claims (= Campus Research . Vol. 970). Campus Verlag , Frankfurt am Main u. a. 2015, ISBN 978-3-593-50315-8 .
- A Human Right to Culture and Identity. The Ambivalence of Group Rights (= Studies in Social and Global Justice). Rowman & Littlefield , 2016, ISBN 978-1783486786
Editing
- Criticism with method? Research methods and social criticism , ed. m. with Ulrike Freikamp, Matthias Leanza, Stefan Müller, Peter Ullrich , Heinz-Jürgen Voss . Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02136-8 .
- Emancipation in Political Education. Theories - Concepts - Possibilities , ed. m. Stefan Müller (= science newsreel ). Wochenschau Verlag , Schwalbach 2009, ISBN 978-3-89974-512-2 .
- Difference and identity. Constellations of Criticism , ed. m. with Stefan Müller. Beltz Verlag, 2016, ISBN 978-3-7799-3413-4
Technical articles, book chapters
- Culture, people and race. German ethnology under National Socialism and its processing . In: Anthropos , edition 106, 2011/1, pp. 529-545.
- Cultural Identity and Politics . In: Transcultural Political Theory. An introduction , ed. v. Sybille de la Rosa, Sophia Shubert, Holger Zapf, Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 978-3-658-05009-2 , pp. 43-62
- Modern Slavery: Blurring a Term . In: Sheets for German and International Politics , 9/2016
- Privatization or Diffusion of Responsibility? Developing economic responsibility for human rights . In: Politische Vierteljahresschrift , 52/2017, ISBN 978-3-8487-3083-4 , pp. 409-435
Web links
- Literature by and about Janne Mende in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Janne Mende in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Works by and about Janne Mende in the German Digital Library
- Janne Mende at the University of Kassel (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ A b curriculum vitae at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen
- ↑ Mediation logic universalism. Janne Mende has presented a necessary book on culturally relativistic justifications for female genital mutilation , literary criticism , November 22, 2012
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Mende, Janne |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German political scientist |
DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |