Matthias Lemke

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Matthias Lemke (2016).
Matthias Lemke (2016).

Matthias Lemke (born June 2, 1978 in Gelsenkirchen ) is a German political scientist and university professor. His work focuses on political and social sciences , political theory and the history of ideas as well as digital humanities , in particular in the application and reflection of methods of text mining processes. He teaches and researches at the Federal University for Public Administration , Federal Police Department , in Lübeck .

Life

After graduating from high school at the municipal Max Planck High School in Gelsenkirchen, Lemke studied political science , sociology and modern and contemporary history at the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster from 1997 to 2002 (degree Magister Artium ) and from 2002 to 2003 Pensée Politique at the École doctorale von Sciences Po in Paris ( Diplôme d'Études Approfondies , Mastaire en Pensée politique). He received his doctorate in 2007 as part of a Franco-German doctorate at Sciences Po Paris and at the University of Vechta . During his studies and doctorate, he received a scholarship from the Friedrich Ebert Foundation , Bonn .

After positions as a teacher for special tasks and as a research assistant in Vechta and at the University of Duisburg-Essen , he moved again to the Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg in 2012 , where he had already developed and designed the journal for political theory (ZPTh ) had accompanied. From 2012 he was responsible for the scientific coordination of a BMBF research project in the field of political theory and digital humanities in Hamburg . In 2016 he completed his habilitation at the Helmut Schmidt University with a cumulative thesis on the history of theory and the public plausibility check of exceptional states and received the license to teach political science. Then he became Eugen Ewig -Stipendiat to the German Historical Institute in Paris and taught at the Campus de Nancy of Sciences Po . Since 2018 he is a full-time lecturer at the Department of Federal Police of the University of the Federal Public Administration .

In parallel to his work in research and teaching, he was a reviewer and author at the political science information platform Portal for Political Science , which is sponsored by the Foundation Science and Democracy based in Kiel .

Lemke is involved in the voluntary fire brigade of the city of Gelsenkirchen , which he joined in 1996. Since 2011 he has been part of the fire fighting train 12 - Buer-Mitte , since 2018 in the rank of chief fire inspector . On May 24, 2019 , Michael Axinger , the head of the Gelsenkirchen fire brigade , appointed him as deputy train driver of fire-fighting train 12 - Buer-Mitte .

Scientific subjects

Democratic socialism

After a previous study of so-called " utopian socialism ", primarily with Henri de Saint-Simon , Lemke's dissertation explored the question of the arguments used by democratic socialism to oppose the Bolshevik assertion of revolutionary violence that made progress possible. The work, designed as a Franco-German discourse comparison, evaluated the positions of Eduard Bernstein and Karl Kautsky on the German side and of Jean Jaurès and Léon Blum on the French side for the period from 1890 to 1920 .

Economization technique

As part of a BMBF research project on post-democracy and neoliberalism , Lemke investigated whether and to what extent there has been an increase in economic vocabulary in the political public in the Federal Republic of Germany . For this purpose, a corpus with 3.5 million German-language newspaper texts was evaluated, which covered the period from 1947 to 2012. Through the use of text mining processes it was possible to show that economic plausibility checks in the political public, in line with the theoretical assumptions of the post-democracy debate, increased from the end of the 1970s. Economization technique in the narrower sense denotes, following Michel Foucault's term government technique, the attempt to exercise power of interpretation through the use of economic, especially neoliberal, vocabulary in the political public, aimed at collectively binding decision-making .

Blended reading

In the context of his preoccupation with the application of text mining processes to questions of political theory and the history of ideas, Lemke developed the concept of blended reading. He understands this to be a modular analysis strategy that procedurally interlinks computer-aided text analysis and individual text reading. The term is intended to overcome the dichotomy of close and distant reading established by Franco Moretti .

According to his previous analyzes, Lemke differentiates between first, second and third order text mining methods. As a first-order method, he describes frequency analysis , which allows the use of terms to be identified within a database, but which does not allow any conclusions to be drawn with regard to content. As a second-order method, he describes the co-occurrence analysis and topic modeling , which allow conclusions to be drawn about the context of use of search terms and thus enable statements to be made with regard to content. Third-order methods are machine learning and annotation , insofar as they enable further processing of results obtained from text statistics. All methods can be combined depending on the interest in knowledge. Reading selected individual texts with justification is mandatory.

state of emergency

Under a state of emergency Lemke understands the "crisis-induced expansion of executive powers". From a constitutional point of view, this means:

"In a legal sense, the term SoE [State of Exception] refers to a multitude of different crisis reaction mechanisms that exist in the context of differentiated statehood. These mechanisms have in common that they all enhance the government's power of action and decision-making, if the relevant condition to call out a SoE are met. The declared aim of these instruments is to return as quickly as possible to the pre-crisis situation. "

- Matthias Lemke : What does state of exception mean?

In his work, he examines both the historical dimension of the state of emergency as well as concrete applications in established democracies. Of particular interest in his work are the plausibility strategies that governments use to justify the - temporary - restriction of basic rights or the expansion of the powers of the executive in public. On the basis of the case studies worked on so far - Germany , France , Spain , the USA , the Marshall Islands - he was able to identify, among other things, the plausibility patterns of distinction, alterity, effectiveness (temporal, economic), necessity, vulnerability and insufficiency, some of which occurred repeatedly at different times are. The observation of the long-term consequences of the application of the state of emergency on the democratic political culture of a country - a connection that Lemke describes as the normalization of the state of emergency - has proven to be particularly significant.

Lemke's work is characterized by a close intermeshing of theory and empiricism. He rejects the legal-theoretical perspective of Carl Schmitt , because his decisionism, the focus on the sovereign decision-making power and his anti- liberalism do not allow an approach to the state of emergency via its discursive negotiation in the political public. A creeping normalization of the state of emergency, as emphasized by Lemke in contrast to Bernard Manin , cannot be observed from this perspective. Nor does it allow criticism of excessive security .

Fundamental rights and police

Since 2018, Lemke - succeeding Martin HW Möllers - has been increasingly involved in basic and human rights training for the police . In addition to constitutional and political science aspects, the question of appropriate practice-related communication of the content is in the foreground.

Publications (selection)

Books

  • (with Martin HW Möllers) Basic rights in the police. Human rights in police practice. 4th, updated and expanded edition, Frankfurt (Main) 2019.
  • Democracy in a state of emergency. How governments expand their power, Frankfurt (Main), New York 2017.
  • Change through democracy. Liberal Socialism and Enabling the Political, Wiesbaden 2012.
  • Republican socialism. The positions of Bernstein, Kautsky, Jaurès and Blum, Frankfurt (Main), New York 2008.
  • Order and social progress. On the contemporary diagnostic relevance of political sociology by Henri de Saint-Simon, Münster, Hamburg, London 2002.

Magazine special volumes

  • (with Ece Göztepe and Olivier Cahn) New Normality? State of Exception as Contemporary Government Technique, Wiesbaden 2018 (= Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft (ZPol), 28 (4)).

Anthologies

  • State of emergency. History of Theory - Applications - Perspectives, Wiesbaden 2017.
  • (with Annette Förster), The Limits of Democracy. Present-day diagnoses between politics and law, Wiesbaden 2017.
  • (with Gregor Wiedemann), Text Mining in the Social Sciences. Basics and applications between qualitative and quantitative discourse analysis, Wiesbaden 2016.
  • (with Oliver Schwarz, Toralf Stark and Kristina Weissenbach), Legitimitätspraxis. Political science and sociological perspectives, Wiesbaden 2016.
  • (with Claudia Ritzi and Gary S. Schaal), The Economization of Politics in Germany. A comparative policy field analysis, Wiesbaden 2013.
  • The just city. Political design of condensed spaces, Stuttgart 2012.

Articles (selection)

  • State of emergency, in: Die Zeit , March 26, 2020 (14), 17.
  • The empiricism of states of emergency. Drawing boundaries between the rescue of democracy and normalization, in: Kriminologisches Journal (KrimJ), 2019, 51 (4), 290–299.
  • What does state of exception mean? A definitional and analytical approach, in: Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft (ZPol), 2018, 28 (4), 373–384.
  • (with Annette Förster) Self-defense as a source of legitimation for state action. An exploration, in: Michael Hein / Felix Petersen / Silvia von Steinsdorff (eds.), The limits of the constitution. Special volume of the magazine for politics , Baden-Baden 2018, 171–184.
  • (with Claudia Ritzi) Is there no alternative? The discoursive formation of neoliberal power, in: Cybernetics & Human Knowing, 2015, 22 (4), 55–82.
  • State of emergency as a means of democratic governance. A cross-sectional analysis using the example of the USA, in: Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft (ZPol), 2012, 22 (3), 307–331.
  • The alternate law of democracy. Justification practices for states of emergency in the USA and Spain, in: Zeitschrift für Politik (ZfP), 2011, 58 (4), 369–392.

Blog

Web links

Commons : Matthias Lemke  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Journal for Political Theory. Barbara Budrich Verlag, accessed on August 14, 2017 (ISSN 1869-3016).
  2. ↑ Matthias Lemke: Democracy in a state of emergency. How governments expand their power . Campus Verlag, Frankfurt (Main) / New York, ISBN 978-3-593-50717-0 .
  3. ^ Sciences Po: History of international relations 1914–1945 | Sciences Po, Portail de la Scolarité. Retrieved September 16, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Federal University for Public Administration: Matthias Lemke. Retrieved June 18, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Gelsenkirchen Volunteer Fire Brigade - Fire Brigade 12 - Buer-Mitte. Löschzug 12 - Buer-Mitte, accessed on August 14, 2017 .
  6. ↑ The firefighters from Buch. In: www.lz12.de. Gelsenkirchen Volunteer Fire Brigade - Fire Brigade 12 - Buer-Mitte, accessed on June 18, 2019 .
  7. ^ Matthias Lemke: Order and social progress. On the contemporary diagnostic relevance of political sociology in Henri de Saint-Simon . Lit-Verlag, Münster 2003, ISBN 978-3-8258-6373-9 .
  8. ^ Matthias Lemke: Republican Socialism. The positions of Bernstein, Kautsky, Jaurès and Blum . Campus Verlag, Frankfurt (Main) / New York 2008, ISBN 978-3-593-38600-3 .
  9. ↑ ePol - Post-Democracy and Neoliberalism. Gary S. Schaal / Matthias Lemke, accessed on August 15, 2017 (ISSN 2363-6335).
  10. ^ Matthias Lemke: Blended Reading. In: Social science method advice - science blog. Isabel Steinhardt, January 23, 2017, accessed August 5, 2017 .
  11. ↑ Alexander Stulpe / Matthias Lemke: Blended Reading. Theoretical and practical dimensions of the analysis of text and social reality in the age of digitization . In: Matthias Lemke / Gregor Wiedemann (ed.): Text mining in the social sciences. Basics and applications between qualitative and quantitative discourse analysis . Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2016, p. 17-62 .
  12. ^ Matthias Lemke: State of emergency. Theory history - applications - perspectives . Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2017, ISBN 978-3-658-16587-1 , p. 2 .
  13. ↑ Matthias Lemke: What does state of exception mean? A definitional and analytical approach . In: Matthias Lemke, Ece Göztepe, Olivier Cahn (eds.): New normality? State of exception as contemporary government technique . tape 28 , no. 4 . Springer VS, ISSN  1430-6387 , p. 374 , doi : 10.1007 / s41358-018-0141-4 .
  14. ↑ Matthias Lemke: State of emergency in the USA: National Emergencies Act. In: Democracy in a State of Emergency. Retrieved on March 16, 2019 (German).
  15. ↑ Matthias Lemke: Democracy in a state of emergency. How governments expand their power . Campus Verlag, Frankfurt (Main) / New York 2017, ISBN 978-3-593-50717-0 , pp. 270 .
  16. ^ Matthias Lemke: New Normality? Perspectives on contemporary research on the state of exception . In: Matthias Lemke, Ece Göztepe, Olivier Cahn (eds.): New normality? State of exception as contemporary government technique . tape 28 , no. 4 . Springer VS, ISSN  1430-6387 , p. 607-611 , doi : 10.1007 / s41358-018-0167-7 .
  17. ↑ Bernard Manin: Le paradigme de l'exception. L'État face au nouveau terrorisme. La vie des idées, December 15, 2015, accessed August 5, 2017 (French).
  18. ^ Martin HW Möllers / Matthias Lemke: Basic rights in the police. Human rights in police practice . 4th edition. Verlag für Policewissenschaft, Frankfurt (Main), ISBN 978-3-86676-585-6 .
personal data
SURNAME Lemke, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH June 2nd 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Gelsenkirchen