Michi Knecht

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Michi Knecht (* 1961 ) is a German ethnologist . She researches and teaches as a professor for ethnology at the Institute for Ethnology and Cultural Studies at the University of Bremen .

Life

Michi Knecht studied ethnology , sociology , psychology and history at the University of Cologne and graduated with a master's degree. She then did her doctorate in empirical cultural studies and ethnology at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen with an empirical thesis on the political, religious and knowledge-producing practices of the life protection movement . She was a research assistant at the Ludwig-Uhland Institute for Empirical Cultural Studies and a research assistant at the Institute for European Ethnology at Humboldt University. She taught and researched a. a. at the International Graduate Center for the Study of Culture at the University of Giessen and at the Universities of Graz, Basel and Kadir-Has (Istanbul). Her habilitation at the Humboldt University in 2011 dealt with a criticism of the interpretation of medicalization, that is, she criticized the forms of mediation in a process of social change in the course of which many areas of people's life move into the focus of systematic medical research and influencing (e. B. "How do reproductive technologies influence social conditions".

A work she supervised came under fire for false claims about ethically questionable acts. Thereupon it partially revoked the representation, but upheld the fundamental accusation despite proven errors.

Furthermore, she dealt with the conditions of ethnographic knowledge production (science criticism ) in the field of assistive reproductive technologies ( in vitro fertilization , ICSI , donogenic insemination, etc.).

Michi Knecht is currently researching the use / non-use of reproductive technologies in rainbow families , the implications of these technologies for kinship-making practices in Istanbul, Berlin and in the “transnational in between”, the social and cultural productivity of anonymity and processes of a (Bio ) Economization of reproduction.

Since March 1, 2014, Knecht has been full professor for social anthropology at the Institute for Social and Cultural Studies at the University of Bremen.

Publications (selection)

  • 2012: IVF as Global Form. Ethnographic Knowledge, Practices and Transnational Encounters. Campus in Coop. With Chicago University Press.
  • 2010: Sperm Banks Sperm Donors . Ethnographic and historical perspectives on masculinity in reproductive medicine [Sperm Banks Sperm Donors. Ethnographic and Historiographic Perspectives on Maleness in Reproductive Medicine] (Ed. With Heinitz, Burghardt and Mohr) LIT-Verlag.
  • Gesing, Friederike; Servant, Michi; Flitner, Michael; Amelang, Katrin (Ed.): NaturenKulturen. Thinking spaces and tools for new political ecologies, Bielefeld: Transcript - Publishing House for Communication, Culture and Social Practice 2019. ISBN 978-3-8376-4007-6 ; see www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/rezbuecher-30696?

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ culture.uni-bremen.de. Retrieved December 11, 2014 .
  2. ↑ AF Heinitz, R. Roscher: The Making of German Sperm - Considerations on the connection between sperm conservation, masculinity and National Socialism , Berliner Blätter 51/2010
  3. ↑ Once the reputation has been ruined, http://nunu.at/article/ist-der-ruf-einmal-ruiniert/
  4. ↑ Susanne Krejsa MacManus, Christian Fiala: The detective of fertile days - The story of the gynecologist Hermann Knaus (1892-1970) , Verlagshaus der Ärzte, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-99052-146-5 , p. 248
  5. ↑ http://www.gfe-online.org/cms2/160930_Richtigstellung_Knecht3.pdf
personal data
SURNAME Servant, Michi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ethnologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1961