Patricia Purtschert

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Patricia Purtschert
Patricia Purtschert

Patricia Purtschert (* 1973 ) is a Swiss philosopher , gender researcher and cultural scientist . Purtschert is Professor of Gender Studies and Co-Head of the Interdisciplinary Center for Gender Studies (IZFG) at the University of Bern . She is also co-head of the Network Gender Studies Switzerland.

Education and academic background

From 1994 to 2000 Purtschert studied philosophy , modern general history and German literature at the University of Basel . 1997 to 1998 she was a visiting student at the University of Ghana in Legon / Accra. In 2005 Purtschert received his doctorate in philosophy with Annemarie Pieper and Judith Butler at the University of Basel with a thesis on euro- and androcentrism with Hegel and Nietzsche . As a doctoral candidate, she was Andrea Maihofer's assistant at the Center for Gender Studies at the University of Basel. From 2002–2004 she studied as a visiting scholar with Judith Butler at the University of Berkeley , California.

After Purtschert held a position as overall coordinator of the SUC cooperation project Gender Studies Switzerland from 2004 to 2006, research stays at the University of Paris-Nanterre and at the cultural studies seminar of the Humboldt University in Berlin followed . From 2010 to 2014 Purtschert worked on the SNSF research project “Colonialism without Colonies? A discourse analysis of postcolonial Switzerland »at the ETH Zurich .

Afterwards, Purtschert was a postdoctoral fellow at the ETH Zurich and a visiting scholar at the Universidad Andrés Bello in Santiago de Chile . In 2016 she completed her habilitation in cultural studies at the University of Lucerne , and since February 2016 she has been an associate professor for interdisciplinary gender research at the IZFG at the University of Bern. Together with Michèle Amacker , she is co-head of the IZFG and, together with Marylène Lieber, co-head of the Network Gender Studies Switzerland.

Publications (selection)

  • Border figures. Culture, gender and subject in Hegel and Nietzsche . Dissertation. University of Basel, 2005. With a foreword by Judith Butler. Frankfurt a. M. 2006, ISBN 978-3-593-38215-9 ( table of contents , PDF).
  • with Katrin Meyer, Yves Winter (eds.): Governmentality and Security: Contributions of the diagnosis of the times following Foucault. transcript, Bielefeld 2008, ISBN 978-3-89942-631-1 .
  • On the limit of spirit: Hegel's racism revisited. In: Philosophy & Social Criticism . Volume 36, No. 9, 2010, pp. 1039-1051, doi: 10.1177 / 0191453710379029 .
  • Start early. In conversation with female mountaineers over seventy. A portrait volume. With photographs by Véronique Hoegger. 2nd Edition. Baden 2011, ISBN 978-3-03919-153-6 .
  • with Barbara Lüthi, Francesca Falk (ed.): Postcolonial Switzerland: Forms and Consequences of Colonialism without Colonies. 2nd Edition. transcript, Bielefeld 2013, ISBN 978-3-8376-1799-3 .
  • with Harald Fischer-Tiné (Ed.): Colonial Switzerland, rethinking colonialism from the margins. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke 2015, ISBN 978-1-137-44273-4 .
  • Coloniality and Gender in the 20th Century: A History of White Switzerland. transcript, Bielefeld 2019, ISBN 978-3-8376-4410-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Beat Ringger (Ed.): The future of democracy on glarean-magazin.ch, June 30, 2008
  2. ↑ Patricia Purtschert's curriculum vitae on the IZFG website. (PDF) Retrieved November 6, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Network Gender Studies Switzerland. Gendercampus, accessed June 8, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Purtschert, Patricia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss philosopher, gender researcher and cultural scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1973