Patrizia Nanz

Patrizia Nanz, co-chair of the SDG science platform. 13th BMBF forum for sustainability.

Patrizia Nanz (born July 9, 1965 in Stuttgart ) is a German political scientist and expert on democracy, transformative science and sustainable development.

She has been Scientific Director at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) and Professor for Transformative Sustainability Science at the University of Potsdam since April 2016 . Since 2020 she has been co-director of the Franco-German Future Work , the establishment of which was decided by the Treaty of Aachen that came into force on January 22, 2020 . Patrizia Nanz is co-chair of the Science Platform Sustainability 2030 , whose office is based at the IASS. In January 2019 she was appointed by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) to be a member of the High-Tech Forum , which is to advise the Federal Government on the so-called "High-Tech Strategy 2025". From 2013 to 2016 she was head of the research department culture of participation at the KWI Essen (KWI) . She is the founder of the European Institute for Public Participation (EIPP) .

Life

Patrizia Nanz grew up bilingually (German-Italian) in Munich . From 1984 to 1990 she studied philosophy at the Jesuit University SJ as well as philosophy, history and literary studies in Munich, Milan and Frankfurt am Main - supported by the Bavarian scholarship for gifted students . At the same time, she completed a journalistic training at the Institute for the Promotion of Young Journalists and sat in on various daily newspapers (including in the features section of the " Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung "). She finished her studies with a work on the philosophy of language with Jürgen Habermas .

From 1991 onwards she worked for many years as a science and non-fiction editor at S. Fischer Verlag and at Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore (Milan). After a research semester with Charles Taylor at McGill University (Montreal), she began a political science doctorate in 1997 at the European University Institute in Florence . Patrizia Nanz did her doctorate with a thesis on the European public : “Europolis. Constitutional patriotism beyond the nation-state ”(Jury: Philippe C. Schmitter , Jürgen Habermas , Charles Sabel , Peter Wagner). After positions as a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods in Bonn and as a Marie Curie Post-Doc Fellow on the subject of "Democracy, Deliberation and Learning at the Transnational Level: Risk Regulation in the European Union and the World Trade Organization ”at the Center for the Study of Democracy at Westminster University ( London ), she has been a professor at the University of Bremen since 2002 (focus on political theory ). In 2003 she was visiting scholar at MIT ( Cambridge , Mass.), In 2002 a fellow at the Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg in Delmenhorst and in 2005/2006 a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin .

She is married and has two kids.

Research activity and work

Patrizia Nanz's thematic priorities are the political project Europe, the social role and responsibility of science, the further development of democracy and participation research, particularly on topics such as climate change, biotechnology, the energy transition, and repositories.

From 2002 to 2010 she headed the research project “Participation and Legitimation in International Organizations” within the framework of the DFG - Collaborative Research Center “Statehood in Transition” at the University of Bremen (from 2006 together with Jens Steffek). From 2005 to 2009 she was responsible for the German part of the research project "Giving New Subjects a Voice: Migrants, Organizations and Integration into the Health Care System", financed by the Volkswagen Foundation . From 2007 to 2010 she headed the research project Fundamental Rights in the European Union as part of the European research network Resources, Rights and Capabilities: In Search of Social Foundations for Europe (CAPRIGHT), funded by the European Union .

In 2009 Patrizia Nanz (with Archon Fung, Mark Warren and others) founded the wiki platform participedia , a database for democratic innovations worldwide. She has been a member of the steering committee since then. From 2011 to 2013 she was part of the project “Participedia: Strengthening an emerging global partnership” funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada . Since 2013, together with Klaus Töpfer ( IASS Potsdam ) and Claus Leggewie (KWI) , she has been leading the demo energy project funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) . It is u. a. therefore, dialogue-oriented public participation procedures in conflict and mobilization situations within the framework of the new route construction, e.g. B. at the Ostbayernring , to design, implement and evaluate.

At the IASS, she heads the research projects futurization of politics, narratives and images of sustainability, implementation of the Paris Agreement, governance of the oceans, co-creation and contemporary policy advice as well as the project on social structural change and responsive policy advice in Lusatia.

Patrizia Nanz is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Munich Environment Academy and of the Education and Discourse Advisory Board of the Goethe Institute. She is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the European Forum Alpbach and a member of the Scientific Committee of the World Forum for Democracy ( Council of Europe ). She advises companies, authorities and governments in various European countries.

Coal phase-out in Germany

As part of an initiative by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research , Patrizia Nanz is also involved in a project to phase out coal in Lusatia . In their project “Social Structural Change and Responsive Policy Advice in Lusatia”, Nanz and the IASS analyze the supraregional opportunities for democratically designed and socially just structural change in Lusatia and, in this context, develop proposals for the structuring of regional cooperation processes. The interdisciplinary research group deals with the areas of tension and possibilities of a democratic and sustainable structural change, taking into account the historical and political background as well as the inclusion of the people in the region. The findings of the project are available to political and social actors and are incorporated into the work of the “Lausitz Future Workshop”, which accompanies the IASS project.

Science platform sustainability 2030

Patrizia Nanz is co-chair of the Science Platform Sustainability 2030. The Science Platform Sustainability 2030, founded in 2017, makes contributions to the implementation processes of the German Sustainability Strategy in the context of the 2030 Agenda and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Her goals are: bundling existing knowledge for political implementation processes as well as feedback of research needs with science, promoting cooperation for a broad activation of science for sustainability, critical-constructive support of sustainability policy from the perspective of science, intensifying the dialogue and new partnerships between the different Actors from science, politics and society on sustainability issues. The platform works in a transdisciplinary and scientifically independent way, and it is systematically integrated into the control, dialogue and implementation process of the German sustainability strategy .

Science in times of threat

Patrizia Nanz deals with the current crises in democracy and science. Populist movements capitalize on the legitimacy crises of democratic systems that social science research has been observing for a long time. At the same time, science is also in crisis, and talk of ' alternative facts ' or ' post-truth ' is only the tip of the iceberg.

Against this background, Nanz conducts research on transformations of the science system, in particular on forms of generating socially relevant and common good-oriented knowledge with actors from politics, business and civil society (e.g. co-creation). She also tries out so-called thinking spaces, new forms of co-production of long-term futures between the natural, human and social sciences.

Participation, involvement

Patrizia Nanz, like Claus Leggewie and others, represents the approach of participation through the participation of a few, randomly selected citizens (e.g. Citizens' Council) who work out proposed solutions to questions about the future. The committees are consultative and require confirmation from a democratically legitimized municipal council, state parliament or federal parliament.

This approach is related to the planning cell according to Peter Dienel .

In 2020, the book "Reconstructing Democracy" (Harvard University Press) was published, in which Patrizia Nanz, together with Charles Taylor and Madeleine Beaubien Taylor, uses local examples to describe how democracies in transformation can be revitalized through the involvement of citizens.

In addition, however, she currently takes the view that supplementing representative democracy with citizen participation alone is not enough to counter the crisis of democracy. If confidence in democracy as a form of government wanes, as surveys show, the first thing to do is to strengthen its credibility: through policies that set long-term goals and take responsibility for them. If the open society wants to survive, it must aggressively represent basic democratic rights and values ​​and strive for a functioning general public, community spirit and cohesion. As a (partial) solution, Nanz calls for future leaders in Europe to be trained in such a way that they can make ethically sound and different forms of knowledge integrating decisions.

Publications (selection)

Monographs and individual publications

• Reconstructing Democracy. How Citizens Are Building from the Ground Up , Harvard University Press , 2020 (with Charles Taylor and Madeleine Beaubien Taylor).
• The consultative. More democracy through citizen participation , Klaus Wagenbach Verlag, 2016/2018 (with Claus Leggewie ), ISBN 978-3803-12749-5 . English translation: No Representation Without Consultation. A Citizen's Guide to Participatory Democracy , transl. by Damian Harrison & Stephe Roche, Between The Lines, June 2019, ISBN 9781771134071 .
• Citizen Participation Manual. Actors and procedures, opportunities and limits , Federal Agency for Civic Education 2012 (with Miriam Fritsche). eBook; Italian translation: La partecipazione dei cittadini: un manuale. Metodi partecipativi: protagonisti, opportunita 'e limiti , Regione Emilia-Romagna 2014. eBook.
• Europolis. Constitutional Patriotism beyond the Nation State , Manchester University Press , 2006; Italian translation: Europolis. Un idea controcorrente di integrazione politica , Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore 2009.
• Truth and politics in the media society: Notes on Hannah Arendt , Verlag Klaus Wagenbach 2006/2013, ISBN 978-3-8031-4131-6 .

Editing (selection)

• Is Europe listening to us? Sucesses and Failures of EU Citizen Consultations . (Ed. With Raphael Kies), Ashgate Publishing 2013. French translation: Les nouvelles voix de l'Europe? Analyzes des consultations citoyennes , Editions Larcier / De Boeck 2014. With a foreword by Viviane Reding .
• Civil Society Participation in International Governance: A Cure for Its Democratic Deficit? Edited with Jens Steffek and Claudia Kissling, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Article (selection)

• The politics of making and un-making (sustainable) future. In: Sustainability science , 2018 (with Henrike Knappe, Anne-Kathrine Holfelder, David Löw-Beer).
• Crisis and Participation in the European Union: Energy Policy as a Test Bed for a New Politics of Citizen Participation. In: Global Society , 31, 2017, p. 65–82 (with JH. Kamlage).
• The transdisciplinary approach of the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS): concept and implementation . In: GAIA Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society , 26/3, 2017, p. 293-296 (with O. Renn and MG Lawrence).
• Participation . In: JK Cogans, I. Hurd, I. Johnstone (eds.): The Oxford Handbook of International Organizations . Oxford, Oxford University Press, p. 1126–1145 (with K. Dingwerth).
• New forms of democratic participation . in: transit. .European Review, vol. 44, pp. 72–85, 2013 (with Claus Leggewie). English translation: "The future council. New forms of democratic participation", in: Eurozine.

See also

Hannah Arendt: Truth and Politics .

literature

• Susanne Schüssler , Klaus Wagenbach (Ed.): Literally Wagenbach. 50 years: The independent publisher for wild readers. Wagenbach, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-8031-3650-3 .
• Interview of the Böll Foundation in December 2013 "For a new culture of participation" ( online ).
• Guest contribution by Patrizia Nanz from November 2013 at the Nemetschek Foundation ( online ).

Web links

• Homepage at the Institute for Cultural Studies
• Homepage European Institute for Public Participation
• Homepage of the Politics series
• Interview with Patrizia Nanz in the series Jung & Naiv (462)
• WDR 5 (Westdeutscher Rundfunk) The philosophical radio with Patrizia Nanz and Claus Leggewie on May 20, 2016: The 4th violence - how citizens can revive democracy

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Patrizia Nanz becomes Scientific Director at the IASS - new management team introduces itself
2. ↑ Professorships - Professorships & People - The Faculty - Economics and Social Sciences Faculty - University of Potsdam. Retrieved July 24, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Press release CDU-CSU federal parliamentary group : Rapid and amibtionierte implementation of the Aachen Treaty. November 19, 2019, accessed June 30, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Minstère de l'Europe et des affaire étrangères: The Franco-German Cooperation Treaty of Aachen. Retrieved June 30, 2020 . 
5. ↑ Science platform Sustainability 2030 launched | IASS Potsdam. Retrieved July 24, 2017 . 
6. ↑ High Tech Forum. Retrieved February 4, 2019 . 
7. ↑ Participation culture
8. ↑ http://participationinstitute.org/index.php?id=18
9. ^ Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Claus Leggewie, Patrizia Nanz: The EU of business-as-usual is dead. Long live the EU. Retrieved October 19, 2018 . 
10. ↑ Biography on the homepage of the European Institute for Public Participation ( Memento from September 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
11. ↑ Patrizia Nanz / Claus Leggewie : The most difficult case: public participation in the search for a repository , in: Monika Müller (ed.), Search for a repository - together with the citizens! Information, consultation, dialogue, participation, Loccum 2013, series Loccumer Protocol 21/13, pp. 11–25 and Süddeutsche Zeitung of November 22, 2012
12. ↑ Patrizia Nanz on Participedia . Retrieved September 8, 2014.
13. ↑ DEMOENERGIE - The transformation of the energy system as a driver of democratic innovations
14. ↑ The Environment Academy: People - The Environment Academy. Retrieved September 30, 2018 . 
15. ↑ Goethe Institute: Goethe Institute Presidium, General Assembly and Advisory Boards. Retrieved September 30, 2018 . 
16. ^ European Forum Alpbach: Content design - Board of Trustees. Retrieved October 2, 2018 . 
17. ↑ Phasing out lignite: IASS is investigating structural change in Lusatia. Retrieved February 15, 2019 . 
18. ↑ Social structural change and responsive policy advice in Lausitz. Retrieved February 15, 2019 . 
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20. ^ Colin Crouch: Post Democracy . Suhrkamp, ​​2008, ISBN 3-518-12540-0 .
21. ^ IASS: Co-creation IASS. In: IASS. Retrieved October 18, 2018 (German). 
22. ^ Frederic Hanusch: thinking space. Retrieved October 18, 2018 . 
23. ↑ Beate Krol: Democracy in Need. WDR, April 3, 2018, accessed June 11, 2018 . 
24. ↑ Speech of 9 May 2017 at the 13th BMBF Forum for Sustainability (FONA), Berlin 2017 https://www.fona.de/de/was-tun-mit-der-agenda-2030!-13-bmbf- forum-for-sustainability-vom-9-10-05-2017-in-berlin-21897.html last accessed on June 12, 2018.
25. ^ Claus Leggewie, Patrizia Nanz: The future council. New forms of democratic participation. Eurozine, August 20, 2012, accessed October 9, 2014 .