Renate Martinsen

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Renate Martinsen (born April 14, 1954 in Stuttgart ) is a German political scientist . She is a professor and holder of the chair for political theory at the University of Duisburg-Essen .

Life

Renate Martinsen studied political science , German literature and philosophy at the University of Konstanz . After completing her legal traineeship at grammar schools in Baden-Württemberg, she passed the second state examination (assessor for teaching). She received her PhD in 1990 at the University of Konstanz for Dr. phil. with an interdisciplinary work on forms of heroism in texts of the 20th century.

From 1990 to 1998 she taught and researched as a research assistant at the Political Science Department of the Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS) in Vienna / Austria. During this time she did research at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB) and at the George Washington University in Washington DC / USA, where she was visiting professor at the School of Business and Management. From 1999 to 2002 Martinsen worked at the IHS as scientific director in an interdisciplinary EU project on innovation systems in biotechnology, which encompasses eight countries .

In 2003 she completed her habilitation with the political-theoretical work State and Conscience in the Technical Age , which focused on the question of the relationship between individual freedom and political order. In 2003 Martinsen held a professorship for political science with a focus on public sector reform at the University of Konstanz and from 2004 to 2006 a professorship for international relations at the University of Leipzig . In the 2006 winter semester she was appointed to a chair for political science (W3) with a focus on political theory at the University of Duisburg-Essen.

Research activity

Renate Martinsen's main research areas are: contemporary political theory and constructivism (especially post-structuralist discourse theory and systems theory ), democracy , control and power theory , international political theory, knowledge and technology research as well as bio (medical) politics and ethics .

Martinsen is a member of the German Association for Political Science (DVPW) and was a spokesperson for the Politics and Technology working group there from 1994 to 2000 . Since 2011 she has been on the founding board of the DVPW thematic group, which she initiated, Constructivist Theories of Politics .

In 2013 Martinsen founded a series of publications Politological Enlightenment - Constructivist Perspectives at the publishing house Springer VS (Wiesbaden).

Martinsen was, among other things, head of the socially compatible technology design project - a new task for the state and society on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Science and Research in Vienna / Austria (1992–1993) and head of the Austrian team in the European Biotechnology Innovation Systems (EBIS) project within the framework of the TSER program (Targeted Social-Economic Research Program) of the European Union (1999–2001). She also worked as a reviewer at the Office for Technology Assessment (TAB) of the German Bundestag and wrote a study on New Communicative Forms of Politics in the Knowledge Society from a Democratic Theoretical Perspective (2003) as part of the program New Forms of Dialogue between Science, Politics and the Public and a report on the development and perspectives of the petition system in Germany (2008). Martinsen has headed the BMBF-funded research project Multiple Risks since 2016 . Dealing with contingency in stem cell research and its applications - a political science analysis that is part of an interdisciplinary and trans-university project network (medical ethics at the University of Düsseldorf, political science at the University of Duisburg-Essen, law at the University of Augsburg).

Publications

Monographs and editorships (selection)

  • Foucault and the Political. Transdisciplinary impulses for contemporary political theory . Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2019 (edited together with Oliver Marchart ), ISBN 978-3-658-22789-0 .
  • Risk research. Interdisciplinary perspectives and new paradigms (edited together with Andreas Niederberger), UNIKATE Heft 52, 2018.
  • The other side of politics. Theories of the cultural construction of the political. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2016 (edited together with W. Hofmann), ISBN 978-3-658-09936-7 .
  • Order building and delimitation - democracy in transition. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2015 (Ed.), ISBN 978-3-658-02717-9 .
  • Searching for Clues: Constructivist Theories of Politics . Springer VS, Wiesbaden, 2014 (Ed.), ISBN 978-3-658-02719-3 .
  • Democracy and discourse. Organized communication processes in the knowledge society . Nomos, Baden-Baden 2006, ISBN 3-8329-1919-8 .
  • State and conscience in the technical age. Prolegomena of a political enlightenment . Velbrück, Weilerswist 2004, ISBN 3-934730-80-9 .
  • Politics and technology. Analysis of the relationship between technological, political and state change at the beginning of the 21st century. (= Special issue of the Political Quarterly Bulletin No. 32). Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 2001 (edited together with G. Simonis and T. Saretzki), ISBN 3-531-13569-4 .
  • Politics and biotechnology. The unreasonable expectation of the future. Nomos, Baden-Baden 1997 (Ed.), ISBN 3-7890-4665-5 .
  • The eye of science. To the emergence of reality. With contributions by Hartmut Esser, Wolfgang Fach, Karin Knorr Cetina, Renate Martinsen, Anatol Rapoport, Stuart S. Umpleby, Gunther Teubner and Hannes Wimmer . Nomos, Baden-Baden 1995 (ed.), ISBN 3-7890-4011-8 .
  • Innovative technology policy. Options for socially compatible technology design . Centaurus, Pfaffenweiler 1994 (together with J. Melchior), ISBN 3-89085-927-5 .
  • The will to be a hero. Forms of heroism in 20th century texts . Deutscher Universitätsverlag, Wiesbaden 1990, ISBN 3-8244-4061-X .

Articles (selection)

  • Paradoxical futures. A narratological-empirical analysis of the discourse change from morality to risk in stem cell research and its applications in Germany (together with H. Gerhards, F. Hoffmann, Ph. Roth), in: Janet Opper u. a. (Ed.), Chances and Risks of Stem Cell Research, Berlin (Berliner Wissenschaftsverlag), 2020, pp. 121–171.
  • From the ethical frame to the risk dispositive: The changed discourse on stem cell research and its applications (with H. Gerhards), in: UNIKATE Heft 52. 2018, pp. 68–81.
  • Political legitimation mechanisms in biomedicine. Discourse procedure with reference to ethics as a functional legitimation resource for biopolitics. In: Marion Albers (Ed.): Bioethics, Biorecht, Biopolitics: A contextualization. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2016, 141–169.
  • Democracy, Protest and Change. To dynamize the concept of democracy in conflicts over large infrastructure projects using the example of “Stuttgart 21”. In: Renate Martinsen (Hrsg.): Forming order and de-boundary Change of democracy. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2015, pp. 45–85.
  • On the trail of constructivism. Variants of Constructivist Research and Implications for Political Science. In: Renate Martinsen (Ed.): Searching for traces. Constructivist theories of politics. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2014, pp. 3–41.
  • Negative symbiosis of theory? The power models of Niklas Luhmann and Michel Foucault in comparison. In: André Brodocz, Stefanie Hammer (ed.): Variations of power. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2013, pp. 57–74.
  • Man as his own experiment? Bioethics as a Challenge for Political Theory. In: Clemens Kauffmann, Hans-Jörg Sigwart (Ed.): Biopolitics in the liberal state. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2011, pp. 27–52.
  • Conscience without a railing? Normative self-regulation as a political phenomenon. In: Journal for Political Theory. Vol. 1, Issue 1, 2010, pp. 25-49.
  • Public in the "media democracy" from the perspective of competing democracy theories. In: Frank Marcinkowski, Barbara Pfetsch (Ed.): Political quarterly journal. Special issue 2: Politics in the media democracy. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2009, pp. 37-69.
  • New Modes of Governance: Opportunities and Limitations of Creating Legitimacy by Deliberative Politics in a Globalizing World. In: Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck, Tobias Debiel, Karl-Rudolf Korte (Eds.): Governance and Legitimacy in a Globalizing World. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2008, pp. 9-30.
  • Policy advice from a political science perspective. From education about deficits to reflexive education? (with D. Rehfeld), in: Svenja Falk, Dieter Rehfeld, Andrea Römmele, Martin Thunert (eds.): Handbuch Politikberatung. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2006, pp. 45-58.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ DVPW Working Group on Constructivist Theories of Politics. Retrieved February 2, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Political Enlightenment - Constructivist Perspectives . ( springer.com [accessed February 2, 2020]).
  3. ↑ Multiple Risks: Coping with Contingency in Stem Cell Research and Its Applications. Retrieved February 2, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Martinsen, Renate
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart