Thomas Alkemeyer

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Thomas Alkemeyer (born December 29, 1955 in Hamburg ) is a German sociologist . He is professor for sociology and sports sociology at the Carl von Ossietzky University in Oldenburg .

Life

Alkemeyer studied German , sports science , philosophy and education in Berlin. He received his doctorate from the Free University of Berlin . In 1995 he received the Ernst Reuter Prize for his dissertation From the Competition of Nations to the Struggle of Nations - Appropriation and Reinterpretation of the “Olympic Idea” in German Fascism . From 1987 he was a lecturer for sociology and philosophy of sport as well as a research assistant at the Institute for Sport Science at the Free University of Berlin. From 1999, Alkemeyer was, among other things, a senior staff member in the DFG special research area “Cultures of the Performative”. In 2001 he became professor for sport and society at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg . Since 2010 he has been the spokesperson for the graduate school “Self-Formations - Practices of Subjectivation from a Historical and Interdisciplinary Perspective”. He has also been Professor of Sociology and Sports Sociology since 2012. He is a member of the jury for the annual Hannah Arendt Prize .

research

Alkemeyer's research aims at a sociological understanding of sport and exercise. With the help of practical theories (with reference to Pierre Bourdieu and Anthony Giddens ) and the concept of subjectification (following Louis Althusser , Michel Foucault and Judith Butler ), both the conditions of origin and the effects of physical practices in different social contexts are examined.

Fonts

  • Think practice. Concepts and Criticism . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2015. (Ed. With Volker Schürmann and Jörg Volbers)
  • Educational practice. Body-spaces-objects . Weilerswist, Velbrück 2015. (Ed. With Herbert Kalthoff and Markus Rieger-Ladich)
  • Self-formations. Social and cultural practices of subjectivation . Transcript, Bielefeld 2013. (Ed. With Gunilla Budde and Dagmar Freist)
  • Techniques of subjectification . Wilhelm Fink, Munich 2013. (Ed. With Andreas Gelhard and Norbert Ricken)
  • Handbook Evaluation in Sport . Hofmann, Schorndorf 2010.
  • Order in motion . Transcript, Bielefeld 2009. (Ed. With Kristina Brümmer, Thomas Pille and Rea Kodalle)
  • Organizational developments and de-institutionalization processes in sport . Hofmann, Schorndorf 2005. (ed. With Bero Rigauer and Gabriele Sobiech)
  • Manual sports game . Hofmann, Schorndorf 2005.
  • Bodies at stake . UVK, Konstanz 2003. (Ed. With Bernhard Boscher, Robert Schmidt and Gunter Gebauer)
  • Body, cult and politics. From Pierre de Coubertin's “muscle religion” to the staging of power in the 1936 Olympic Games . Campus, Frankfurt am Main 1996.
  • From the competition of nations to the struggle of peoples. Appropriation and reinterpretation of the “Olympic Idea” in German fascism . Berlin 1994. (microfiche edition)
  • Aspects of a future anthropology of sport . German Association for Sports Science, Clausthal-Zellerfeld 1992. (Ed. With Bernhard Boschert, Gunter Gebauer, Eugen König, Alfred Richartz and Stefan Titze)
  • Self-controlled body . Aesthetics and Communication, Berlin 1986.

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personal data
SURNAME Alkemeyer, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist and sports sociologist, university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg