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Helge Schwiertz
@helgeschwiertz.bsky.social
Social and political theory, migration, racism, social movements, citizenship, solidarity and radical democracy / #sociology / Acting Professor, University of Hamburg: http://uhh.de/wiso-helge-schwiertz / ESCEuro research project https://europefrombelow.ne
How are historical forms of power being transformed by AI & machine learning, and what new forms of politics are emerging?

These questions are the focus of Engin Isin's lecture “Autopoietic Citizenship: Sensory Power and Its Subject” next Wednesday @uni-hamburg.de
europefrombelow.net/events-2/
October 15, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Kommt vorbei zu unserer Ad-hoc-Gruppe „Gesellschaftliche Aushandlungen um Infrastrukturen und Commons” (heute, 23.09., 14:15 Uhr) auf dem Kongress der
@dgsoziologie.bsky.social in Duisburg!

#dgs2025 #soziologie
September 23, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Wie können wir "Citizenship" mit alltäglichen Politiken verknüpfen und über Staatszentriertheit & einzelne Protestereignisse hinausdenken?

Zu dieser Frage arbeite ich aktuell an einem Buchprojekt und habe erste Überlegungen dazu im aktuellen "Leviathan" veröffentlicht.

doi.org/10.5771/0340...
July 15, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Delighted that our book has been published #openaccess:
Framing Solidarities in Times of Multiple Crises

It examines how social movements frame their responses to multiple crises accross Eurorepan cities and the social fields of #migration, #housing, & #care.

link.springer.com/book/9783031825637
June 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Das Semester beginne ich als Vertretungsprofessor für Allgemeine Soziologie @uni-hamburg.de

Dazu gehört u.a. die Einführungsvorlesung zu klassischer Soziologie, inklusive einer kritischen Beleuchtung und Erweiterung des "Kanons" #Martineau #DuBois u.v.m.

www.wiso.uni-hamburg.de/fachbereich-...
April 10, 2025 at 8:52 AM
In his prison notebooks, Antonio Gramsci partially developed an alternative terminology to circumvent fascist censorship.

Will scholars in the US have to do something similar when applying for research funding? Or educators when they prepare learning materials for public institutions?
March 11, 2025 at 8:41 AM
"Figures of Migration in the Classical Sociologies of Marx, Weber, and Du Bois" is now published in Sociological Theory 42(4).

The article contributes to a genealogy of sociological thought & its impact on contemporary perspectives regarding migration.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
January 28, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Going to Berlin for the conference “Usages de Foucault” organized by C.T. Burmeister & @heikedelitz.bsky.social

I speak on the tense co-production of migration and society through the epistemological-political grids of “people” and “population” (>>> OA article: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...)
November 27, 2024 at 2:51 PM

𝙀𝙣𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝘾𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙯𝙚𝙣𝙨𝙝𝙞𝙥 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙎𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙙𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙮 "𝙁𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝘽𝙚𝙡𝙤𝙬"

Conference in Hamburg, October 9-11

Focus on urban struggles at the intersection of migrant rights, care, housing and commons

Info & Registration: europefrombelow.net/events-2/
October 8, 2024 at 12:47 PM
First day at the office in the welcoming spaces of Aalborg University. I'm very much looking forward to the next 3 weeks as a guest researcher at DEMOS with the wonderful colleagues
June 4, 2024 at 12:52 PM
Call for our Research Stream "Enacting solidarity and citizenship across social fields and scales" at the 16th European Sociological Conference in Porto, Portugal (27-30 August 2024)

Abstract submission by 15 January 2024 www.conftool.com/esa2024by

Call on our website
europefrombelow.net/events-2/
January 4, 2024 at 10:28 AM
In unserem Projekt Enacting Citizenship and Solidarity in Europe ‚From Below‘ (ECSEuro, europefrombelow.net) haben wir an der Universität Hamburg eine Stelle für studentische Mitarbeiter:innen ausgeschrieben. Hier die Links zur Ausschreibung (Frist: 23.11.2023):
europefrombelow.net/jobs/
November 14, 2023 at 11:07 AM