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Sven Opitz
@svop.bsky.social
Sociologist, focus on Biopolitics, Ecology, Health, Atmospheric Politics, and More-Than-Human Social Theory, Professor at Philipps-Universität Marburg
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Check out Kristin Brig-Ortiz's review of Carolin Mezes, Sven Opitz & Andrea Wiegeshoff's "Ecologies of Disease Control: Spaces of Health Security in Historical Perspective," published in 2025 by @upittpress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social
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November 13, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Über 1000 Seiten zur Politischen Soziologie, ein neues Handbuch herausgegeben von Martin Endreß und Benjamin Rampp im @nomosverlag.bsky.social. Ich habe den Beitrag zu Ausnahmezustand/Notstand geschrieben.
November 11, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Now a case of media archeology? Our article on the German contact tracing app just appeared in the journal Science, Technology and Society. It is part of the special issue „Tele-Crisis: Co-production of Crisis and Information and Communication Technology“
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Pandemic Citizenship by Design: The German Contact Tracing App as a Political Infrastructure - Kevin Hall, Sven Opitz, Klaus Scheuermann, 2025
During the COVID-19 pandemic, states around the world used smartphone apps to break chains of infection. Some functioned as a passport or enabled states to enfo...
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October 17, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Dem kann ich mich nur anschließen!
Besonders freue ich mich auf die Adhoc-Gruppe "Turbulenz: Zur Soziologie unruhiger Verhältnisse" von @svop.bsky.social und @wolffle.bsky.social

#dgs2025

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September 23, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Just published!
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Wir haben unser Handbuch der soziologischen Theorien Hilmar Schäfer gewidmet. Vielen Dank allen Autorinnen und Autoren für ihre Beiträge -
June 8, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Our book „Ecologies of Disease Control“ is out! With contributions from @hannahlandecker.bsky.social, @engelmal.bsky.social, @ulibeisel.bsky.social, Ann Kelly, Clare Herrick, Susan Jones, Henning Füller and many more.
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Ecologies of Disease Control - University of Pittsburgh Press
|9780822948483|Spaces of Health Security in Historical Perspective|Ecologies of Disease Control explores the relationship between ecological conceptions of epidemics and forms of infectious disease co...
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May 23, 2025 at 10:22 AM
@wolffle.bsky.social und ich veranstalten auf dem kommenden DGS-Kongress eine Ad hoc-Gruppe zu Turbulenz. Der Call findet sich hier: www.soziopolis.de/ausschreibun...

Wir freuen uns über Einreichungen!
Turbulenz: Zur Soziologie unruhiger Verhältnisse
Call for Papers für eine Ad-hoc-Gruppe auf dem 42. Kongress der DGS vom 22. bis 26. September 2025 in Duisburg. Deadline: 30. April 2025
www.soziopolis.de
March 27, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Our article on vector control methods that use microbes to fight viral diseases such as dengue is out now. @afolkers.bsky.social and I call the approach „symbiotic engineering“.
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Symbiotic engineering: insects, microbes, and the space of vector control - BioSocieties
This article analyses vector control methods that use microbes to fight diseases, such as dengue, Zika, or West-Nile, by infecting mosquitoes with an endosymbiotic bacterium, Wolbachia. These methods ...
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February 25, 2025 at 8:47 PM
"Die Rechtsfabrik" ist eine von Bruno Latours interessantesten Arbeiten - und dennoch relativ wenig beachtet. Ich durfte einen Beitrag zu der Studie in dem Band "Soziologische Theorien des Rechts" (2024) schreiben, hg. von Alfons Bora und @andreakretschmann.bsky.social - open access abrufbar.
November 28, 2024 at 9:39 AM
@tbonacker.bsky.social and I are organizing a workshop on atmospheric violence as part of @sfb138.bsky.social. A warm welcome to all of our speakers!
November 21, 2024 at 10:36 AM
Great discussions at the workshop Planet as Method I co-organized with Ute Tellmann (TU Darmstadt), Frederic Hanusch (JLU Gießen) and Clemens Finkelstein (JLU/Princeton). Thanks to all our guests!
October 31, 2024 at 11:07 AM
New article by Leon Wolff in BioSocieties on the biopolitics of cryopreservation: „cryopreservation is linked to an imaginary of ecological separation that implies the idea that biodiversity can ultimately be preserved without a habitat.“
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Suspending life, controlling change: cryotechnology, genetic identity, and ecological separation
rdcu.be
October 1, 2024 at 7:16 PM
Looking forward to our panel on emergency epistemics at the #EASST4S2024 this afternoon: nomadit.co.uk/conference/e...
P192: Epistemic emergencies / emergency epistemics
Emergencies are epistemically exceptional. Conditions of urgency and uncertainty demand actionable knowledge, pressuring scientific practices into an emergency mode. Focussing on the interplay between...
nomadit.co.uk
July 16, 2024 at 11:10 AM
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In Freiburg finden nächste Woche zwei Veranstaltungen statt, zu denen ich herzlich einladen möchte:

1. Podiumsdiskussion „Was waren die Governmentality Studies?”
mit Brigitte Bargetz, Ulrich Bröckling, Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson und Sven Opitz @opitz_sven

25.6. 18-20 Uhr im Raum HS1098, KG I
June 19, 2024 at 6:46 AM
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✨Lecture Series "Lifelikeness"

Today @svop.bsky.social is giving a lecture on "Indoor Atmospheres: Comfort, Aerial Hygiene and the Microbiome of the Built Environment". You are cordially invited to drop by!

Find out more: khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/evenin...
June 19, 2024 at 7:17 AM
Great review from
Franziska Zirker on Bishnupriya Ghosh’s „The Virus Touch“
somatosphere.net/book-review-...
Book Review: In Mediation with Difficult Kin: Bishnupriya Ghosh’s The Virus Touch
The website of Somatosphere
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February 26, 2024 at 12:37 PM