Social Spaces & Practices of Governance PhD Club
Target group: researchers, PhD candidates, and post-docs looking at policy as social processes
Contact: Tatjana Boczy, Catherine Raya Polishchuk
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This PhD Club is primarily a reading club but can also adapt to members’ punctual needs, e.g. to discuss a member’s written work relevant to the club. Its members collectively choose the readings that form the basis of the debates. Selected readings engage with (urban) governance from a sociological or anthropological perspective. More specifically, the club tackles the social processes of making policy, institutions, bureaucracies as well as the state. Local conditions and practices form the basis of our perspective on governance that we analytically connect with global processes.
The club gets together on a monthly basis to discuss read literature and critically engage with it. It is affiliated with the research platform The Challenge of Urban Futures.
| Members | Research Interests |
|---|---|
| Tatjana Boczy | Political Economy; Neo-Institutionalism; Welfare State Changes; Sustainability; Social Policies; Work |
| Anna-Katharina Draxl | language policies & ideologies; language regimes in institutions; migration, linguistic diversity & social inequalities |
| Francesca Ferlicca | Urban Planning, Housing Policies, Informality; Latin America, Argentina |
| Julia Rabenhorst-Hartmann | complaints management in local government; international public service reform; citizen participation |
| Clara Holzinger | Migration; Sociolinguistics; Linguistic Diversity & Social Inequalities; Work |
| Catherine Raya Polishchuk | urban renewal; bureaucracy; informality; inclusion/exclusion; semantics of participation |
| Pouya Sepehr | Smart Cities; Smart Governance; urban citizenship & digital participation; infrastrucutres, technology & the city; urban assemblages; planetary urbanism; City of Vienna |
Weekly Focused Writing Sessions: Starting August 22nd 2022, 09.00 (CEST)
Meeting online via Zoom (get in touch with us for the invitation)
We support each other in the writing phase of our dissertation, exchange texts and give tips on the writing process.
Upcoming Event: Writing Retreat in Februar 2022!
Details: Writing Retreat and exchange on-site in Vienna. Three days of focused writing, academic exchange on practices and spaces of governance and PhD-related chatting.
Dates: tba