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 gathers junior researchers (PhD students and post-docs) interested in governance and policy as a social process. We tackle questions concerning policy, institutions, bureaucracies and the state while paying due analytical attention to both local conditions and practices and global processes. The Club adapts to members’ needs through its flexible structure. As such, it is sometimes a reading club and sometimes a space to share and discuss our own work. Decisions are made collectively.
The club gets together regularly to discuss literature and critically engage with it. We also exchange our writings to get constructive feedback and supporting each other's endeavours. Many members are closely 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 |
| Jana Brandl | Interrelation of social and environmental sustainability; the role of gender in socio-ecological transformations; critical discourse analysis |
| Hannah Sommer | Bordering practices; Migration politics; Hidden violence in every-day governance practice |
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.
Next Literature Discussion Meeting: July 26th 2023, 9.00 (CEST)
Meeting online via Zoom (get in touch with us for the invitation)
We will discuss Peck & Theodore's book "Fast policy: experimental statecraft at the thresholds of neoliberalism"
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The Spring edition of our online book presentation series brings together 4 thought-provoking scholars and international discussants.