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The Research Group on Post-Growth Societies

The Research Group Postwachstumsgesellschaften consists of the three project leaders and their researchers. They organize the discussion and research process.

The management, administration office and student/academic assistants support them in their work.


Directors

Klaus Dörre
Areas of interest: Theory of capitalism, financial capitalism, flexible and precarious employment, participation in companies, work relations and strategic unionism, Green New Deal, authoritarianism among teenagers.
Stephan Lessenich
Areas of interest: Comparative macrosociology of modern societies, social change and sociological diagnosis of our time, political sociology, theory of the welfare state, comparative research on welfare states, sociology of age (aging).
Hartmut Rosa

Areas of interest: Diagnosis of our time and analysis of the modern age, normative and empirical foundations of social criticism, theories of the subject and identity, sociology of time and theory of acceleration, and sociology of global relationships.

Academic Staff

Michael Hofmann
Scientific Director

Areas of Interest: Theoretical and empirical milieu research, processes of transformation, men’s studies.
Tel.: +49 (0)3641 9-45043
E-Mail: m[email protected]
Dennis Eversberg
Areas of Interest:  Analyses of power and subjectivity, sociology of work and of labour markets, political sociology, trade union research, studies of capitalism.
Tel.: +49 (0)3641 9-45039
E-Mail: [email protected]
Tine Haubner
Areas of Interest: Class theory(ies), theories of exploitation, (pragmatic) sociology of critique, critique of Political Economy, critical sociology of work.
Tel.: +49 (0)3641 9-45037
E-Mail: [email protected]
Steffen Liebig
Areas of Interest: Economic sociology, conflict sociology, theories of capitalism, sociology of domination.
Telefon: +49 (0)3641 9-45037
E-Mail: [email protected]
Dimitri Mader
Areas of Interest: The Structure and Agency debate, conditions of normative social critique, sociology of domination, domination and autonomy in working conditions, theoretical and practical possibilities for self-determination and human wellbeing.
Tel.: +49 (0)3641 9-45037
E-Mail: [email protected]
Barbara Muraca

Areas of Interest: Social Philosophy, Ethics, Environmental Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy, Process Philosophy, Degrowth

Tel.: +49 (0)3641 9-45036
E-Mail: [email protected]
Hanno Pahl

Areas of Interest: Sociological theory, sociology of science in the field of economic sciences, post-structuralist economic criticism, cultural theory of capitalism.

Johanna Sittel
Areas of Interest: Sociology of Labor Market, Empirical Research, flexibilization and transnationalization of work, precarious and informal employment.
Telefon: +49 (0)3641 9-45035
E-Mail: [email protected]
Jan Sparsam
Areas of Interest: Economic sociology, sociological theory and its history, theories of capitalism, critical theory, theory of science.
Tel.: +49 (0)3641 9-45032
E-Mail: [email protected]

Undergraduate and graduate research assistants

Thomas Marx, M.A. (Systemadministrator)
E-Mail: [email protected]

Peter Rabe, B.A.
E-Mail: [email protected]

Elisabeth Franzmann, B.A.
E-Mail: [email protected]

Simone Hieber, B.A.
E-Mail: [email protected]

Mathias Halbauer, B.A.
E-Mail: [email protected]

Administration

Michael Hofmann
Prof. Dr. Michael Hofmann
administrative director
Tel.: +49 (0)3641 9-45043
E-Mail: [email protected]

Ilka Scheibe
Ilka Scheibe
administrative assistant
Tel.: +49 (0)3641 9-45040
Fax: +49 (0)3641 9-45042
E-Mail: [email protected]


Christine Schickert
Christine Schickert
Public Relations Officer

Tel.: +49 (0)3641 / 9-45031
E-Mail: c[email protected]