Prof. Dr. Regina Kreide

Abstracts:

Azmat Hameed Bhatti (JLU Giessen): "Digital Empowerment and Security in Intimacy and Power Dynamics"

The thesis highlights digital safety and security in the context of intimate relationships and power dynamics, critiquing conventional cybersecurity for neglecting the aspect of human security. It advocates for feminist and critical theories to address power differences in various relationships. The research is further based on interviews with marginalized people and especially cybersecurity experts to reconfigure traditional cybersecurity. This reconfiguration calls for solidarity and addresses broader social issues rather than solely focusing on technological fixes.

Maria Grynevych (JLU Giessen): "The Transformation of Civic Identity of Ukrainian Refugee Women in Germany"

In this study, we examine the transformation of the civic identity of Ukrainian refugee women in Germany amid the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian war. By exploring their experiences and Germany's societal responses and integration policies, we highlight how displacement has impacted their roles in Ukraine’s political, social, and cultural spheres. Our research reveals how war-induced migration shapes their identity as they navigate altered societal landscapes. Ultimately, we underscore the evolving significance of these women as contributors to both their homeland and their host nation.

Hannes Kaufmann (JLU Giessen): "Critique of law or critique of legal culture"

In this project, the basis for addressing current legal challenges will be created by reconstructing the potential of early Critical Theory with regard to legal theory and critique of law. Bringing together social theory, cultural criticism and legal theory, the aim is to form a critique of law or a critique of social practices in law in its various dimensions (normativity, function, effect).

Anna-Sophie Schönfelder (JLU Giessen): „The Political Economy of Antigypsyism“

As part of the DFG Collaborative Research Center Dynamics of Security, I am pursuing a dissertation project on the social conditions of antigypsyism. My work links theories of capitalism with the history of governance and examines the significance of resentment against Sinti and Roma for bourgeois subjectivation. Here I am particularly interested in the role of political institutions in the process of European integration. My work draws on both the deciphering of collective images of others that has been pursued in antigypsyism research, and on a materialist critique of ideology.