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Florentine Schoog

Introduction

Research Project: Documenting Climate-Changed Futures. Narrative Framing in Climate Documentary Film and the Governmentality toward the Future (working title)


  • Since 2019, Ph.D. candidate in Sociology and scholarship holder of the International Graduate Center for the Study of Culture (GCSC) at Justus-Liebig Universität (Giessen, Germany).
  • 2017-2020, Coordinating Editor of the Freiburger Zeitschrift für GeschlechterStudien (fzg) - a peer-reviewed journal on interdisciplinary gender and queer studies at the Center for Anthropology and Gender Studies (Albert-Ludwigs-University, Freiburg, Germany)
  • 2010-2018, Studies in Sociology and History at Albert-Ludwigs University of Freiburg (Germany) and University of Gothenburg (Sweden).

 

Publications

  • Schoog, Florentine, Success – Collapse – Resilience. The Story of Homo Resiliens in Documentary Films on the ‘Anthropocene.’ in: Nature and Culture 17, 1 (2022), 58-86. https://doi.org/10.3167/nc.2022.170103
  • Schoog, Florentine, Jürgen Link: Normalismus und Antagonismus in der Postmoderne. Krise, New Normal, Populismus. Review, in: Behemoth. A Journal on Civilisation 12, 2 (2019), 72-74.
  • Schoog, Florentine, in: Szabo, Sacha (Ed.), Artefakt: Körper. Skizzen zu einer Soziologie des Schmerzes. 10 Zugänge zu David Finchers Film Fight Club, Marburg: Tectum Verlag (2012).
Presentations and Talks

  • "Documenting Futures. Archives of Knowledge for the Critique on the Climate Crisis." 10.08.22, Panel Presentation at the XXVIII Visible Evidence Conference, Gdansk.
  • "Gegenwart als Katastrophe - Zukunft als Scheideweg: Szenarien, Narrative und Haltung im Eco-Dokumentarfilm." [Present as catastrophe - future as crossroads: scenarios, narratives, and positioing in eco-documentaries.] 29.06.21, Guest lecture at the seminar "Future as Catastrophe" by Prof. Ulrich Bröckling (Freiburg) and Dr. Dorna Safaian (Siegen).
  • "Documenting Anthropos’ Story: Success – Collapse – Resilience. The Anthropologized Subject Homo Resiliens in the Anthropocene." 08.07.2020, EcoCulture, X Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture, Lisbon/online.
Teaching

  • "Sociological Concepts of Normality and Deviance" (Undergraduate Seminar). Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg (Winter term 2018/19).
  • Tutorages for lectures by Prof. Dr. Manuela Boatcâ (Global and Regional Change), Prof. Dr. Nina Degele (Social Theory), and Dr. Dominique Schirmer (Introduction to Empirical Research). Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg (2012-2016).
Research Interests

  • cultural sociology and social theory
  • future and time concepts
  • climate change, anthropocene, and ecocultures
  • documentary film
  • social inequality, intersectionality, and feminist thought
  • governmentality and discourse analysis
Projects

  • Editorial Team of the The Walk & Talk Podcast Series - a GCSC podcast on culture theory and practice on the walk (2021-2022)
  • Organizing Team of the Master Class with Rick Dolphijn "New Materialisms: Approaches in Transdisciplinary Research and Theory" April 2021
Memberships

  • Research Area 9 Ecology and the Study of Culture (Speaker 2020-21), GCSC
  • Editorial Team Freiburger Zeitschrift für GeschlechterStudien (fzg)
Other

feminist activism