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Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen
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Seit dem 01.10.2020 ist Janne Mende Forschungsgruppenleiterin am Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht. Ihre aktuelle Homepage findet sich hier: https://www.mpil.de/de/pub/institut/personen/wissenschaftlicher-bereich/jmende.cfm.
Der JLU und dem Lehrstuhl bleibt sie in der GGS-Sektion "Normen und Wandel in der Weltpolitik" sowie in der Forschungsgruppe "Migration und Menschenrechte" weiterhin verbunden.Betreuungs-Anfragen für Doktorarbeiten (Univ. Kassel) und Abschlussarbeiten (Univ. Kassel, JLU Gießen) bitte per E-Mail.
Request for supervision of PhD theses (Univ. Kassel) and BA/MA theses (Univ. Kassel, JLU Gießen) via e-mail.Im Wintersemester 2019/2020 vertritt Janne Mende die Professur für Transnationales Regieren an der TU Darmstadt.
In the winter term 2019/2020, Janne Mende is the deputy professor for Transnational Governance at TU Darmstadt.Studentische Hilfskräfte
Marcel Frentzel
Leonie Kothe
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Janne Mende is a senior researcher at the University of Giessen, where she leads her DFG-funded research project about “Business Actors beyond Public and Private: Authority, Legitimacy and Responsibility in the United Nations Human Rights Regime”. Prior to that, she was holding a visiting fellowship at the Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences, and she worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the Chair of Globalization & Politics at the University of Kassel. In the winter term 2019/20, she has been holding the deputy professorship for Transnational Governance at the Technical University of Darmstadt.
Besides business responsibility for human rights and its meaning for authority, power, legitimacy, and notions of public and private, her current research focuses on methods of qualitative data analysis in the United Nations and other international institutions.
Her habilitation thesis was dedicated to the transformations resulting from the challenging constellation between global governance and human rights. In her PhD thesis, she analyzed liberal and communitarian approaches to collective rights, discussing the chances and challenges of indigenous human rights to culture and identity in the United Nations. A previous study on universalism, cultural relativism and female genital mutilation/cutting was published in 2011.
Over the past years, Janne Mende has held visiting positions at the MPIL – Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg (2019), the School of Global Studies in Gothenburg (2019), the Danish Institute for Human Rights in Copenhagen (2018), the WZB – Berlin Social Science Center, Research Unit Global Governance (2018), the Research Centre Human Rights at the University of Vienna (2015), the Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice at the University of Nottingham (2014) and the New School for Social Research in New York (2012).
She is spokesperson of the GGS section “Norms and Changes in Global Politics”, member of the Research Group Migration and Human Rights, and the DVPW section International Relations, among others.
Research Areas
Human Rights
Global Governance and Transnationalization
International Institutions
United Nations
Business and Human Rights
Corporate Social Responsibility
Non-State Actors
Authority, Legitimacy and Power
Qualitative Research in International Organizations
Transnational Democracy
International Political Theory
Theories of International Relations
Culture, Identity and Cultural Rights
Current Memberships
Deutsche Vereinigung für Politikwissenschaft (DVPW
- Sektion Internationale Beziehungen
- Sektion Politische Theorie und Ideengeschichte
- Arbeitskreis Soziologie der Internationalen Beziehungen
- Arbeitskreis Menschenrechte
Forschungskreis Vereinte Nationen, Menschenrechtszentrum der Universität Potsdam
Arbeitskreis „UN-Reform“ der Deutschen Gesellschaft für die Vereinten Nationen (DGVN)
GGS-Sektion „Normen und Wandel in der Weltpolitik“, Universität Gießen (Sprecherin)
Global Business and Human Rights Scholars Association (BR2R)
ECPR-Standing „Group International Political Theory“, European Consortium for Social Research (ECPR)
Forschungsgruppe Migration und Menschenrechte, Universität Gießen
Working Group „International Relations as a Social Science“, British International Studies Association (BISA)
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Business Actors beyond Public and Private: Authority, Legitimacy and Responsibility in the United Nations Human Rights Regime
Funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation), project number 398306144.
Project summary:
The rise of private actors, their relevance, power and legitimacy in global governance challenges the human rights regime and the relations between public and private spheres alike.
The study uses the United Nations human rights regime in order to discuss the role of business actors in global governance from an International Political Theory perspective. It develops an interdependent triad between a) responsibility for human rights, b) legitimacy, and c) power. On this basis, first, the study develops the role of business as societal actors that can neither be defined as merely private nor public, thereby transcending the classic two-pole constellation between public and private. Second, the study introduces the concept of complementary responsibility and discusses how it can strengthen the human rights regime, preventing its transformation into a privatized regime.
The Open-ended intergovernmental working group on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights (OEIWG) in the United Nations Human Rights Council aims at the development of a legally binding human rights treaty for business companies. Thus, it provides a state-of-the-art case for an empirical contribution to the conceptual discussion. First, it challenges the mainly soft law frame of private governance and the private role of business. Second, it transforms the classic dichotomy between public and private in international law. Third, it contributes to the expansion of power and legitimacy of business actors in global governance – its controversial status and its open outcome notwithstanding.
With an explanatory qualitative content analysis of the discussions in the OEIWG, the project will provide insights into a highly politicized and relevant process in the United Nations. The study aims to provide conceptual as well as normative criteria for determining the changing scope, content and interdependence of power, legitimacy and human rights responsibility of business actors, their societal role in global governance and their impact on the human rights regime.
Unternehmen zwischen Privatheit und Öffentlichkeit: Autorität, Legitimität und Verantwortung im Menschenrechtsregime der Vereinten Nationen
Gefördert durch die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Projektnummer 398306144.
Projektbeschreibung:
Die wachsende Bedeutung privater Akteure, ihre Relevanz, Macht und Legitimität in der Global Governance fordern das Menschenrechtsregime und die ihm zugrunde liegende Konstellation zwischen privater und öffentlicher Sphäre heraus. Das vorliegende Projekt rekurriert auf das Menschenrechtsregime der Vereinten Nationen, um die Rolle von Wirtschaftsunternehmen in der Global Governance aus der Perspektive internationaler politischer Theorie zu diskutieren. Das Projekt entwickelt dafür das Konzept einer interdependenten Triade zwischen a) Menschenrechtsverantwortung, b) Legitimität und c) Macht. Auf dieser Grundlage wird, erstens, die These von Unternehmen als gesellschaftlichen Akteuren diskutierbar, da sie sich weder als rein private noch als öffentliche Akteure definieren lassen und somit die zwei-polige Konstellation zwischen privat und öffentlich überschreiten. Zweitens wird das Konzept einer komplementären Menschenrechtsverantwortung entwickelt und analysiert, inwiefern es einer möglichen Privatisierung des Menschenrechtsregimes vorbeugen kann.Eine empirische Fallstudie, die die skizzierten konzeptuellen Diskussionen prüfen und weiterentwickeln kann, bieten die aktuellen Kontroversen in der Open-ended intergovernmental working group on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights (OEIWG) des UN-Menschenrechtsrats, die das Ziel eines völkerrechtlich verbindlichen Menschenrechtsvertrags für Unternehmen verfolgt. Erstens fordert sie den weitestgehend weichen und auf Freiwilligkeit beruhenden Charakter privater Governance und der privaten Rolle von Unternehmen heraus. Zweitens verändert sie die für das Völkerrecht charakteristische Dichotomie zwischen Privatheit und Öffentlichkeit. Drittens trägt sie zu einer Ausweitung und gleichzeitigen Regulierung unternehmerischer Macht und Legitimität in der Global Governance bei.Das vorliegende Projekt wird mit einer qualitativen Inhaltsanalyse der Prozesse innerhalb der OEIWG die erste systematische Analyse dieses vielschichtigen, hoch politisierten und relevanten Vorhabens in den Vereinten Nationen bereitstellen. Ziel ist es, sowohl die divergierenden Konzepte als auch ihre normative Kriterien zu erarbeiten, um die sich wandelnden Formen und Interdependenzen zwischen Macht, Legitimität und Menschenrechtsverantwortung zu erfassen, die gesellschaftliche Rolle von Unternehmen in der Global Governance zu charakterisieren und deren Einfluss auf das Menschenrechtsregime zu bestimmen.
Curriculum Vitae
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Academic Degrees
07/2018: Habilitation and Venia Legendi in Political Science, University of Kassel
05/2014: Dr. rer. soc. in Political Science, University of Giessen
05/2010: Magistra Artium in Political Science, Social Anthropology, Psychology, Free University Berlin
Academic Work Experience and Positions
From 10/2020 Max Planck Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg
10/2019-03/2020
Deputy Professor for Transnational Governance, Technical University of Darmstadt
08-09/2019
Visiting Researcher at the School of Global Studies, University of Goteborg
04-06/2019
Visiting Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg
08-09/2018
Visiting Researcher at the Danish Institute for Human Rights, Copenhagen
Since 06/2018
Project Leader of the Research Project: “Business Actors beyond Public and Private: Authority, Legitimacy and Responsibility in the United Nations Human Rights Regime”, funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation), project number 398306144, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen
03-05/2018
Visiting Researcher at the WZB, Research Unit Global Governance
09/2017-03/2018
Postdoctoral Visiting Fellow at the Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences, University of Bamberg
09-10/2015
Visiting Fellow at the Research Centre Human Rights, University of Vienna
2014-2017
Postdoctoral Researcher at the International Center for Development and Decent Work and the Unit Globalization & Politics, University of Kassel
09-10/2014
Visiting Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice, School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham
2013-2014
Lecturer in the Unit Globalization & Politics, University of Kassel
05/2012
Visiting Scholar at the New School for Social Research
2010-2013
PhD candidate in Political Science at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen. PhD thesis: “A Human Right to Culture and Identity. The Ambivalence of Group Rights”
2006-2010
Magistra Artium in Political Science, Social Anthropology, Psychology at Free University Berlin
Publications
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PDF versions of selected articles are available upon request (janne.mende@sowi.uni-giessen.de).
Blogs and Media
Blog post: Mende, Janne (2019): Plagiate – die frühe Rolle der Universitäten, Theorieblog, April 2019, Full Text
Blog post: Mende, Janne (2018): Which Business? Controversies about the Scope of Application of a Future Treaty on Business and Human Rights, Völkerrechtsblog, Juli 2018, doi: 10.17176/20180730-093114-0, Full Text
Blog post: Mende, Janne (2018): A New Responsibility in the Making: Business Companies and Human Rights. WZB blog: Orders beyond Borders, May 2018, Full Text
Interviews on the topic of female genital mutilation/cutting for:
Radio: Leonardo, WDR 5 (11.03.2016)
Print: Neue Zürcher Zeitung (31.05.2013)
Blog: www.antropologi.info (25.09.2011)Articles and Book Chapters
Mende, Janne (2020): Public, Private and Societal: A Three-Dimensional Approach to Human Rights Responsibility, in: Michael Stohl/Alison Brysk (Hrsg.): Research Agendas for Human Rights, Northampton/Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Pub. (forthcoming in 2020)
Mende, Janne (2020): Business Authority in Global Governance: Beyond Public and Private, WZB Berlin Social Science Center Discussion Paper, No. SP IV 2020-103. Full Text
Mende, Janne/Drubel, Julia: At the Junction: Business Responsibility for Modern Slavery, in: Human Rights Review, online first (peer-reviewed). DOI: 10.1007/s12142-020-00596-9. Full Text
Mende, Janne (2020): Business Enterprises and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: A Hybrid Approach, in: Philani Mthembu/Miguelángel Verde Garrido/Adam S. Wilkins (ed.): The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (forthcoming)
Mende, Janne (2020): Unternehmen als gesellschaftliche Akteure: Die unternehmerische Verantwortung für Menschenrechte zwischen privater und öffentlicher Sphäre, in: Nikolaus Goldbach/Franziska Paulmann/Julia Druschel/Carolina Alves Vestena (ed.): Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf Soziale Menschenrechte, Baden-Baden: Nomos (Reprint)
Mende, Janne (2020): Global Governance, in: Scott N. Romaniuk/Manish Thapa (ed.): The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Global Security, Basingstoke/New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN: 978-3-319-74319-6. Details
Mende, Janne (2020): From Exploration to Explanation. Researching the United Nations and other International Institutions, in: Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law & International Law Research Paper Series, no. 2020-02. DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3526756. Full Text
Mende, Janne (2019): Are Human Rights Western – And Why Does it Matter? A Perspective from International Political Theory, in: Journal of International Political Theory, online first (peer-reviewed). DOI: 10.1177/1755088219832992. Full Text
Mende, Janne (2019): Accountability for Supply Chains in the Frame of Human Rights, Paper for the Workshop: “Responsibility and Accountability of Supply Chains”, University of Kassel, 14.-15.3.2019
Mende, Janne (2019): The Concept of Modern Slavery: Definition, Critique, and the Human Rights Frame, in: Human Rights Review 20(2), pp. 229-248 (peer-reviewed). DOI: 10.1007/s12142-018-0538-y. Full Text
Mende, Janne (2018): Indigene Menschenrechte: Universalismus oder Indigenität?, in: Zeitgeschichte-online, https://zeitgeschichte-online.de/indigene-menschenrechte-universalismus-oder-indigenitaet
Mende, Janne (2018): The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, in: Arbeitskreis Menschenrechte im 20. Jahrhundert der Fritz-Thyssen-Stiftung (ed.): Quellen zur Geschichte der Menschenrechte, https://www.geschichte-menschenrechte.de/business-human-rights/
Mende, Janne (2018): Normative and Contextual Feminism: Lessons from the Debate around Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting, in: Gender Forum, An Internet Journal for Gender Studies 17(68), pp. 47-69. Full Text
Mende, Janne (2017): Unternehmen als gesellschaftliche Akteure: Die unternehmerische Verantwortung für Menschenrechte zwischen privater und öffentlicher Sphäre, in: MenschenRechtsMagazin 22(1), pp. 5-17. Full Text
Mende, Janne (2017): Privatisierung oder Diffusion von Verantwortung? Die Entwicklung wirtschaftlicher Verantwortung für Menschenrechte, in: Politische Vierteljahresschrift, Special Issue 52: Politik und Verantwortung, ed. by Christopher Daase/Valentin Rauer/Stefan Kroll/Julian Junk, pp. 409-435 (peer-reviewed). ISBN 978-3-8487-3083-4. Details
Mende, Janne (2016): Die Bedeutung und Legitimität nichtstaatlicher Akteure im Menschenrecht, in: Kritische Justiz, Vierteljahresschrift für Recht und Politik 49(4), pp. 2-9. DOI 10.5771/0023-4834-2016-4-431. Full Text
Mende, Janne (2016): Global Governance und libertärer Paternalismus: Akteure, Normativität und Legitimität, in: Zeitschrift für praktische Philosophie 3(1), pp. 557-596 (peer reviewed). DOI 10.22613/zfpp/3.1.16. Full Text
Mende, Janne (2016): Öffentlicher Menschenrechtsschutz, privater Menschenrechtsbruch. Alte und neue Antagonismen in Zeiten der Globalisierung und Global Governance, in: Korte, Karl-Rudolf (ed.): Politik in unsicheren Zeiten: Kriege, Krisen und neue Antagonismen. Veröffentlichungen der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Politikwissenschaft (DGfP), Baden-Baden: Nomos, pp. 278-292, ISBN 978-3-848-73300-2. Details
Müller, Stefan/Mende, Janne (2016): Weder getrennt noch eins. Identität, Differenz und die Frage der Freiheit, in: Müller, Stefan/Mende, Janne (ed.) (2016): Differenz und Identität. Konstellationen der Kritik, Weinheim: Beltz Juventa , pp. 7-28. ISBN 978-3-7799-3413-4. Details
Menke, Christoph with Mende, Janne/Müller, Stefan (2016): Vom Glücken der Freiheit. Ein Gespräch über Kritik und Versöhnung, in: Müller, Stefan/Mende, Janne (ed.): Differenz und Identität. Konstellationen der Kritik, Weinheim: Beltz Juventa, pp. 29-63. Details
Sonderegger, Ruth with Müller, Stefan/Mende, Janne (2016): Beweglichkeitsanalysen. Ein Gespräch über Übungen und Entübungen von Identität und Differenz, in: Müller, Stefan/Mende, Janne (ed.): Differenz und Identität. Konstellationen der Kritik, Weinheim: Beltz Juventa, pp. 221-243. Details
Mende, Janne (2016): Moderne Sklaverei. Unschärfen eines Begriffs, in: Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik 61(9), pp. 33-36. Details
Mende, Janne (2016): Collective Identity, in: Tiedemann, Paul (ed.): Right to Identity. Beiheft des Archivs für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, pp. 129-150, ISBN 978-3-515-11244-4. Details
Mende, Janne (2016): Kulturelle Identität und Politik, in: De La Rosa, Sybille/Schubert, Sophia/Zapf, Holger (ed.): Transkulturelle Politische Theorie. Eine Einführung, Wiesbaden: Springer VS, pp. 43-62. ISBN 978-3-658-05009-2. Details
Mende, Janne (2015): Privatheit und Global Governance in der Internationalen Politischen Theorie, in: Zeitschrift für Politische Theorie 6(2), pp. 207-222 (peer-reviewed). Full Text
Mende, Janne (2015): The Imperative of Indigeneity: Indigenous Human Rights and their Limits, in: Human Rights Review 16(3), pp. 221-238 (peer-reviewed). DOI 10.1007/s12142-015-0371-5. Details
Mende, Janne (2014): Die Privatheit der Privatsphäre, in: Zeitschrift für Kritische Theorie 20(38/39), pp. 230-234
Mende, Janne (2013): Die Ordnung der Moral, in: Erwägen Wissen Ethik, Forum für Erwägungskultur 24(2), pp. 271-274. Details
Mende, Janne (2013): Amartya Sen: Identity and Violence. The Illusion of Destiny, in: Salzborn, Samuel (ed.): Klassiker der Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, pp. 389-392. ISBN 978-3-658-03474-0. Details
Mende, Janne (2013): Ruth Benedict: Patterns of Culture, in: Salzborn, Samuel (ed.): Klassiker der Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, pp. 116-120. ISBN 978-3-658-03474-0. Details
Mende, Janne (2013): Der Doppelcharakter von Kritik. Zur Konstellation immanenter und transzendenter Kritik, in: Müller, Stefan (ed.): Jenseits der Dichotomie. Elemente einer sozialwissenschaftlichen Theorie des Widerspruchs, Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, pp. 157-179. ISBN 978-3-658-02270-9. Details
Mende, Janne (2012): Normativität und Relationen im transkulturellen Vergleich, in: Zapf, Holger (ed.): Nichtwestliches politisches Denken. Zwischen kultureller Differenz und Hybridisierung, Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, pp. 47-63. ISBN 978-3-658-00555-9. Details
Mende, Janne (2011): Kultur, Volk und „Rasse“. Die deutsche Ethnologie im Nationalsozialismus und ihre Aufarbeitung, in: Anthropos, International Review of Anthropology and Linguistics, 106(2), pp. 529-545 (peer reviewed). Details
Mende, Janne (2009): Let's change the World? Bedingungen für eine kritisch-emanzipatorische politische Bildung, in: Mende, Janne/Müller, Stefan (ed.): Emanzipation in der politischen Bildung. Theorien, Konzepte, Möglichkeiten, Schwalbach/Ts.: Wochenschau Verlag, pp. 112-134. ISBN 978-3-89974512-2. Details
Mende, Janne/Müller, Stefan (2009): Einleitung, in: Mende, Janne/Müller, Stefan (ed.): Emanzipation in der politischen Bildung. Theorien, Konzepte, Möglichkeiten, Schwalbach/Ts.: Wochenschau Verlag, pp. 5-17. ISBN 978-3-89974512-2. Details
Books
Mende, Janne: Der Universalismus der Menschenrechte, Lehrbuch, Stuttgart: utb (scheduled for spring 2021)
Mende, Janne: Global Governance und Menschenrechte: Konstellationen zwischen Privatheit und Öffentlichkeit (series: Internationale Politische Theorie, ed. by Christian Volk, Thorsten Thiel), Baden-Baden: Nomos (scheduled for winter 2020)
Mende, Janne (2016): A Human Right to Culture and Identity? The Ambivalence of Group Rights, London: Rowman & Littlefield International. ISBN 9781783486786. Details
Reviewed in: Zeitschrift für Menschenrechte, Hypatia. A Journal of Feminist Philosophy
Mende, Janne (2015): Kultur als Menschenrecht? Ambivalenzen kollektiver Rechtsforderungen, Frankfurt am Main/New York: Campus Verlag. ISBN 978-3-593-50315-8. Details
Reviewed in: Portal für Politikwissenschaft, Kult Online
Mende, Janne (2011): Begründungsmuster weiblicher Genitalverstümmelung. Zur Vermittlung von Kulturrelativismus und Universalismus, Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag. ISBN 978-3-837-61911-9. Details
Reviewed in: Zeitschrift für Menschenrechte, Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik, querelles-net, socialnet, Literaturkritik.de among others.
Edited Volumes
Finzsch, Norbert/Hulverscheidt, Marion/Mende, Janne/Oeming, Madita/Frederikson, Bodil (2018): Special Issue: On Clitoridectomy, in: Gender Forum. An Internet Journal for Gender Studies 17 (68). Full Text
Special Issue (2016): Menschenrechte, nichtstaatliche Akteure und Legitimität, in: Kritische Justiz, Vierteljahresschrift für Recht und Politik 49(4). Details
Müller, Stefan/Mende, Janne (ed.) (2016): Differenz und Identität. Konstellationen der Kritik, Weinheim: Beltz Juventa. ISBN 978-3-7799-3413-4. Details
Mende, Janne/Müller, Stefan (ed.) (2009): Emanzipation in der politischen Bildung. Theorien, Konzepte, Möglichkeiten, Schwalbach/Ts.: Wochenschau Verlag. ISBN 978-3-89974512-2. Details
Reviews
Mende, Janne (2018): Review of: Kathryn Sikkink: Evidence for Hope: Making Human Rights Work in the 21st Century, Princeton 2017, in: Zeitschrift für Menschenrechte 12(1), 160-163
Mende, Janne (2013): Review of: Leah Bassel: Refugee Woman. Beyond Gender versus Culture, London/New York 2012, in: St Antony’s International Review 9(1), 195-196
Mende, Janne (2010): Der Blick der Emanzipation. Review of: Bernhard Heininger (ed.): Ehrenmord und Emanzipation. Die Geschlechterfrage in Ritualen von Parallelgesellschaften, Hamburg et al. 2009, in: querelles-net, 11(3). Online
Mende, Janne (2009): Von Kritik und Vernunft. Review of: Brigitte Geißel, Alexandra Manske (ed.): Kritische Vernunft für demokratische Transformationen. Festschrift für Christine Kulke, Opladen 2008, in: querelles-net, 10(3). Online
Mende, Janne (2009): Der lange Kampf um Frauen- und Menschenrechte in Kenia. Review of: Sonja Wölte: International national lokal. FrauenMenschenrechte und Frauenbewegung in Kenia, Königstein im Taunus 2008, in: querelles-net, 10(1). Online
Talks
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Selected Talks (in English and German):
Business Responsibilities for Human Rights. Transcending Dichotomies, ISA/ECPR/APSA Joint Conference: Human Rights and Foreign Policy, London, 22.-24.6.2020
Contestations and Authorities in the UN Treaty Process, International Workshop: The UN Guiding Principles and the Future of Business and Human Rights Regulation, Forum for the Study of the Global Condition, University of Halle, 13.2.2020
Simply Complex? The Social Facilitation of Political Sciences, DVPW Thematic Conference: How Relevant are the Political Sciences?, University of Frankfurt, 12.-14.12.2019 (together with Stefan Müller)
Contestation, Crisis, and Resilience in Business and Human Rights, Workshop: The End of International Public Authority? Contestation, Crisis, and Resilience in International Institutions, organized by Armin von Bogdandy, Matthias Goldmann, Silvia Steininger, MPI Heidelberg, 28.-29.11.2019
Responsibility for Supply Chains in the Global Frame of Human Rights, Research Workshop on Business and Human Rights, University of Geneva, 23.-24.11.2019
Expert Interviews in International Organizations, Workshop: Ethics and Empirical Methods: Current Challenges in IR Research, DVPW Section International Relations, organized by Anja Jakobi and Katharina Mann, TU Braunschweig, 9.-10.10.2019
Authority in Global Governance and Business Actors: Power, Legitimacy and Common Interests, Peace and Development Lecture Series, School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, 26.9.2019
Private Authority and Business Responsibility for Human Rights: The Triad between Responsibility, Power, and Legitimacy, lecture series MPIL Agora, MPIL Heidelberg, 22.5.2019
Business Companies: Challenge or Chance for Social Human Rights?, Conference of the Graduate School Social Human Rights, University of Kassel, 11.-12.4.2019
Accountability for Supply Chains in the Frame of Human Rights, Workshop „Responsibility and Accountability of Supply Chains“, University of Kassel, 14.-15.3.2019
Public, Private and Societal: A Three-Dimensional Approach to Human Rights Responsibility, Workshop: Research Agendas for Human Rights, organized by Alison Brysk and Michael Stohl, University of California Santa Barbara, 18.-19.1.2019
Cultural identity as Human Right? Indigeneity as Imperative, conference: Human Rights and Culture, Schader Foundation and DVPW working group Human Rights, Darmstadt, 14.12.2018
Human Rights in the 21st Century. Challenges and Chances, lecture series, Institute for Political Science, University of Giessen, 5.12.2018
Explanation and Interpretation: Researching International Organizations with an Explanatory Qualitative Content Analysis, Workshop: Researching International Organizations Empirically, GGS-Section Norms and Change in World Politics, University of Giessen, 15.11.2018
From Exploration to Interpretation and One Step Further: Qualitative Content Analysis in International Institutions, Workshop: Sociology in International Relations, DVPW-Working Group Sociologies in International Relations, PRIF Frankfurt, 26.10.2018
Is the Institutionalization of Human Rights ‘Western’?, DVPW general conference, University of Frankfurt, 25.-28.9.2018
Legitimacy, Power, and Responsibility: Business and Human Rights, DVPW general conference, University of Frankfurt, 25.-28.9.2018
Researching the UN Qualitatively: From Exploration to Explanation, Workshop “Researching the United Nations and Other International Organizations: Rethinking Methods of Investigation”, University of Geneva, 18.-20.6.2018
Companies as Societal Actors and the Reconfiguration between Public and Private, workshop: Companies as Political Actors, TU Dortmund, 12.-13.1.2018
Indigenous Human Rights: Promise and Perils, lecture at the Centre for Human Rights Erlangen-Nürnberg, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 14.10.12.2018
Business Responsibility for Human Rights. Developments and Challenges, lecture series, Graduate School for Social Human Rights, University of Kassel, 30.11.2017
Normative and Contextual Feminism: Insights from the Debate around FGM/FGC, annual conference DVPW working group Politics and Gender, University of Duisburg-Essen, 10.11.2017
Global Governance, Legitimacy and Human Rights Responsibility of Non-State Actors, conference DVPW section International Relations, University of Bremen, 4.-6.10.2017
Individual or Cultural Human Rights? Indigeneity as Imperative, conference DVPW section International Relations, University of Bremen, 4.-6.10.2017
Political Human Rights between Public and Private, workshop: The Diversity of Human Rights: Political Human Rights under Pressure, Inter-University Centre Dubrovnik, 3.-8.9.2017
Corporate Social Responsibility for Social Human Rights?, workshop: Social Human Rights, University of Kassel, 29.6.-1.7.2017
Are Human Rights Western?, workshop: Human Rights as Political-Historical Topos, DVPW working group Human Rights, Schader Foundation, Darmstadt, 16.12.2016
Human Rights: Challenges in the 21st Century, lecture series: Conflicts in Present and Future, Center for Conflict Studies, University of Marburg, 21.11.2016
Being Normal – Being Different? Challenges for Gender and Diversity Awareness in Integration Policies, lecture series: Gendered Perspectives on Asylum and Refuge, Centre for Gender and Women Studies, University of Leipzig, 18.11.2016
Business and Human Rights: Chances and Challenges, Programme for the Study of International Governance’s Public Seminar Series, Graduate Institute Geneva, 27.10.2016, chaired by Thomas Biersteker
Limits and Contradictions in the Privatization of Responsibility: Human Rights and Transnational Companies, conference: Politics and Responsibility. Analyzing the Transformations of Decision-Making and Reasoning, Cluster of Excellence Normative Orders, University of Frankfurt, 10.-12.2.2016
Migration or Trafficking? Global Perspectives, DVPW general conference, University of Duisburg-Essen, 21.-25.9.2015
Public Protection and Private Violations of Human Rights: New Antagonisms, DGfP annual conference, Akademie Wolfsburg, 13.-14.7.2015
Modern Slavery and Freedom, lecture series, International Center for Development and Decent Work, University of Kassel, 8.7.2015
Indigenous Rights in the United Nations, conference: The UN at 70: Guaranteeing Security and Justice, Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS), The Hague Institute for Global Justice and the International Institute for Social Studies, Den Haag, 11.-13.6.2015
The Meaning of Private Authority for Human Rights, conference: Authorities in Conflict, Center for Conflict Studies, University of Marburg, 29.-31.10.2014
Indigenous Rights as Human Rights?, lecture series, Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice, University of Nottingham, 29.9.201
Indigeneity in Global Rights Language, World International Studies Committee (WISC) conference, University of Frankfurt, 6.-9.8.2014
Human Rights Violations and the Doubling of the Private Sphere, conference: Human Rights in Conflict, DVPW working group Human Rights, Schader Foundation, Darmstadt, 18.7.2014
Ambivalences of Identity, European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) conference, Sciences Po Bordeaux, 4.-7.9.2013
Universal and Local Human Rights, conference: Human Rights Thought and Practice in the Contemporary World, Political Thought Specialist Group of the Political Studies Association, London School of Economics, 24.11.2012
Female Empowerment in the Democratization of Indigenous Minorities, DVPW conference, University of Tübingen, 24.-28.9.2012
How Relative is Cultural Relativism? How Universal is Universalism? Mediated Perspectives on FGM/FGC, lecture series: Philosophical Colloquium, University of Oldenburg, 7.11.2011
Are Ideas Relative? The Question of Relativism and Relations, founding conference of the DVPW thematic group Transcultural Comparative Political Theory, University of Göttingen, 16.-17.9.2011
Rationals of FGM/FGC between Cultural Relativism and Universalism, conference: Norms in Conflict, Cluster of Excellence Normative Orders, University of Frankfurt, 3.-5.12.2010
Teaching
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Master’s-level courses:
Die Legitimität internationaler Organisationen
Die Europäische Union: Institutionen, Demokratie und Souveränität
Demokratie in der Global Governance
Business Responsibilities for Human Rights
Business and human rights: Opportunities and challenges
UN and ILO: Governance and human rights
Power, rule and authority in times of globalization
Introduction to globalization
Agency in inter- and transnational institutions - Issues of global governance
Transnational non-state actors and human rights: Theories and evidence
Internationale Organisationen: Politikfelder und Entscheidungsprozesse
Indigenous rights and wrongs
Gender und Ethnizität in der Transitional Justice
Indigenität in lokaler und globaler Perspektive
Bachelor’s-level courses:
Die Entstehung transnationaler Normen
Internationale politische Theorie
Global Governance: Ordnung oder Fairness?
Transnationale Rechte: Schutz, Verletzung und Verantwortung
Individuum, Gesellschaft und Gruppe als politikwissenschaftliche Konzepte
Einführung in die Transitional Justice
Menschenrechte: International, transnational, lokal
Internationale Menschenrechte: Dimensionen, Kritiken und Begründungen
Menschenrechte: Universell und unteilbar?
Propädeutikum: Einführung in politikwissenschaftliches Arbeiten
Politische Erwachsenenbildung zwischen Anspruch und Wirklichkeit
PhD-level courses:
Collaborative Work on Edited Volumes (International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture, Universiy of Giessen)
Core Course and Advanced Course for PhD Students in the Social Sciences (International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture, University of Giessen)
Perspektiven auf unternehmerische Verantwortung für Menschenrechte: Freiwilligkeit oder Gesetz? (Kolleg Soziale Menschenrechte, University of Kassel)
How to Write a Research Paper (Graduate School of Socio-Ecological Research for Development, University of Kassel)
Conferences
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Selected Organized Conferences and Panels
Workshops and Conferences:
“Beyond Western Liberalism: Mapping Blind Spots in IR Norm Research”, GGS annual conference, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, 2.-3.12.2019 (in cooperation with DVPW thematic group “IR Norms Research”, Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg, Institute of Political Science University of Duisburg-Essen, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt), Keynote: Jeffrey T. Checkel
“Mediation in the Sociology of International Relations”, annual conference of the DVPW working group “Sociologies in International Relations”, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, 14.-15.11.2019 (with Frank Gadinger and Nele Kortendiek)
“Researching International Organizations Empirically”, workshop of the section “Norms and Changes in World Politics”, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, 15.11.2018, Keynote: Cecilia Cannon
“Research Network Decent Work in Global Agricultural Production Systems. Inaugural Workshop”, International Center for Development and Decent Work, University of Kassel, 14.-15.9.2015 (with Christoph Scherrer)
Panel Chairs:
“Human Rights in Crisis?”, open topic conference, DVPW section International Relations, University of Freiburg, 7.-9.10.2019, chaired with Monika Heupel, panel with Başak Çalı, Andreas von Staden, discussant: Anita Gohdes*
“Democracy in the United Nations”, open topic conference, DVPW section International Relations, University of Freiburg, 7.-9.10.2019, panel with Mateja Steinbrück Platise, Nina Reiners, Leonie Holthaus, Marina Martinez Mateo, Marianne Beisheim, discussant: Anna Holzscheiter
“The Legitimacy and Authority of Non-State Actors in the Human Rights Regime”, open topic conference, DVPW section International Relations, University of Bremen, 4.-6.10.2017, panel with Andreas Kruck, Jana Hönke, Christian Scheper, and Helmut Breitmeier as discussant
“Human Rights and Private Responsibility”, general conference, European Consortium for Social Research (ECPR), Charles University Prague, 7.-10.09.2016, panel with Brigitte Hamm, Julia Planitzer, Christian Scheper, Andreas von Staden
“Alternative or Complementary Spaces? Indigenous Knowledge in International Politics”, annual conference International Studies Association (ISA), Toronto, 26.-29.3.2014, chaired with Linda Wallbott