Johanna Leinius
I work as scientific manager of the Cornelia Goethe Center for Women's and Gender Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt.
Previously, I worked as post-doctoral researcher at the Chair of Sociological theory and in the research program “Ecologies of Social Cohesion” at the University of Kassel, Germany. I also was a research associate at the Frankfurt Research Center for Postcolonial Studies (FRCPS), Cluster of Excellence 'The Formation of Normative Orders', Faculty of Social Sciences, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany.
In my current research, I analyze the dynamics of how societal alternatives towards socio-ecological transformations are constructed in encounters between heterogeneous actors within postcolonial contexts. In my Phd-project, 'The Cosmopolitics of Solidarity: A Postcolonial Feminist Discourse Analysis of Inter-Movement Encounters,' I scrutinised practices of alliance-building between social movements, asking whether solidarity across deep difference is possible in social contexts characterized by coloniality. I hold that such questions can best be answered through collective research practices. In my research, I have worked with the Programa Democracia y Transformación Global (PDTG) in Lima, Peru.
I was speaker of the Section ‘Gender and Politics’ of the German Association for Political Science (DVPW) and act as speaker of the Working Group ‘Poststructuralist Perspectives on Social Movements’ of the Institute for Social Movement Studies (ipb).
My research interests include postcolonial, feminist, and postcolonial feminist theory, the politics of ontology and of knowledge production, Latin American politics and societies, and social movement struggles.
Previously, I worked as post-doctoral researcher at the Chair of Sociological theory and in the research program “Ecologies of Social Cohesion” at the University of Kassel, Germany. I also was a research associate at the Frankfurt Research Center for Postcolonial Studies (FRCPS), Cluster of Excellence 'The Formation of Normative Orders', Faculty of Social Sciences, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany.
In my current research, I analyze the dynamics of how societal alternatives towards socio-ecological transformations are constructed in encounters between heterogeneous actors within postcolonial contexts. In my Phd-project, 'The Cosmopolitics of Solidarity: A Postcolonial Feminist Discourse Analysis of Inter-Movement Encounters,' I scrutinised practices of alliance-building between social movements, asking whether solidarity across deep difference is possible in social contexts characterized by coloniality. I hold that such questions can best be answered through collective research practices. In my research, I have worked with the Programa Democracia y Transformación Global (PDTG) in Lima, Peru.
I was speaker of the Section ‘Gender and Politics’ of the German Association for Political Science (DVPW) and act as speaker of the Working Group ‘Poststructuralist Perspectives on Social Movements’ of the Institute for Social Movement Studies (ipb).
My research interests include postcolonial, feminist, and postcolonial feminist theory, the politics of ontology and of knowledge production, Latin American politics and societies, and social movement struggles.
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Located at the intersection of Postcolonial Studies, Latin American Studies, Caribbean Studies, and History, this interdisciplinary volume brings together scholars from the US, Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Philippines to examine the colonial legacies of the three island nations of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines. Instead of focusing on the legacies of US colonialism, the continuing legacies of Spanish colonialism are put center-stage. The analyses offered in the volume yield new and surprising insights into the study of colonial and postcolonial constellations that are of interest not only for experts, but also for readers interested in the social, political, economic, and cultural dynamics of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines during Spanish colonization and in the present. The empirical material profits from a rigorous and systematic analytical framework and is thus easily accessible for students, researchers, and the interested public alike.
Providing a transnational and intersectional perspective on the politics of social justice in a postcolonial context, this book will appeal to students of social movements, gender studies, racism, Latin American studies, and international relations, as well as practitioners involved in activism, social work, or international cooperation.
Intersektionale und postkolonial-feministische Perspektiven nehmen die ineinandergreifenden Strukturen von Ungleichheit, Macht und Herrschaft in den Blick. Ein besonderer Fokus beider Ansätze liegt auf der wechselseitigen Konstitution von Rassismus und Sexismus sowie ihrer Effekte auf institutionelle und gesellschaftliche Strukturen, Muster kultureller Repräsentationen, alltägliche Interaktionen sowie die Subjektformation. In der deutschsprachigen Politikwissenschaft und insbesondere in feministischer Forschung werden beide Perspektiven zunehmend zur kritischen Analyse von Macht und Herrschaft eingesetzt. Der Sammelband reflektiert erstmalig systematisch das Verhältnis beider Perspektiven im Kontext der deutschsprachigen politikwissenschaftlichen feministischen Forschung und den Gender Studies. Außerdem zeigt er den analytischen und theoretischen Mehrwert beider Perspektiven für die politikwissenschaftliche Forschung im Allgemeinen. Die Beiträge legen anhand aktueller Forschungsprojekte dar, welche epistemologischen, ethischen, methodologischen und politischen Auswirkungen die Einnahme einer intersektionalen sowie einer postkolonial-feministischen Perspektiven hat. Aktuelle Debatten der Politikwissenschaften zu islamischer Religion, Gefängniskritik, der Ethik biomedizinischer Forschung, dem Wohlfahrtsstaat oder ökologischen und studentischen Bewegungen im globalen Süden werden aus diesen Perspektiven analysiert.
Die Beiträge im geplanten Sammelband sollen das Potential intersektionaler und feministisch-postkolonialer Analysen für die politik- und sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung weiter ausleuchten. Das Verhältnis zwischen intersektionalen und postkolonial-feministischen Perspektiven und die Relation dieser zum Kanon der politikwissenschaftlichen Forschung soll diskutiert werden.
Der peer-reviewte Sammelband wird voraussichtlich im Frühjahr 2020 in der Reihe „Politik und Geschlecht“, herausgegeben vom Sprecher*innenrat des AK Politik und Geschlecht in der DVPW, im Verlag Barbara Budrich erscheinen.
Politikwissenschaftler*innen und Forschende aus den Nachbardisziplinen sind eingeladen, sich mit einem Originalbeitrag an der Publikation zu beteiligen.