E-Mail: Christine UNRAU

Research Profile:

• Political Theory and History of Ideas
• Politics, Narratives and Emotions
• Globalization, Anti-, and Alterglobalisms
• Ethics, Politics and Visual Regimes of Migration
• Right-Wing Populism and Radicalism
• Global Cooperation Research

Research Positions :

Further Activities:

• Member of the DAAD /  TÜBITAK project group ‘Distant Neighbours: Exploring Political Narratives and Visual Culture in Turkish-German Relations’, Istanbul Bilgi University and Centre for Global Cooperation Research (PIs: Frank Gadinger and Deniz Güneş Yardımcı), https://explorenarratives.com/.
• Member of COST Action Group ‘Redressing Radical Polarisation: Strengthening European Civil Spheres facing Illiberal Digital Media’/ DepolarisingEU (PI: María Luengo Cruz), https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA22165/.
• Reviewer for: Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Austrian Exchange Service, American Journal of Cultural Sociology, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Austrian Exchange Service, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, European Journal of Development Research Mediterranean Politics, Journal of Contemporary European Studies,  Journal of Social Philosophy, Journal of Global Ethics

Selected Publications :

(2023): Leidenschaft(lich) erkennen. Verhandlungen über Migration zwischen emotionaler Kritik und Emotionskritik, in: Behemoth. A Journal on Social Dis/Order. 16 (2): 48–60. https://doi.org/10.6094/behemoth.2023.16.2.1097 .

(2023): Indignants of the World, Unite? Mobilizations of Indignation in Alter- and Anti-Globalism, in: Jörn Dosch and Gesa Mackenthun (Hrsg.): Subversive Semantics in Political Discourse. Bielefeld: Transcript: 123-155. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839461778-006

with Katja Freistein, Bettina Mahlert and Sigrid Quack, Hrsg. (2022): Imagining Pathways for Global Cooperation. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.  https://doi.org/10.4337/9781802205817.

(2022): The ‘True Utopia’? Riace, Wim Wenders’s Il Volo and the Prefigurative Politics of Migration, in: Katja Freistein, Bettina Mahlert, Sigrid Quack and Christine Unrau (Hrsg.):  Imagining Pathways for Global Cooperation. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar: 52–69. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781802205817.00010.

with Katja Freistein and Frank Gadinger (2022): It Just Feels Right. Visuality and Emotion Norms in Right-Wing Populist Storytelling. International Political Sociology 16 (4): 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1093/ips/olac017 .

with Katja Freistein and Frank Gadinger (2021):  Häuser, Mauern und Grenzen: Rechtspopulistische Globalisierungserzählungen zwischen Bedrohungsszenario und Sicherheitsversprechen, in: Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen, 28 (1): 101 – 126. https://doi.org/10.5771/0946-7165-2021-1.

(2020): Judith Shklars Sinn für Veränderung. Quellen und Voraussetzungen politischen Wandels im Denken Judith Shklars, in: Zeitschrift für Politische Theorie 9 (2): 239–251.  https://doi.org/10.3224/zpth.v9i2.07.

(2019): ‘Your position?’ – Zeigen, Erzählen und Geben in Fuocoammare, in: WestEnd. Neue Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung 16 (1): 113-122.

with Volker Heins and Kristine Avram, eds. (2018): Marcel Mauss in International Relations, Special Issue, Journal of International Political Theory 14 (2). https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/ipt/14/2.

with Volker Heins (2018): Refugees welcome: Arrival Gifts, Reciprocity, and the Integration of Forced Migrants, in: Journal of International Political Theory 14 (2): 223 – 239. https://doi.org/10.1177/1755088217753232.

(2018): Erfahrung und Engagement: Motive, Formen und Ziele der Globalisierungskritik. Bielefeld: transcript. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839442388 .