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From human ethics to the agency of technology. Material Feminist discourse analysis of key figures’ paradigms in green energy technology
Promotionsprojekt von Tamar Grosz
in Kooperation mit der Technischen Universität Berlin
Erstbetreuung: Prof. Dr. Petra Lucht (FU Berlin/TU Berlin)
Zweitbetreuung: Prof. Dr. Martina Erlemann (FU Berlin)
(Bildquelle: Hadas Tapouchi)
The project analyzes the ethics associated with Green Energy. These ethics are investigated through the study of green energy narratives linked to the "Lithium Triangle" case study. Historically, energy has been conceived as a commodity developed by technology through the formation of extractivist capitalist cultures. Current discourses tend to link narratives about energy technologies to narratives about market growth. Our research aims to juxtapose various narratives from different stakeholders. The case study of "Lithium Triangle" concerns the technology of extracting lithium from salt flats in Latin America for batteries in e.g. electric vehicles. The research work consists of qualitative interviews with stakeholders in the salt mining communities of the Lithium Triangle: Chile, Argentina and Bolivia, (where about 68% of the world's lithium salt resides) and interviews with local and European policy makers. The analysis is threefold: ontological, epistemological and ethical, and focuses on the different approaches to the human relationship with matter and the role of technology in the narratives of "human-nature" interactions. The research is embedded in feminist theory of science, technology and society and in Latin American postcolonial perspectives. The aim of the study is to integrate native narratives and non-Western cosmologies into Western discourses on Green Energy. (laufend)
Queer perspectives on the culture of physics
Promotionsprojekt von Andrea Bossmann
in Kooperation mit der Technischen Universität Berlin
Erstbetreuung: Prof. Dr. Petra Lucht (FU Berlin/TU Berlin)
Zweitbetreuung: Prof. Dr. Martina Erlemann (FU Berlin)
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The academic culture of physics is still largely dominated by conformity with a binary understanding of gender as well as hetero- and mononormativity. In addition, the vast majority of physicists in Germany are white, implicitly heterosexual cis-men. At the same time the prevalent strong belief in objectivity within physics inhibits addressing these issues. The aim of my project is to center the experiences of physicists who do not conform with these norms and whose perspectives have received little attention within the research on the culture of physics so far. For this purpose I'm conducting qualitative semi-structured sociological interviews with LGBTQIA+ physicists as well as gender equality officers at physics departments. My focus is on the social acceptance of physicists who identify as LGBTQIA+ within the physics environment as well as their lived experience during their physics study and academic career path. Taking the experiences of LGBTQIA+ people in physics into account allows for a differentiated analysis of the professional culture of physics with respect to hetero-, mono- and binary-gender normativity and its effects on participation, ways in to and out of physics careers and knowledge production. Furthermore, queer perspectives offer a potential for deconstruction. In addition to my research I aim to help raising awareness for diversity, equity and inclusion in the physics community. (laufend)
Physikerinnentagungen als Karriere-Booster? Einflüsse der Deutschen Physikerinnentagungen aus der Perspektive von Tagungsorganisatorinnen
Bachelorarbeit von Lucia Hatzelmann
In dieser Arbeit wurden die Einflüsse der Deutschen Physikerinnentagung (DPT) auf die Karrieren ihrer Organisatorinnen mithilfe von qualitativen Forschungsmethoden untersucht. Hierfür wurden Organisatorinnen der DPT befragt, die aus ihrer subjektiven Wahrnehmung ihre Erlebnisse und Erfahrungen mit und auf der DPT beschrieben haben. Auf alle Interviewpartnerinnen war ein Einfluss der Physikerinnentagungen feststellbar, jedoch in jeweils verschiedenen Ausprägungen. Vor allem die Atmosphäre auf der Tagung hat sich als hauptsächlicher Einflussfaktor herausgestellt und konnte als Basis weiterer genannter Einflussfaktoren herausgearbeitet werden. (abgeschlossen)