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Kathrin Ottovay

Kathrin Ottovay, PhD

  • Associated Researcher
  • Former Researcher (Post-Doc) in the project ReDigIm (until 2026)

Research Interests

  • Practices and narratives of justice
  • Food cultures and food policies in social inequalities, Food (Movement) Studies
  • Everyday economies, digitalisation and money
  • Everyday culture in/as conflict
  • Bodies, Crises, Capitalism: Health and Crisis(es) of Social Reproduction
  • Research on/in articulations, conjunctures and dispositifs
  • Subjectivation and governance/governmentality

Portrait

  • 11|2025 - 01|2026: Senior Assistant at ISEK - Department of Popular Cultures (Professorship Ege)
  • 4|2024 -10|2025: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in "Redistributive Imaginaries: Digitalization, Culture, and Prosocial Contributions", at ISEK - Department of Popular Cultures (Professorship Ege)
  • 2023 PhD: From Food Crisis to Food Justice: Food Activism between Self-Care and Societal Transformation, at Institute of Sociology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, supervised by Prof. Dr. Stephan Lessenich and Prof. Dr. Silke van Dyk
  • 2016 – 2023: Project and campaign coordination and public relations for civil society organizations and alliances 
  • 2012 – 2015 PhD scholarship holder of Rosa Luxemburg Foundation
  • 2010 – 2012 | 2013: Research project assistant at Institute for Gerontological Research e.V. Berlin
  • 2007 – 2009: Student assistant in the Public Health Research Group at the Social Science Research Center Berlin | WZB
  • 1999 – 2010 (Magistra Artium degree): Studies of European Ethnology with Sociology and Gender Studies at Humboldt University of Berlin and University of Sussex

Publications

Please refer to the German page.