Subjectivity and economic rationalism: a cross national collaboration

The aim of the project is to understand the ways in which men and women of different ages in Australia and Germany are responding socially and emotionally to the changes in the labour market brought by economic rationalism and globalisation. Intensive qualitative interviews are used to research and theorise gendered and classed formations inside practices for coping developed within specific cultural frameworks. The project provides important insights for policy in both Australia and Germany and insights crucial for coping with the enormity of the impact of changes on people's lives and ways of understanding their own identities.

Queer Embodiment

Based on a project with/of the Japanese Artist Erika Matsunamie about masculinities and femininities with German male "Cross-Dressers" this research project seeks to investigate the phantasmatic dimension of embodiment. Embodiment is understood as a highly overdetermined and contradictive inscription of practices in the body with continuously shifting investments. Using in-depth interviews and free association over significant self-portrait photographs modes of articulations over embodied experiences are analyzed to get insights in the heterogeneous processes of gendering and sexing the body.