Prof. Dr. Diana Lengersdorf

“My view is that it is not possible to stay with the trouble among us without the practice of joy. That the practices of joyful collective and individual pleasure are essential to the arts of living on a damaged planet.” (Donna Haraway)

• Sociology of Gender, Men's Studies
• feminist reserach on care
• Science & Technology Studies
• Sociology of knowledge, sociological practice theories

CURRENT PROJECTs

DFG Research Training Group (RTG 2650) Experiencing Gender. Constitution and Transformation of Being in the World
The Research Training Group (RTG) will investigate the experiences people have with their gender in any given societal context. The central focus will be on the bodily-lived experiences of gendered being in the world. How do people experience their gendered mode of existence? How is gender constituted in lived experiences and in its entanglement with other dimensions of existence (class, ethnicity, nationality, sexuality, health, age, religion)? Because subjects experience themselves as gendered through this bodily-lived dimension, to what extent does this dimension present itself as a condition for the transformation of gender orders? A division between so-called ‘deconstructivist’ and ‘essentialist’ approaches has long been established within gender studies. Contrary to this development, this RTG would like to place corporeality and the complex sphere of experience of gender at its focus. The topic and research program of the RTG traverse the established disciplines: as such, subject fields that have so far largely worked separately on gender research will cooperate in this planned research network.
Funding: DFG
see for more information: https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/zwe/izg/grk/#

Research Network "Individualization in Changing Environments (InChangE)"
In the network, which is funded by the Ministry of Culture and Science (MKW) of North Rhine-Westphalia, scientists from the University of Bielefeld and the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Muenster are conducting research together.
Individualization has so far been researched almost only intradisciplinarily. We want to investigate individualization in changing environments in an interdisciplinary discourse of natural sciences, humanities and social sciences. The focus is on questions of causes and mechanisms of individualization, modeling and prediction of individualization, and effects and consequences of individualization in the field of tension with the common good.
The 24 directors of studies of the network come from nine disciplines. Six postdoctoral positions will be filled in the network and postdoctoral fellowships will be announced in the following years to enrich the network with their projects. In addition, numerous formats for doctoral students will be created.
Funding: Ministry of Culture and Science (MKW) of North Rhine-Westphalia (2021-2024)

DFG Scientific Network for the Study of Work and Organizational Practice in the Cultural and Creative Industries
The current transformation of the world of work is challenging the analytical concepts of sociology to such an extent that the traditional concept of work is in "crisis. Central transformation processes of gainful employment can be observed especially in the field of cultural and creative industries. This economic sector is considered to be a forerunner of developments in the world of work, since general trends in gainful employment become visible there at an early stage. The importance of the cultural and creative industries has been highlighted on various occasions, but systematic analyses of this field of activity are only available in rudimentary form.
Funding: DFG, Speaker: Prof. Dr. Hannes Krämer