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Dr. Carolin Mezes
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since 10/2023 PostDoc Fellow
- InChangE in Bielefeld, interdiciplinary research network
- AG Lengersdorf, sociology of gender
07/2023 disputation of the doctoral research
"Monitoring Pandemic Preparedness. On Global Health Security's Politics of Accountability, Development and Infrastructure", monography to be published in spring 2024 with campus
02/2018 - 2023 doctoral researcher
at the collaborative research center "Dynamics of Security", project A08 — Administrating Transnational Health Crises
2018 MA Soziologie, Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main
2016 MA Gender, Media & Culture, Goldsmiths, University of London
PUBLICATIONS
spring 2024 Monitoring Pandemic Preparedness. On Global Health Security's Politics of Accountability, Development and Infrastructure", unter Vertrag bei campus
fall 2024 „Ecologies of disease control: Spaces of health security in historical perspective“, ed. with Andrea Wiegeshoff and Sven Opitz, international and interdisziplinary edited volume under contract with Pittsburgh University Press, USA
2023 „Long Covid und der 'psychosomatische Verdacht'. Polarisierungen im Problem diagnostischer Unsicherheit“ In Polarisierte Welten. Verhandlungen des 41. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie in Bielefeld 2022, ed. Paula-Irene Villa Braslavsky.
2020 "Ambivalenzen der Sorge von Global Health Security und das Problem der response-ability". In: Behemoth. A Journal on Civilization.
2020 with Sven Opitz, "Die (un)vorbereitete Pandemie und die Grenzen der Preparedness – zur Biopolitik um COVID-19". In: Leviathan. Berliner Zeitschrift für Sozialwissenschaft 48(3): 1 – 26.
2020 "(Nicht-)Wissen und (Un-)Sicherheit in der Pandemie". In der Reihe: "Sicherheit in der Krise", aufzurufen auf Soziopolis
Current research topics
- biopolitics
- science and technologie studies, sociology of the material sociology of medicine and the psy-disciplines
- sociology of medicine and the psy-disciplines
- feminist theory, theory of the body, affect theory
With the project of a sociology of psychosomatics I am planning to map contemporary psychosomatic medicine in Germany and the psychosomatic discourse beyond the established medical field from the perpective of the sociology of medinice and science. This project allows to adress a surprising gap in german sociological research. Despite an unbroken interest in the negotiation of classical modern dualisms (psyche/soma, body/mind, nature/culture, etc.), it not yet developed a perspective on psychosomatic medicine - even though compared to other countries, it is uniquely established in the German medical system as a medical specialty with its own clinics, and also has presented itself in an explicitly new self-understanding in recent years. The controversy surrounding Long Covid will be used as a case study to address the key question of what exactly actors in the medical system imagine "psychosomatics" or a "biopsychosocial" context to be, and in particular, what assumptions they make about gender and the "overtaxing" society in this context.
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