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Dr. Carolin Mezes
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since 10/2023 PostDoc Fellow
- at InChangE in Bielefeld, interdisciplinary research network
- at AG Lengersdorf, gender sociology
07/2023 Doctorate/Phd studies
Doctoral thesis "Monitoring Pandemic Preparedness. On Global Health Security's Politics of Accountability, Development and Infrastructure"
To the monograph with reading sample at campus Verlag
02/2018 - 2023 Research Associate
at the SFB/TRR 138 "Dynamics of Security", Subproject A08 - The Management of Transnational Health Crises
2018 MA Sociology, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
2016 MA Gender, Media & Culture, Goldsmiths, University of London
PUBLICATIONS + SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATION
April 2025 "Ecologies of disease control: Spaces of health security in historical perspective", ed. with Andrea Wiegeshoff and Sven Opitz, international and interdisciplinary anthology published with University of Pittsburgh Press, USA
2024 "Monitoring Pandemic Preparedness. On Global Health Security's Politics of Accountability, Development and Infrastructure", campus Verlag
2023' "Long Covid and the 'psychosomatic suspicion'. Polarisations in the problem of diagnostic uncertainty" In Polarised Worlds. Proceedings of the 41st Congress of the German Sociological Association in Bielefeld 2022, ed. Paula-Irene Villa Braslavsky.
2023 Podcast episode "Global Health Security" together with Sven Opitz, in "Mit Sicherheit im Gespräch", the podcast of the SFB Dynamics of Security
2020' "Ambivalences of the concern of global health security and the problem of response-ability". In: Behemoth. A Journal on Civilisation.
2020' together with Sven Opitz, "The (un)prepared pandemic and the limits of preparedness - on the biopolitics of COVID-19". In: Leviathan. Berlin Journal of Social Science 48(3): 1 - 26.
2020 '(Non-)knowledge and (in)security in the pandemic''. In the series: "Security in the crisis", available at Soziopolis
Current research topics
- Biopolitics
- Science and Technology Studies, Sociology of the Material
- Sociology of medicine and psy-disciplines
- Feminist theories, theory of the body, theories of affect
The planned project "Psychosomatics 2.0? A sociology of science of psychosomatic medicine in Germany" (working title) will be the first systematic sociological study of psychosomatic medicine in Germany. Unlike in almost all other healthcare systems, with its own clinics, specialist training and so-called psychosomatic primary care, in Germany it is anchored in the health system in multiple layers. The project starts from the thesis that this established psychosomatic medicine attempts to transcend the classic dualisms of modernity (psyche/soma, body/mind, nature/culture, etc.) in terms of institutions, concepts and treatment practice. How exactly it does so today needs to be analyzed in terms of sociology of science: in recent years, not only the self-image of psychosomatic medicine appears to have changed against the background of developments in the life sciences, especially the neurosciences, but also the relationship between psychosomatic medicine and sociology is changing in this context. The project addresses the surprising research gap on psychosomatics in German-speaking sociology, which has so far hardly developed a perspective on psychosomatic medicine as an applied science, despite an unbroken strong interest in a social-theoretical renegotiation of classical modern dualisms on the one hand, and classical psychosomatic phenomena such as depression or burnout on the other.
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