Frau Maria del Carmen Mayer

Positions

Since 2022 Research Associate at School of Economics and Law Berlin (HWR), Research Project 'Digitalisation of Value Chains' (Hans- Böckler Foundation)

2019- 2022 Research Associate at the Chair of Conflict Sociology, Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University

Further

Since 2020 Co- Representative of the 'Mittelbau' of the Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University

2019- 2022 Member of the local Organizing Group of the DGS Congress 2022 (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie; German Sociology Association), Bielefeld University

Education

Since 2020 Doctorate at Bielefeld Graduate School in Sociology & History (BGHS)

2018 Master of Arts in Political Science, Johann Wolfgang Goethe- Universität, Frankfurt am Main

2013 Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, Freie Universität, Berlin

Teaching

WS 22/23: 'Strategies and Tactics of Social Movements' (MA- Course)
WS 19/20; WS 20/21; SoSe 22: 'Crisis and Social Movements' (MA-Course)
SoSe 20: 'The City and Social Movements' (MA- Course)
WS 20/21; WS 21/22; WS 22/23 'Introduction to Political Science' (BA- Course, Workshop)

Publications
M. d. C. Mayer, V. Stern, P. Daphi, J. Roose (2021) (eds.): Abstand von Protest oder Protest auf Abstand? Soziale Bewegungen in der COVID-19 Pandemie. Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen (FJSB): De Gruyter.

M. d. C. Mayer, V. Stern, P. Daphi (2021): Soziale Bewegungen in Zeiten von COVID-19 zwischen Anpassung, Innovation und Brüchen. Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen (FJSB), 1(34), 203-217.

Conference Presentations (Selection)

2024
'Navigating and making sense of field work on activism through a feminist lens' with M. Bonerz & A. Farneti, Paper Presentation, 'Feminism as a Method' International Conference at Scuola Normale Florence (SNS)

'Ambivalences of Solidarity in Pandemic Crisis - Emotions of (Dis-) Engagement witihin Mutual Aid Activism' Paper Presentation, ESA General Conference, Porto University

2022

Co- Organizer (with L. R. Reichle, S. Uhlmann) of the Ad- hoc Group 'Umkämpfte Polarisierung – Soziale Bewegungen & Soziale Reproduktion' (Contested Polarization - Social Movements & Social Reproduction) at the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie (DGS)- Congress 'Polarisierte Welten' (Polarized Worlds), Bielefeld

2021

'Transformative Strategies of Mutual Aid in the Covid- 19 Pandemic' Paper Presentation at ECPR General Conference

‚Mutualism' as strategic practice in the Covid- 19 pandemic' Presentation at the Annual Conference 'Social Movements and the Social Question' of the Institut für Protest- und Bewegungsforschung (IPB)

2020

Co- Host and Discussant: Panel on 'Political Mobilization in Times of Growing Polarization', Section 'Current Research and Challenges on Political Participation and Mobilization' at ECPR General Conference, Innsbruck

2019

'A Reflection on Marginality, Localised Political Organisation and Class Consciousness. The Case of Neighborhood Committees in Milan' Paper for the International Conference 'Class without consciousness - Politics of fragmented class identities' at Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence

2018

'Resistant Territories - Reflections on Activist Research' Presentation at the DAAD- Workhshop 'Everyday Practices of Solidarity. Relational Learning Under Conditions of Multiple Crises' at the HafenCity University, Hamburg