I am Professor for Human-Enviroment Relations at the Institute of European Ethnology of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and director of the Integrative Research Institute: Transformations of Human-Environment Systems (IRI THESys).
I am interested in the anthropology of science and technology, environment|human relations and critical medical anthropology. I am currently working on an ecological or relational anthropology in the fields of global environmental change (sustainability transition, land use competition) and the life sciences (psychiatry, epigenetics, local biologies).
Contact: joerg.niewoehner@hu-berlin.de | Book an appointment @ Institute for European Ethnology
Find me also at: Academia | Researchgate | Institute for European Ethnology | IRI THESys
Publications
2023
Patrick Bieler, Milena Bister, Jörg Niewöhner
Phänomenographie: Zur Rekonstruktion von Erfahrung als Praxis Book Section
In: Martina Röthl, Barbara Sieferle (Ed.): 2023.
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2022
Beril Ocaklı, Jörg Niewöhner
Making and unmaking gold as a resource. Resistant socionatures in Maidan, Kyrgyzstan Journal Article
In: Geoforum, vol. 131, pp. 151-162, 2022.
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abstract = {In October 2013, around 200 protestors from the rural settlement Maidan in Kyrgyzstan clashed violently with the representatives of the exploration company as they brought in the first excavator to construct the mining infrastructure for the 'Shambesai' gold deposit. This paper is an attempt to understand the processes and practices that have led to this escalation and that continue to sustain Maidan's rejection of the gold mine to date. Motivated by state and corporate assertions that attribute such actions primarily to material interests, we engage this resistance to gold extractivism in sociomaterial terms trying to understand more deeply the dynamics of ordinary citizens' activism. Based on multi-stage interdisciplinary research, we trace and reconstruct the socionatural conditions and practices that have culminated in Maidan's decade-long struggle to unmake gold as a resource on their territory. Focusing on resource materialities, their valuations and governance, we present an historico-geographical analysis of making and unmaking of a resource frontier. Against the backdrop of the extractive order that has prevailed in Kyrgyzstan over the last three decades, we understand Maidan's struggle to be a form of situated institutional experimentation for shaping meaningful and just more-than-human socionatures.},
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In October 2013, around 200 protestors from the rural settlement Maidan in Kyrgyzstan clashed violently with the representatives of the exploration company as they brought in the first excavator to construct the mining infrastructure for the 'Shambesai' gold deposit. This paper is an attempt to understand the processes and practices that have led to this escalation and that continue to sustain Maidan's rejection of the gold mine to date. Motivated by state and corporate assertions that attribute such actions primarily to material interests, we engage this resistance to gold extractivism in sociomaterial terms trying to understand more deeply the dynamics of ordinary citizens' activism. Based on multi-stage interdisciplinary research, we trace and reconstruct the socionatural conditions and practices that have culminated in Maidan's decade-long struggle to unmake gold as a resource on their territory. Focusing on resource materialities, their valuations and governance, we present an historico-geographical analysis of making and unmaking of a resource frontier. Against the backdrop of the extractive order that has prevailed in Kyrgyzstan over the last three decades, we understand Maidan's struggle to be a form of situated institutional experimentation for shaping meaningful and just more-than-human socionatures.
2021
Patrick Bieler, Lauren Cubellis, Jonna Josties, Anja Klein, Jörg Niewöhner, Christine Schmid
Ethnografische Theorie ko-laborativ fügen Journal Article
In: Hamburger Journal für Kulturanthropologie (HJK), vol. 13, pp. 522-555, 2021.
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Jörg Niewöhner
Reflexion als gefügte Praxis Journal Article
In: Berliner Blätter: ethnographische und ethnologische Beiträge, vol. 83, pp. 107-116, 2021.
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Ethnografische Forschung ist reflexiv, sowohl mit Blick auf die eigene Forschungspraxis als auch auf die eigene Person in einem gesellschaftlichen Kontext. Wie genau sie dies ist, wird selten diskutiert. Implizit wird diese Reflexivität häufig als eine individuelle geistige Haltung und Fähigkeit zur Kritik verstanden. Spätestens seit das ebenfalls umfänglich reflexive Forschungssubjekt in der Europäischen Ethnologie zum Regelfall geworden ist, bedarf es einer Überprüfung dieses Reflexivitätsverständnisses. Ich schlage hier vor, Reflexivität als gefügte Praxis zu verstehen und sie damit für empirische Forschung verfügbar zu machen. Reflexivität als gefügte Praxis dezentriert, erstens, Reflexivität als geistigen Prozess und etabliert stattdessen Reflektieren als konkrete materiell-semiotische Praktik. Zweitens dezentriert diese Perspektive das individuelle epistemische Subjekt zugunsten von Reflektieren als einer ko-laborativen Praxis. Drittens plädiert dieser Ansatz für ergebnisoffenes Reflektieren als Selbstzweck statt es gleichsam in den Dienst einer spezifischen Form der Kritik zu stellen.
2020
Patrick Bieler, Milena D. Bister, Janine Hauer, Martina Klausner, Jörg Niewöhner, Christine Schmid, Sebastian von Peter
Distributing Reflexivity through Co-laborative Ethnography Journal Article
In: Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 2020.
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Jörg Niewöhner
Situating Biologies: Studying Human Differentiation as Material-Semiotic Practice Book Section
In: Jens Seeberg, Andreas Roepstorff, Lotte Meinert (Ed.): Biosocial Worlds. Anthropology of Health Environments beyond Determinism, pp. 44-68, UCL Press, 2020.
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Des Fitzgerald, Richard Ashcroft, Greg Hollin, Katrina Karkazis, Nicholas B. King, Hannah Landecker, Nicolas Langlitz, Filippa Lentzos, Todd Meyers, Jörg Niewöhner, Carlos Novas, Anne Pollock, Nikolas Rose, Chloe Silverman, Hallam Stevens, Banu Subramaniam, Ayo Wahlberg, Elizabeth A. Wilson
Lockdown texts Journal Article
In: BioSocieties, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 470-499, 2020.
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Beril Ocaklı, Tobias Krüger, Jörg Niewöhner
Shades of Conflict in Kyrgyzstan: National Actor Perceptions and Behaviour in Mining Journal Article
In: International Journal of the Commons, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 191-207, 2020.
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2019
Simon Gallinger, Natalie Jankowski, Milena D. Bister, Sandra Korge, Astrid Trachterna, Stefan Hildebrand, Tamer Oruc, Jörg Niewöhner, and Urte Heitman, Robert Downes, Marc Kraft
Development of a modular Decubitus Prophylaxis System: DekuProSys Journal Article
In: Current Directions in Biomedical Engineering, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 277-280, 2019.
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Jörg Niewöhner, Patrick Bieler, Milena Bister, Janine Hauer, Maren Heibges, Jonna Josties, Martina Klausner, Anja Klein, Ruzana Liburkina, Julie Sascia Mewes, Christine Schmid, Tim Seitz (Ed.)
After Practice. Thinking through Matter(s) and Meaning Relationally. Volume I Collection
Panama Verlag, Berlin, 2019.
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Jörg Niewöhner, Patrick Bieler, Milena Bister, Janine Hauer, Maren Heibges, Jonna Josties, Martina Klausner, Anja Klein, Ruzana Liburkina, Julie Sascia Mewes, Christine Schmid, Tim Seitz (Ed.)
After Practice. Thinking through Matter(s) and Meaning Relationally. Volume II Collection
Panama Verlag, Berlin, 2019.
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Sabine Biedermann, Patrick Bieler, Milena Bister, Sascha Cornejo Puschner, Adina Dymczyk, Dennis Eckhardt, Janine Hauer, Maren Heibges, Dženeta Hodžić, Jonna Josties, Martina Klausner, Anja Klein, Céline Lauer, Ruzana Liburkina, Jörg Niewöhner, Stefan Reinsch, Christine Schmid, Tim Seitz, Itzell Torres, Krystin Unverzagt, Jorge E. Vega-Marrot
Current work in the Laboratory: Anthropology of Environment | Human Relations: Doing research in a more-than-thought collective Journal Article
In: EASST Review, vol. 38, no. 2, 2019.
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From the Collaboratory Social Anthropology & Life Sciences to the Laboratory: Anthropology of Environment | Human Relations Journal Article
In: EASST Review, vol. 38, no. 2, 2019.
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2018
Patrick Bieler, Jonna Josties, Ruzana Liburkina, Julie Sascia Mewes, Martina Klausner, Anja Klein, Jörg Niewöhner, Christine Schmid, Tim Seitz
Assembling Comparators – Assembling Reflexivities Journal Article
In: Science as Culture, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 563-568, 2018.
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Stefan Reinsch, Jörg Niewöhner, Doris Staab
The Ecology of Care in Cystic Fibrosis. Identification, decision making and learning in a community living and working with a rare chronic illness Journal Article
In: Curare – Journal of Medical Anthropology, vol. 41, no. 1+2, pp. 111-129, 2018.
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Jörg Niewöhner, Margaret Lock
Situating local biologies: Anthropological perspectives on environment/human entanglements Journal Article
In: BioSocieties, 2018, (pre-published).
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Janine Hauer, Jonas Østergaard Nielsen, Jörg Niewöhner
Landscapes of hoping: Urban expansion and emerging futures in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso Journal Article
In: Anthropological Theory, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 59–80, 2018.
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Hope is much discussed as a future-oriented affect emerging from uncertain living conditions. While this conceptualisation illuminates the role that hope plays in shaping life trajectories, hope itself remains largely unaddressed. In this paper, we approach hope ethnographically as practice through the lens of material-semiotics. We draw on fieldwork in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, where hoping turns out to be co-constitutive of peri-urban life and landscape. We challenge person-centred understandings of hope in order to bring materiality back in two ways: first, hoping in its various modes and forms is always situated in particular settings, thus, its enactment has to be reflected; and second, hoping “takes place”, it is co-constitutive of the transformation of urban life. Additionally, we consider the temporality of hoping and highlight how hoping persists through urban space. We conclude that a more profound and thoroughly materialised understanding of hoping’s generative and stabilising potential may strengthen the role of anthropology in current research on socio-ecological transformations.
Maren Heibges, Martina Klausner, Jörg Niewöhner
Umgang mit Unsicherheiten in der Technikentwicklung – ein sozialanthropologischer Einwurf Book Section
In: Tobias Redlich, Robert Weidner, Markus Langenfeld (Ed.): Unsicherheiten der Technikentwicklung, pp. 76–89, Cuvillier Verlag, Göttingen, 2018.
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2017
Patrick Bieler, Jörg Niewöhner
Universal Biology, Local Society?: Notes from Anthropology Book Section
In: Maurizio Meloni, John Cromby, Des Fitzgerald, Stephanie Lloyd (Ed.): The Palgrave Handbook of Biology and Society, pp. 641–662, Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2017.
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Jörg Niewöhner
Phänomenographie: Sinn-volle Ethnographie jenseits des menschlichen Maßstabs Book Section
In: Karl Braun, Claus-Marco Dieterich, Thomas Hengartner, Bernhard Tschofen (Ed.): Kulturen der Sinne: Zugänge zur Sensualität der sozialen Welt, pp. 78–95, Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg, 2017.
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Ruzana Liburkina, Jörg Niewöhner
Laborstudien Book Section
In: Susanne Bauer, Torsten Heinemann, Thomas Lemke (Ed.): Science and Technology Studies: Klassische Positionen und aktuelle Perspektiven, pp. 173–197, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main, 2017.
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Jörg Niewöhner
„Praktiken, die sich zu Städten fügen“ Book Section
In: Martina Klausner, Maren Heibges (Ed.): Stadt erfahren: Ethnografische Explorationen urbaner Mensch-Umwelt-Beziehungen, pp. 39–43, Panama Verlag, Berlin, 2017, (Interview).
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Jörg Niewöhner, Stefan Beck
Embodying Practices: The Human Body as Matter (of Concern) in Social Thought Book Section
In: Michael Jonas, Beate Littig, Angela Wroblewski (Ed.): Practice Theories and Their Methodologies, pp. 63–77, Springer, 2017.
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2016
Jörg Niewöhner, Antje Bruns, Patrick Hostert, Tobias Krueger, Jonas Østergaard Nielsen, Helmut Haberl, Christian Lauk, Juliana Lutz, Daniel Müller (Ed.)
Land Use Competition: Ecological, Economic and Social Perspectives Collection
Springer, 2016.
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Stefan Reinsch, Jörg Niewöhner, Doris Staab
When Care Strikes Back: Some Strategies and Tactics for Dealing with Ambivalence of Visibility in Chronic Illness Journal Article
In: Irish Journal of Anthropology, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 82–90, 2016.
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Sebastian von Peter, Alexandre Wullschleger, Lieselotte Mahler, Ingrid Munk, Manfred Zaumseil, Jörg Niewöhner, Martina Klausner, Milena Bister, Andreas Heinz, Stefan Beck
Chronizität im Alltag der psychiatrischen Versorgung: Eine Forschungskollaboration zwischen Sozialpsychiatrie und Europäischer Ethnologie Journal Article
In: Zeitschrift für Psychiatrie, Psychologie und Psychotherapie, vol. 64, no. 1, pp. 7–18, 2016.
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Jörg Niewöhner
Co-laborative anthropology: Crafting reflexivities experimentally Book Section
In: Jukka Jouhki, Tytti Steel (Ed.): Etnologinen tulkinta ja analyysi: Kohti avoimempaa tutkimusprosessia, pp. 81–125, Ethnos, Tallinn, 2016, (The title given here is a translation of the original Finnish title.).
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Cecilie Friis, Jonas Østergaard Nielsen, Iago Otero, Helmut Haberl, Jörg Niewöhner, Patrick Hostert
From teleconnection to telecoupling: Taking stock of an emerging framework in land system science Journal Article
In: Journal of Land Use Science, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 131–153, 2016.
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Jörg Niewöhner, Antje Bruns, Helmut Haberl, Patrick Hostert, Tobias Krueger, Christian Lauk, Juliana Lutz, Daniel Müller, Jonas Østergaard Nielsen
Land Use Competition: Ecological, Economic and Social Perspectives Book Section
In: Jörg Niewöhner, Antje Bruns, Patrick Hostert, Tobias Krueger, Jonas Østergaard Nielsen, Helmut Haberl, Christian Lauk, Juliana Lutz, Daniel Müller (Ed.): Land Use Competition: Ecological, Economic and Social Perspectives, pp. 1–17, Springer, 2016.
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Jörg Niewöhner, Jonas Østergaard Nielsen, Ignacio Gasparri, Yaqing Gou, Mads Hauge, Neha Joshi, Anke Schaffartzik, Frank Sejersen, Karen C. Seto, Chris Shughrue
Conceptualizing Distal Drivers in Land Use Competition Book Section
In: Jörg Niewöhner, Antje Bruns, Patrick Hostert, Tobias Krueger, Jonas Østergaard Nielsen, Helmut Haberl, Christian Lauk, Juliana Lutz, Daniel Müller (Ed.): Land Use Competition: Ecological, Economic and Social Perspectives, pp. 21–40, Springer, 2016.
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Milena Bister, Martina Klausner, Jörg Niewöhner
The cosmopolitics of "niching": Rendering the city habitable along infrastructures of mental health care Book Section
In: Anders Blok, Ignacio Farías (Ed.): Urban Cosmopolitics: Agencements, Assemblies, Atmospheres, pp. 187–206, Routledge, Abingdon and New York, 2016.
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Jörg Niewöhner, Patrick Bieler, Maren Heibges, Martina Klausner
Phenomenography: Relational Investigations into Modes of Being-in-the-World Journal Article
In: The Cyprus Review, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 67–84, 2016.
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2015
Martina Klausner, Milena Bister, Jörg Niewöhner, Stefan Beck
Choreografien klinischer und städtischer Alltage: Ergebnisse einer ko-laborativen Ethnografie mit der Sozialpsychiatrie Journal Article
In: Zeitschrift für Volkskunde, vol. 111, no. 2, pp. 214–235, 2015.
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Jörg Niewöhner
Infrastrukturen der Nachhaltigkeit Book Section
In: Karl Braun, Claus-Marco Dieterich, Angela Treiber (Ed.): Materialisierung von Kultur: Diskurse, Dinge, Praktiken, pp. 490–493, Königshausen & Neumann, Nürnberg, 2015.
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Jörg Niewöhner
Infrastructures of Society, Anthropology of Journal Article
In: International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (2nd edition), pp. 119–125, 2015.
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Jörg Niewöhner
Epigenetics: Localizing biology through co-laboration Journal Article
In: New Genetics and Society, vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 219–242, 2015.
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Michael Wahl, Natalie Jankowski, Martina Klausner, Jörg Niewöhner
Neue Medien und Telemedizin in der Bewegungsrehabilitation – Chancen, Potentiale und Grenzen aus Sicht der beteiligten Personen Book Section
In: K Gramann, TO Zander, C Wienrich, M Rötting (Ed.): Tagungsband zur 11. Berliner Werkstatt Mensch-Maschine-Systeme, pp. 241-244, Technische Universität, Berlin, 2015.
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2014
Milena Bister, Jörg Niewöhner (Ed.)
Panama Verlag, Berlin, 2014.
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Julie Mewes, Jörg Niewöhner
Die Bedeutung der Stimmen: Erfahrungen des Stimmenhörer-Netzwerks Book Section
In: Thomas Bock, Kristin Klapheck, Friederike Ruppelt (Ed.): Sinnsuche und Genesung: Erfahrungen und Forschungen zum subjektiven Sinn von Psychosen, pp. 187–193, Psychiatrie Verlag, Köln, 2014.
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Jörg Niewöhner
Stadt als Praxis ko-laborativ wissen: Kommentar zu Alexa Färbers Potenziale freisetzen Journal Article
In: suburban: Zeitschrift für kritische Stadtforschung, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 126–129, 2014.
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Jörg Niewöhner
Molekularbiologische Sozialwissenschaft? Book Section
In: Vanessa Lux, Jörg Thomas Richter (Ed.): Kulturen der Epigenetik: Vererbt, codiert, übertragen, pp. 259–270, De Gruyter, Berlin, 2014.
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Jörg Niewöhner
Ökologien der Stadt: Zur Ethnografie bio- und geopolitischer Praxis Journal Article
In: Zeitschrift für Volkskunde, vol. 110, no. 2, pp. 185–214, 2014.
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Jörg Niewöhner
Review of “The Encultured Brain: An Introduction to Neuroanthropology” Journal Article
In: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, vol. 20, no. 4, pp. 789–790, 2014, (Review of the book “The Encultured Brain: An Introduction to Neuroanthropology”, edited by Daniel H. Lende and Greg Downey, 2012).
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Jörg Niewöhner
Raum: Anthropologische Perspektiven Book Section
In: Jürgen Oßenbrügge, Anne Vogelpohl (Ed.): Theorien in der Raum- und Stadtforschung, pp. 14–23, Westfälisches Dampfboot, Münster, 2014.
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Jörg Niewöhner
Perspektiven der Infrastrukturforschung: care-full, relational, ko-laborativ Book Section
In: Diana Lengersdorf, Matthias Wieser (Ed.): Schlüsselwerke der Science & Technology Studies, pp. 341–352, Springer VS, Wiesbaden, 2014.
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2013
Jörg Niewöhner
In: Heiner Fangerau, Sebastian Kessler (Ed.): Achtung und Missachtung in der Medizin: Anerkennung und Selbstkonstitution als Schlüsselkategorien zur Deutung von Krankheit und Armut, pp. 139–160, Karl Alber, München, 2013.
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Jörg Niewöhner
Neue Sozialhygiene oder lokale Biologie? Journal Article
In: Gen-ethischer Informationsdienst (GID), vol. 220, pp. 13–15, 2013.
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Martyn Pickersgill, Jörg Niewöhner, Ruth Müller, Paul Martin, Sarah Cunningham-Burley
Mapping the new molecular landscape: Social dimensions of epigenetics Journal Article
In: New Genetics and Society, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 429–447, 2013.
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Jörg Niewöhner
Review of “The Material Gene: Gender, Race, and Heredity after the Human Genome Project” Journal Article
In: New Genetics and Society, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 459–461, 2013, (Review of the book “The Material Gene: Gender, Race, and Heredity after the Human Genome Project”, by Kelly E. Happe, 2013).
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2012
Stefan Beck, Jörg Niewöhner, Estrid Sørensen (Ed.)
Science and Technology Studies: Eine sozialanthropologische Einführung Collection
Transcript, Bielefeld, 2012.
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Jörg Niewöhner
Von der Wissenschaftssoziologie zur Soziologie wissenschaftlichen Wissens Book Section
In: Stefan Beck, Jörg Niewöhner, Estrid Sørensen (Ed.): Science and Technology Studies: Eine sozialanthropologische Einführung, pp. 77–101, Transcript, Bielefeld, 2012.
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Von der Wissenschaftstheorie zur Soziologie der Wissenschaft Book Section
In: Stefan Beck, Jörg Niewöhner, Estrid Sørensen (Ed.): Science and Technology Studies: Eine sozialanthropologische Einführung, pp. 49–75, Transcript, Bielefeld, 2012.
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In: Stefan Beck, Jörg Niewöhner, Estrid Sørensen (Ed.): Science and Technology Studies: Eine sozialanthropologische Einführung, pp. 9–48, Transcript, Bielefeld, 2012.
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Martina Klausner, Jörg Niewöhner (Ed.)
Psychiatrie im Kiez: Alltagspraxis in den Institutionen der gemeindepsychiatrischen Versorgung Collection
Panama Verlag, Berlin, 2012.
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Martina Klausner, Jörg Niewöhner
Alltagspraxis in den Institutionen der gemeindepsychiatrischen Versorgung Book Section
In: Martina Klausner, Jörg Niewöhner (Ed.): Psychiatrie im Kiez: Alltagspraxis in den Institutionen der gemeindepsychiatrischen Versorgung, pp. 7–18, Panama Verlag, Berlin, 2012.
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Christoph Heintze, Ulrike Sonntag, Anna Brinck, Mania Huppertz, Jörg Niewöhner, Julia Wiesner, Vittoria Braun
A qualitative study on patients' and physicians' visions for the future management of overweight or obesity Journal Article
In: Family Practice, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 103–109, 2012.
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Jörg Niewöhner
Die menschliche Natur als Netz: Ein Plädoyer für eine neue Kultur der Achtsamkeit Journal Article
In: ARTIC – Texte aus der fröhlichen Wissenschaft, no. 14, 2012.
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Jörg Niewöhner
Natur und Kultur im Anthropozän -- eine sozialanthropologische Perspektive auf gesellschaftliche Transformation Book Section
In: Humboldt Universitäts-Gesellschaft (Ed.): Transformation von Mensch-Umwelt-Systemen: Forschung zu Klimafolgen und Landnutzungswandel, pp. 43–49, Humboldt Universitäts-Gesellschaft, Berlin, 2012.
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2011
Thorsten Moos, Jörg Niewöhner, Klaus Tanner (Ed.)
Genetisches Wissen: Formationen und Übersetzungen zwischen Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft Collection
Röhrig Universitätsverlag, Konstanz, 2011.
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Jörg Niewöhner
Genetische Beratung aus sozialanthropologischer Perspektive: Brauchen wir genetic care? Book Section
In: Thorsten Moos, Jörg Niewöhner, Klaus Tanner (Ed.): Genetisches Wissen: Formationen und Übersetzungen zwischen Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft, pp. 69–92, Röhrig Universitätsverlag, Konstanz, 2011.
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Jörg Niewöhner, Janina Kehr, Joëlle Vailly (Ed.)
Leben in Gesellschaft: Biomedizin -- Politik -- Sozialwissenschaften Collection
Transcript, Bielefeld, 2011.
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Beständig rückt der Begriff des »Lebens« weiter ins Zentrum sozialanthropologischer und soziologischer Analysen: das ›nackte Leben‹ des »homo sacer«, das biologische Leben der Lebenswissenschaften, das biographische und politische Über-Leben der Philosophie und Literaturkritik, das Leben-an-sich geformt durch Macht-Wissen oder das Leben-als-solches als das konkret gelebte Leben von Geburt bis Tod. Der Band basiert auf einer deutsch-französischen Kooperation und widmet sich in seinen Beiträgen im Modus der ethnographischen Untersuchung »Leben« in verschiedenen Praxisformen. Dabei stehen biomedizinische Praxisfelder im Vordergrund, anhand derer aber auch allgemeinere Fragen von Herrschaft, Kollektivität und Kosmologie verhandelt werden.
Joëlle Vailly, Jörg Niewöhner, Janina Kehr
Zonen des Existenziellen: Leben verstehen, Leben schützen, Leben gefährden (Einleitung) Book Section
In: Jörg Niewöhner, Janina Kehr, Joëlle Vailly (Ed.): Leben in Gesellschaft: Biomedizin -- Politik -- Sozialwissenschaften, pp. 9–28, Transcript, Bielefeld, 2011.
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Jörg Niewöhner, Michalis Kontopodis
Kardiovaskuläre Prävention als Technik zur Bildung von Leben selbst: Eine ethnographische Untersuchung Book Section
In: Jörg Niewöhner, Janina Kehr, Joëlle Vailly (Ed.): Leben in Gesellschaft: Biomedizin -- Politik -- Sozialwissenschaften, pp. 271–298, Transcript, Bielefeld, 2011.
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Jörg Niewöhner, Janina Kehr, Joëlle Vailly (Ed.)
De la vie biologique à la vie sociale: Approches sociologiques et anthropologiques Collection
La Découverte, Paris, 2011.
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Joëlle Vailly, Jörg Niewöhner, Janina Kehr
Une question vitale: Connaître, protéger, exposer la vie Book Section
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Jörg Niewöhner, Michalis Kontopodis
Se former à la vie elle-même: Une étude éthnographique de la prévention cardiovasculaire Book Section
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Michalis Kontopodis, Jörg Niewöhner, Stefan Beck
Investigating Emerging Biomedical Practices: Zones of Awkward Engagement on Different Scales Journal Article
In: Science, Technology & Human Values, vol. 36, no. 5, pp. 599–615, 2011.
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This special issue of Science, Technology, & Human Values critically explores a new stage in which the life sciences and biomedical practices have entered. This new stage is marked by postgenomic developments and an increased interest of life sciences in the everyday lives of people outside laboratories and clinical settings. Furthermore, particular attention is given to many chronic and degenerative disorders such as cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer's disease, or developmental disorders. These developments coincide---or have become entangled---with a new set of interests that an anthropologically inclined science and technology studies (STS) is bringing to the analyses of biomedical practices. An increased interest is observed in the anthropologically inclined STS in studying phenomena on different scales and in exploring fields that are not readily dominated by technoscientific rationality in practice. The introduction to the special issue examines briefly these developments and situates them in a broader genealogy of different movements that have taken place in the anthropologically inclined subfield of STS since the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Jörg Niewöhner, Martin Döring, Michalis Kontopodis, Jeannette Madarász, Christoph Heintze
Cardiovascular Disease and Obesity Prevention in Germany: An Investigation into a Heterogeneous Engineering Project Journal Article
In: Science, Technology & Human Values, vol. 36, no. 5, pp. 723–751, 2011.
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Jörg Niewöhner
The practice of the physician's understanding: Tinkering with embedded bodies beyond naturalism and constructivism Book Section
In: Tanja Bogusz, Estrid Sørensen (Ed.): Naturalismus | Konstruktivismus: Zur Produktivität einer Dichotomie, pp. 33–45, Panama Verlag, Berlin, 2011.
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Epigenetics: Embedded bodies and the molecularisation of biography and milieu Journal Article
In: BioSocieties, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 279–298, 2011.
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2010
Michalis Kontopodis, Jörg Niewöhner (Ed.)
Das Selbst als Netzwerk: Zum Einsatz von Körpern und Dingen im Alltag Collection
Transcript, Bielefeld, 2010.
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Michalis Kontopodis, Jörg Niewöhner
Technologien des Selbst im Alltag: Eine Einführung in relational-materielle Perspektiven Book Section
In: Michalis Kontopodis, Jörg Niewöhner (Ed.): Das Selbst als Netzwerk: Zum Einsatz von Körpern und Dingen im Alltag, pp. 9–24, Transcript, Bielefeld, 2010.
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Thomas Scheffer, Jörg Niewöhner (Ed.)
Thick Comparison: Reviving the Ethnographic Aspiration Collection
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Thickening Comparison: On the Multiple Facets of Comparability Book Section
In: Thomas Scheffer, Jörg Niewöhner (Ed.): Thick Comparison: Reviving the Ethnographic Aspiration, pp. 1–15, Brill, Leiden, 2010.
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Christoph Heintze, Ulrike Metz, Daphne Hahn, Jörg Niewöhner, Ulrich Schwantes, Julia Wiesner, Vittoria Braun
Counseling overweight in primary care: An analysis of patient--physician encounters Journal Article
In: Patient Education and Counseling, vol. 80, no. 1, pp. 71–75, 2010.
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Jörg Niewöhner
Entscheidungsprozesse in der hausärztlichen Beratung: Von shared decision-making zu distributed doctoring Book Section
In: Christoph Heintze (Ed.): Adipositas und Public Health: Rahmenbedingungen, interdisziplinäre Zugänge und Perspektiven für erfolgreiche Präventionsstrategien, pp. 137–152, Juventa, Weinheim and München, 2010.
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Jörg Niewöhner
In: Martin Lengwiler, Jeannette Madarász (Ed.): Das präventive Selbst: Eine Kulturgeschichte moderner Gesundheitspolitik, pp. 307–324, Transcript, Bielefeld, 2010.
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Jörg Niewöhner, Thomas Scheffer
Producing Comparability Ethnographically: Reply to Robert Prus Journal Article
In: Comparative Sociology, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 528–536, 2010.
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Jörg Niewöhner, Thomas Scheffer
Putting Complex Worlds into Words: A Final Response to Prus Journal Article
In: Comparative Sociology, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 544–547, 2010.
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Andreas Roepstorff, Jörg Niewöhner, Stefan Beck
Enculturing brains through patterned practices Journal Article
In: Neural Networks, vol. 23, no. 8--9, pp. 1051–1059, 2010.
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2009
Stefan Beck, Jörg Niewöhner
In: Paul Atkinson, Peter Glasner, Margaret Lock (Ed.): Handbook of Genetics and Society: Mapping the New Genomic Era, pp. 76–93, Routledge, Abingdon and New York, 2009.
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2008
Jörg Niewöhner
Die zeitlichen Dimensionen von Fett: Körperkonzepte zwischen Prägung und Lebensstil Book Section
In: Jörg Niewöhner, Christoph Kehl, Stefan Beck (Ed.): Wie geht Kultur unter die Haut?: Emergente Praxen an der Schnittstelle von Medizin, Lebens- und Sozialwissenschaft, pp. 113–142, Transcript, Bielefeld, 2008.
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Jörg Niewöhner, Christoph Kehl, Stefan Beck
Wie geht Kultur unter die Haut – und wie kann man dies beobachtbar machen? Book Section
In: Jörg Niewöhner, Christoph Kehl, Stefan Beck (Ed.): Wie geht Kultur unter die Haut?: Emergente Praxen an der Schnittstelle von Medizin, Lebens- und Sozialwissenschaft, pp. 9–29, Transcript, Bielefeld, 2008.
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Jörg Niewöhner, Christoph Kehl, Stefan Beck (Ed.)
Transcript, Bielefeld, 2008.
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Aktuelle lebenswissenschaftliche Forschungen problematisieren zunehmend die Grenze zwischen Natur und Kultur. Ob Adipositas, Alzheimer, psychiatrische Störungen, Gedächtnisleistung oder Stress – all diese Phänomene entziehen sich simplen biologischen Erklärungsmodellen und erfordern neuartige theoretische wie methodische Ansätze.
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Die internationale empirische Wissenschaftsforschung analysiert diese Entwicklungen und kontextualisiert sie historisch, praxistheoretisch und biopolitisch. Erstmalig für den deutschen Sprachraum bietet dieser Band einen Überblick aktueller Analysen führender Wissenschaftler_innen aus Deutschland, der Schweiz, Kanada und den USA.
Veronika Lipphardt, Jörg Niewöhner
Unterscheiden -- biohistorische Narrative und Praxen menschlicher Diversität Book Section
In: Karl-Siegbert Rehberg (Ed.): Die Natur der Gesellschaft: Verhandlungen des 33. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie in Kassel 2006, pp. 1157–1182, Campus, Frankfurt am Main, 2008.
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Jörg Niewöhner
Das metabolische Syndrom im Alltag: translation im Zeitalter von Biosozialität Book Section
In: Henning Schmidt-Semisch, Friedrich Schorb (Ed.): Kreuzzug gegen Fette: Sozialwissenschaftliche Aspekte des gesellschaftlichen Umgangs mit Übergewicht und Adipositas, pp. 191–206, VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden, 2008.
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Jörg Niewöhner, Thomas Scheffer
Introduction Journal Article
In: Comparative Sociology, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 273–285, 2008.
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2007
Veronika Lipphardt, Jörg Niewöhner
Producing difference in an age of biosociality: Biohistorical narratives, standardisation and resistance as translations Journal Article
In: Science, Technology & Innovation Studies, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 45–65, 2007.
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Jörg Niewöhner
Forschungsschwerpunkt Präventives Selbst: Herz-Kreislauferkrankungen im Jahr der Geisteswissenschaften Journal Article
In: Humboldt-Spektrum, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 34–37, 2007.
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2006
Jörg Niewöhner, Christof Tannert (Ed.)
Gene Therapy: Prospective Technology Assessment in its Societal Context Collection
Elsevier, Amsterdam and Kidlington, 2006.
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Jörg Niewöhner, Christof Tannert
Building Interdisciplinarity in Research on Gene Therapy Book Section
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Stefan Beck, Jörg Niewöhner
Somatographic Investigations Across Levels of Complexity Journal Article
In: BioSocieties, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 219–227, 2006.
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2005
John Walls, Tim O'Riordan, Tom Horlick‐Jones, Jörg Niewöhner
The meta‐governance of risk and new technologies: GM crops and mobile telephones Journal Article
In: Journal of Risk Research, vol. 8, no. 7--8, pp. 635–661, 2005.
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Jörg Niewöhner, Peter Wiedemann, Cornelia Karger, Silke Schicktanz, Christof Tannert
Participatory prognostics in Germany: Developing citizen scenarios for the relationship between biomedicine and the economy in 2014 Journal Article
In: Technological Forecasting and Social Change, vol. 72, no. 2, pp. 195–211, 2005.
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Review of “Participatory Technology Assessment – European Perspectives” Journal Article
In: Journal of Risk Research, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 356–358, 2005, (Review of the book “Participatory Technology Assessment – European Perspectives”, edited by Simon Joss and Sergio Bellucci, 2002).
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Review of “Cellular Phones, Public Fears and a Culture of Precaution” Journal Article
In: Journal of Risk Research, vol. 8, no. 7--8, pp. 717–719, 2005, (Review of the book “Cellular Phones, Public Fears and a Culture of Precaution”, by Adam Burgess, 2004).
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2004
Jörg Niewöhner, Christof Tannert
Online-Diskurs zu den ethischen Fragen der Biomedizin Journal Article
In: Zeitschrift für Biopolitik, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 54–63, 2004.
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Jörg Niewöhner
Integration von Bürgerbeteiligung als politische Aufgabe? Book Section
In: Christof Tannert, Peter Wiedemann (Ed.): Stammzellen im Diskurs: Ein Lese- und Arbeitsbuch zu einer Bürgerkonferenz, pp. 67–74, Oekom, München, 2004.
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Wouter Poortinga, Karen Bickerstaff, Ian Langford, Jörg Niewöhner, Nick Pidgeon
In: Journal of Risk Research, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 73–90, 2004.
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This mixed methodology study examines public attitudes to risk and its management during the 2001 Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) epidemic in Britain. A quantitative survey and qualitative focus groups were conducted to examine how two communities (Norwich and Bude) responded to the crisis. People were more concerned about a broad range of indirect consequences than about the direct (health) impacts of the disease, especially about the effects on the livelihood and future of rural economies. Moreover, people detected a complex of causes underlying the emergence of FMD, which suggests that the outbreak of FMD was considered a system failure, rather than something that could be blamed on one specific cause or actor. In general, people appeared to be critical about governmental handling of the FMD epidemic. Although there was some support for the government policy of slaughtering infected animals, the government was widely criticized for the way they carried out their policies. Only minor differences between the two communities Norwich and Bude were found. In particular, differences were found related to the government handling of the disease, reflected most notably in people's trust judgements. It is argued that these were the result of contextual differences in local experience, and debate on the crisis, in the two communities.
Jörg Niewöhner, Patrick Cox, Simon Gerrard, Nick Pidgeon
Evaluating the Efficacy of a Mental Models Approach for Improving Occupational Chemical Risk Protection Journal Article
In: Risk Analysis, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 349–361, 2004.
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