
Vincent Gengnagel
Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Department of Social Sciences, Jun.-Prof., denomination: Political Sociology of European Societies
Vincent Gengnagel is a Jun.-Prof. for Political Sociology of European Societies at Magdeburg University, Germany, as well as Young Academy Fellow of the Academy of Sciences in Hamburg, Germany.
Working on a Political Sociology of Scientific Knowledge, he is interested in scientific autonomy, examining how disciplinary research strategies relate to societal challenges such as “Europeanization” under conditions of academic capitalism.
As PI of 2 DFG projects he investigates the interplay between climate expertise, policy and public discourse:
-> "Green Transition Attitudes" (WEAVE)
-> "Welfare State Responses to Social Risks in Times of Climate Change" (CHANSE/NORFACE)
He is editor of a peer-reviewed diamond open access journal "Culture, Practice & Europeanization"
Supervisors: Richard Münch, Stephan Lessenich, Gerhard Schulze, and Monika Eigmüller
Address: Berlin, Land Berlin, Germany
Working on a Political Sociology of Scientific Knowledge, he is interested in scientific autonomy, examining how disciplinary research strategies relate to societal challenges such as “Europeanization” under conditions of academic capitalism.
As PI of 2 DFG projects he investigates the interplay between climate expertise, policy and public discourse:
-> "Green Transition Attitudes" (WEAVE)
-> "Welfare State Responses to Social Risks in Times of Climate Change" (CHANSE/NORFACE)
He is editor of a peer-reviewed diamond open access journal "Culture, Practice & Europeanization"
Supervisors: Richard Münch, Stephan Lessenich, Gerhard Schulze, and Monika Eigmüller
Address: Berlin, Land Berlin, Germany
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that is imagined as a European Dream, just like the moon landing was closely related to and revitalized imaginaries of an American manifest destiny; and 3) the attempt to de-antagonize EGD-critical social forces. Speaking “truth to power,” social protest can become a source of legitimacy itself for liberal governmentality, like antagonists of the US space race were – in the eye of the public – converted into believers of the American Dream.
traction as a socially significant process, the academic field is also required to
convey its specific authority and actively invest significant amounts of its respective symbolic capital into ‘Europe’. This, in turn, cannot be vertically imposed,
but requires the mobilisation of an academic sense of autonomy. Against this backdrop, the European Research Council (ERC), as the most respected representative of European academic excellence, is crucial for legitimating European
research policy in academia, and thus makes for a perfect case study to trace
processes of Europeanisation at the very core of academic autonomy. In doing so,
this chapter presents a field-theoretical analysis of the transformation of science
in Europe through the rise of academic capitalism, drawing on both qualitative
and quantitative research. The authors analyse (a) how the ERC targets the construction of a European framework for academic competition and acts as a lever
to open up national fields; (b) how this competition inherently creates inequalities
and furthers existing status hierarchies; and (c) ultimately acts as a catalyst for a
globally dominant form of academic capitalism under the US hegemony that it is
supposed to challenge.
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