Dr. Olaf Tietje

Primary research areas

• Diversity
• Ethics and research ethics
• Gender studies
• Intersectionality
• Labour
• Migration
• Qualitative methods
• Sexuality
• Social work and social participation

Selected publications

• (2023): Looking for the Bigger Picture. Analyzing governmentality in mosaic mode. In: Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research 24 (2), 1–35. https://dx.doi.org/10.17169/fqs-24.2.4069
• (2023): Situational Governmentality. Epistemologische und methodologische Überlegungen zu einer situierten Analyse von Regierungsweisen. In: Leslie Gauditz/Anna-Lisa Klages/Stefanie Kruse/Eva Marr/Ana Mazur/Tamara Schwertel/Olaf Tietje (Hg.): Die Situationsanalyse als Forschungsprogramm. Theoretische Implikationen, Forschungspraxis und Anwendungsbeispiele. Wiesbaden. Springer, 123–138. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-658-38714-3_8
• (2023): Die Situationsanalyse als Forschungsprogramm: Theoretische Implikationen, Forschungspraxis und Anwendungsbeispiele. Gemeinsam mit Gauditz, Leslie; Klages, Anna-Lisa; Kruse, Stefanie; Marr, Eva; Mazur, Ana; Schwertel, Tamara. Wiesbaden: Springer. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-658-38714-3
• (2023): "You know now - talk about it!": Decolonial research perspectives and commissions of the research field. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 24(1), 27. http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/fqs-24.1.3974
• (2022): Gender, Labour and 'Buen Vivir'. Cooperatives and Fair-Trade Coffee Production in Southern Mexico. Gemeinsam mit Elisabeth Tuidern. In: Praveen Jha/Paris Yeros/Walter Chambati/Freedom Mazwi (Hg.): Farming and Working under Contract: Peasants and Workers in Global Agricultural Value Systems. London. Columbia University Press, 409- 427.

Selected presentations

• (2023) "Science, Ethics and Reciprocity: Doing Research with Aspiration?"
  Keynote speech at the Methodenwoche der Göttinger Graduiertenschule Gesellschaftswissenschaften, Göttingen University
• (2023) "And just to know I get my money tomorrow…”. On the Ambivalence of building small Cooperatives for/by Immigrants in Barcelona"
  XX ISA World Congress of Sociology "Resurgent Authoritarianism: The Sociology of New Entanglements of Religions, Politics, and Economies", Melbourne
• (2023) "Analysing transitions in relational perspective – methodological perspectives"
  Panel discussion at the International Conference "Doing Transitions. Relational perspectives on the life course", Goethe Universität Frankfurt
• (2022) "On Situational Analysis"
  Presentation and workshop with the DFG-Sonderforschungsbereich 1567 Virtuelle Lebenswelten on situational analysis in research in der Forschung, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
• (2022) "Freiwilliges Engagement im/für/gegen das Grenzregime? Zivilgesellschaftliche Unterstützung, soziale Teilhabe und Partizipation in neoliberalen Grenzraumproduktionen"
  41st German Sociological Association (DGS) congress "Polarisierte Welten", Bielefeld
• (2022) "Queer Immigrants in the German Shelter System. Between self-empowerment, experiences of violence and safe havens."
  117th American Sociological Association Conference "Bureaucracies of Displacement", Los Angeles

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