Kerstin Piepenstock
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PhD Project: Gender as Independent Category of Knowledge in the Research Discourse Around Violence in School |
| Description of the Project | Violence in school contexts became a central topic of empirical research in the 1990s. In that field, gender as a category of knowledge deeply influences the concepts of violence and practices of knowledge: In order to analyze the violence, which is first declared to be a »boys issue,« the acknowledgement of violent girls and gendered forms of violence is essential. Such a perspective advances innovative research methods as well as a complex understanding of violence. With an interdependent perspective, this research project raises the question of how gendercentered discourses around violence can create discursive violence themselves by conceptualizing their subjects in a hegemonic manner. This is exemplified (among other ways) by how gender is normalized as a binary category that makes problematizing trans* discriminating violence in the context of school impossible. |
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Particulars
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Studied Gender Studies and European Ethnology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. 2006 – 2007 academic assistant in the department for Gender Studies at HU Berlin. 2008 – 2011 fellowship at the research training group »Gender as a Category of Knowledge«. Since 2011 working in a feminist project against violence. |
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Selected Publications |
zus. m. Evelyn Hayn: Jr.-Prof. Dr. Stefanie Haberzettl. Deutsch als Zweitsprache. Etwas gestalten und voranbringen, an dessen Sinn man glaubt. In: Frauen in den Geisteswissenschaften. Nüchterne Zahlen und inspirierende Vorbilder, hg. v. Susanne Baer u. Sabine Grenz, Berlin 2007. S. 30 – 33. Machtvolle Erinnerung – Bedeutsames Vergessen. In: Menschenbild und Volksgesicht. Positionen zur Porträtfotografie im Nationalsozialismus, hg. v. Falk Blask u. Thomas Friedrich, Münster 2005. S. 170 – 178. |
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