Prof. Dr. Heike Greschke
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Comparative Cultural Studies and Qualitative Research (Sociology)
NameMs Prof. Dr. Heike Greschke
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Visiting address:
Bürogebäude Falkenbrunnen, FAL 204 Chemnitzer Straße 46a
01187 Dresden
Office hours:
- Thursday:
- 15:00 - 16:00
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Heike Greschke was appointed as professor TU Dresden in September 2016. Prior to her time here, she held a junior professorship in media sociology at Justus Liebig University (JLU) in Giessen from 2012 to 2016. There, she served as spokesperson for the Power – Media – Society (Macht-Medium-Gesellschaft) section at the Center for Media and Interactivity, as well as for the Medialization of Societies (Medialisierung von Gesellschaft) section at the Giessen Graduate Center for Social Sciences, Business, Economics and Law. She is a member of the research group Migration and Human Rights (FGMM) at JLU. From 2009 to 2012 she was project leader of the junior research group Climate Worlds — a joint initiative of the Essen Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) and the Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology (BGHS).
Heike Greschke initially studied social pedagogy in Koblenz (Dipl.-Soz.päd., 1995). She then spent several years gathering professional experience working at the youth welfare service for women and girls Mädchenhaus Bielefeld e.V. She subsequently studied sociology and social anthropology in Bielefeld and Seville. She then completed her doctorate in the Research Training Group “World Concepts and Global Structural Patterns: Differentiation and Functional Diversification of World Society.” Her ethnographic study ‘Daheim in www.cibervalle.com – Zusammenleben im medialen Alltag der Migration’ (Lucius&Lucius 2009, Routledge 2012) was honored with the dissertation award of the University Association (Universitätsgesellschaft).
Heike Greschke's research focuses on empirical analyses of how transformation processes of sociality change in response to human migration, centering around the examination of techno-social hybridization (Greschke/Motowidlo 2020) in the context of global forms of society (Greschke 2009) and transnational family structures (Greschke/Dreßler/Hierasimowicz 2017; Greschke/Ott 2020). Her work also concentrates on the relationship between social and cultural differentiation in processes of global socialization and community-building. As part of the junior research group Climate Worlds, which is interested in cultural interpretations of the impact of climate change (link to the summary report and a short film about the project), she explored how orders of belonging and claims to validity of cultural knowledge are transformed within the paradigm of the Anthropocene (Greschke/Diaz 2012, Greschke 2015). Recently, she has spent more time exploring the relationship between social (global) inequality and cultural (markers of) difference from the perspective of invective theory. She takes a closer look at the role of cultural institutions in the context of processes of polarization in urban society. In a comparative study of intercultural training sessions and integration courses, she also researches how society deals with risks of conflicts in situations of anticipated cultural otherness.
Prof. Heike Greschke’s current research project (invective coding of intercultural encounters)