Utopias of Sustainability – The Sustainability of Utopias: Introduction to a Multimodal Intervention

PhD (Göttingen), is a cultural anthropologist at the University of Göttingen, where she works on her postdoctoral project on performed authenticity in times of economisation and digitality – in NPO fundraising, with social media influencers, with vendors and organizers of street magazines, and regarding ‘social media detox’. Her research interests include social movements, media usage at demonstrations, work cultures, trust, ego documents, popular taste, media theory & reception, and the anthropology of space.

is an Associate Professor of Social Anthropology at University of Perugia, Italy, and a bush-league bee-keeper in his spare time. His work focuses on how grassroot activism extends the horizon of what seems possible and thinkable. He served in different faculty positions at Queen’s University Belfast, University of Münster (Germany) and the Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Israel). His publications in German, French and English cover four monographs and papers in major international journals, including for American Anthropologist, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Contemporary Ethnography, Mobilization, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research and Anthropology Today. 

is an Assistant Professor for European Ethnology at the Institute for History and European Ethnology of the University of Innsbruck. After completing her PhD on gender relations within the German armed forces, she held postdoc positions at Paderborn, Marburg, and Innsbruck, and has been a visiting researcher at the Universities of Messina, Perugia and Hamburg. Her habilitation focused on the new Italian feminist movement ‘Se Non Ora Quando?’. Among her research interests are social movement research, gender studies, digitization, and methodological and ethical aspects of researching sensitive fields. Her last edited book, together with Timo Heimerdinger, Position beziehen, Haltung zeigen!? (2024) explores questions of positioning within cultural anthropology.