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Heribert Adam, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, was born in Germany and educated at the Frankfurt School, where Adorno was his PhD mentor. Adam specializes in nationalism and ethnicity, with a focus on South Africa, immigration, multiculturalism, and peacemaking in divided societies. Among his awards are the 1998 Adenauer Prize of the Humboldt Foundation, the 2006 Achievement Award of the Canadian Sociology Association and the election as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. His most recent book, co-published with Kogila Moodley, is: Imagined Liberation: Xenophobia, Identity and Citizenship in South Africa, Germany and Canada (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2015) from which some of the arguments in his essay are drawn. The research on South Africa was conducted when both authors were Fellows at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS). [email protected] Michaela Böhme ist derzeit Doktorandin am DFG-Graduiertenkolleg WIPCAD

der Universität Potsdam und forscht zur Nutzung von Monitoring- und Vergleichsdaten in Kultusministerien und nachgeordneten Behörden. Vorher war sie studentische Mitarbeiterin am Lehrstuhl für Politische Kommunikation an der Zeppelin Universität Friedrichshafen sowie in der Organisationsberatung tätig. Nach ihrem Bachelor in Politik & Verwaltung an der Universität Potsdam, absolvierte sie den Master in Public Management & Governance an der Zeppelin Universität Friedrichshafen. Federica Duca is a post-doctoral researcher at Public Affairs Research Institute (PARI), at Wits University, Johannesburg, South-Africa. She has recently been awarded her PhD by University of Trento, Italy, for a thesis entitled: Left inside or trapped in the visible and invisible gate: Insights into the continuities and disconti-

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nuities in the creation of good and just living in open and gated suburbs in Johannesburg. Her current research assesses the connections between elites, space, golf and power. She is particularly interested in understanding spaces relationally. [email protected] Jarko Fidrmuc is a professor of international economics at Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen. He received his PhD degree in economics at the University of Vienna in 1999. He is also affiliated as a research fellow at the CESifo Munich and the Institute of East and Southeast European Studies (IOS). He worked previously also for Oesterreichische Nationalbank, the University of Munich, and the Institute of Advanced Studies in Vienna. He has visited several universities in Europe and Asia. His research concentrates on international macroeconomics and finance and globalization. [email protected] Steve Fuller is Auguste Comte Professor of Social Epistemology in the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick, UK. Originally trained in his-

tory and philosophy of science, Fuller is best known for his foundational work in the field of ‘social epistemology’, which is the name of a quarterly journal that he founded in 1987 as well as the first of his more than twenty books. He has recently completed a trilogy relating to the idea of a ‘post-’ or ‘trans-‘ human future, all published with Palgrave Macmillan: Humanity 2.0: What It Means to Be Human Past, Present and Future (2011), Preparing for Life in Humanity 2.0 (2012) and (with Veronika Lipinska) The Proactionary Imperative: A Foundation for Transhumanism (2014). His latest book is Knowledge: The Philosophical Quest in History (Routledge 2015). His works have been translated into over twenty languages. He was awarded a D.Litt. by the University of Warwick in 2007 for sustained lifelong contributions to scholarship. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, the UK Academy of Social Sciences, and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. [email protected] Patricia A. Gwartney is Professor of Sociology and former Head of Department at the University of Oregon. She served as President of the Pacific Sociological Association in 2014 – 15. She was also Daniel Schwartz’ advisor for his senior honor’s thesis. [email protected] Andreas Haupt, Studium der Soziologie, Philosophie und Linguistik in Jena, ist

seit 2008 Akademischer Mitarbeiter am Karlsruher Institut für Technologie. Zu seinen Forschungsschwerpunkten gehören die Entwicklung ökonomischer Un-

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gleichheit, berufsspezifische Arbeitsmarktprozesse, die statistische Modellierung von Heterogenität sowie experimentelle Spieltheorie. Zuletzt sind von ihm erschienen „Der Anstieg der Lohnungleichheit in Deutschland. Eine berufsspezifische Perspektive.“ In: Gesellschaft Wirtschaft Politik 64 (1) (2015), (zusammen mit Gerd Nollmann) „Warum werden immer mehr Haushalte von Armut gefährdet ? Zur Erklärung erhöhter Armutsrisikoquoten mit unbedingten Quantilregressionen.“ Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpychologie, 66 (4) (2014) und „(Un)Gleichheit durch soziale Schließung. Effekte offener und geschlossener Teilarbeitsmärkte auf die Lohnverteilung in Deutschland.“ Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpychologie, 64 (4) (2012). Martin R. Herbers ist PostDoc am Lehrstuhl für Allgemeine Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaft der Zeppelin Universität, Friedrichshafen. Er forscht zum Beitrag von Unterhaltungsangeboten zur politischen Öffentlichkeit, zur Fernsehproduktion und zur Visuellen Kommunikation. Darüberhinaus ist er stellvertretender Projektleiter des DFG-Projekts „Mediatisierte Medienrezeption am Beispiel fiktionaler Unterhaltungssendungen des deutschen Fernsehens“ im DFGSchwerpunktprogramm 1505 „Mediatisierte Welten“. [email protected] Anil Jain is a social scientist with a strong affinity to (critical) theory and cultural

studies. His recent fields of interest are (among others) the current transformation processes of (post-)industrial societies; globalization; reflexivity and organizational change; class, difference and ethnicity; metaphors and representation. He is currently working for a research project on “Objects as Media of Reflexivity” which is both based at the Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen and the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK). [email protected] Joachim Landkammer ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Lehrstuhl für Kunst-

theorie und inszenatorische Praxis sowie Programmleiter Musik im artsprogram der Zeppelin Universität. Nach seinem Philosophiestudium in Genua/Italien, abgeschlossen mit einer Arbeit über den frühen Georg Simmel, und seiner Promotion über den Historikerstreit (an der Universität Turin) arbeitet Joachim Landkammer heute, neben seiner Lehrtätigkeit und neben journalistischer Textproduktion, zu verschiedenen interdisziplinären Themen in den Anwendungsund Grenzbereichen der Philosophie, der Ästhetik und der Kulturtheorie. Ein dezidiertes Interesse gilt dem Dilettantismus und der Kunst- und Musikkritik. [email protected]

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Barbara Lange studierte Soziologie und Psychologie (B. A. 2012) und Soziologie (M. A. 2015) an der Universität Mannheim. Während ihres Studiums arbeitete sie u. a. als studentische Hilfskraft und Tutorin am Lehrstuhl für Soziologie und Gesellschaftsvergleich und war als Hilfskraft bei GESIS Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften im Projekt “Data without Boundaries” tätig. Sie ist seit Mai 2005 Akademische Mitarbeiterin am Karlsruher Institut für Technologie. Maren Lehmann, Studium des Designs an der Hochschule für Kunst und Design Halle (Burg Giebichenstein), dann der Erziehungswissenschaften und der Soziologie an den Universitäten Halle/Wittenberg und Bielefeld. Diplom in Erziehungswissenschaft, Promotion und Habilitation in Soziologie. Seit April 2012 Inhaberin des Lehrstuhls für Soziologie mit dem Schwerpunkt Organisationstheorie im Department Communication & Cultural Management, seit März 2014 des Lehrstuhls für Soziologische Theorie im Fachbereich Kulturwissenschaften der Zeppelin Universität. [email protected] Charles Lemert is Senior Fellow in the Centre for Comparative Research at Yale University and Vice-Chancellor’s Professorial Fellow at the Hawke Institute in the University of South Australia, Adelaide. His books include Globalization: An Introduction to the End of the Known World (Routledge, 2015) and Uncertain Worlds: World-Systems Analysis in Changing Times, with Immanuel Wallerstein and Carlos Aguirre Rojas (Routledge, 2014). Dennis Lichtenstein ist PostDoc am Lehrstuhl für Politische Kommunikation an

der Zeppelin Universität Friedrichshafen. Zuvor war er wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Fachbereich Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaft, der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf. Dort hat er im Rahmen des DFG-Projekts „Nationale Konstruktionen europäischer Identität“ mit einer Arbeit zur Konstruktion europäischer Identitäten in den nationalen Mediendiskursen ost- und westeuropäischer Länder promoviert. Davor war er Mitarbeiter an der Professur für Kommunikationswissenschaft der Universität Augsburg. Er hat an den Universitäten in Salzburg, Augsburg und Wien Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaft studiert. In seiner Arbeit befasst er sich mit Fragen der öffentlichen Kommunikation zu politischen Themen und Konfliktereignissen in nationalen und europäischen Medienöffentlichkeiten. [email protected]

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Adrian Louis is a bachelor student of “Sociology, Politics and Economics” (SPE) at Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen. He participates in the research at the Chair of International Economics and Policy under the supervision of Professor Jarko Fidrmuc. His research interests are related to internet economics, organizational research and human-machine interaction. Amanda Machin is a postdoctoral researcher at the Karl Mannheim Chair of Cultural Studies at Zeppelin University. She holds a PhD in political theory supervised by Chantal Mouffe at the University of Westminster, London, UK. She is currently researching the interrelationship of climate change, citizenship, democracy and identity. Her books are Nations and Democracy: New Theoretical Perspectives (Routledge, 2015) and Negotiating Climate Change: Radical Democracy and the Illusion of Consensus (Zed Books, 2013). [email protected] Scott G. McNall is Emeritus Provost and Professor at California State University (CSUC), Chico and currently an affiliated Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Montana. He was the founding editor of Current Perspectives in Social Theory (1979 – 83) and has served his professional organizations in several ways, including Chair of the Marxist Section of the ASA. He was the founding Executive Director of the Institute for Sustainable Development at CSUC. His most recent publications include Rapid Climate Change: Causes, Consequences and Solutions (Routledge) and the forthcoming Social Inequality: Why It Is Destroying Democracy, Threatening the Planet and What We Can Do about It (Routledge). He lives with his wife, Sally, in Missoula, Montana with their two cats, Maggie (Margaret Thatcher) and Emma (Goldman). [email protected] Richard Münch, born in 1945, is Senior Professor of Social Theory and Comparative Macrosociology at Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen. He studied sociology, philosophy and psychology at the University of Heidelberg from 1965 to 1970, graduated there with a Master’s degree in 1969 and a Ph. D. in 1971 and achieved his Habilitation at the University of Augsburg in 1972, where he served as assistant at the Chair of Sociology and Communication Science from 1970 to 1974. From 1974 to 1976, he was Professor of Sociology at the University of Cologne, from 1976 to 1995 at the University of Düsseldorf, from 1995 to 2013 at the University of Bamberg. He served as co-editor of the American Journal of Sociology, Annual Review of Social Theory, Sociological Theory, Zeitschrift für Soziologie and Soziologische Revue, and he was member and finally chairman of the scientific advisory board of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Society in Cologne and is member of

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the Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. Among his recent publications are European Governmentality. The Liberal Drift of Multilevel Governance (Routledge, 2010), Inclusion and Exclusion in the Liberal Competition State.The Cult of the Individual (Routledge, 2012) and Academic Capitalism. Universities in the Global Struggle for Excellence (Routledge, 2014). [email protected] Reza Nakhaie is a professor of sociology at University of Windsor and past editor of the Canadian Review of Sociology (2009 – 2013). His research interests centre on issues of diversity, equity and justice, and cultural and political forces that produce and reproduce inequality. His recent publications have appeared in Social Science and Medicine, Canadian Review of Sociology, Review of Radical Political Economics, International Journal of Migration and Integration, International Criminal Justice Review, Canadian Ethnic Studies, Canadian Journal of Political Sciences, International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, Canadian Journal of Sociology, Journal of School Violence, Journal of Family and Economic Issues and Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. [email protected] Gerd Nollmann ist seit 2007 Universitätsprofessor für Soziologie am Karlsruher Institut für Soziologie. Studium der Sozialwissenschaften und Philosophie in Münster. Lektor und Programmleiter des Westdeutschen Verlags 1996 – 2000, danach Wissenschaftlicher Assistent am Institut für Soziologie der Universität Duisburg-Essen. Forschungsschwerpunkte: Gesellschaftlicher und wirtschaftlicher Wandel, Sozialstrukturanalyse, Lohn- und Einkommensverteilung, Armut und Reichtum. Publikationen u. a.: „Warum werden immer mehr Haushalte von Armut gefährdet ? Zur Erklärung erhöhter Armutsrisikoquoten mit unbedingten Quantilregressionen.“ Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpychologie, 66 (4) (2014) (mit Andreas Haupt). Er ist Herausgeber von Sozialstruktur und Gesellschaftsanalyse (2007, Festschrift für Hermann Strasser) und u. a. Mitherausgeber (zusammen mit Hermann Strasser) von Woran glauben ? Religion zwischen Kulturkampf und Sinnsuche (2007) und Endstation Amerika ? Sozialwissenschaftliche Innen- und Außenansichten (2004). Markus Rhomberg ist Professor und Inhaber des Lehrstuhls für Politische Kommunikation sowie Leiter des Forschungszentrums Politische Kommunikation (ZPK) an der Zeppelin Universität Friedrichshafen. Zuvor war er dort Juniorprofessor, Fellow für Politische Kommunikation der Stiftung Mercator in Berlin und Essen sowie Vertretungsprofessor für Empirische Kommunikationswissenschaft an der Universität Hamburg. An der Universität Wien hat er Politik-, Kommu-

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nikations- und Theaterwissenschaften sowie Soziologie studiert. In seiner Forschung beschäftigt er sich mit Fragen der öffentlichen Kommunikation zu politischen Themen, Klima- sowie Wissenschaftskommunikation. Jan Rosset is a post-doctoral researcher at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES), University of Mannheim, with a fellowship from the Swiss

National Science Foundation. Prior to that, he has worked as senior researcher at

FORS, the Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences, and as lecturer at the

University of Lausanne. He received his PhD in political science from this latter institution in 2013. His research interests include comparative politics, political representation and the link between economic and political inequality. His book “Economic Inequality and Political Representation in Switzerland” is forthcoming with Springer. [email protected] Carin Runciman is a Senior Researcher at the Public Affairs Research Institute, University of the Witwatersrand. Prior to this Carin worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the South African Research Chair in Social Change, University of Johannesburg. Her research specializes in the politics of post-apartheid protest and social movements and has been published in Current Sociology, Review of African Political Economy and South African Review of Sociology. She convenes the popular protest and social movements working group for the South African Sociological Association and is a board member of the International Labour Research and Information Group, a NGO based in Cape Town. [email protected] Martin Schröder is a social scientist interested in social inequality, welfare states, varieties of capitalism, economic sociology and morality. He received his PhD from the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne and studied at the University of Osnabrück, the University of Cologne, Sciences Po Paris and Harvard University. As a Junior Professor at the University of Marburg he currently researches conceptions of morally appropriate social inequality and their affect on social relations. [email protected] Daniel S. Schwartz graduated from the University of Oregon with a bachelor’s de-

gree in Sociology in 2012. His contribution is a much-revised version of his senior honor’s thesis. After three years working for progressive political causes in Washington DC, he is preparing to enter law school.

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Jennifer Shore is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Political Science at Heidelberg University. Before coming to Heidelberg, she worked at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES) at the University of Mannheim. She is part of the EU-funded project CUPESSE and works on the topics of youth unemployment, intergenerational value transmission, and labor market policies. She studied political science at Macalester College and at the University of Konstanz. She finished her PhD in political science at the Humboldt University of Berlin in 2013. Her teaching and research interests include political behavior, welfare states, social policy, and political psychology. [email protected] Nico Stehr is Karl Mannheim Professor of Cultural Studies at the Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen, Germany. He is a fellow of the Royal Society (Canada) and a fellow of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. His research interests center on the transformation of modern societies into knowledge societies and developments associated with this transformation in different major social institutions of modern society (e. g. science, politics, governance, the economy, inequality and globalization); in addition, his research interests concern the societal consequences of climate change. He is one of the authors of the Hartwell Paper on climate policy. Among his recent book publications are: Biotechnology: Between Commerce and Civil Society (Transaction Books, 2004); Knowledge (with Reiner Grundmann, Routledge, 2005), Moral Markets (Paradigm Publishers, 2008), Who owns Knowledge: Knowledge and the Law (with Bernd Weiler, Transaction Books, 2008), Knowledge and Democracy (Transaction Publishers, 2008), Society (with Reiner Grundmann, Routledge, 2009) and Climate and Society (with Hans von Storch, World Scientific Publishers, 2010), Experts: The Knowledge and Power of Expertise (with Reiner Grundmann, Routledge 2011) and The Power of Scientific Knowledge (with Reiner Grundmann, Cambridge University Press, 2012), Knowledge (with Marian Adolf; Routledge, 2014) and Information, Power and Democracy (Cambridge University Press 2015). [email protected] Hermann Strasser, Studium der Nationalökonomie in Berlin und Innsbruck sowie der Soziologie an der Fordham University in New York; Habilitation Universität Klagenfurt. Von Dez. 1977 bis Feb. 2007 Lehrstuhlinhaber für Soziologie an der Universität Duisburg-Essen. Seit März 2007 Emeritus. Forschungsschwerpunkte: Soziologische Theorie, soziale Ungleichheit, sozialer Wandel. Autor bzw. Herausgeber von mehr als 30 Büchern und 300 Aufsätzen in in- und ausländischen Zeitschriften. U. a. gab er mit John H. Goldthorpe den Sammelband Die Analyse sozialer Ungleichheit: Kontinuität, Erneuerung, Innovation (1985) sowie mit Jürgen

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Krüger Soziale Ungleichheit und Sozialpolitik: Legitimation, Wirkung, Programmatik (1986) heraus und war Mitautor der Studie Das Ende der Klassengesellschaft ? Eine empirische Studie zu Sozialstruktur und Bewußtsein in der Bundesrepublik (1990). Zuletzt erschien von ihm seine Autobiografie Die Erschaffung meiner Welt: Von der Sitzküche auf den Lehrstuhl (2. Aufl., 2015). [email protected]