Dr. Amelie Harbisch

amelie.harbisch@uni-erfurt.de

Coordinator of the “Center for Political Practices and Orders (C2PO)” (Faculty of Economics, Law and Social Sciences)

Mailing address

Universität Erfurt
Faculty of Economics, Law and Social Sciences
Postfach 90 02 21
99105 Erfurt

Dr. Amelie Harbisch

Dr. Amelie Harbisch is a postdoc within the framework of the “PostDoc 2024+” funding program at the University of Erfurt and coordinator of the “Center for Political Practices and Orders (C2PO)”. At the chair for International Politics and Conflict Research, she conducts research on knowledge production in international relations, ethnographic and participatory methods, forced migration, and international political sociology (practice theory, performance theories, discourse theories).

CV

04/2022 - 03/2025: PostDoc in the BMBF-funded project “KNOWPRO, Professorship for International Politics and Conflict Research, University of Erfurt 

06/2021 - 10/2021 Research Assistant, Hertie School, Berlin

09/2017 - 09/2021 PhD, Otto Suhr Institute, Freie Universität Berlin/ Berlin Graduate School for Global and Transregional Studies (BGTS).

Dissertation topic: "Practices of constructing the 'ideal refugee'. Medial subjectification and performative discourse approaches in combination".

Publications

Harbisch, A. 2022, 'Children or productive adults? Infantilisation and exploitation of refugees in Germany and Austria',  Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2023.2166908. 

Harbisch, A. 2020, 'Against the Wall: Refugees' Artistic Street Performance as Resistant Agency', in: Mokre, M., Nölle-Karimi, C. & Schiocchet, L. (eds.), Agency and Tutelage in Forced Migration. Vienna: ROR-n.

Harbisch, A. 2014, 'Human Rights Relations between Europe and Russia. A genealogy of diverging concepts.' Politikon 25, pp. 37-55.