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alexmitterle.bsky.social
sociologist and/or political scientist working on the effects of university education on work (academization), social stratification, and the genealogy of annoying academic things.
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www.zeit.de/zeit-wissen/... „Es gibt auch einen soziologischen Blick auf die Baustelle …“ Jawohl, der „erste Anstieg“ ist genommen, weiteres folgt im DFG Projekt „Soziologie der Baustelle“

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Pleased to share that I will be joining @mpifg.bsky.social as Lise-Meitner-Research-Group Leader. Truly excited to be leading a group on Technology and Sovereignty in this exceptional environment and to engage with its remarkable academic community. PhD call out—pls share! shorturl.at/0K7PW

submitted 104 days ago • 8 comments

Lots of great positions at @mpifg.bsky.social, pls share! - 2yr postdoc in wealth research - 2yr postdoc in technology & sovereignty - 3+3yr senior researcher in political economy - 3+3yr senior researcher in economic sociology - tenure/director-track group leader digitalization & society

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" for many programs, there is no historical chance of securing a TT job at all." Merit vs. social closure. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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„Jenseits geltenden Rechts“ Warum der gestern mit Stimmen der AfD verabschiedete Entschließungsantrag nicht nur auf Kosten einer historisch gewichtigen Grundhaltung zustande kam, sondern sich auch über geltendes Recht erhebt, zeigt WINFRIED KLUTH: verfassungsblog.de/funf-punkte-...

submitted 91 days ago • 5 comments

Students in Serbia are at the forefront of nationwide protests and institutional occupations, which have brought higher education—and the whole country—to a halt. I wrote a text explaining what it is all about, please read & share, thank you! 🤝 #students #highered #Serbia

submitted 93 days ago • 4 comments

Over the past two months, students in #Serbia have been at the forefront of nationwide protests and institutional occupations, bringing higher education in the country to a standstill. Now, they're bringing the entire country to a standstill.

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"Contemporary conspiratorial, millennialist discourse on money, banking and wealth does not embody a delirious misrepresentation of the logic of finance: rather, it exacerbates the paranoid potentials inherent in mainstream financial imagination." www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

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Class consciousness still shapes voting, but in a different way than in the past. That's the key finding of a study with @thomaslux.bsky.social now out in English. We chart how class identity, interests and status link with voting for the left and right in Germany. A🧵 library.fes.de/pdf-files/a-...

submitted 149 days ago • 12 comments

++BITTE TEILEN++ SPD und CDU arbeiten unter Hochdruck daran, das Tempelhofer Feld zu bebauen. Willst du helfen, es zu retten? Dann komm zu unserem Teamtag mit Onboarding diesen Samstag, 11.01., 10-14:00 in der Potse, Zollgarage im Flughafengebäude Tempelhof! Das Tempelhofer Feld braucht dich!

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"how do universities die?" There are still paper presentation slots for our panel on #resilience, adaptability, death and afterlife of #universities at the #ECPR in Thessaloniki (26-29. Aug.) available. Deadline for brief abstracts: 05.01.25. DM for further details. ecpr.eu/Events/Event...

submitted 119 days ago • 0 comments

Das Tempelhofer Feld steht in akuter Gefahr durch den aktuellen Berliner Senat, bebaut zu werden. Das darf nicht geschehen. Zeichnet wie ich diese Petition!

submitted 140 days ago • 4 comments

Join us for the 2025 Oxford Ethnography and Education Conference, 8-10 September 2025 at New College Oxford. Message/email me any questions! Once again we will link with the Ethnography and Education journal for publication. Updates via ethnographyandeducation.org #AcademicSky #EducationResearch

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We need to talk much more about Michel Callon's work - also beyond market agencements.

submitted 143 days ago • 1 comment

Great comparative work on the merits of the schooled society!

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Our SI "How do universities compete?" in Studies in Higher Education has been published. It critically reflects on the central role of competition for higher education and provides context-sensitive analytical frames that reach beyond the common market-narrative. www.tandfonline.com/toc/cshe20/4...

submitted 170 days ago • 0 comments

Die zweite Auflage ist da – genauso kompakt wie die erste.

submitted 196 days ago • 1 comment

Are Studies of Valuation and Evaluation 𝑠𝑐ℎ𝑜̈𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑔? In our contribution to the Routledge International Handbook of Valuation and Society - hot off the press! -, Stefan Beljean and I discuss whether social inequality is a neglected topic in Studies of Valuation and Evaluation.

submitted 232 days ago • 2 comments

Roland and I wrote a conceptual paper comparing market and field competition in higher education. It is part of a special issue edited together with Tim Seidenschnur and really thought-provoking contributions. Will discuss in detail once the whole Volume is out. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

submitted 230 days ago • 1 comment

That's me and my friends!

submitted 248 days ago • 4 comments

I had a wonderful time at the #multiplecompetions conference at INCHER Kassel; not least because I had the chance to discuss holistic university embodiment from Martin Luther's Leipzig disputatio to the contemporary Financial Times Ranking.

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endlich ist dieses hervorragende buch von Lena Dreier zur (biographisch gestützten) institutionalisierung der islamischen theologie in deutschland erschienen 🤩

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Our new book on #academization & "how universities transform work" edited with David P. Baker (PennState) & Manfred Stock (Halle) is out now. Applying case studies, scholars from GER & US analyze how distinct fields of study co-construct jobs and #occupations books.emeraldinsight.com/page/detail/...

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