Johannes Beetz

 

Academic Education

2015-2020	University of Warwick, Centre of Applied Linguistic — PhD Candidate
2014	Magister Artium Thesis: Materiality and Subject. (In)Tangible Materialities and Decentred Subjects in Marxism, (Post-)Structuralism, and Material Semiotics"
2007-2014	Studies of Sociology, Philosophy and American Studies, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz
2005-2006	Studies of Soziology, Philosophie and Modern History, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz

Berufliche Tätigkeiten / Akademische Stellen

seit 05/2023	Research Assistant at the Institute of Sociology , Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
seit 05/2023	Coordinator of the Research Focus SoCuM – Social and Cultural Sciences Mainz
2017-2018	Sessional Teacher at the Department of Sociology, University of Warwick, UK
2015-2018	Research Associate in the DISCONEX Project, University of Warwick/ EHESS Paris: Fellow of the European Research Council (ERC)
2010-2012	Research Assistant at the Institute of Sociology , Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
2010-2012	Research Assistant at the Research Center for Social an Cultural Sciences Mainz (SOCUM), Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz
2009-2010	Graduate Assistant at Institut of Sociology, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz

 

Publications (selection)

Monographs and Edited Volumes

	(2016): Materiality and Subject in Marxism, (Post-)Structuralism, and Material Semiotics. Basingstoke: Palgrave. Download
	Mit Dr. Veit Schwab (Hrsg.) (2017): "Material Discourse - Materialist Analysis: Materialist Approaches in Discourse Studies". Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. Download
	Mit Dr. Benno Herzog und Dr. Jens Maesse (Hrsg.) (2021): Discursive Practices and the Role of Ideology: Discourse Studies meets Critical Theory Journal of Multicultural Discourses (JMD). Abington-on-Thames: Routledge. Download
	Mit Dr. Benno Herzog und Dr. Jens Maesse (Hrsg.) (2018): "Marx and Discourse", Critical Discourse Studies, Volume 15, No. 4, 2018. Download

Chapters in Edited Volumes

(2021): "Bigger Cages, Longer Signifying Chains - Ideology as Structural Limitation and Discursive Practice" in Johannes Beetz, Benno Herzog, and Jens Maesse (Eds.): Discursive Practices and the Role of Ideology: Discourse Studies meets Critical Theory Journal of Multicultural Discourses (JMD). Abington-on-Thames: Routledge.

Mit Dr. Veit Schwab (2018): "Conditions and Relations of (Re)Production in Marxism and Discourse Studies". In Johannes Beetz, Benno Herzog, and Jens Maesse (Hrsg.): Marx and Discourse. Criticical Discourse Studies, Volume 15, No. 4, 218

Mit Dr. Veit Schwab (2017):"Material-Discursive Entanglements: Mapping Materialist Discourse Studies". In Johannes Beetz, Veit Schwab (Eds.): Material Discourse - Materialist Analysis: Materialist Approaches in Discourse Studies. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

Mit Désirée Bender (2013): Differenzmarkierungen einer Fernsehdokumentation. Eine von ethnomethodologischen media studies inspirierte Untersuchung. In: Bonn, Eva; Knöppler,
Christian; Souza, Miguel (Eds.): Was machen Marker? Bielefeld: Transcript. pp. 155–188.

Teaching Experiences

Qualitative Methods

Seminar

Methoden der qualitativen Sozialforschung (WiSe 2021/ 22)

Sociology of Education

Seminar

Kommunikation und Interaktion (SoSe 2023)

 

Oral contributions (selections)

(2019): “The Discursive (Re)Production of Sociology. Practices and Disciplinarity” auf dem DNC3ALED Kongress zu "Knowledge and Power in a Polycentric World. Discourses across languages, cultures, and space". Paris, Université de Cergy-Pontoise, France; September 2019.

(2018): "On the Materiality of Discourse and the Discursive (Re)Production of Material Conditions" Beitrag zum "Materialism and Theory“-Symposium an der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, November 2018.

(2018): "Doing Social Science. Notes on the Sociology of Sociology | ‘Doing’ des sciences sociales. Notes sur la sociologie de la sociologie" Vortrag auf den Journées d’étude "Les chercheurs et leurs pratiques : discours, savoirs, pouvoirs | Researchers and Their Practices: Discourse, Knowledge, Power" an der École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, Juni 2018.

(2017): "Materialism without Matter? Some Thoughts on the Notion of Materiality in Science and Technology Studies" Eingeladener Vortrag bei der Contemporary Philosophy of Technology Research Group at the University of Birmingham, Mai 2017.

(2017): "Ideology as Discursive Practice - On Althusser's Theory of Ideology" Vortrag auf der DIPE Winterschool zu "Discourse, Ideology, and Political Economy", Universitat de València,  Januar 2017.

(2015) "Entering Academia - Subject-positioning in the material discourse of the social sciences"

Vortrag auf dem "InterDisc. Interdisciplinary Discourse Studies Summer Course 2015", University of Aalborg, August 2015.

 

Memberships

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie (Section Methoden der qualitativen Sozialforschung)
DiscourseNet
DiskursNetzDIPE (Discourse, Ideology, and Political Economy) Research Group. Gründungsmitglied und Koordinator
Committee member of the Contemporary Philosophy of Technology Research Group, University of Birmingham.
Redaktionsmitglied: Post-filosofie Journal