Research Interests
- Urban Studies
- Post-Development and Postcoloniale Theories, Gender Studies
- Globalization- and Transnationalization Theories
- Protest- and Social Movement Reseaech
- Southern Africa (South Africa) and Westafrica (Senegal)
- Qualitative Methods and Methodology
Research Projects
10/2018
“Youth Movements and Political Change: a Transregional Comparison between Bangladesh and Senegal”, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Eva Gerharz (University of Applied Sciences Fulda) and Prof. Dr. Christian Meyer, University of Konstanz
04/2015-08/2017
“Protest and Translocal Practices“, Network Funding, Institute of Cultural Studies (KWI), Essen
03/2015-03/2017
“Political Culture in Bangladesch and Senegal: Urban Protest Movements from a Transregional Comparative Perspective“, Start-up financing for the MERCATOR - Research Center Ruhr, in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Eva Gerharz (Ruhr-University Bochum) and Prof. Dr. Christian Meyer (University of Konstanz)
07/2014-09/2014
“'We're Fed Up' – Comparison between Urban Protest Cultures in Senegal and South Africa“, Scholarship “Career bridge Ph.D. – Postdoc”, Rectorate of Bielefeld University
Publications
Peer-reviewed*
Monograph
Gukelberger, Sandrine (2018). Urban politics after Apartheid. London: Routledge*
Special Editions
Gukelberger, Sandrine/Gerharz, Eva (2019). Urbaner Protest im globalen Süden. Sociologus, Issue 1*
Gukelberger, Sandrine/Gerharz, Eva (2019). Hinsehen mit Verständnis. Methoden und Ethik der globalen Bewegungsforschung. Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen, Volume 32, Issue 1
Articles
Gukelberger, Sandrine/Meyer, Christian (2020, i.E.). Creating space by spreading atmospheres: Protest movements from a phenomenological perspective. In: Bauer, Nina et. al. (Eds.): Re-figuration of Spaces and Cross‐Cultural Comparison, Journal FQS*
Gukelberger, Sandrine (2020). Youth and the politics of generational memories: The Soweto uprising in South Africa. In: Champy, M. and A.-M. Péatrik (Eds.): Jeunes en Afrique, Ateliers d'Anthropologie, Laboratoire d'Ethnologie et de Sociologie Comparative, 47*
Gukelberger, Sandrine (2019). Protestkulturen und ethnographische Zugänge: einführende Bemerkungen. In: Urbaner Protest im globalen Süden. Sociologus, Issue 1, pp. 1–17
Gukelberger, Sandrine/Gerharz, Eva/Faut, Vera (2019). Editorial. Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen, Volume 32, Issue 1, pp. 3–17
Gukelberger, Sandrine/Gerharz, Eva (2019). Qualitative Protest- und Bewegungsforschung. In: Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen, Volume 32, Issue 1, pp. 19–28
Book Contribution
Gukelberger, Sandrine (2016). La chercheuse en prise avec les différentes formes de violence sur le terrain au Cap. In: Perera, E. and Y. Beldame (Eds.): In Situ: situations, interactions et récits d'enquête, Paris: L’Harmattan, pp. 91–100*
Other Contributions
Gukelberger, Sandrine (2018). Protest und translokale Praktiken. KWI Publication
Gukelberger, Sandrine (2015). Resilienz und Protestkultur zwischen Beharrung und Innovation. Essay, Blog 'Das Paradox der Resilienz', medico international
Gukelberger, Sandrine (2011). Dynamics of Decentralising South Africa. Working Paper No. 366, Development Sociology and Social Anthropology, Bielelfeld University
Gukelberger, Sandrine (2011). Violence in the Field. Working Paper No. 367, Development Sociology and Social Anthropology, Bielefeld University
Gukelberger, Sandrine (2003). Erdölstaaten am Golf von Guinea — Wachstumsregion oder Krisenherd? (Berlin, 05.05.2003), Conference Report. In: africa spectrum, Volume 38, Issue 1, pp. 127–129
Gukelberger, Sandrine (2003). How People Elect Their Leaders. Parties, Party System and Elections in Africa South of Sahara, (Hamburg, 22.-23.05.2003). Conference Report. In: africa spectrum, Volume 38, Issue 1, pp. 125–127
Academic Career
10/2018 –
Principal Investigator in the DFG-Project “Youth Movements and Political Change: a Transregional Comparison between Bangladesh and Senegal”, Chair of General Sociology and Cultural Sociology, Department of History and Sociology
10/2018 –
Adjunct Lecturer, Faculty of Social Sciences and Cultural Studies, University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf
04/2017 – 09/2018
10/2014 – 10/2015
Substitute Junior Professor of Internationalization und Development, Sociology Section, Faculty of Social Sciences, Ruhr-University Bochum
10/2015 – 03/2017
Lecturer, Sociology Section, Faculty of Social Sciences, Ruhr-University Bochum
07/2014 – 09/2014
Postdoc, Research Unit Transnationalization und Development, Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University
03/2013 – 04/2014
Research Associate in the DFG-Project “The Microdynamics of Political Communication in World Society. The Social Life of the Concept of Democracy in Two Islamic States”. Directors: Prof. Dr. Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka, Prof. Dr. Eva Gerharz, and Prof. Dr. Christian Meyer, Resarch Unit Transnationalization und Development, Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University
04/2010 – 02/2013
Research Associate, Research Unit Transnationalization und Development, Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University
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Research Abroad
Ethnographic Fieldwork
06/2019, 08/2019 - 09/2019
Dakar/Senegal
12/2013 - 02/2014
Dakar, Kaolack/Senegal
11/2005 - 04/2007
Cape Town/South Africa (German Academic Exchange Service/DAAD-Scholarship, Guest Doctorate at the Faculty of Sociology, University of Cape Town)
01/2004 - 04/2004
Cape Town, Johannesburg/South Africa