Prof. Dr. Susanne Krasmann

• Sociology of Security, Uncertainty and Vulnerability
• Architecture in the Anthropocene
• The Power of Truth
• The Future of Algorithms
• Law and Its Knowledge
• Poststructuralist Perspectives and the Political

Monographs and Edited Volumes (in English)

• The Desire for Truth and the Political, Special Issue of Behemoth. A Journal on Civilisation 11 (2), 2018 (ed. w. Chr. Hentschel)

• Game Changer? On the Epistemology, Ontology, and Politics of Drones, Behemoth - A Journal on Civilisation 8(2), 2015 (hg. mit Jutta Weber)

• Governmentality: Current Issues and Future Challenges (hg. mit Ulrich Bröckling und Thomas Lemke), New York u.a.: Routledge 2010

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Journal Articles and Book Chapters (in English)

• “Architecture as a Mode of Existence. The Hamburg case of rebuilding the Bornplatz Synagogue”, Cultural Sociology, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1177/17499755241260761

• “Naming the City: On the governing forces of narratives in the formation of security dispositifs” (w. León von der Burg), Critical Studies on Security 12(1), 2024, https://doi.org/10.1080/21624887.2023.2286770“

• “Secrecy Beyond the State. Governmentality, security and truth effects”, in: Walters, William & Tazzioli, Martina (eds), Handbook on Governmentality. Edward Elgar, 2023, DOI: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839108662.00020.

• “Architecture in the Anthropocene: The Notre-Dame de Paris fire and the ‘force’ of ‘culture’”, Anthropocenes: Human, Inhuman, Posthuman 2(1), 2021, DOI: https://doi.org/10.16997/ahip.929

•  “Acts of exposure and their affective publics”, in Hentschel, Christine & Krasmann, Susanne (eds.) Exposure. Verletzlichkeit und das Politische in Zeiten radikaler Ungewissheit. Bielefeld: transcript, 2020, 15-34.

• “The Logic of the Surface: On the epistemology of algorithms in times of big data”, Information, Communication and Society, 2020 (Online First), DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2020.1726986

• “Abandoning Humanity? On Cultural Heritage and the Subject of International Law”, Law, Culture and the Humanities, 2019 (OnlineFirst)

• “Secrecy and the Force of Truth: Countering Post-Truth Regimes”, Cultural Studies 33(4), 690-710, 2019 (Published online: 26 Jul 2018), DOI: 10.1080/09502386.2018.1503696

• “Predictive Policing: not yet, but soon preemptive?” (w. Simon Egbert), Policing & Society 30(8), 2020, 905-919 (Published online 02 May 2019) , DOI: 10.1080/10439463.2019.1611821

• “‘Situational Awareness’. Rethinking security in times of urban terrorism” (with Christine Hentschel), Security Dialogue, 2019, 50(2), 181–197

• “‘Truth is where the funny lies’. On the Desire for Truth in Serious Times” (w. Christine Hentschel), in Susanne Krasmann und Christine Hentschel (ed.), The Desire for Truth and the Political, Special issue of Behemoth. A Journal on Civilisation 11 (2), 2018, 2-17

• “Enemy Penology.” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Ed. Henry N. Pontell. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018, DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190264079.013.365

• “Imagining Foucault. On the digital subject and ‘visual citizenship’”, Foucault Studies 23 (August), 2017, 10-26, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.22439/fs.v0i0.5339

• “Targeted ‘Killer Drones’ and the Humanitarian Discourse: On a Liaison”, pp. 26-44 in Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert & Kristin Sandvik (eds.) The Good Drone. London, New York: Routledge, 2017

• “In the Force Field of the Law: On Affect and Connectivity in the Casework of Forensic Architecture” (with Christine Hentschel), in a special issue on “Law’s Pluralities: Arguments for Cultural Approaches to Law,” ed. Greta Olson with Franz Reimer, German Law Journal 17(7), 2016

• “On the Boundaries of Knowledge: Security, the Sensible, and the Law”, Interdisciplines. Journal of History and Sociology 6(2), 2015, 187-213, DOI: 10.4119/UNIBI/indi-v6-i2-138

• “Editorial: Game Changer? On the Epistemology, Ontology, and Politics of Drones” (m. Jutta Weber), Behemoth - A Journal on Civilisation 8(2), 2015, https://ojs.ub.uni-freiburg.de/behemoth/issue/view/74, DOI: 10.6094/behemoth.2015.8.2.866

• “‘My fingerprint on Osama’s cup.’ On objectivity and the role of the fictive regarding the acceptance of a biometric technology” (with Sylvia Kühne), Surveillance & Society 12(1), 2014, 1-14

• “Law’s knowledge. On the susceptibility and resistance of legal practices to security matters”, Theoretical Criminology 16(4), 2012, 379-394, https://doi.org/10.1177/1362480612446775

• “Targeted Killing and Its Law. On a Mutually Constitutive Relationship“, Leiden Journal of International Law 25(3), 2012, 665-682, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0922156512000337

• “The ‘Endangerer’ – epistemology of a political figure“, Philosophical Alternatives 19(5), 2010, 55-64

• “From Foucault’s Lectures at the Collège de France to Studies of Governmentality—an Introduction” (with Ulrich Bröckling und Thomas Lemke), 1-33 in Governmentality: Current Issues and Future Challenges, New York u.a.: Routledge, 2010

• “The Right of Government – Torture and the Rule of Law“, pp. 115-137 in Ulrich Bröckling/Susanne Krasmann/Thomas Lemke (eds.), Governmentality: Current Issues and Future Challenge. London, New York: Routledge, 2010

• “The Enemy On the Border. Critique of a programme for the preventive state”, Punishment & Society 9 (3), 2007, 301-318

• „Governmentality and Control", pp. 2008-2011 in Georg Ritzer (ed.), The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2007

• „Disciplinary Society", pp. 1176-1179 in: Georg Ritzer (ed.), The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2007

2018                Visiting Fellow at University of Melbourne School of Law,
                         Laureate Program in International Law

2017                Visiting Fellow at the Center for the Study of Law and Society, UC Berkeley

2010–2011    Fellowship of the Straus Institute for the Advanced Study of Law & Justice,
                         New York University School of Law

2004              Visiting Fellow at CESDIP, Paris

1999–2001   Fellowship (Habilitation), German Research Foundation (DFG)

2000               Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Criminology, University of Toronto

1999–2000   Visiting Fellow at Goldsmiths College, University of London

1984–1985    Student Scholarship, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain,
                         German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)