CSS welcomes Dr. habil. Tanja BoguszDFG project “Experiencing Nature and Society“ to be located at CSS

8 September 2021, by CSS

Photo: T. Bogusz

The CSS is very happy to announce that Dr. habil. Tanja Bogusz will be locating her DFG-funded project "Experiencing Nature and Society. A Multi-sited Inquiry into Marine and Ethnographic Field Sciences" at the CSS. We also welcome Tanja Bogusz warmly as a new CSS member!

The project, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), has a budget of over 500,000 EUR and will run for three years, starting in April 2022. The project will investigate to what extent the concept of field and field research, once applied from the natural sciences to social research, can be made empirically and theoretically productive as a linking analytical tool between the natural and social sciences. To this end, the understanding and practice of field research at various social science and marine biology research institutions in France, northern Germany and on expeditions overseas will be examined and collaborative research concepts will be developed together with natural scientists. Through a systematic combination of empirical study phases and social and socio-theoretical explorations, the project aims to provide both a conceptual contribution to the social sciences and a concrete proposal for overcoming the nature/culture dichotomy in the face of climate change and species extinction in the knowledge society. Project partners include the Paris Museum of Natural History (MNHN), EHESS Paris, the German Marine Research Consortium (KDM) and the Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change (formerly CENAK) at Universität Hamburg.

Dr. habil Tanja Bogusz is currently a visiting professor at Kassel University, heading the group “Sociology of Social Disparities”. In summer 2021, she was appointed as a senior fellow at the Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies “Futures of Sustainability” at Universität Hamburg.