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Dr. Nicole Doerr
Kolleg-Forschergruppe "The Transformative Power of Europe"
Marie Curie Fellow
Ihnestr. 26
14195
Berlin
E-Mail: nicole.doerr@fu-berlin.de
Homepage: http://www.sociology.uci.edu/~ndoerr/profile.doc
Short CV
Positions held
- Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California Irvine, Center for the Study of Democracy, Sociology Department (2010 - ongoing)
- Organizer of the European Sociological Association Research Network on Collective Behavior and Social Movements (2010 - ongoing)
- Research Group Leader, Comparative Research Group on Gender and Politics, Social Science Research Center Centre Marc Bloch Berlin (Sept 2008 - Jan 2009)
Research
Study on local multilingual participatory democracy in the United States (funded by the European Union),
Ethnography of democracy and translation in the American Social Forum (with Prof. Jackie Smith);
Study on Global Democracy and Civic Education (funded by Ford Foundation, with Prof. Donatella della Porta)
Teaching
Political Sociology, Comparative Politics, Democracy and civil society participation in the United States and in Europe, Transnational social movements, global public spheres and alternative media, Qualitative methodology, Visual and discourse analysis, BA and MA research
Grants and Funding acquired
EU Marie Curie Project, FP7 Grant, BMBF/CNRS Research Grant, German Research Foundation Postdoctoral Grant, LSE-Center for Global Governance Research Fellowship, German Foreign Exchange Service Grant, German French University Grant
Education
2004-2008
PhD Thesis at the European University Institute, Florence
The European Social Forum process. Democracy and deliberation in a transnational public space.
2005
Master of Arts in European Research, European University Institute, Florence
2004
Diploma in Political and Social Sciences, Institut d’Etudes de Paris with summa cum laude, French German Double Dipl. Degree with FU Berlin
Main Fields of Interest
Comparative analysis of deliberative democracy and transnational public spaces in social movements, alternative media and civil society participation in Europe, multilingualism, gender, collective identity, critical discourse analysis, visual analysis
KFG Research Project
Europe as a transnational public sphere composed of texts and images. Contentious discourses on citizenship, migration and identity in the EU
Publications
Refereed Journal Articles
(forthcoming). “Translating democracy: how activists in the European Social Forum practice multilingual deliberation.” European Political Science Review.
(forthcoming). “Multilingual Democracy in The European Social Forum. A Bottom Up Perspective to Civic Participation at the European Level.” European Political Science Review.
(2011). “Empathetic Listeners’ Ambiguous Power and Opposition in Transnational Arenas of Discourse and Politics.” Globalizations 11(3): .
(2010). “Politicizing Precarity, Producing Visual Dialogues on Migration: Transnational Public Spaces in Social Movement.” Forum Qualitative Social Research 11(2): Art. 30.
(2010). “Culture di Democrazia Partecipativa ed Europeizzazione dal basso nei Social Forum Italiani, Britannici e Tedeschi.” Partecipazione e conflitto 1: 21-50.
(2009). “Language and Democracy 'in Movement': Multilingualism and the Case of the European Social Forum Process.” Social Movement Studies 8(2): 149-165.
(2008). “Deliberative Discussion, Language, and Efficiency in the World Social Forum Process.” Mobilization: An International Quarterly 13(4): 395-410.
with M. Andretta (2007). "Images of Europe: Internal and external non state actors at the European crossroad". European Foreign Affairs Review 12(3): 385-400.
(2007). "Is ‘another’ public space actually possible? Deliberative democracy and the case of ‘women without’ in the European Social Forum process". Journal of International Women’s Studies. Special Issue on the Forum Social Múndial 8(3).
with A. Mattoni (2007). "Images within the precarity movement in Italy“. Feminist Review 87: 130-135.
(2005). "Sprache ist nicht das Problem. Die Sozialforen als Testfall für europäische Öffentlichkeit". Berliner Debatte Initial 4.
Book Chapters
(forthcoming). "Direct Democracy." In: The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements. Eds. D. Snow, David, D. della Porta and B. Klandermans. Chichester, Wiley-Blackwell.
(forthcoming). “Communicating Protest through Fashion.” In: Handbook on European Protest Movements. Eds. K. Fahlenbrach, M. Klimke and J. Scharloth, New York, Berghan.
(forthcoming). "Fashion and Social Movements." In: Handbook on European Protest Movements. Eds. K. Fahlenbrach, M. Klimke and J. Scharloth, New York, Berghan.
with A. Mattoni (forthcoming). "Alternative Media and Transnational Public Spaces." In: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised? Media and Protest Movements. Eds. R. Werenskojold, K. Fahlenbrach and E. Sivertsen. New York, Berghan.
with D. della Porta (forthcoming). "Global Democracy and Civic Learning in Social Movements." In: Citizen Learning for Global Democracy. Ed. J. A. Scholte, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
with S. Teune (forthcoming). Visual Analysis. In: The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements. Eds. D. A. Snow, D. della Porta and B. Klandermans. Chichester, Wiley-Blackwell.
with S. Teune (2012). Imagery of Power Facing the Power of Imagery. Towards a Visual Analysis of Social Movements. In: The ‘Establishment’ Responds - Power and Protest During and After the Cold War. Ed. K. Fahlenbrach, M. Klimke, J. Scharloth and L. Wong. New York, Berghahn, 43-56.
(2011). Deliberative Discussion, Language and Efficiency in the World Social Forum Process. In: Handbook of the World Social Forum Activism. Eds. J. Smith et al. Boulder, Paradigm: 320-338.
with J. Smith (2011). Participatory Democratic Practices in the US and European Social Forums. In: Handbook of the World Social Forum Activism. Eds. J. Smith et al. Boulder, Paradigm: 339-359.
(2010). Exploring Cosmopolitan and Critical Europeanist Discourse Practices in the European Social Forums. In: The Transnational Condition. Protest Dynamics in an Entangled Europe. Ed. S. Teune. New York, Berghahn: 165-182.
(2010). Imagining a Critical European Visual Citizenship. In: United in Visual Diversity. Images and Counter-Images of Europe. Eds. B. Drechsel and C. Leggewie. Innsbruck, Studien Verlag: 186-190.
