By Stefanie Graefe
When southwest Germany was hit by the “flood of the century” this summer, two aspects initially dominated media discourse: shock and dismay. Readers and TV viewers in Germany are accustomed to footage of…
Stefanie Graefe is Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Sociology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena. Her focus in research and teaching is on political sociology and the sociological analysis of the present era. She is particularly interested in the connection between subjectivity and neoliberal governmentality in contemporary capitalism. Her most recent book is Resilienz im Krisenkapitalismus. Wider das Lob der Anpassungsfähigkeit (transcript, 2019).
By Stefanie Graefe
When southwest Germany was hit by the “flood of the century” this summer, two aspects initially dominated media discourse: shock and dismay. Readers and TV viewers in Germany are accustomed to footage of…