Dr. Andrea Querfurt
Dr. Andrea Querfurt
In search of one's own origins? Subjectivisation in the context of genetic genealogy (working title)
Abstract
Since the turn of the century, between twenty and thirty companies worldwide have been offering genetic ancestry tests for private individuals. Based on individual genetic markers or specific marker combinations, these tests aim to decode the biogeographical mixture of individual genomes, to prove the ancestry of certain "indigenous peoples" and ethnic groups and to locate previously unknown "DNA relatives".
The research project focuses on genetic genealogy as a peculiar kind of commercial 'origin diagnostics', in which a 'social imaginary' (Castoriadis) of origin and heritage unfolds, which in its backward-looking nature becomes constitutive of the present. The associated processes of (collective) subjectivation are examined from a genealogical-praxeological perspective. The aim is to identify disparate historical constellations in which genealogical and genetic models of thinking and imagining the subject have become intertwined and linked with specific processes of shaping it in practice. The translations (applications, transpositions, interpretations, suspensions, etc.) of these models and procedures in concrete socio-material arrangements will be investigated with the help of a multilocal praxeography, which, in addition to laboratories and archives, seeks out virtual spaces in particular to explore the locally and temporally distributed practice of genetic genealogy.
Short biography
| Since 2017 | Post-doc in the DFG Research Training Group "Self-formations", University of Oldenburg |
| Since 2017 | Research assistant at the research centre "Genealogy of the Present", University of Oldenburg |
| 2016 | Collaboration in the project "Constellations of the Diagnostic" at the Research Centre Genealogy of the Present, University of Oldenburg |
| 2014/15 | Research assistant in the DFG research project "The Corporeality of Recognition", University of Oldenburg |
| 2015 | Doctorate at the University of Oldenburg |
| 2010-2014 | PhD student in the DFG Research Training Group "Self-Formations", University of Oldenburg |
| 2006-2010 | Research assistant at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), Bielefeld University |
| 2003-2006 | Study of Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Magdeburg (Master of Arts) |
| 1997-2003 | Study of Social Sciences, University of Göttingen (Diplom) |
Teaching
| Winter term 2013/14 | Project study: Gender-Body-Subjectivisation (Representations). Research projects on International Women's Day 2014, subject: Master Cultural Analyses, University of Oldenburg |
| Summer term 2013 | Sport and migration. Theoretical approaches and empirical investigations of a problem (presentation), subject: Bachelor Social Sciences, Master Cultural Analyses, Master Sport and Lifestyle, University of Oldenburg |
Other activities
| Since 2013 | Freelance work as a mediator (according to BMEV) |
| 2009-2010 | Project coordination "Implementation of the UN Millennium Development Goals at municipal level", Bremen Development Policy Network (BeN) |
Publications
Co-editorship:
Haupt, Heinz-Gerhard; Heitmeyer, Wilhelm; Querfurt, Andrea; Malthaner, Stefan (2011): Control of Violence, Springer: New York
Monographs:
Querfurt, Andrea (2016): Intermediary subjects of migration. A praxeography of the self-formation of integration guides. Bielefeld: transcript.
Gruber, Denis; Querfurt, Andrea; Mill, Sandra; Schach, Manuela (2005): Living and Working in slums of Mumbai, Magdeburg: University, Institute of Sociology.
Journal articles and contributions to edited volumes:
Querfurt, Andrea (2011): Putting Out the Fire with Gasoline? Violence Control in "Fragile" States - A Study of Vigilantism in Nigeria. In: Haupt, Heinz-Gerhard et al. (eds.): Control of Violence, Springer: New York.
Querfurt, Andrea; Malthaner, Stefan (ed. 2010): Control of Violence - an Analytical Framework Introduction. In: Haupt, Heinz-Gerhard et al. (eds.): Control of Violence, Springer: New York.
Querfurt, Andrea (2010): Youth, violence and social change in Africa. In: Imbusch, Peter (ed.): Gewaltstudien - Jugendliche als Täter und Opfer in Gewaltkonflikten, VS-Verlag: Wiesbaden, 133-174.
Querfurt, Andrea (2009): Youth Terror or Terrorised Youth? Youth violence in Nigeria: Redefining spaces of politics and belonging. In: Vardalos, Marianne et al. (eds.): Engaging Terror: A critical and interdisciplinary approach, Brown Walker Press: Boca Raton, Florida, 369-386.
Querfurt, Andrea; Kaletta, Barbara; Heitmeyer, Wilhelm (2008): Vom Verschwinden und Entstehen politischer Grenzen in Europa: Das Beispiel der Antiterrorpolitik. In: Benninghaus, Christina et al. (eds.): Unterwegs in Europa. Contributions to a Comparative Social and Cultural History, Campus: Frankfurt/ Main, pp. 41-68.
Haupt, Heinz-Gerhard; Heitmeyer, Wilhelm; Kaletta, Barbara; Querfurt, Andrea (2008): Control of Violence - A view on the concept of control. In: ZiF-Mitteilungen 3/2008, p.4-13.
Querfurt, Andrea (2007): Development, Peace, Security - Civil Conflict Transformation in the Context of German Development Policy. In: Weller, C. (Ed.): Zivile Konfliktbearbeitung. Current research findings, INEF-Report 85/2007, pp.19-24.
Weller, Christoph; Querfurt, Andrea (2005): Civil conflict transformation - panacea or empty formula? Possibilities and limits of a promising concept. In: International Politics and Society 4/2005, pp.10-29.
Review:
on Aram Ziai: Between Global Governance and Post-Development. Development policy from a discourse-analytical perspective. In: Politische Vierteljahresschrift (PVS), 4/2006: 719-721.
Conferences and workshops
| 02/2013 | International Conference "Subject Matters: Subject, Artefacts, Bodies", University of Oldenburg |
| 06/2012 | Opening conference of the Centre for Migration, Education and Cultural Studies (CMC) "Migration: Subjectivation - Education", University of Oldenburg |
| 06/2008 | Violence control in states in crisis, introductory lecture at the international workshop "Violence control in the context of fragile states - Insights from Africa", Centre for Interdisciplinary Research, University of Bielefeld |
| 05/2008 | Youth Terror or Terrorised Youth? Youth violence in Nigeria: Redefining spaces of politics and belonging, lecture at the 2nd Annual International Multidisciplinary Conference on Terror, Laurentian University, Georgian College, Barrie (Ontario), Canada |
| 12/2007 | Chair of the research workshop, Centre for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld University |
| 04/2007 | Human rights policy and the possibilities and limits of civil conflict transformation, input presentation at the Amnesty International Workshop, Goslar, Germany |
| 02/2006 | Concepts of civil conflict transformation in peace-oriented development policy, research workshop on civil conflict transformation, University of Stuttgart |
| 07/2004 | The stabilisation of global power systems through power and discourse practices of the World Bank. On linking development policy and conflict transformation (together with Daniela Körppen), International Conference Transforma, University of Magdeburg |