Thomas Alkemeyer
Thomas Alkemeyer
Biography
Prof. Dr Thomas Alkemeyer is a university professor of sociology and sports sociology and director of the "Genealogy of the Present" research centre at the University of Oldenburg. He studied sports science and German studies with a minor in philosophy and educational science at the Free University of Berlin, where he received his doctorate in 1994, habilitated in 2000 at the Department of Educational Science and Psychology at the Free University of Berlin, was a professor invité at the "Centre de Sociologie des Pratiques et des Représentations Politiques (CSPRP)" of the Université Denis Diderot - Paris 7 in 2010 and worked from 2010 to 2019 as spokesperson for the Oldenburg DFG Research Training Group "Selbst-Bildungen. Practices of Subjectivation in Historical and Interdisciplinary Perspective".
Prof. Alkemeyer conducts research with a focus on cultural sociology, including sociological theories of practice, the sociology of the body and sport, practices of subjectivation, diagnoses of the present, transformative communities and scenarios of digitalisation.
Selected publications
Alkemeyer, Thomas, Thomas Etzemüller and Nikolaus Buschmann, Eds. Cultural Forms of Social Self-Problematisation in the Modern Age. Bielefeld: transcript, 2019.
Alkemeyer, Thomas, Volker Schürmann, and Jörg Volbers, eds. thinking practice. Concepts and Critique. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2015.
Alkemeyer, Thomas, Gunilla Budde and Dagmar Freist, eds. self-formations. Social and cultural practices of subjectivation. Bielefeld: transcript, 2013.
Alkemeyer, T./Buschmann, N.: The imaginary of practice. Deployment sites for a critical theory of practice using the example of contemporary diagnoses. In: Austrian Journal of Sociology, special issue 2/ 2019, pp. 117-138
Alkemeyer, Thomas: Semiotic aspects of sociology: Sociosemiotics. In: Posner, Roland, Klaus Robering, and Thomas A. Sebeok, eds. semiotics, semiotics. A handbook on the sign-theoretical foundations of nature and culture. Berlin et al: de Gruyter 2003, pp. 2757-2846.