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Prof. Dr. Tanja Bogusz
Prof. Dr. Tanja Bogusz
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Lange Laube 32
30159 Hannover
30159 Hannover
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Sociology Department
I am a professor of macrosociology specializing in sociological science studies at the Institute of Sociology at Leibniz University Hannover. My research focuses on macrosociological social analysis, which I develop using ethnographic, interdisciplinary, and social-theoretical studies (pragmatism, practice theory, systems theory, STS, anthropology of nature). However, scientific data and facts alone are no longer sufficient to contain the exhaustion of societal transformation and the intensification of conflicting goals between ecological, economic, and social sustainability. Macrosociological reflection on science therefore requires well-considered and future-oriented readjustments to traditional forms of inter- and transdisciplinary collaboration—in other words, heterogeneous cooperation.
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Vita
Before joining Leibniz University Hannover (LUH), my project "Sociology of the Sea: An Investigation of European Coastal Dynamics in the Anthropocene" was accepted into the DFG's Heisenberg Programme in 2024. From 2022 to 2025, I led the DFG-funded project "Experiencing Nature and Society: A Multi-Sited Study of Marine and Ethnographic Field Science" at the University of Hamburg. After completing my studies and doctorate in sociology, I worked at universities and research institutions in Jena, Berlin, New York, Paris, Kassel, and Kiel. Prior to my academic career, I completed an apprenticeship as an industrial mechanic, among other things. I am an alumna and a liaison professor for the Hans Böckler Foundation.
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Research
DFG Heisenberg Project “Sociology of the Sea. An Investigation of European Coastal Dynamics in the Anthropocene” Project number BO 3268/5-1
Despite its fundamental geophysical, geopolitical, cultural, and structural importance, the ocean remains a sociological unknown. This project questions the terracentrism of sociological analysis and explores socio-marine interdependencies between the ocean and society, focusing on heterogeneous socio-marine collaborations beyond value-based orientations. To this end, it draws on the internationally established fields of marine social sciences and blue humanities, while also intensifying interdisciplinary collaboration with marine natural sciences and engineering. The starting point of this Heisenberg project is a sociologically grounded connection between interdisciplinary marine research and studies on democratic cohesion in a European context. Thus, scientific reflection in the Anthropocene involves both fundamental and solution-oriented collaboration between marine natural, social, and engineering sciences to, for example, collaboratively mitigate conflicts of interest between marine and coastal protection on the one hand and resource-oriented ocean use on the other. The project investigates socio-marine developments in European coastal areas, as well as related societal sea-related conditions and their interconnections with the urban hinterland. More information will be available soon on the corresponding website.
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Teaching and supervision
Teaching and supervision
I am an enthusiastic and dedicated university lecturer. It is of paramount importance to me to offer students a vibrant, in-depth, and comprehensive education in international comparative macrosociology, science and technology studies, and ethnography. In this way, I prepare undergraduate and graduate students for the current challenges of globalization and the inter- and transdisciplinary circulation of knowledge. My primary task is to provide them with a broad range of theoretical and methodological analyses, research perspectives, and concepts, the collaborative reflection and critical examination of which are channeled into constructive approaches through social analysis. I will be offering courses at Leibniz University Hannover (LUH) starting in the summer semester of 2026.
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Publications
10 most important publications
Monographien
Bogusz, T. 2018. Experimentalismus und Soziologie. Von der Krisen- zur Erfahrungswissenschaft, Frankfurt am Main & New York: Campus.
Bogusz, T. 2010. Zur Aktualität von Luc Boltanski. Einführung in sein Werk, Wiesbaden: VS.
Bogusz, T. 2007. Institution und Utopie – Ost-West-Transformationen an der Berliner Volksbühne, Bielefeld: Transcript (Reihe Sozialtheorie).
Fachbeiträge
Bogusz, T. 2025. Valuating Marine Knowledge: Heterogeneous Collaborations at the Concarneau Marine Station. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, HPLS 47, 37. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40656-025-00683-5.
Bogusz, T., Holtappels, M., Hodapp, D., Schlüter, A., & Breckwoldt, A. 2024. Natur und Gesellschaft in der Meeresforschung – Perspektiven interdisziplinärer Zusammenarbeit im Anthropozän, Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15044156.
Bogusz, T. 2024. Experiment Demokratie. Erfahrungsdifferenzen und praxeologische Übersetzungskompetenz als Voraussetzungen für sozialen Zusammenhalt, in Voß, J.-P. and Schölzel, H. (eds.): Die Fabrikation von Demokratie. Baustellen politischer Repräsentation, Wiesbaden: Springer VS. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-42936-2_10.
Bogusz, T. 2023. Fieldwork in the Anthropocene. On the Possibilities of Analogical Thinking Between Nature and Society, Science and Technology Studies 36/2 (2023): 3-25. https://doi.org/10.23987/sts.111538.
Bogusz, T. 2022. Soziologie als Erfahrungswissenschaft – Chicago School of Sociology, in Delitz, H., Müller, J. und R. Seyfert (Hg.): Handbuch Theorien der Soziologie, Cham: Springer VS. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-31744-7_29-1.
Bogusz, T. 2020. Produktive Irritationen. Über den erkenntnisreichen Gang an außergewöhnliche Orte, in Hoebel, T. und S. Lahm (Hg.): Kleine Soziologie des Studierens. Eine Navigationshilfe, Leverkusen: Barbara Budrich, S. 71-76.
Bogusz, T. 2013. Experimentalismus statt Explanans? Zur Aktualität der pragmatistischen Forschungsphilosophie John Deweys, Zeitschrift für Theoretische Soziologie 2: 52–65. https://doi.org/10.17879/zts-2013-4040.