Can Science and Technology Save a (Dying) State? Techno-Optimism in the Last Days of Socialist Yugoslavia During the 1980s, as the economic, social, and political crisis in socialist Yugoslavia was intensifying, […]
How to know a national park? Monitoring practices and the enactment of biodiversity in Neusiedler See – Seewinkel National Park, Austria To confront the ongoing global ‘biodiversity crisis’ various international […]
Christof Lammer’s fine-grained ethnography describes the complexity of political processes in an eco-village in Sichuan. The usual pigeonholing of the Chinese state does not work here. An exciting read for […]
In his contribution to this special issue of Global Social Policy, Christof Lammer examines social policy as a knowledge process and shows how the minimum livelihood guarantee (dibao) in China […]
From April 2024 to March 2025, Christof Lammer will be researching at the Humboldt University of Berlin how kinship measurements make giant pandas a natural heritage worth protecting. The social […]
During the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries used tests to detect SARS-CoV-2 infections. However, how these tests were deployed varied considerably. A research project supported by the FWF is investigating which conclusions can be drawn from the use and design of technologies in pandemic management.
Values—whether financial profit or moral and social values such as justice and sustainability—often appear as abstract and intangible. Infrastructure allows us to explore the materiality of seemingly immaterial value. […]
The new FWF-funded project “Testing (bio) governance” is a comparative study on how testing capacities for the SARS-CoV-2 virus were established and maintained over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic […]
In a new article in the journal Global Social Policy, Christof Lammer examines social policy as a knowledge process and shows how the minimum livelihood guarantee (dibao) of the People’s […]
PhD candidate and university assistant Julia Malik has been awarded a Marietta Blau-Grant by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research (BMBWF). This scholarship supports her field research […]
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Christof Lammer