Vita
Eva Barlösius is Professor of macrosociology and sociostructural analysis at Leibniz University Hannover since 2007. In 1988, she gained her Ph.D. in sociology at Universität Hannover and was habilitated from the same institute in 1994. From 1988 to 1989, she was on a Volkswagen Foundation Scholarship at the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (MSH) and at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. From 1991 to 1996, Eva Barlösius was appointed Junior Professor at the Institute of Agricultural Policy, Market Research and Economic Sociology at the University of Bonn. In the following years, she was interim professor of theoretical and general sociology at Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf, as well as DFG Heisenberg fellow at the Wissenschaftszentrum für Sozialforschung Berlin (WZB) and interim professor of general sociology at Humboldt-Universität Berlin. Eva Barlösius was appointed full professor in 2004 at the university of Hohenheim and served as head of the Competence Center for Gender and Nutrition. In 2006 she was professor of sociology at the university of Duisburg-Essen and was then being offered a professorship from Hannover.
Eva Barlösius is also member of a number of committees, for instance the board of the German Sociological Association. She is a reviewer for the Swiss National Science Foundation and for the DFG (sociology, nutritional and agricultural sciences).
Dated from 2016
Fields of research
Sociostructural analysis; macrosociology; sociology of science; sociology of inequality.
Publications
Monographs
Dicksein. Wenn der Körper das Verhältnis zur Gesellschaft bestimmt. Frankfurt/M: Campus 2014.
Pierre Bourdieu – Eine Einführung. 2nd edition. Frankfurt/M: Campus 2011.
Soziologie des Essens. Eine sozial- und kulturwissenschaftliche Einführung in die Ernährungsforschung. 2nd edition. Weinheim: Juventa 2011.
Die Macht der Repräsentation: Common Sense über soziale Ungleichheiten. Wiesbaden: VS 2005.
Edited Books
with Martin Bruegel and Marilyn Nicoud (eds.): Le choix des aliments. Informations et pratiques alimentaires de la fin du Moyen Âge à nos jours. Tours: Presse Universitaires François Rabelais 2010.
with Daniela Schiek (ed.): Demographisierung des Gesellschaftlichen. Analysen und Debatten zur demographischen Zukunft Deutschlands. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften 2007.
with Elfriede Feichtinger, Barbara Maria Köhler and Elisabeth Dowler (eds.): Poverty and Food in Welfare States. Berlin: edition sigma 1997.
Articles
“Infrastrukturen: Bahnen des Wissenstransfers?“. In: Julia Böttcher, Anne Froese, Dagmar Simon (eds.): Zwischen den Welten. Zum Verhältnis von Wissenschaft und Praxis in den Sozial- und Raumwissenschaften. Eine Ortsbestimmung. Bielefeld: transcript 2015 (forthcoming).
with Axel Philipps: “Felt stigma and obesity: Introducing the generalized other.“ In: Social Sciences & Medicine, Vol. 130/2015, pp 9-15.
“Pierre Bourdieu: Transformation Societies and Middle Class”. In: Middle East – Topics & Arguments, 2, 2014, pp. 27-44.
“,Consommateurs imaginaires’ – modèles de la politique des consommateurs. Une approche sociologique”. In: Actes de la Recherche en Sciences Sociales, Vol. 199, 2013, pp. 68-77.
With Marlen Schröter: “Kategorien der Raumordnung und ihr inhärentes Verständnis von Infrastrukturen – Ein Vergleich von Schweden, Frankreich und Deutschland“. In: Zeitschrift für Agrargeschichte und Agrarsoziologie, 60, Vol. 1, 2012, pp. 56-72.
“Public-Private Relations and Key Issues in Natural Ressource Governance“. In: Thomas Sikor (ed.): Public and Private in Natural Ressource Governance. A False Dichotomy? London: Earthscan 2008, pp. 1-18.