Position
Lea Paula Zierott
Lea Paula Zierott
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Address
Lange Laube 32
30159 Hannover
30159 Hannover
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Research Staff
Leibniz Research Centre Science and Society (LCSS)
Current Research
I am currently working on my Ph.D. thesis, titled 'Scenes of Disconnection,' which explores disconnection, the phenomenon associated with opting out of (digital) networks. To examine social and cultural practices of disconnection, I analyze different scenes. These parts are based on phenomena such as the dead spot, shielding a house from electrical radiation, and disrupting a signal. Starting with technological artifacts, my approach aims to integrate the material dimension of these practices and incorporate artistic interventions in the field. On a methodological level, I seek to combine empirical work for building theory. Drawing from (disconnection) theory, I explore everyday phenomena through theoretical concepts related to materialism and space.
In my capacity as Research Associate at the LCSS, I am engaged in a project focusing on 'Disruptive Technologies.' These technologies claim to address significant global issues such as climate change and world hunger. We are developing a theoretical concept shedding light on the backstages of these technologies, considering their material conditions and the (human) work they depend on.
Research Interests
- New Materialist Theories
- STS
- Poststructuralist Theories
- Feminist Theories
- Disconnection Studies
- Cultural Anthropology
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Publications
- Karppi, T., Stäheli, U., Wieghorst, C., & Zierott, L. (2021). Undoing Networks. University of Minnesora Press/meson press.
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Organizations
12/2021 Unrelating: Infrastructures, Imaginaries and Politics of Disconnection (together with Timon Beyes, Urs Stäheli und Clara Wieghorst), Keynote: Marilyn Strathern, Warburg-Haus Hamburg (online)
06/2020 The Space Between Us: Networks After the Pandemic. Talk with Wendy Hui Kyong Chun und Tero Karppi (together with Timon Beyes, Randi Heinrichs and Clara Wieghorst), Centre for Digital Cultures, Leuphana University Lüneburg (online)
06/2019 Disconnection. Workshop with Tero Karppi (together with Timon Beyes, Urs Stäheli and Clara Wieghorst), Centre for Digital Cultures, Leuphana University Lüneburg
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Panels, Talks & Workshops
10/2022 Disconnection Studies, Seminar by Prof. Rivka Ribak, University of Haifa
05/2021 From dead spots to shielding practices, Research colloquium ‘Social theory and sociology of culture’ from Prof. Dr. Urs Stäheli, University of Hamburg, Germany
05/2021 Dead Spots The 4th International Geomedia Conference: ‘Geomedia 2021 – Off the Grid’; University of Siegen, Germany
01/2020 Scenes and Imaginaries of Disconnection (together with Clara Wieghorst), Colloquium of the professorship for sociological theory of the Technical University of Chemnitz, Germany
05/2019 Organizing the absence of technology 14th Organization Studies Workshop: Technology and Organization, Mykonos, Greece
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Vita
Since 2024 Research Associate, Professorship for Sociological Theories of the Knowledge Society at Leibniz University of Hanover
2023-2024 Research Associate, a research project on "disruptive technologies" funded by the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung, Leibniz University of Hanover
2022 Research Residence, University of Haifa, Israel
2022 Research Fellow, Centre for Digital Cultures, Leuphana University Lüneburg
2018 –2022 Research Associate, DFG- project ‘Disconnectivity. Imaginaries, Media technologies, Politics’, led by Timon Beyes and Urs Stäheli, University of Hamburg
Since 2018 Ph.D.-student, University of Hamburg, Dissertation project: Scenes of Disconnection, Supervisors: Urs Stäheli, Timon Beyes
2016-2017 Student Assistant, Professorship of General Sociology, University of Hamburg
2015 –2018 Master of Arts in Sociology, University of Hamburg, (with distinction), Master’s thesis: Spaces of Disconnection
2011 –2015 Bachelor of Arts in Sociology (Minor: History), University of Hamburg
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Grants
2022 Research Grant by the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) at the University of Haifa, Israel
2013 – 2018 Study Scholarship of the Rosa-Luxemburg Foundation `for high levels of political and social engagement´
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Teaching
Summer term 2022 Seminar: Infrastructures of the Social (Lecturer), University of Hamburg
Winter term 2021/2022 Seminar: Introduction to Sociology (Lecturer), University of Hamburg
Summer term 2020 Seminar: Sociology of Space (Lecturer), University of Hamburg
Winter term 2019/2020 Seminar: Introduction to Sociology (Lecturer), University of Hamburg
Winter term 2016/2017 Seminar: Introduction to Sociology (Tutor), University of Hamburg
