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Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Anna Pospech Durnova, Ph.D.

T: +43-1-4277-49220

anna.durnova@univie.ac.at

News: Professor of Political Sociology at the Department of Sociology, University of Vienna. She is also a Faculty Fellow at the Yale University Center for Cultural Sociology. She serves as a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Policy & Politics and vice president of the International Public Policy Association.
Previously, she was a researcher at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna (Elise Richter Fellow), as well as at Charles University in Prague and the University of Lyon. Numerous international stays, including Visiting Research Fellow at Concordia University in Montreal (2019) or Essex University in the UK (2012).

Research interests: political sociology, sociology of emotions, public policy, feminist sociology, interpretive social research.

Consultation hours: The appointment should be arranged in advance via email with the study assistant at anna.raza@univie.ac.at
Available time slots:
Tuesday 14:30 - 16:00
Wednesday 11:30 - 13:00

Goisauf, M., & Durnová, A. P. (2019). From engaging publics to engaging knowledges: Enacting “appropriateness” in the Austrian biobank infrastructure. Public Understanding of Science, 28(3), 275-289. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963662518806451

Durnová, A. (2019). March for Science als Schauplatz der gesellschaftspolitischen Polarisierung zwischen Elite und Volk: ein interpretativer Beitrag zur Analyse von Postfaktizität. Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft, 29(2), 345 - 360. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41358-019-00186-3

Durnová, A. (2019). Understanding emotions in post-factual politics: Negotiating truth. Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788114820

Durnova, A. (2019). Unpacking emotional contexts of post-truth. Critical Policy Studies, 13(4), 447-450. https://doi.org/10.1080/19460171.2019.1670222

Durnova, A. (2018). A Tale of 'Fat Cats' and 'Stupid Activists': Contested Values, Governance and Reflexivity in the Brno Railway Station Controversy. Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning, 20(6), 720-733. https://doi.org/10.1080/1523908X.2013.829749

Durnova, A. P., & Hejzlarova, E. M. (2018). Framing policy designs through contradictory emotions: The case of Czech single mothers. Public Policy and Administration, 33(4), 409-427. https://doi.org/10.1177/0952076717709524

Durnová, A. (2018). The politics of intimacy: Rethinking the end-of-life controversy. University of Michigan Press. https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.9909783

Durnova, A. (2018). Understanding Emotions in Policy Studies through Foucault and Deleuze. Politics and Governance, 6(4), 95-102. https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.v6i4.1528

Durnova, A., Fischer, F., & Zittoun, P. (2016). Discursive Approaches to Public Policy: Politics, Argumentation, and Deliberation. In B. Peters, & P. Zittoun (Eds.), Contemporary Approaches to Public Policy (pp. 35-56). Palgrave Macmillan. International Series on Public Policy https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50494-4_3

Durnová, A. (2016). Reading the end-of-life controversy through political lenses: Public power and intimacy. Socialni Studia, 13(1), 87-100. https://doi.org/10.5817/soc2016-1-87

Durnova, A. (2016). The Cunning of Uncertainty. Sociologický časopis, 52(4), 610-613.

Fischer, F., Torgerson, D., Durnová, A., & Orsini, M. (2015). Introduction to critical policy studies. In Handbook of Critical Policy Studies (pp. 1-24). Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781783472352.00005

Durnova, A., Fischer, F., Torgerson, D., & Orsini, M. (2015). Lost in Translation: Expressing Emotions in Policy Deliberation. In Handbook of Critical Policy Studies: Handbooks of Research on Public Policy Series (Vol. Handbooks of Research on Public Policy Series, pp. 222 - 239). Edward Elgar.

Pospech Durnova, A., & Zittoun, P. (2015). Between the individual and the collective: understanding the tensions of the interpretive inquiry. A response to Boswell and Corbett. Critical Policy Studies, 9(2), 241-245. https://doi.org/10.1080/19460171.2015.1040256

Durnova, A. (2015). In den Händen der Ärzte. Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis – Pionier der Handhygiene. Residenz Verlag.

Durnová, A. (2015). Planning through emotions: Political lessons from the controversy between ‘fat cats’ and ‘stupid activists’ over rebuilding brno railroad station. In Planning and Conflict: Critical Perspectives on Contentious Urban Developments (pp. 259-278). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203734933

Durnova, A., Fischer, F., Torgerson, D., & Orsini, M. (2015). Handbook of Critical Policy Studies. Edward Elgar.

Durnova, A., & Zittoun, P. (2014). Discursive Approaches to Public Policy. Revue Francaise de Science Politique, 64(2013/2014).

Durnova, A., & Just, P. (2014). Societies in conflict: experts, publics and democracy. The 8th International Conference in Interpretive Policy Analysis, Vienna, July 2013. Critical Policy Studies, 8(4), 375-378. https://doi.org/10.1080/19460171.2014.957044

Durnova, A., & Just, P. (2014). Societies in conflict: Public, Experts and Democracy. Critical Policy Studies, 8.4.