Ass.-Prof. Emma Dowling, BA MRes MSc PhD

T: +43-1-4277-49203

emma.dowling@univie.ac.at

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Emma_Dowling

Consultation hours: Thursdays from 1pm to 3pm and by appointment
(Currently only online, please always make an appointment by email)

Tenure-Track Professor for the Sociology of Social Change

Working languages:
English and German

Areas of research:
Social change, feminist political economy, financialisation and society, welfare state transformation, work and emotions, participatory research methods.

Qualifications and Previous Positions

2019	Habilitation in Sociology (venia legendi & venia docendi); Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena. (Crisis of Measure? A Sociology of Affective Labour and Social Reproduction for the Critique of Political Economy)
2017 - 2019	Senior Researcher; Institute for Sociology, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena.
2016	Senior Fellow; Research Group on Postgrowth Societies, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena.
2012 - 2017	Senior Lecturer (Sociology); Middlesex University London.
2009 - 2012	Lecturer (Organisational Change); Queen Mary, University of London.
2009	Certified Translator for English and German in the Social Sciences; Berlin Senate for Education, Youth and Science.
2010	Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Politics; Birkbeck, University of London (Affecting Legitimation: The Productivity of Resistance in Global Neoliberal Governance)
2006	Master of Research (MRes) in Social and Political Theory; Birkbeck, University of London.
2003	Master of Science (MSc) in Global Ethics; University of Birmingham.
2002	Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Politics with International Studies; University of Birmingham.

Recent Talks & Interviews

'The Future of Care: Helen Hester in Conversation with Emma Dowling', Feminist Futures Programme, Autonomy, UK, May 8th 2021: https://autonomy.work/portfolio/ffp-hester-dowlingconvo/.

'The Care Crisis and Inequality', 7th Barbara Prammer Symposium, Karl Renner Institute, Vienna: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kR_aOE8d5J4 [in German], February 8th 2021.

'The Care Crisis in Britain', departmental seminar series, Department of Sociology, University of Vienna. March 2021.

'The Care Crisis', Inequality Culture and Difference Seminar Series, Nottingham Trent University. March 2021.

'Care Inequalities and the Politics of Interdependence', webinar and panel discussion, Equality Studies Public Seminar, University College Dublin. March 2021.

'Platform Care as Care Fix', keynote, symposium on Platform Urbanism, University of Graz. March 2021.

'The Care Crisis and Social Inequality', Keynote, 7th Barbara Prammer Symposium, Karl Renner Institute, Vienna. January 2021.

''Why Care?' Talk given at the online research festival organised by the Studio for Experimental Design at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg in collaboration with the Museum of Decorative Arts Berlin. July 2020.

‘Taxonomies of Affect’, German Research Foundation Network for Feminist Geographies of New Materialism, Göttingen. June 2018.

‘Between Austerity and Marketisation: Volunteering and the Structural Transformation of the Welfare State', Sociology Seminar, Faculty of Socio-Economics, University of Hamburg. June 2018.

'Volunteering, Civic Participation and the Common Good', workshop series 'Communal Governance and the Future of Public Services', Ver.di (services union), Berlin, Germany. May 2018.

‘Who Cares Who Cares? Care, Crisis and Change from a Social Justice Perspective’, Austrian Anti-Poverty Network, St. Virgil, Salzburg, Austria. March 2018.

‘Brexistential Crisis: Britain and the EU-Referendeum,’ Institute for Sociology, Johannes Keppler University Linz. June 2017.

'Radical Digital Citizenship’, Panel Discussion, University of Edinburgh, with Prof. Akwugo Emejulu (University of Warwick), Dr Callum McGregor (University of Edinburgh) and Dr Huw Davies (University of Oxford). May 2017.

‘Women’s Rights and Gender Equality – Trends and Changes’, International Conference ‘Movements, Borders, Rights? Feminist Perspectives on Global Issues in Europe’, organised by WIDE+ (Women in Development Europe) and the European Women’s Lobby, Brussels, Belgium, October 2016.

'In the Wake of Austerity: Social Impact Bonds and the Financialisation of the Welfare State’, Research Seminar PAIS, University of Warwick. May 2017.

‘Affective Labour in the City’, ‘Spaces in Common’ seminar series, Istanbul University Department of Anthropology in collaboration with the University of Munich and the Ariel Arts Centre Istanbul, Turkey. March 2016.

'The Financialisation of the Welfare State?’ Global Political Economy Research Seminar, Political Economy Institute, University of Manchester. February 2016.

‘What’s Love Got to Do With It? Feminist Political Economy & Crisis Capitalism’, Department of Politics, Goldsmiths University, London. January 2016.

'The Sociology of Financialisation – A Critical Approach’, Stiftung Deutsche Wirtschaft, hosted by the London School of Economics (LSE) January 2016.

Dowling, E. (2014). Revolution at Point Zero by Silvia Federici (review). Feminist Review, 106(e1-e2). https://doi.org/10.1057/fr.2013.30

Dowling, E., & Harvie, D. (2014). Harnessing the Social: State, Crisis and (Big) Society. Sociology, 48(5). https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038514539060

Brown, G., Dowling, E., Harvie, D., & Milburn, K. (2013). Careless Talk: Social Reproduction and Fault-lines of the Crisis in the United Kingdom. Social Justice, 39(1), 78-98. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41940969?seq=1

Dowling, E. (2013). Policing the Crisis by Stuart Hall et al. (review). Soundings Journal, 55. https://www.lwbooks.co.uk/soundings/55/reviews

Dowling, E. (2013). The Problem with Work by Kathi Weeks (review). Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0740770X.2013.817848

Dowling, E., Feigenbaum, A., Pell, S., & Stanley, K. (2012). Occupy London. South Atlantic Quarterly, 111(3), 608-615. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-1596326

Dowling, E. (2012). Work's Intimacy by Melissa Gregg (review). Feminist Review, 101(1). https://doi.org/10.1057/fr.2012.5

Dowling, E. (2012). Introduction: Mobilisations, Interventions, and Cultural Policy. Lateral - Journal of the Cultural Studies Association. https://doi.org/10.25158/l1.1.5

Dowling, E. (Ed.) (2012). Mobilisations, Interventions, and Cultural Policy. Lateral - Journal of the Cultural Studies Association, 1(1). https://csalateral.org/archive/section/mobilisations-interventions-and-cultural-policy

Dowling, E. (2012). Tales of Much of a Muchness: Adventures in the Land of Social Capital (review). Ephemera, 12(4). http://www.ephemerajournal.org/contribution/tales-%E2%80%98much-muchness%E2%80%99-adventures-land-social-capital

Dowling, E. (2012). The Waitress: On Affect, Method and (Re)presentation. Cultural Studies - Critical Methodologies, 12(2). https://doi.org/10.1177/1532708611435215

Dowling, E. (2011). Pedagogies of Cognitive Capitalism-Challenging the Critical Subject. In Cognitive Capitalism, Education and Digital Labour Peter Lang. https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/21461

Dowling, E. (2010). Affecting Legitimation: The Productivity of Resistance in Global Neoliberal Governance.

Dowling, E. (2010). The Will of the Many by Marianne Maeckelbergh (review). Interface: a Journal for and about Social Movements, 2(1). http://www.interfacejournal.net/2010/11/crises-social-movements-revolution-transformation/

Hudig, K., & Dowling, E. (2010). Whatever Happened to the Counterglobalization Movement? Some Reflections on Antagonism, Vanguardism and Professionalization. In Learning From the Ground Up: Global Perspectives on Social Movements and Knowledge Production Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230112650

Dowling, E. (2009). G8 Protests, Gleneagles, 2005. In The International Encylocpedia of Revolution and Protest https://doi.org/10.1002/9781405198073.wbierp0601

Dowling, E., Nunes, R., & Trott, B. (Eds.) (2007). Immaterial and Affective Labour: Explored (special issue). Ephemera, 7(1). http://www.ephemerajournal.org/issue/immaterial-and-affective-labour-explored

Dowling, E. (2007). Producing the Dining Experience: Measure, Subjectivity and the Affective Worker. Ephemera, 7(1). http://www.ephemerajournal.org/contribution/producing-dining-experience-measure-subjectivity-and-affective-worker

Dowling, E. (2006). Formulating new social subjects? An inquiry into the realities of an affective worker.

Dowling, E. (2006). Quality of Life: A Definition. In Encyclopedia of the Developing World Routledge, Taylor & Francis.

Lernen für den Wandel: Erfahrungen und Praktiken emanzipatorischer Bildungsarbeit in der Gewerkschaftsbewegung (EduMove)

Dowling, E., Angioni, J. & Stani, L.

17/02/22 → 15/05/22

Project: Research funding