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Media & Politics
Dr. Erik Jentges
Curriculum vitae
| seit Oktober 2009 | senior research assistant at IPMZ and postdoctoral researcher in NCCR Democracy |
2009 |
Freelance trainer with Planpolitik, Berlin. Conceptualization and moderation of political simulations games for students in nonformal education settings. Model European Council Conferences, European Commission Deliberations and Laboratories of Democracy. |
| 2006-2009 | Research Assistant at the institute of social sciences, Humboldt- University Berlin in the project „Building the EU‘s social constituency. Exploring the dynamics of public claims-making and collective representation in Europe“ (EU-Constituency). |
| 2003-2005 | Student research assistant at the institute of social sciences, Humboldt-University Berlin in the project „Organized civil society and European governance“ (CIVGOV). |
| 1999-2005 | Student of social sciences at Humboldt-University Berlin and one year at École normale supérieure de Cachan, Paris, France. Participation in the DEA „Action public et sociétés contemporaines“. |
Research Interest
- political communication
- political sociology
- civil society
- interest groups
- processes of Europeanization
Publications
Jentges, Erik (2010) 'Unelected Representatives in the Europolitical Field. Civil Society Organisations between Berlin and Brussels.' In: Kröger, Sandra und Friedrich, Dawid (Hrsg.) The Challenge of Democratic Representation in the European Union. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Brändli, Matthias, Donges, Patrick und Jentges, Erik (2011) 'Media-Induced Change in Political Organisations? Interest Groups and their Reaction to the Media.' ECPR Conference, Reykjavik 2011, 24.-27.08.2011.
Jentges, Erik und Winkelkotte, Manuel (2011): How to Study the Politics of Armed and Unarmed Interest Groups? A Toolbox for Figurational Analysis in Peaceful and Unpeaceful Settings. CAMBIO - Rivista sulle trasformazioni sociali, Anno I, Numero 1/Giugno 2011.
Jentges, Erik (2011) ‘Interest groups - beyond mediatization?’ Paper presented on the panel ‘After Mediatization’, ECPR Joint Session, St. Gallen 2011, 12.-17.04.2011.
Jentges, Erik (2011). Über die Interessenvertretung islamischer Organisationen in Deutschland. In: Isabel Schäfer (Hrsg.), Hybride europäisch-muslimische Identitätsmodelle (Heymat), Working Paper Nr. 2, 2011.
Trenz, Hans-Jörg, Nadine Bernhard und Erik Jentges (2011) 'Civil society and EU constitution making: towards a European social constituency.' In: Liebert, Ulrike und Hans-Jörg Trenz (eds.) The New Politics of European Civil Society. London: Routledge, Pp. 123-142.
Jentges, Erik (2010) 'Die soziale Magie politischer Repräsentation. Charisma und Anerkennung in der Zivilgesellschaft.' Bielefeld: Transcript.
Jentges, Erik und Manuel Winkelkotte (2010) 'How to study the politics of armed and unarmed interest groups? A toolbox for figurational analysis in peaceful and unpeaceful settings' Paper presented at the conference 'Beyond dichotomous thinking: the society of individuals. The legacy and continuing relevance of Norbert Elias's sociology', University of Florence, 7.-9.10.2010.
Jentges, Erik (2010) 'Unelected Representatives in the Europolitical Field. Civil Society Organisations between Berlin and Brussels.' Paper presented at the workshop 'Representation in the European Union: Coping with present challenges to democracy?', Leuphana University Lüneburg, 16.-18.09.2010.
Jentges, Erik (2009) 'The social magic of political representation'. Paper presented at ESA Conference, Lisbon, 02.-05.09.2009 and at ECPR Conference, Potsdam, 10.-12.09.2009.
Schlichte, Klaus and Erik Jentges (2009) 'What's the political? Bourdieu meets Weber.' Paper presented at ECPR Conference, Potsdam, 10.-12.09.2009.
Trenz, Hans-Jörg, Nadine Bernhard and Erik Jentges (2009) 'Von Partizipation zu Repräsentation: Organisierte Zivilgesellschaft und die Erfahrungen aus dem EU Verfassungsprozess.' Berliner Journal für Soziologie, 19 (3), Pp. 353-377.
Trenz, Hans-Jörg, Nadine Bernhard und Erik Jentges (2009): 'Civil society and EU constitution making: towards a European social constituency?' RECON Online Working Papers 2009/07.
Vetters, Regina, Erik Jentges and Hans-Jörg Trenz (2009) 'Whose project is it? Media debates on ratification.' Journal of European Public Policy, 16 (3), Pp. 412-430.
Jentges, Erik (2008) 'Observando la constitucionalización de Europa. El debate constituyente en los medios alemanes.' In: Hans-Jörg Trenz, Agustín José Menéndez, Fernando Losada (eds) ¿Y por fin somos europeos? La comunicación política en el debate constituyente europeo. Madrid: Dykinson, Pp. 171-194.
Firmstone, Julie, Erik Jentges, Fernando Losada and Regina Vetters (2008) '¿Basta sentirse europeo para serlo? El impacto del debate español en las esferas públicas europeas.' In: Hans-Jörg Trenz, Agustín José Menéndez, Fernando Losada (eds) ¿Y por fin somos europeos? La comunicación política en el debate constituyente europeo. Madrid: Dykinson, Pp. 377-398.
Jentges, Erik, Hans-Jörg Trenz and Regina Vetters (2007) 'Von der politischen zu sozialen Konstitutionalisierung Europas. Verfassungsgebung als Katalysator europäischer Vergesellschaftung?', Politische Vierteljahresschrift, 48 (4), Pp. 705-729.
Vetters, Regina and Erik Jentges (2007) 'The constitutional debate revisited. Patterns of public claims-making in constitutional debates in France and Germany 2001-2005' Paper presented at ECPR Conference, Pisa, 6.-8.09.2007.
Vetters, Regina, Erik Jentges and Hans-Jörg Trenz (2006) 'Exploring the EU’s social constituency: Patterns of public claims-making in constitutional debates in France and Germany.' ARENA Working Papers 18/2006.
Trenz, Hans-Jörg and Erik Jentges (2005) 'Beyond national cleavages? The case of airport protests in France and Germany.' Paper presented at ECPR Conference, Budapest, 8.-10.09.2005.
Research Projects
„Building the EU‘s social constituency. Exploring the Dynamics of Public Claims-Making and Collective Representation in Europe“ supported by DFG and ESF (with Hans-Jörg Trenz, Nadine Bernhardt, Regina Vetters).
Associated member of the working group of the project „Hybrid european-muslim identity models. Rituals of identification and differentiation amongst people with migration backgrounds from muslim countries inside and outside of German/European contexts“ (Naika Foroutan and Isabel Schäfer, Humboldt-University Berlin, supported by VW-Foundation).
Courses
Kurs "Kommunikation in Non-Profit Organisationen", IPMZtransfer (gemeinsam mit Dr. Ursula Schwarb), Sommer 2011
„Introduction to communication studies“, FS 2011
„The Berlin Wall and European Integration“ (International Summer University 2010, Humboldt-University Berlin)
„Introduction to communication studies“, FS 2010
„The Cold War and European Integration (International Winter University 2010, Humboldt-University Berlin)
„The Berlin Wall and European Integration“ (International Summer University 2009, Humboldt-University Berlin)