School of Culture and Society

Organisational unit: Faculty

Organisation profile

The School of Culture and Society continues an almost thirty-year tradition of teaching and research in cultural studies at Leuphana University of Lüneburg.  At the faculty, more than one hundred scholars from disciplines such as art history, literary studies, media studies, philosophy, sociology, geography and history teach and conduct research in a total of five institutes. The faculty currently offers three majors ("Cultural Studies," "Studium Individuale", and "Digital Media") and four minors ("Philosophy," "Digital Media / Information Technology and Culture", and "Studium Individuale") at Leuphana College and four master's degrees ("Critical Studies - Arts - Theory - History", "Media and Digital Cultures", "Culture and Organization" and "Theory and History of Modernity").

Topics

Die Wissenschaftsinitiative Kulturforschung fragt nach den historischen und kulturellen Grundlagen, Praktiken und Werten der Zivilgesellschaft im 21. Jahrhundert. Aus der Perspektive der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften verbindet die Initiative zwei anwendungsorientierte Forschungsschwerpunkte (Kunst & visuelle Kultur, Medienkultur & Kommunikation) mit einem starken Kernbereich Integrativer Kulturforschung. Beteiligt sind derzeit etwa 20 Professuren aus den Disziplinen Kunst, Medien, Philosophie, Geschichte, Literatur, Soziologie, Politik, Informatik und Geographie/Raumwissenschaft.

  1. Published

    Critique: The Stakes of Form

    Kuhn, H. (ed.), Mehl, I. (ed.), Khatib, S. (ed.), Söntgen, B. (ed.) & Lochner, O. (ed.), 28.07.2020, Zürich/Berlin: Diaphanes Verlag. 352 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

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    Critical Stances: An Introduction to The Stakes of Form.

    Khatib, S., Kuhn, H., Lochner, O., Mehl, I. & Söntgen, B., 23.06.2020, Critique: The Stakes of Form. Khatib, S., Kuhn, H., Lochner, O., Mehl, I. & Söntgen, B. (eds.). Zürich/Berlin: Diaphanes Verlag, p. 7-36 30 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearchpeer-review

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    Critical Reflections on "Democracy in Crisis': BETWEEN ACTIVISM AND ACADEMIA

    Brunner, C., Burcar, L. & Freudenschuß, M., 01.06.2013, In: International Feminist Journal of Politics. 15, 2, p. 267-276 10 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsComments / Debate / ReportsResearch

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    Crisis - Unrest - Commons Sense: Melanie Gilligan, Critique and the Cultural Logic of Environmentalization

    Kuhn, H., 2021, Critique and the Digital. Hörl, E., Pinkrah, N. Y. & Warnholdt, C. L. (eds.). Zürich/Berlin: Diaphanes Verlag, p. 147-184 38 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearchpeer-review

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    Creativity in the ‘spaces of hope’: interactions between mega-projects and social struggles in Hamburg

    Animento, S., 06.2015, In: TERRITORIO (Milano). 73, p. 30-38 9 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    Creativity in Spaces of Possibilities for Sustainable Urban Development: An Empirical Study of Four Cultural Initiatives in Hanover, Germany

    Kagan, S., 11.2021, In: World Futures. 77, 7, p. 481-507 27 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    'Creativity and Innovation' in the Nineteenth Century: Harrison C. White and the Impressionist Revolution Reconsidered

    Wuggenig, U., 2011, Critique of Creativity: Precarity, Subjectivity and Resistance in the `Creative Industries´. Raunig, G., Ray, G. & Wuggenig, U. (eds.). London: MayflyBooks, p. 57-75 19 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

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    Creative Work, Self-Organizing, and Autonomist Potentiality: Snapshots taken from Amsterdam's art factories

    Cnossen, B., 01.04.2021, In: European Journal of Cultural Studies. 24, 2, p. 394-410 17 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    Creative Network Communities in the Translocal Space of Digital Networks

    Smite, R., 05.2013, In: Human Technology. 9, 1, p. 4-21 18 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    Creative Cities and (Un)Sustainability: From Creative Class to Sustainable Creative Cities

    Kagan, S. & Hahn, J., 08.03.2011, In: Culture and Local Governance / Culture et gouvernance locale. 3, 1-2, p. 11-27 17 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review