Katharina Wezel
Society, Culture and Technological Change
Katharina Wezel is the project supervisor of Co-Care and research assistant in the research project AUPIK. She holds a BScEcon in International Politics and Strategic Studies from Aberystwyth University and an MA in Peace Research and International Relations from Tübingen University. She is co-founder and editor of the ethics blog Thinking Times (BedenkZeiten).
Research interests
- Critical Security Studies
- Feminist health security
- Global health governance
- Sociology of knowledge
About
- April 2023: Founder and editor of the ethics blog Thinking Times (BedenkZeiten)
- Since 2020 Research associate at the Ethics Centre (IZEW), Tübingen University
- 2020 Completion of MA in Peace Studies and International Politics, Tübingen University
(Master's thesis: "Ebola's entanglements: On the On the intra-active entanglement of medicine, technology and security in the West African Ebola Outbreak 2014-2016“) - 2016 Completion of BA in International Relations and Strategic Studies, Aberystwyth University Wales
Publications
- Wezel Katharina, Krause Katharina (2023) Sorgen in der Pandemie - eine Ethics of Care Perspektive auf Gesundheitssicherheit. Femina Politica 32(1), 24-37.
- Wezel Katharina, Mühleck Mara (2023) Resilienz ambulanter Pflegestrukturen. Pflege im Katastrophenfall. PflegeZeitschrift 76(8), 52-55.
- Wezel Katharina, Krüger Marco (2023) Sicherheit und Pflege gemeinsam denken: Ambulante Pflege als kritische Infrastruktur?. In: Krüger M, Max M (Hrsg.). Resiliente Pflegeinfrastrukturen – Stärkung des Risiko- und Krisenmanagements in der ambulanten Pflege. Vincentz Network, 42-67.
- Krüger Marco, Wezel Katharina (2023) Kontinuitäten und Brüche zwischen Alltag und Ausnahme. In: Krüger M, Max M (Hrsg.). Resiliente Pflegeinfrastrukturen – Stärkung des Risiko- und Krisenmanagements in der ambulanten Pflege. Vincentz Network, 78-91.
- Krause K., Wezel, K. (2022): "Sicherheit für wen und wovor? Ethik in der Pandeie." In Lange, H.-J. (ed.). Corona – Politik zwischen Macht und Ohnmacht". AKIS Band Studien zur Inneren Sicherheit, VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden. doi:10.1007/978-3-658-35393-3
- Krüger, M., Wezel, K. (2021): ‘Die ambulante Pflege als kritische Infrastruktur?’, In Krüger, M.; Ewers, M. and Oschmiansky, H. (eds.). Perspektiven auf die Aufrechterhaltung der ambulanten Pflegeinfrastruktur in
Krisen und Katastrophenfällen. Materialien zur Ethik in den Wissenschaften, Band 18. - Hagendorff, T., Wezel, K. (2019): “15 challenges for AI: or what AI (currently) can’t do”. AI & Society, pp. 1-11. doi:10.1007/s00146-019-00886-y.
Talks
2022
- "Bodies in crisis: The production of meaning in global health governance”, presented at EISA PEC Panel ‘Bodies, security, ruins: themes in IPS’. ST03 – Doing International Political Sociology.
- “Seeing and Sensing Health Security: The Case of Protective Clothing”. Presentation at DVPW-Workshop ‘Repräsentationen von (Un)Sicherheit – Objekte, Bilder und Orte. DVPW-Themengruppe “Kritische Sicherheitsstudien‘. Hamburg (December 2022). In cooperation with Katharina Krause.
- “Warum es gut ist, manchmal wütend zu sein.” ["Why it is good to be angry sometimes"]. Tal at sITZung of ITZ Theatre. Tübingen (November 2022).
2021
- “Ebola’s entanglements: the intra-action of medical practice, technology and security in the West-African Ebola outbreak 2014-15”, presented at EISA EWIS Workshop ‘Decentering IR: on Power and Knowledge Production’.
- "Impfstoff für alle?! Politische und Ethische Fragen zur Impfgerechtigkeit" ["Vaccines for all?! Political and ethical questions on vaccine equity"]. Talk in cooperation with medico international, franzK and Tübingen University, (10 March 2021). In cooperation with Katharina Krause (invited speaker).
2020
- “Gendered (Critical) Infrastructures: Health, care and the imaginary of criticality", Workshop Making Europe Through Infrastructures of (In)Security, online. Universität Wien (November 2020) in cooperation with Marco Krüger.
- “Corona und zivilgesellschaftliche Verantwortung”. ["Covid and civil society's responsibilities"]. Talk at online conference Theory Meets Practice, ZfS Service Learning Universität Freiburg (July 2020).
Teaching
“Benachteiligung, Ungerechtigkeit, Diskriminierung” [Discrimination, disadvantage, inequality], Seminar for PGCE-equivalent studies in cooperation with Tübingen School of Education. Together with Wulf Loh (Summer term 2022).
„Contemporary Challenges for Global Governance at the Health-Climate Interface”, Seminar for advanced Master's students at Department of Political Science, Tübingen University. Together with Lena Schlegel (Summer term 2021).
Event organisation
2022: ‘Appropriation as Resistance: Decolonizing Digital Education and Culture in Argentina.’ – Workshop Pt. II as part of teach@tübingen project ‘Narratives about Technology in the Global South’.
2021: ‘Digitalization and Education in Brazil’ – Workshop on the ethical implications of the implementation of Digital Technologies in the field of education. As part of teach@tübingen project ‘Narratives about Technology in the Global South: Sympoiesis of the Invisible’.