Anne Cress, M.A.
Junior Lecturer & Ph.D. Student
Anne Cress, M.A., is a doctoral student and junior lecturer at the department of Comparative Politics and European Integration at the Institute of Political Science. She has degrees in political science and social work. She completed the Master's program ›Democracy and Governance in Europe‹ at the Institute of Political Science (University of Tübingen) with a thesis on political representation beyond governmental institutions. With reference to theorists such as Hanna Pitkin, Iris Marion Young, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Hannah Arendt, she dealt with the question of the legitimacy of speaking for marginalised groups.
Her PhD thesis focuses on political participation and civil society representation in Europe from a (postcolonial-) feminist perspective. In her research, she investigates the prostitution policy field and analyses the relationship between civil society representation and political participation. Thus, she focuses on the often neglected representative practice of civil society actors and its political effects.
Since 2015 she is lecturer at the Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University Stuttgart (DHBW, Faculty of Social Work).
Contact
Eberhard Karls University
Institute of Political Science
Melanchthonstraße 36
72074 Tübingen
Raum U4
Research
Research Interests
• Political Participation and Representation
• Civil Society and Civic Engagement
• Democracy, Social Movements and the EU Multi-Level System
• Prostitution Policy
• Political Theory
• Feminist Theory & Methods
• Grounded Theory and Situational Analysis
• Critical Policy Analysis
• Politics of Social Work
• Ethics of Care
Teaching
Winter Term 2021/2022
• Conflicts of Representation in Civil Society: Comparative Studies on Specific Policies
Summer Term 2021
• Prostitution - Comparative Perspectives on a Controversial Policy Field
Winter Term 2020/2021
• Conflicts of Representation in Civil Society: Comparative Studies on Specific Policies
Summer Term 2020
• The Democratization Potential of Civil Society in the EU Multi-Level System
Winter Term 2018/2019
• Women's Suffrage and Political Participation: Comparative Analyses in Historical and Contemporary Perspective (jointly with Prof. Dr. Gabriele Abels)
Winter Term 2017/2018
• The Democratization Potential of Civil Society in the EU Multi-Level System
Publications
Articles in Books
Advokatorisches Handeln Sozialer Arbeit - selbstverständlich 'gut'? Interessen- und repräsentationstheoretische Perspektiven im Vergleich, in: Toens, Katrin/Benz, Benjamin (eds.) 2019: Schwache Interessen? Politische Beteiligung in der Sozialen Arbeit, Weinheim: Beltz Juventa, S. 36-54.
Zivilgesellschaftliche Transformation durch Achtsamkeit und gemeinsam gestaltete Praxis, in: Conradi, Elisabeth/Vosman, Frans (eds.) 2016: Praxis der Achtsamkeit. Schlüsselbegriffe der Care-Ethik, Frankfurt am Main/New York: Campus Verlag, 389-407.
Kurzbesprechung der Werke "Hans Jacob Roth, Geschlecht und Macht. Ein Beitrag zur Geschlechterdiskussion" und "Madeline Doneit/Bettina Lösch/Margit Rodrian-Pfennig (eds.), Geschlecht ist politisch. Geschlechterreflexive Perspektiven in der politischen Bildung", in: Backes, Uwe/Gallus, Alexander/Jesse, Eckardt (eds.) 2017: Jahrbuch Extremismus und Demokratie, 29. Jahrgang, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 415-416.
Articles in Journals
Die Situationsanalyse und ihr Potenzial für feministisch-kritische Politikfeldanalysen, in: Femina Politica 30 (1) 2021, S. 17-29, https://doi.org/10.3224/feminapolitica.v30i1.03 <https://doi.org/10.3224/feminapolitica.v30i1.03>
Vom Kampf ums Frauenwahlrecht zur Parité: Politische Repräsentation von Frauen gestern und heute, in: Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen 50 (1) 2019, S. 167-186, DOI: 10 .5771/0340-1758-2019-1-167 (jointly with with Gabriele Abels).
Feministische Repräsentationskritik. (Dis-)Kontinuitäten von den ersten deutschen Frauenbewegungen bis in die Gegenwart, in: Femina Politica 27 (2) 2018, S. 25-39, https://doi.org/10.3224/feminapolitica.v27i2.03
Petra Ahrens. Actors, Institutions, and the Making of EU Gender Equality Programs, in: Femina Politica 27 (2) 2018, S. 198-200, (Rezension) https://doi.org/10.3224/feminapolitica.v27i2.22
Conference Papers
The critical and transformative potential of the Ethics of Care – International Conference on ›Caring Democracy: Current Topics in the Political Theory of Care‹, Institute of Philosophy, The Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague, November 2017.
Politische ›Repräsentation‹ jenseits staatlicher Institutionen: Über das Potenzial eines alternativen, (postkolonial-)feministischen Repräsentationsbegriffs - Jahrestagung des AK Politik und Geschlecht in der DVPW ›Intersektionale und postkolonial-feministische Perspektiven als Instrumente einer politikwissenschaftlichen Macht- und Herrschaftskritik‹, Universität Duisburg-Essen, November 2017.
Sex Work and Care Work – International Conference ›Troubling Prostitution: Exploring intersections of sex, intimacy and labour‹ at the University of Wien, April 2015.
Zivilgesellschaftliche Dritte und die Ethik der Achtsamkeit - Theoriewerkstatt ›Ethics of Care - Europäische Stimmen‹ an der Dualen Hochschule Baden-Württemberg Stuttgart, November 2014.
Closer Attention, Comprehension, Action: About the possibilities of citizens to minimize Violence in Partnerships by Civil Engagement - International Conference on Deliberation, Transformation, Agency, and the Ethics of Care at the Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University Stuttgart, November 2013.