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Julia Kaiser

Julia Kaiser

Research Fellow

Global Dynamics of Resource Use and Distribution (JP)
Institutsgebäude
Emil-Fuchs-Straße 1, Room 2.08
04105 Leipzig

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Abstract

Working title of the doctoral project:

Labour, Imagination and Metamorphosis: The socially integrated Factory ‘ex-GKN For Future’ as an Industrial Real Utopia

My research interests are:

Industrial sociology, class theory, ecological Marxism, eco-socialism, societal relationships with nature, social-ecological transformation and social-ecological transformation conflicts, class and nature relationships, industrial conversion, European protest movements, trade union renewal, Marxism and Utopia.

Professional career

  • 05/2022 - 02/2023
    Research assistant at the Institute of Sociology, Department of Industrial, Labor and Economic Sociology, FSU Jena
  • since 05/2023
    Research Associate at the Global and European Studies Institute, Department of Global Dynamics of Resource Use and Distribution, University of Leipzig

  • Kaiser, J.
    Rückkehr der Konversionsbewegung? Potenziale und Grenzen der Konversionsbestrebungen sozial-ökologischer Bündnisse rund um Autozuliefererwerke
    PROKLA. Zeitschrift für kritische Sozialwissenschaft. 2023. 53 (210). pp. 35–53.
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.32387/prokla.v53i210.2031
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  • Kaiser, J.
    #Wir fahren zusammen. Die Allianz von Fridays For Future und ver.di im Bereich Nahverkehr als Exempel ökologischer Klassenpolitik.
    In: Dörre, K.; Holzschuh, M.; Köster, J.; Sittel, J. (Eds.)
    Abschied von Kohle und Auto? Sozial-ökologische Transformationskonflikte um Energie und Mobilität. Frankfurt am Main: Campus. 2020. pp. 267–283.
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  • Workers' Councils and Workers' Control (summer term 2024)

    We want to gain an overview of the history of factory councils, factory takeovers and attempts to exercise workers' self-management within the capitalist economic system. Using global examples, with a focus on Italy, we will explore the following questions: In which situations and why have attempts at workers' self-management repeatedly emerged in history? Why did they fail? What forms of factory takeovers and self-management occur today and what potential is attributed to them?