Short CV

Ina Kerner (kerner@uni-koblenz.de)

Prof. Dr. (Professor of Politics, Department of Cultural Studies, University of Koblenz, Germany)

1990 – 1998 undergraduate and graduate studies in Bonn, Quetzaltenango (Guatemala), Chapel Hill (USA) and at Freie Universität Berlin; 1996 – 1998 Teaching Assistant at Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science at Freie Universität Berlin; 1999 – 2005 Lecturer (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) for political theory at the same institute; fall term of 2001 Visiting Scholar at the New School for Social Research (New York City, USA); 2006 Ph.D. (Dr. phil., summa cum laude) at Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science at Freie Universität Berlin; spring term of 2006 Visiting Assistant Professor an the New School for Social Research (New York City, USA); summer 2006 Research Fellow of the Berlin Gender Equality Fund; 2006 – 2009 Lecturer (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin PostDoc) for gender studies at the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies on Women and Gender at Technische Universität Berlin; 2009 – 2016 Assistant Professor (Juniorprofessorin) for Diversity Politics at the Department of Social Sciences and the Center for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; March 2012 Visiting Fellow at the Center for Humanities Research of the University of the Western Cape (Cape Town, South Africa); fall term of 2012/13 Fellow of the Research Network on Interdependent Inequalities in Latin America (desiguALdades.net) at Freie Universität Berlin; May 2013 Guest Lecturer / DAAD Short Term Visiting Professor at Quaid-i-Azam University (Islamabad, Pakistan); fall term 2014/15 Visiting Research Fellow at the Center for Postcolonial Studies and in the Department of Politics at Goldsmiths, University of London; fall term 2015/16 HEC Guest Professor at the Center of Excellence in Gender Studies at Quaidi-Azam University; 2016 – 2017 Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg / Centre for Global Cooperation Research in Duisburg; since 2017 Professor of Politics in the Department of Cultural Studies at University of Koblenz; Koblenz; fall term 2016/17 Fellow in the Research Group “Global Contestations of Women’s and Gender Rights” at Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung / Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) in Bielefeld; October/November 2022 Visiting Scholar at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law (IISL) in Oñati, Spain.

Research Areas

Contemporary Political and Social Theory
Postcolonial Theories
Gender Studies and Feminist Theories
Gender and Religion
Diversity and Intersectionality
Cultures and Politics of Memory
Development Practice and Post-Development Thought

Books

Der Welt eine neue Wirklichkeit geben. Feministische und queertheoretische Interventionen. Bielefeld 2022: Transcript (co-edited with Hannah Fitsch, Inka Greusing, Hanna Meißner und Aline Oloff); Postkoloniale Theorien zur Einführung. Hamburg 2012: Junius; Differenzen und Macht. Zur Anatomie von Rassismus und Sexismus. Frankfurt/M. 2009: Campus; Kritik und Widerstand. Feministische Praktiken in androzentrischen Zeiten. Leverkusen 2015: Barbara Budrich (co-edited with Brigitte Bargetz, Andrea Fleschenberg, Regina Kreide and Gundula Ludwig); Politische Theorie. 25 umkämpfte Begriffe zur Einführung. Wiesbaden 2011: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften (co-edited with Gerhard Göhler and Mattias Iser); Travelling Gender Studies. Grenzüberschreitende Wissens- und Intitutionentransfers. Münster 2011: Westfälisches Dampfboot (co-edited with Beate Binder, Gabriele Jähnert, Eveline Kilian and Hildegard Maria Nickel)

Selected Publications in English

Decolonizing Universalism? A dialogue on women’s rights, feminist struggles and the possibilities and problems of universal norms. In: Julia Roth, Alexandra Scheele, Heidemarie Winkel (eds.): Global Contestations of Gender Rights. Bielefeld 2022: Transcript/Bielefeld UP, 135-148 (with José-Manuel Barreto); Universalism: Claims, Problems, and Potentials. In: ARCH+ English Edition: Can Design Change Society? Berlin 2019: ARCH+ Birkhäuser Verlag, 88-91; Interrogating Western Modernity: Postcolonial Reflections on Occidental Claims and Action. In: Cadernos de Filosofia Alemã 23(2) 2018, 35-52; Postcolonial Theories as Global Critical Theories. In: Constellations 25(4) 2018, 614–628; Beyond Eurocentrism: Trajectories Towards a Renewed Political and Social Theory. In: Philosophy and Social Criticism 44(5) 2018, 550–570; Solidarity across Difference Lines. In: Social Politics 25(1) 2018, 44-49; Relations of Difference: Power and Inequality in Intersectional and Postcolonial Feminist Theories. In: Current Sociology 65(6) 2017, 846-866; Transnational Governmentality and Civil Society: Cooperation and Power in a Globalized World. In: Gabriel Ricci (ed.): The Persistence of Critical Theory. Culture & Civilization Vol. 8. New Brunswick 2016: Transaction Publishers, 85-102; Countering the Legacies of Colonial Racism: Decolonial and Postcolonial Approaches. In: Sabine Broeck, Carsten Junker (ed.): Postcoloniality – Decoloniality – Black Critique: Joints and Fissures. Frankfurt/M. – New York 2013: Campus, 145-158; Differences of Inequality: Tracing the Socioeconomic, the Cultural and the Political in Latin American Postcolonial Theory. desiguALdades.net Working Paper No. 60, Berlin 2013; Questions of Intersectionality. Reflections on the Current Debate in German Gender Studies, in: European Journal of Womens Studies 19, 2012, 203-218; Scales of Justice and the Challenges of Global Governmentality, in: Public Reason 2(2), 2010, 39-49; Challenges of Critical Whiteness Studies. In: translate.eipcp.net, 2007 (http://translate.eipcp.net/strands/03/kerner-strands01en).

Current Academic Service within the University of Koblenz

Member of the Council of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities; Member of the Board of Examiners, Department of Cultural Studies; Member of the Teaching Commission and the Commission for Quality Control, Faculty of Arts and Humanities; Member of the Council of the Department of Cultural Studies.

Current Academic Service beyond the University of Koblenz

Member of the Editorial Board of the academic review journal “Neue Politische Literatur”; Member of the Academic Advisory Board of the Institute for World Society Studies (IW) at Bielefeld University; Member of the Academic Advisory Board of the Interdisciplinary Center for Gender Studies (IZG) at Bielefeld University; Member of the International Advisory Board of the journal “Culture, Practice & Europeanization (CPE)”; Member of the Panel of Foreign Experts at the Centre of Excellence in Gender Studies of Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad; Member of the Advisory Board of the academic journal “Review of Human Rights” (Peshawar, Pakistan); Member of the Academic Advisory Board of the book series “Internationale Politische Theorie”; Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the book series “Decolonial Options for the Social Sciences”; Member of the Academic Advisory Board of the feminist studies journal “Feministische Studien”; Co-editor of the book series on gender and politics “Politik der Geschlechterverhältnisse” with Campus-Verlag; Member of the Academic Advisory Board of the yearbook for research on islamophobia “Jahrbuch für Islamophobieforschung”; Editorial Associate of Constellations. An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory; Member of the Academic Advisory Board of the introductory book series “Zur Einführung” with Junius Verlag; Member of the Academic Advisory Board of the book series “Zeitgenössische Diskurse des Politischen” with Nomos Verlag; Member of the Academic Advisory Board of the book series “Politische Soziologie” with Nomos Verlag.