Alexander Kurunczi, M.A.

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1010 Vienna
T: +43-1-4277-494 98
E-Mail: alexander.kurunczi@univie.ac.at
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After agreement

Short CV

2013-2021 – Bachelor's and Master's degree in English and American Studies and Media Studies at Ruhr University Bochum and Newcastle University

2019 – Research student at the Research Training Group "Documentary Practices. Excess and Privation" at the Ruhr University of Bochum

Since 2023, project assistant (praedoc) in the project Culture in the ERC Advanced Grant research project Prefiguring Democratic Futures at the Department of Political Science, University of Vienna (project leader: Prof. Oliver Marchart)

Research interests

Protest and social movement studies; political utopias and prefigurative practices; political ecology and socio-ecological conflicts; (post-)Marxist theory

Publications

  • (2023) “Strategic Exhaustion? Moving Forward With and Beyond Extinction Rebellion,” Hard Times. Zeitung für deutsche und britische Kultur 106, 59-68
  • (2020) Demokratie, Utopie, Anarchie? Jacques Rancières dissonanter Dialog mit den Anarchismen der Gegenwart,“ Staatskritik und Radikaldemokratie.  Das Denken Jacques Rancières. Hg. von Mareike Gebhardt. Nomos, 209-224.
  • (2020) “Mobilising Red, Black, and Green? Contouring the Place of the Riot in Contemporary Environmentalism,” Coils of the Serpent, 88-112
  • (2018): “Reassessing the Riots: Navigating Capitalism, Complicity, and Resistance” onlinejournal kultur & geschlecht. Special Issue: Social Representations – between Complicity and Resistance.

 

 

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