{"id":1944,"date":"2019-04-02T12:36:49","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T10:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kulturwissenschaften.de\/person\/prof-dr-volker-heins\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T13:51:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T12:51:25","slug":"prof-dr-volker-heins","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/person\/prof-dr-volker-heins\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Dr. Volker M. Heins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Academic Career<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2023\u20132025: Senior Researcher and Convener (with Sabine Hess, Dana Schmalz and Frank Wolff), &#8220;Internalizing Borders: The Social and Normative Consequences of the European Border Regime\u201c, Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), Bielefeld University.<\/p>\n<p>2017\u20132022: Member of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Duisburg-Essen.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2017: Member of the Council of the Academy in Exile.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2013: Senior Researcher and (since 2018) member of the executive board of the K\u00e4te Hamburger Kolleg \/ Centre for Global Cooperation Research, Duisburg.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2012: Fellow at the KWI.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2010: Faculty Fellow at the Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale University.<\/p>\n<p>2014\u20132017: Member of the Social Science Faculty of the University of Bochum.<\/p>\n<p>1998\u20132012: Researcher at the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt, Germany.<\/p>\n<p>2006\u20132010: Lecturer in Political Theory at McGill University, Montreal.<\/p>\n<p>1995\u20132010: Visiting Fellowships in the United States, Canada, India and Israel.<\/p>\n<p>2001: Habilitation in Political Science at the University of Giessen, Germany.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Research Interests<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Modern political theory, migration and democracy, exile studies<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Recent Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Heins, Volker M., Frank Wolff (2023): <em>Hinter Mauern. Geschlossene Grenzen als Gefahr f\u00fcr die offene Gesellschaft<\/em>. Berlin: Suhrkamp.<\/li>\n<li>Heins, Volker M. (2021): <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s12115-021-00643-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;The Plasticity of Our Fears: Affective Politics in the European Migration Crisis&#8221;<\/a>, <em>Society <\/em>58, 500\u2013506.<\/li>\n<li>Heins, Volker M. (2021): <em>Offene Grenzen f\u00fcr alle. Eine notwendige Utopie<\/em>. Hamburg: Hoffmann &amp; Campe.<\/li>\n<li>Heins, Volker M. (2021) \u201eMythos Redefreiheit: Toleranz und No-Platforming in der vielstimmigen Demokratie\u201c, <em> Neue Zeitschrift f\u00fcr Sozialforschung<\/em> 18 (1), 171\u2012184.<\/li>\n<li>Heins, Volker M. (2020):\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.academy-in-exile.eu\/2020\/03\/20\/new-publication-volker-m-heins-can-the-refugee-speak-albert-hirschman-and-the-changing-meanings-of-exile-thesis-eleven-no-158-june-2020\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Can the refugee speak? Albert Hirschman and the changing meanings of exile&#8221;<\/a>, <em>Thesis Eleven<\/em> 158, 42-57.<\/li>\n<li>Heins, Volker M. (2019): &#8220;Kultureller Pluralismus und Kritische Theorie. Von Adorno bis Honneth&#8221;, in: Ulf Bohmann, Paul S\u00f6rensen (Eds.) <em>Kritische Theorie der Politik<\/em>. Berlin: Suhrkamp, 672-693.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/volker-heins_selected-publications.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Further selected publications by Volker M. Heins.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>See also:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/uni-due.academia.edu\/VolkerHeins\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Volker M. Heins on Academia.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":87,"featured_media":4829,"template":"","person_category":[288],"class_list":["post-1944","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","person_category-alumni"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/1944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/87"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"person_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person_category?post=1944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}