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Kathrin Braun

apl. Prof. Dr.

Research Coordinator
Research Center for Interdisciplinary Risk and Innovation Studies

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70174 Stuttgart
Deutschland

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Kathrin’s main area of study are the politics of science, technology and society and critical biopolitics studies. Her research focus is on the question how new technoscientific and biomedical developments shape and are shaped by social relations of power and how they may affect the meaning and practices of social solidarity and inclusion. Her work is particularly concerned with the role of civil society, public debate and science and technology controversies in shaping technoscientific developments in a democratic, responsible and sustainable way. Kathrin Braun is also forum editor of the journal Critical Policy Studies. She has been research coordinator at ZIRIUS since February 2018.

  1. 2024

    1. Haag, P., Balangé, L., Di Bari, R., Braun, K., Weißert, J., Zhang, L., Schwieger, V., Leistner, P., Kropp, C., & Jünger, H. C. (2024). Development of the holistic quality model and assessment – Integrating the economic quality aspect and establishing an extended interrelation analysis. Developments in the Built Environment, 19, 100511. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dibe.2024.100511
    2. Kropp, C., Boeva, Y., & Braun, K. (2024). Socio-Digital Co-Design Practices. https://doi.org/10.23987/sts.143598
  2. 2023

    1. Boeva, Y., Braun, K., & Kropp, C. (2023). Platformization in the built environment: the political techno-economy of Building Information Modeling. Science as Culture, 1–28. https://doi.org/10.1080/09505431.2023.2237042
    2. Braun, K., & Kropp, C. (2023). Building a better world? Competing promises, visions, and imaginaries-in-the-making of the digitalization of architecture and construction. Futures, 154, 103262. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2023.103262
    3. Kropp, C., Boeva, Y., & Braun, K. (2023). Automatisch nachhaltig? Architektonische Praxis im Zeitalter der Digitalisierung. Soziale Probleme, 34(2), Article 2. https://www.beltz.de/fachmedien/soziologie/zeitschriften/soziale_probleme.html?tx_beltz_journalaction=article&tx_beltz_journalarticle=52093&tx_beltz_journalcontroller=Journal&cHash=af1cf9f7cc43b1c7e46b6cc26d6c8836
  3. 2022

    1. Braun, K., & Könninger, S. (2022). „Nein, aber“ – die politische Steuerung des NIPT. Gen-Ethischer Informationsdienst, 230, 10–12.
    2. Braun, K., & Könninger, S. (2022). NIPT in Germany: moral concerns and consumer choice. In C. Schües (Ed.), Genetic Responsibility in Germany and Israel. Practices of Prenatal Diagnosis (pp. 137–157). transcript. https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-5988-7/genetic-responsibility-in-germany-and-israel/
    3. Braun, K., Könninger, S., & Raz, A. (2022). Commentary – “Yes, but...” vs. “no, but...”: Ambivalences towards Prenatal Diagnosis in Israel and Germany. In C. Schües (Ed.), Genetic Responsibility in Germany and Israel. Practices of Prenatal Diagnosis (pp. 159–161). transcript. https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-5988-7/genetic-responsibility-in-germany-and-israel/
    4. Braun, K., Kropp, C., & Boeva, Y. (2022). From Digital Design to Data-Assets: Competing Visions, Policy Projects, and Emerging Arrangements of Value Creation in the Digital Transformation of Construction. <p>Historical Social Research Vol. 47, No. 3 (2022): Special Issue: Digital Transformation(s), Article s. https://doi.org/10.12759/HSR.47.2022.27
    5. Braun, K., Kropp, C., & Boeva, Y. (2022). Constructing platform capitalism: inspecting the political techno-economy of Building Information Modelling. Arq: Architectural Research Quarterly, 26(3), Article 3. https://doi.org/DOI: 10.1017/S135913552200046X
    6. Frost, D., Braun, K., & Kropp, C. (2022). Between sustainability commitments and anticipated market requirements. NOvation, II, 60–86. http://novation.inrs.ca/index.php/novation/article/view/42
    7. Frost, D., Braun, K., & Kropp, C. (2022). Between sustainability commitments and anticipated market requirements. Exploring the resilience of the techno-economic innovation paradigm in the midstream of construction research. NOvation, 2, Article 2. http://dx.doi.org/10.5380/nocsi.v0i2
    8. Kropp, C., Braun, K., & Boeva, Y. (2022). Echo Chambers of Urban Design. Platformization in Architecture and Planning (A. Strüver & S. Bauriedl, Eds.; pp. 237–258). transcript. https://www.transcript-open.de/doi/10.14361/9783839459645-015
  4. 2021

    1. Braun, K. (2021). Biopolitics and Historic Justice. Coming to Terms with the Injuries of Normality. transcript. https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-4550-7/biopolitics-and-historic-justice/
    2. Braun, K. (2021). Handle with Caution. Truth, Facts and the Post-Truth Frame. In N. Dalmer, J. Joachim, & A. Schneiker (Eds.), Transatlantic Relations in Times of Change. Past, Present and Future. Festschrift für Christiane Lemke (pp. 82–94). Nomos.
    3. Braun, K., & Kropp, C. (Eds.). (2021). In digitaler Gesellschaft. Neukonfigurationen zwischen Robotern, Algorithmen und Usern. transcript. https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/52127
    4. Braun, K., & Kropp, C. (2021). Schöne neue Bauwelt? Versprechen, Visionen und Wege des digitalen Planens und Bauens (K. Braun & C. Kropp, Eds.; pp. 135–165).
    5. Kropp, C., & Braun, K. (2021). Einleitung. In digitaler Gesellschaft: Herausforderungen, Risiken und Chancen einer demokratischen Technikgestaltung. In K. Braun & C. Kropp (Eds.), In digitaler Gesellschaft. Neukonfigurationen zwischen Robotern, Algorithmen und Usern (pp. 7–34). transcript. https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-5453-0/in-digitaler-gesellschaft/?number=978-3-8394-5453-4
  5. 2020

    1. Braun, K. (2020). Reproductive technologies, feminist internationalism, and social critique. In T. Kulawik & Z. Kravchenko (Eds.), Borderlands in European Gender Studies. Beyond the East – West Frontier (pp. 129–150). Routledge.
    2. Zhang, L., Balangé, L., Braun, K., Di Bari, R., Horn, R., Hos, D., Kropp, C., Leistner, P., & Schwieger, V. (2020). Quality as Driver for Sustainable Construction - Holistic Quality Model and Assessment. Sustainability, 12(19), Article 19. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12197847
  6. 2019

    1. Braun, K. (2019). Unpacking Post-Truth. Critical Policy Studies, 13(4), Article 4. https://doi.org/10.1080/19460171.2019.1673200
    2. Braun, K., & Gerhards, H. (2019). Leben, Zeit, Regierung. Eine sozialtheoretische und konstruktivistische Neubestimmung des Konzepts Biopolitik. In H. Gerhards & K. Braun (Eds.), Biopolitiken. Regierungen des Lebens heute (pp. 3–40). Springer. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-658-25769-9_1
    3. Fischer, F., & Braun, K. (2019). Editorial. Environmental governance, climate crisis and post-truth. Critical Policy Studies, 13(4), Article 4. https://doi.org/10.1080/19460171.2019.1674172
    4. Gerhards, H., & Braun, K. (Eds.). (2019). Biopolitiken. Regierungen des Lebens heute. Springer. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-658-25769-9
  7. 2018

    1. Braun, K. (2018). Marginal justice: the persecution of the so-called ‘asocials’ and the politics of historic justice in the Federal Republic of Germany. Parliaments, Estates and Representation (PER), published online 30 Jan 2018, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/02606755.2017.1420619
    2. Braun, K., & Dodge, J. (2018). Editorial. Critical policy studies and the politics of post-truth politics. Critical Policy Studies, 12(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/htps://doi.org/10.1080/19460171.2018.14444
    3. Braun, K., & Könninger, S. (2018). Realizing responsibility. Institutional routines, critical intervention, and the “big” questions in the controversy over non-invasive prenatal testing in Germany. New Genetics and Society, 37(3), Article 3. https://doi.org/10.1080/14636778.2018.1495555
  8. 2017

    1. Braun, K. (2017). Grenzenlose Reproduktionsfreiheit? Grenzüberschreitende Mobilisie¬rung weiblicher reproduktiver Ressourcen und die Frage feministischer Gesellschafts¬kritik. In B. Bargetz, E. Kreisky, & G. Ludwig (Eds.), Dauerkämpfe. Feministische Zeitdiagose und Strategien (pp. 123–131). Campus.
    2. Braun, K. (2017). „Ob es tatsächlich dazu kommt, ist nach wie vor offen und bleibt abzu¬warten.“ Der Kampf des BEZ um die Anerkennung der „Euthanasie“-Geschädigten und Zwangs¬sterilisierten als Verfolgte des Nationalsozialismus und die Antwort der Politik. In M. Hamm (Ed.), Ausgegrenzt! Warum? Zwangssterilisierte und Geschädigte der NS-„Euthanasie“ in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (pp. 199–221). Metropol.
    3. Braun, K., & Könninger, S. (2017). From experiments to ecosystems? Reviewing public participation, scientific governance and the systemic turn. The Public Understanding of Science, first published online 7 July 2017. https://doi.org/DOI: 10.1177/0963662517717375
  9. 2016

    1. Braun, K. (2016). Critique as a two-dimensional project. Critical Policy Studies, 10(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/DOI: 10.1080/19460171.2015.1129351
    2. Braun, K. (2016). From Ethical Exceptionalism to Ethical Exceptions: the Rule and Exception Mode and the Changing Meaning of Ethics in German Bioregulation. Developing World Bioethics, 17(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/DOI: 10.1111/dewb.12103
  10. 2015

    1. Braun, K. (2015). Art. Erbgesundheitsgesetz, Ächtung und Entschädigungsdebatten. In T. Fischer & M. N. Lorenz (Eds.), Lexikon der Vergangenheitsbewältigung (pp. 343–348). transcript.
    2. Braun, K. (2015). Between Representation and Narration: Analyzing Policy Frames. In F. Fischer, D. Torgerson, A. Durnovà, & M. Orsini (Eds.), Handbook of Critical Policy Studies (pp. 441–461). Edward Elgar Publishing.
    3. Braun, K., & Herrmann, S. L. (2015). Unrecht zweiter Ordnung. Die Weitergeltung des Gesetzes zur Verhütung erbkranken Nachwuchses in der Bundesrepublik. In S. Begalke, C. Fröhlich, & S. A. Glienke (Eds.), Der halbierte Rechtsstaat. Demokratie und Recht in der frühen Bundesrepublik und die Integration von NS-Funktionseliten (pp. 223–241). Nomos.
  11. 2014

    1. Braun, K. (2014). Im Kampf um Bedeutung: Diskurstheorie und Diskursanalyse in der interpretativen Policy Analyse. Zeitschrift Für Diskurs¬forschung/Journal for Discourse Studies, 1(4), Article 4.
    2. Braun, K., Herrmann, S. L., & Brekke, O. A. (2014). Sterilization Policies, Moral Rehabilitation and the Politics of Amends. Critical Policy Studies, 8(2), Article 2.
  12. 2013

    1. Braun, K. (2013). Ethikberatung und Zeitlichkeit in Kommissionen zu Biomedizin und Atomtechnologie. In A. Bogner (Ed.), Ethisierung der Technik. Technologien der Ethik (pp. 95–116). Nomos.
    2. Braun, K., & Schultz, S. (2013). Procuring Tissue: Regenerative Medicine, Oocyte Mobilisation, and Feminist Politics. In A. Webster (Ed.), The Global Dynamics of Regenerative Medicine. A Social Science Critique (pp. 118–149). Palgrave Macmillan.
  13. 2012

    1. Braun, K. (2012). From the Body of Christ to Racial Homogeneity: Carl Schmitt’s Mobilization of “Life” Against the “Spirit of Technicity.” The European Legacy, 17(1), Article 1.
    2. Braun, K., & Schultz, S. (2012). Oöcytes for research: Inspecting the commercialisation continuum. New Genetics and Society, 31(2), Article 2.
  14. 2010

    1. Braun, K., Herrmann, S. L., Moore, A., & Könninger, S. (2010). Governmental Bioethics between the Technological Model and Reflexive Government. Economy and Society, 39(4), Article 4.
    2. Braun, K., Herrmann, S. L., Moore, A., & Könninger, S. (2010). Ethical Reflection must always be measured. Science, Technology and Human Values, 35(6), Article 6.
    3. Braun, K., & Kropp, C. (2010). Introduction: Beyond truth. Institutional responses to uncertainty in scientific governance. Introduction to a special issue. Science, Technology and Human Values, 35(6), Article 6.
    4. Braun, K., & Schultz, S. (2010). “…a certain amount of engineering involved” Constructing the public in participatory governance arrangements. The Public Understanding of Science, 19(4), Article 4.
  15. 2007

    1. Braun, K. (2007). Biopolitics and Temporality in Arendt and Foucault. Time & Society, 17(1), Article 1.
  16. 2005

    1. Braun, K. (2005). Not Just for Experts: The Public Debate about Reprogenetics in Germany. Hastings Center Report, 35(3), Article 3.
  17. 2003

    1. Abels, G., Braun, K., & Kulawik, T. (2003). Feministisch-politologische Perspektiven auf Biomedizinpolitik: Einleitung, in: Geschlecht und Biomedizinpolitik. Vergleichende Perspektiven. Österreichische Zeitschrift Für Politikwissenschaft (ÖZP), 32(2), Article 2.
    2. Braun, K. (2003). Embryonen im sozialen Kontext? Die Rolle von geschlechtersensitiven Argumenten und von Frauen als Akteurinnen in der Bioethikdebatte in Deutschland. Österreichische Zeitschrift Für Politikwissenschaft (ÖZP), 32(2), Article 2.
  18. 2000

    1. Braun, K. (2000). Menschenwürde und Biomedizin. Zum philosophischen Diskurs der Bioethik. Campus.
  19. 1998

    1. Braun, K. (1998). Zivilisation oder Dehumanisierung? Menschenrechtsschutz und internationales Bioethik-Regime. Österreichische Zeitschrift Für Politikwissenschaft (ÖZP), 1, Article 1.
  20. 1994

    1. Braun, K. (1994). Schutz für die Unmündigen, die Frauen... Politische Interaktion und Reorganisation des Geschlechterverhältnisses in der frühen Arbeitsschutzgesetzgebung. Feministische Studien, 1, Article 1.

Kathrin Braun studied Social Sciences at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg and completed her doctorate and Habilitation in Political Science at the Leibniz University of Hanover. She has been an adjunct professor (außerordentliche Professorin) there since 2002. She was a visiting and interim professor and visiting scholar at numerous universities in Germany and abroad, including the LSE, the University of Washington in Seattle and the University of Vienna.

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