Käte Hamburger Kolleg / Centre for Global Cooperation Research
Schifferstr. 44
47059 Duisburg
Germany
Phone: +49 (0)203 379-5256
Fax: +49 (0)203 379-5276
E-Mail: heins@gcr21.uni-due.de
Vita
Since 2017 | Member of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Duisburg-Essen and Affiliate Professor of Political Science |
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Since 2017 | Member of the Council of the Academy in Exile |
Since 2013 | Senior Researcher and (since 2018) member of the executive board of the Käte Hamburger Kolleg / Centre for Global Cooperation Research, Duisburg |
Since 2012 | Permanent Fellow at the KWI |
Since 2010 | Faculty Fellow at the Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale University |
2014–2017 | Member of the Social Science Faculty of the University of Bochum |
1998–2012 | Researcher at the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt, Germany |
2006–2010 | Lecturer in Political Theory at McGill University, Montreal |
1995–2010 | Visiting Fellowships in the United States, Canada, India and Israel |
2001 | Habilitation in Political Science at the University of Giessen, Germany |
Current Projects
"Norms and Values in the European Migration and Refugee Crisis" (NoVaMigra), link: https://novamigra.eu/
Selected Publications
Heins, Volker M. (2019): Can the refugee speak? Albert Hirschman and the changing meanings of exile. In: Thesis Eleven, vol. 155 (forthcoming in December)
Heins, Volker M. / Unrau, Christine (2020): Anti-immigrant movements and the self-poisoning of the civil sphere: The case of Germany. In: Jeffrey C. Alexander, Trevor Stack, Farhad Khosrokhavar (eds.) Breaching the Civil Order: Radicalism and the Civil Sphere. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, pp. 145-169.
Heins, Volker M.: 'Kultureller Pluralismus und Kritische Theorie. Von Adorno bis Honneth', in: Ulf Bohmann, Paul Sörensen (eds.), Kritische Theorie der Politik. Berlin: Suhrkamp 2019.
Heins, Volker M.: '“More Modest and More Political”: From the Frankfurt School to the Liberalism of Fear', in: Samantha Ashenden, Andreas Hess (eds.) Between Utopia and Realism: The Political Thought of Judith N. Shklar. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press 2019.
Heins, Volker M. / Unrau, Christine / Avram, Kristine (2018): 'Gift-giving and reciprocity in global society: Introducing Marcel Mauss in international studies’, Journal of International Political Theory 14 (2) pp. 126-144.
Heins, Volker M. / Unrau, Christine (2018): ‘Refugees welcome: Arrival gifts, reciprocity and the integration of forced migrants’, Journal of International Political Theory 14 (2).
Flitner, Michael / Volker M. Heins / Herbeck, Johannes (2018): ‘Critical beaches: Coastal erosion and geosociality in south-eastern Ghana’, in Elisabetta Nadalutti and Otto Kallscheuer (eds.), Region-Making and Cross-Border Cooperation: New Evidence from Five Continents, London and New York: Routledge.
Heins, Volker M. (2017): 'Multikulturalismus in der Ära Trump', Mittelweg 36 26 (2): 53-62.
Heins, Volker M. (2016): ‘Krisenbewältigung durch Kooperation? Die Grenzen des EU-Modells’, Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft 26 (4): 445–53.
Heins, Volker M. (2016):'Die Gegenwart der Homophobie', WestEnd. Neue Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung 13 (2): 75–81.
Heins, Volker M. (2016): 'Habermas on the European Crisis: Attempting the Impossible', Thesis Eleven 133: 3–18.
Heins, Volker M. / Kai Koddenbrock / Christine Unrau (eds.) (2016): Humanitarianism and Challenges of Cooperation, London and New York: Routledge.
Heins, Volker M. (2016): 'Recognition, Multiculturalism, and the Allure of Separatism', in Patrick Hayden and Kate Schick (eds.), Recognition and Global Politics: Critical Encounters between State and World, Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 69–84.
Heins, Volker M. (2015): 'Recognition Going Awry: NGOs and the Rise of the Unelected', in Christopher Daase, Caroline Fehl, Anna Geis, Georgios Kolliarakis (eds.), Recognition in International Relations: Rethinking a Political Concept in a Global Context, Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.
Heins, Volker M. (2013): Der Skandal der Vielfalt: Geschichte und Konzepte des Multikulturalismus <The Scandal of Diversity: History and Concepts of Multiculturalism>, Frankfurt / New York: Campus.
Heins, Volker M. (2012): The Global Politics of Recognition, in: Shane O‘Neill / Nicholas H. Smith (eds.): Recognition Theory as Social Research: Investigating the Dynamics of Social Conflict, Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 213–230.
Heins, Volker M. (2012): Three Meanings of Equality: The "Arab Problem" in Israel, in: Res Publica, Vol. 18, No. 1, 79–91.
Heins, Volker M. (2011): Beyond Friend and Foe: The Politics of Critical Theory, Leiden / Boston: Brill.
Heins, Volker M. / Langenohl, Andreas (2011): A Fire That Doesn’t Burn? The Allied Bombing of Germany and the Cultural Politics of Trauma, in: Ron Eyerman et al. (eds.): Narrating Trauma: On the Impact of Collective Suffering (Yale Cultural Sociology Series), Paradigm, 3–26.
Heins, Volker M. / Badami, Aditya / Markovits, Andrei S. (2010): The West Divided? A Snapshot of Human Rights and Transatlantic Relations at the United Nations, Human Rights Review, Vol. 11, No. 1, 1–16.
Heins, Volker M. (2008): Nongovernmental Organizations in International Society: Struggles over Recognition, New York: Palgrave Macmillan.