Birgit Mahnkopf

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Stay(s) with the Research Group
26./27.01. 2012 opening event of the Research Group
14./15.06. 2012 conference “Von Krise zu Krise”
09.10. 2012 – 31.03. 2013
Research focus, presentations and publications during stay
During her stay in Jena, Birgit Mahnkopf investigated the question of how the socio-ecological crisis affects the dynamism of capitalism. She presented her confrontation with the questionnaire in a workshop talk as well as in a working paper entitled ‘Peak Everything – Peak Capitalism’. In addition, she discussed Klaus Reiner’s take-up concept in a further workshop talk with the members of the collegiate
Selected Publications
Wachstumskritik als Kapitalismuskritik, in: Dörre, Klaus/ Sauer, Dieter/ Wittke, Volker (Hg.) (2012): Kapitalismustheorien und Arbeit. Neue Ansätze soziologischer Kritik, Frankfurt/Main: Campus Verlag: 389-409
The euro crisis: german politics of blame and austerity – a neoliberal nightmare, in: International Critical Thought, Vol.2, Issue 4, 2012, p. 472-485
Über die liberale Demokratie hinaus. Perspektiven partizipativer Demokratie unter den Restriktionen der Umweltkrise, in: Friedrich -Ebert-Stiftung Landesbüro Niedersachsen (Hg.) (2011): Zukunft der Demokratie – Demokratie der Zukunft, S. 126-134; library.fes.de/pdf-files/bueros/hannover/08536.pdf
Die “Satansmühle” der kapitalistischen Ökonomie. Der kapitalistische Realismus in der Krise, in: S. Neckel (Hg.) (2010): Kapitalistischer Realismus. Von der Kunstaktion zur Gesellschaftskritik, Frankfurt/M./ New York (Campus): 93-116.
Still a Future for the European Social Model? in: Global Labour Journal, Vol. 1: Iss 3,: 314-330 (together with Ch. Hermann).


