Monika Krause MSc PhD

Monika Krause joined the sociology department at Goldsmiths in 2011. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from New York University and has previously taught at the University of Kent in Canterbury. She is a Poiesis Fellow at the Institute for Public Knowledge at NYU and a member of the Junior Fellows’ network at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research (ZIF) at the University of Bielefeld.

Teaching

Monika convenes SO52001A Central Issues in Sociological Analysis (with Nirmal Puwar).

She also teaches SO52102A Organisations  and Society. The course explores the role of organisations in social life through a range of theoretical approaches and a range of case studies: Schools, churches, banks, supermarkets, the state and the university are all organisations and as organisations not only shape the world but also shape the way we see the world and the way we see ourselves. Some organisations can be quite useful or may even be necessary for doing things well together. On the other hand, organisations develop their own dynamics, which contribute to some very undesirable social outcomes.

Areas of supervision

Political sociology, global interventions, sociology of culture, sociology of organizations

Research interests

Global Politics and Organizational Practice

How does power operate on a global level? What happens to sociological conceptions of social order (or disorder) when we take the international and global dimensions of social life seriously? I works on these questions with specific attention to organizational dynamics, and the mediation of meaningful practices and management tools.

Specialised Practices and Fields of Cultural Production

I am interested in specialised practices in a variety of settings; I am fascinated by the benefits and costs of specialization and am interested in comparative questions about fields of specialised practice: How do we conceptualise and how do we explain some of the similarities, and how do we explain differences?  I ask by what mediations specialised practices are linked to other practices, and how they do or do not add up to meaningful wholes. I have worked on management practices shared by humanitarian NGOs. I have studied the history of the journalistic field in the US. I have also written on playwriting, and on psychoanalyis.

Selected publications

Books and Special Issues

Claudio Benzecry and Monika Krause (eds.). 2010. Practicing Knowledge in Comparative Perspective, Special Issue of Qualitative Sociology, 33 (4)

Monika Krause, Mary Nolan, Michael Palm, Andrew Ross (ed.) 2008. The University Against Itself: The NYU Strike and the Future of the Academic Workplace. Philadelphia: Temple University Press

Journal Articles

Monika Krause and Michael Guggenheim. Forthcoming. How Facts Travel. The Model Systems of Sociology. Poetics.

Monika Krause and Alexandra Kowalski. Forthcoming. Reflexive habits: dating and rationalised conduct in New York and Berlin. Sociological Review.

Monika Krause.   2011. “Reporting and the Transformations of the Journalistic Field: US News Media, 1890-2000”, Media, Culture, and Society

Monika Krause. 2010. “Accounting for State Intervention. The Social Histories of Beneficiaries”, Qualitative Sociology 33 (4): 533-547.

Monika Krause. 2008. “Undocumented Migrants: An Arendtian Perspective”, European Journal of Political Theory 7(3): 331-348

Reprinted in Brad Blitz and Carline Sawyer (eds) 2010 Displaced, Undocumented and Unwanted. A Comparative Analysis of Statelessness in the European Union. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Monika Krause and Oskar Negt. 2006. “The Production of Counter Publics and the Counter-Publics of Production. Interview with Oskar Negt.” European Journal of Social Theory 9/1: 119-128

Book Chapters

Monika Krause, Mary Nolan, Michael Palm, Andrew Ross. 2008. “Introduction”, in: Monika Krause, Mary Nolan, Michael Palm, Andrew Ross (ed.): The University Against Itself: The NYU Strike and the Future of the Academic Workplace. Philadelphia: Temple University Press

Monika Krause and Michael Palm. 2008. “Activists into Organizers. How to Work with your Colleagues to Build Power in Graduate School”, in: Monika Krause, Mary Nolan, Michael Palm, Andrew Ross (ed.): The University Against Itself: The NYU Strike and the Future of the Academic Workplace. Philadelphia: Temple University Press

Monika Krause. 2007. “Practicing Authorship: The Case of Brecht’s Plays” in: Craig Calhoun    and Richard Sennett (ed.): Practicing Culture. Oxford: Routledge.

Monika Krause. 2006. “The City’s Internal Borders: The Dialectics of Post-National Migration  Control” in: Frank Eckart and Max Welch-Guerra (eds): The City and the Region. New York: Peter Lang

Book Reviews and other publications

Monika Krause. 2010. Review of “Valuing the Unique” by Lucien Karpik. Socialising Finance Blog, http://socfinance.wordpress.com/?s=karpik

Monika Krause. 2009. Review of Womit handeln Banken? [What do banks trade in?] by Dirk Baecker, European Journal of Sociology 50: 483-487.

Monika Krause. 2008. “Explaining War and Explaining War Away. Review of Why War by Phil Smith”, Theory and Society. 37/1

Monika Krause. 2006. Review of The Politics of Critical Theory by Georg Snedeker, Contemporary Sociology, 35/1

Monika Krause. 2005. New Orleans: The Public Sphere of the Disaster, www.understandingkatrina.ssrc.org

Monika Krause. 2005. Die Oeffentlichkeit der Katastrophe, Frankfurter Rundschau, 9/6/2005