Martina Klausner

studied European Ethnology and Cultural History and Theory at Humboldt-University in Berlin where she also completed her PhD at the intersection of Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies. She is Professor of Digital Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies at the Institute for Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology at the Goethe-University. In her research agenda in Digital Anthropology, she is interested in two strands: attending to processes of digitization especially in fields of governance and the merging of data infrastructures; and experimenting with digital methods as part of ethnographic research.

Publications

Core Publications

Bieler, P., & Klausner, M. (2019). Niching in cities under pressure. Tracing the reconfiguration of community psychiatric care and the housing market in Berlin. Geoforum, 101, 202–211.

Klausner, M. (2018). Calculating Therapeutic Compliance. An Ethnographic Account of Numerical Inference and Interference in Mobile Health Care. Science & Technology Studies, 31 (4), 30–51.

Heibges, M., Klausner, M., & Niewöhner, J. (2018). Umgang mit Unsicherheiten in der Technikentwicklung – ein sozialanthropologischer Einwurf. In Redlich, T., Weidner, R., Langenfeld, M. (ed), Unsicherheiten der Technikentwicklung, 76–89. Göttingen: Cuvillier Verlag.

Klausner, M., & Golla, S. (2017). Reasonable Expectations of Data Protection in Telerehabilitation — A Legal and Anthropological Perspective on Intelligent Orthoses. In Leenes, R., van Brakel, R., Gutwirth, S., de Hert, P. (ed.), Data Protection and Privacy. The Age of Intelligent Machines, 167–191. Oxford: Hart Publishing.

Bister, M., Klausner, M., & Niewöhner, J. (2016). The cosmopolitics of “niching”: Rendering the city habitable along infrastructures of mental health care. In Blok, A., & Farías, I. (ed.), Urban Cosmopolitics: Agencements, Assemblies, Atmospheres, 187–206. Abingdon/ New York: Routledge.

Niewöhner, J., Bieler, P., Heibges, M., & Klausner, M. (2016). Phenomenography: Relational Investigations into Modes of Being-in-the-World. The Cyprus Review, 28 (1), 67–84.

Klausner, M. (2015). Choreografien psychiatrischer Praxis: Eine ethnografische Studie zum Alltag in der Psychiatrie. Bielefeld: Transcript.

Klausner, M., Bister, M., Niewöhner, J., & Beck, S. (2015). Choreografien klinischer und städtischer Alltage: Ergebnisse einer ko-laborativen Ethnografie mit der Sozialpsychiatrie. Zeitschrift für Volkskunde, 111 (2), 214–235.

Most recent

Klausner, M., & Niewöhner, J. (2020). Integrierte Forschung – ein ethnographisches Angebot zur Ko-Laboration. In Gransche, B., Manzeschke, A.(Hrsg.), Das geteilte Ganze. Horizonte Integrierter Forschung für künftige Mensch-Technik-Verhältnisse. Springer VS, S. 153–169.