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Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Konradstr. 6
D-80801 München
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Telefon:
+49 (0)89 2180-5947
E-Mail:
Anna.Wanka@soziologie.uni-muenchen.de
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Forschungsschwerpunkte
- Theoretical perspectives: doing age, linking ages, practice theories, new materialisms / material gerontology
- Methodological foci: mixed- and multi-methods research, reflexivity in empirical research
- Topics: life course transitions, the re/production of social inequalities across the life course, ageing and technologies, age-friendly cities and communities
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Vita
Higher education including obtained degrees
13.12.2016 |
Graduation (PhD, summa cum laude), University of Vienna PhD Thesis: “Withdrawal from Public Space – Older Urban Residents and the Social Practices of Spatial (Dis-) Engagement“ |
09/2012 – 06/2015 | PhD scholar at Institute for Higher Studies (HIS), Vienna Postgraduate Program: “Sociology of Social Practices |
11/2011 – 12/2016 | PhD student at the University of Vienna (Sociology) |
14.11.2011 | Graduation (MA), University of Vienna Master Thesis: “Abstieg aus der Mittelschicht? Soziale Herkunft, Arbeitsorientierungen und Karrieren von Neuen Selbstständigen und Ein-Personen-Unternehmen“ |
09/2006 – 11/2011 |
Study of Sociology and Law at the University of Vienna |
Employment and professional affiliations
ab 10/2021 | Vertretrung des Lehrbereichs "Politische Soziologie sozialer Ungleichheit" |
2021 – 2023 | Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department for Sociology and Empirical Social Sciences, University of Stuttgart, Germany |
2017 – 2021 | Postdoctoral Researcher at the DFG-funded Research Training Group 'Doing Transitions', Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Habilitation project “Doing Age Retiring – The Social Practices of Transiting into Retirement and the Distribution of Transitional Risks” |
2009 – 2016 | Researcher in the joint research area Family / Generations / Life Course / Health at the Department for Sociology, University of Vienna |
International research and teaching visits and fellowships
2019 | Visiting Postdoctoral Scholar at The National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland Research on spatial aspects of life course transitions |
2018 | Visiting Postdoctoral Scholar at the Trent Centre for Aging and Society, Trent University, Peterborough, Canada Research on ageing and digital cultures |
2017, 2018 | Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow at the Demand Centre, University of Lancaster, UK Research on the sociology of social practices |
2016 | Lecturer in the international MA Programme “European Societies” at the Department of Sociology, Free University Berlin |
2015 | Visiting PhD Fellow at the Manchester Institute for Collaborative Research on Ageing, University of Manchester, UK Research on age-friendly cities and communities |
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Key publications
- Wanka, A. & Höppner, G. (2021). Multiperspektivität als Potential einer intersektionalen Betrachtung von Differenz- und Ungleichheitsverhältnissen. Zeitschrift für Soziologie (to be published 01/2021).
- Walther, A./Stauber, B./Rieger-Ladich, M./Wanka, A. (Eds.) (2019): Reflexive Übergangsforschung – theoretische und methodologische Grundlagen. Opladen: Barbara Budrich Verlag.
- Wanka, A. (2019): Change Ahead—Emerging Life-Course Transitions as Practical Accomplishments of Growing Old(er). Frontiers in Sociology. Link: https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2018.00045
- Wanka, A.; Wiesböck, L.; Allex, B.; Mayrhuber, E.; Arnberger, A.; Eder, R.; Kutalek, R.; Wallner, P.; Hutter, H.-P.; Kolland, F. (2018). Everyday discrimination in the neighbourhood: What a ‘doing’ perspective on age and ethnicity can offer. Ageing and Society, 1-26. Link: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X18000466
- Wanka A. & Gallistl, V. (2018): Doing Age in a Digitized World—A Material Praxeology of Aging with Technology. Frontiers in Sociology 3: 6. Link: https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2018.00006
- Wanka, A. (2018): Disengagement as Withdrawal From Public Space: Rethinking the Relation between Place Attachment, Place Appropriation, and Identity-Building among Older Adults. The Gerontologist 58(1):130-139. Link: https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnx081
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Lectures and scientific talks
Upcoming:
- un/doing age - Zur sozialen De/Konstruktion der Differenzkategorie Alter über den Lebenslauf, Soziologisches Colloquium Hamburg, 17.11.2021 (online).
- Doing Ageing Research Together: Innovative Perspectives on Participatory Approaches (with Anna Urbaniak), Panel at the Gerontological Society of America’s Annual Scientific Meeting, Pheonix / Online 10.11. – 13.11. 2021.
- Understanding Measurements of Exclusion From Social Relations in Later Life: Insights From a Mixed Methods Study, Conference on ‘Old age social exclusion: from data to age-friendly policies’, Bucharest / Online, 22.10.2021.
Previous:
- Linking Ages – An approach towards un/doing age while un/doing family in the COVID-19 Pandemic (with Grit Höppner), Plenary at the ‘The Making and Doing of Family’ Conference, Trier / Online, 22.09. – 24.09.2021.
- Transformations of ‘Resonance’ - Affective Choreographies Throughout Life Course Transitions (with Luisa Bischoff and Annette Franke), European Sociological Association ‘Sociological Knowledges for Alternative Futues, Barcelona / Online, 31.08. – 3.09.2021.
- Pandemic Classism, Sexism, Ageism, Racism? Intersektionale Differenzierungen während und nach der Corona-Pandemie (with Cornelia Dlabaja and Carina Altreiter). Plenary at the DGS ÖGS Kongress ‘Post-Corona Gesellschaft? Pandemie, Krise und ihre Folgen’, Vienna / Online, 23.-25.08.2021.
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Memberships
Memberships /Research Associations
- International Sociological Association (ISA),
- RC11 European Sociological Association (ESA), RN01
- British Society for Gerontology (BSG)
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie (DGS), Sektion Alter(n) und Gesellschaft & Sektion Wissenssoziologie
Memberships /Research Networks
- Research network “Socio-Gerontechnology” (since 2017)
- DFG-funded research network “Material Gerontology” (2020 - 2022)
- COST-Action Reducing Old-Age Social Exclusion: Collaborations in Research and Policy (ROSENet) (2016 - 2020)