Carl-von-Ossietzki University Oldenburg (UOL)
Dr. Heike Derwanz – Cultural Anthropology
Heike Derwanz is a cultural anthropologist and art historian. Since April 2012 she researches urban low-budget practices and coordinated the Low-Budget-Urbanity research group at HafenCity University.
In her former projects as well as in her post-doc work she is interested in social and economic practices of creative innovators and entrepreneurs. Other interests are sustainable everyday practices, minimalism, economic anthropolgy, anthropology of art, street art, outsider art and metropolitan culture. She also focused on interdisciplinary methodology beyond ethnography, economics, the studies of visual culture and art history.
She was a member of DFG graduate school “Automatisms. The emergence of structures beyond planned processes in information technology, media and culture” at the University of Paderborn. Her book “Street Art-Karrieren. Neue Wege in den Kunst- und Designmarkt“ was published at Transcript Verlag.
Recent publications:
edited books
2015: Saving the City. Collective Low Budget Organizing and Urban Practice. Special Issue für Ephemera. Theory and Politics in Organization. 01/2015, with Paula Bialski, Birke Otto und Hans Vollmer, http://www.ephemerajournal.org/issue/saving-city-collective-low-budget-organizing-and-urban-practice.
2011: Strukturentstehung durch Verflechtung. Akteur-Netzwerk-Theorie(n) und Automatismen. Edited with Tobias Conradi and Florian Muhle. Reihe Automatismen, München: Fink, http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:hbz:466:2-10724.
monographs
2013: Street Art-Karrieren. Neue Wege in den Kunst- und Designmarkt. Reihe Studien zur Visuellen Kultur. Bielefeld: Transcript.
2008: Jugend zur Wendezeit. Sechs ostdeutsche Lebensläufe. Bremen: Schriftenreihe des Instituts für kulturwissenschaftliche Deutschlandstudien.
articles
2015 (forthcoming, in peer-review): Teilen, Tauschen, Helfen? Zur urbanen Kollektivnutzung von Kleidung. In: Österreichische Zeitschrift für Volkskunde, Sonderheft Praktiken der Kollektivnutzung.
2015 (forthcoming): Sharing und Caring in der Kleiderei. Kleidertausch als Peer-Produktion. In: Kuckuck – Notizen zur Alltagskultur, Sonderheft Allmende, 2015(1).
2015 (forthcoming): Saving in a Common World. Studying Urban Assemblages through a Low-Budget Urbanities Perspective. Zusammen mit Alexa Färber und Birke Otto. In: Farias, Ignacio und Blok, Anders (ed) Urban Cosmopolitics. Agencements, Assemblies, Atmospheres. Urban and Social Change Book Series, Wiley Blackwell.
2015 (forthcoming): Die diskursive Konstruktion des „Weniger“. Vom Voluntary Simplicity Movement zum Minimalismus. In: Tauschek, Markus und Grewe, Maria (ed) Knappheit, Mangel Überfluss. Kulturwissenschaftliche Positionen zum Umgang mit begrenzten Ressourcen.
2015: Rezension: Kleidungsmoden, kulturwissenschaftlich. Zu den Modebüchern von Gertrud Lehnert, Gesa Teichert und Barbara Vinken. In: Zeman, Mirna; Jürgen Link und Rolf Parr (ed) Zyklen. Moden. Kulturrevolution 68/Mai 2015, p. 106-108.
2015: Editorial „Saving“ the city. Collective Low-Budget Organising and Urban Practice. With Paula Bialski, Birke Otto and Hans Vollmer. In: Paula Bialski, Heike Derwanz, Birke Otto and Hans Vollmer (ed) „Saving“ the city. Collective Low-Budget Organising and Urban Practice. Ephemera Journal. Theory and Politics in Organization 15(1), p. 1-19.
2015: Grassroot Initiatives as Pioneers of Low-Budget Practices. An Activists’ Roundtable. With Hans Vollmer. In: Paula Bialski, Heike Derwanz, Birke Otto and Hans Vollmer (ed) „Saving“ the city. Collective Low-Budget Organising and Urban Practice. Ephemera Journal. Theory and Politics in Organization 15(1), p. 229-247.
2014a: Street Artists and their Careers in Art and Design Markets. In: Sorares Neves, Pedro and Freitas Simoes, Daniela de (ed): Lisbon Street Art and Urban Creativity. International Conference, Lissabon 2014, p. 138-145.
2014b: Nach allen Regeln der Kunst? Entautomatisierungsstrategien vor ihrem Scheitern auf dem Markt. In: Brauerhoch, Annette, et al (ed): Entautomatisierung. Reihe Automatismen. München: Fink, p. 291-306.