Senior Lecturer, Ludwig-Uhland-Institute of Historical and Cultural Anthropology, University of Tübingen
Biography
Karin is a Senior Lecturer at the Institute for Historical and Cultural Anthropology (Ludwig-Uhland- Institute für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft) at the University of Tübingen. Her research focuses on the transformation of rural areas through energy transition, and the valorisation of culture/landscape/emotions in the context of these changes. Karin also researches and teaches at the interfaces of material and visual culture and in the field of gender studies.
Dr Bürkert did her PhD in the field of the history of knowledge production at the institute of cultural anthropology in Göttingen and is the curator of the Archive of Everyday Culture, head of the EKW publishing house and equity officer.
Selected publications
Online exhibition on Google Arts and Culture: Neighbour Nuclear Power Plant
2024, (in German) edited volume: Karin Bürkert (ed.): Alltag. Konflikt. Wandel. In Nachbarschaft zum Kernkraftwerk. Tübingen.
2023, Abschaltfest und Gemeinde-DNA: Über das kontroverse Gedenken an die Atomkraft in Südwestdeutschland. In: Hypotheses: Doing Public History.
2022, Kultur als rurbane Ressource. Ethnografische Perspektiven auf Steuerungsprozesse von „Kunst und Kultur in ländlichen Räumen“. In: Zeitschrift für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft 118 / 1+2 (2022), S. 104-126.
