Julie Sascia Mewes

Julie Sascia Mewes
Technische Universität Chemnitz · Department of Sociology

Dr. phil.

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Introduction
Julie Sascia Mewes is a social anthropologist and science and technology studies scholar with a particular interest in ethnographic and participatory methods and daily knowledge practices.
Additional affiliations
April 2023 - May 2024
Museum für Naturkunde - Leibniz Institute for Research on Evolution and Biodiversity
Position
  • Scientific Coordinator and Postdoc Position
September 2021 - July 2022
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Position
  • PostDoc Position
December 2019 - present
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Position
  • Associated researcher
Description
  • RUSTlab member, looking for a new position in STS Anthro Health starting fall/winter 22.
Education
August 2012 - June 2019
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Field of study
  • Europäische Ethnologie (Social Anthropology)
October 2009 - April 2012
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Field of study
  • Europäische Ethnologie (Social Anthropology)
April 2005 - April 2009
Europa-Universität Viadrina
Field of study
  • Kulturwissenschaften (Cultural Studies)

Publications

Publications (48)
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Methods have been recognised in STS as mattering for a long time. STS ethnographies establish a boundary object with which STS scholars weave a pattern: From such ethnographic accounts we learn that knowledge is produced locally. Ethnography has over the recent decades been highlighted as a key method in STS. And that STS ethnography is specificall...
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Abstract: »Gegenstand Schlaf – Zeitmessgeräte und tageszeitunabhängige Schlafpraktiken«. The article focuses on how sleeping as a daily practice is en-acted through and besides “timing devices” for Northern Norwegian shift workers managing their sleep in the absence of common sleep-wake rhythms. Hospital staff working night and day shifts above the...
Chapter
Methods matter. We argue for methodography as a genre of care-ful interrogation of method practice. We systematically read three STS texts concerned with ethnographic methods published during the past decade and (meta)analyse how these texts account for their ethnographic encounters and these encounters’ frictions. Methodographic analysis contribut...
Book
Psychiatrische Ergotherapie orientiert sich an der Frage, wie die Handlungsfähigkeit psychisch erkrankter und stationär untergebrachter Menschen im Alltag wiederhergestellt werden kann. Dabei fußt sie allerdings auf einem kaum explizierten und untertheoretisierten Alltagsverständnis. Julie Sascia Mewes' ethnografische Studie analysiert, welche impl...
Preprint
During the Open Forum #WeDoSTS, we invited our academic community to collectively engage with questions of power and its abuse in our own field and wider academia. We set out from the assumption that STS has the potential to critically analyze relations and distributions of power, including abuses and struggles within STS itself. By reflexively app...
Preprint
Methods matter. We argue for methodography as a genre of care-ful interrogation of method practice. We systematically read three STS texts concerned with ethnographic methods published during the past decade and (meta)analyse how these texts account for their ethnographic encounters and these encounters’ frictions. Methodographic analysis contribut...
Presentation
Egenis seminar with Dr Julie Sascia Mewes (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin) As the acceptance of Citizen Science grows, so does the demand for more reflexivity in the field with regard to its epistemologies, which calls for increased collaboration between Citizen Science and the social sciences and humanities, especially STS (Mahr et al., 2018). M...
Technical Report
Drawing on our experience of conceptualising, curating, and organising a panel on possible futures for digital ethnographic methods for the Nordic STS conference 2023, we argue that careful organisation is a viable approach to fostering dialogue in academic knowledge production. We identify three modes of care as particularly relevant for facilitat...
Conference Paper
Academic work unfolds in time. Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, health measures such as lockdowns or remote-work mandates required extensive ad hoc re-adjustments to suit the new social, material, and technological needs of work off-campus. The paper focuses on the question of how, when, and through which means working time is organized by...
Conference Paper
This panel focuses on digital ethnographic fieldwork and whether methods and collaborations in/of 'the digital' are the future 'new normal'. During the COVID-19 pandemic, universities were among the first institutions to go into lockdown, moving academic work off-campus and limiting access to nondigital field sites. Simultaneously, digital solution...
Conference Paper
This paper explores the potential of enacting care through methodography, an emerging genre of writing about reflexive methods, specifically within and about STS ethnography. We think of methodography as a genre shaped by scholars who reflexively attend to their own or other social scientists’ research practices (Ashmore 1989; Greiffenhagen et al....
Conference Paper
Apart from being a space for doing STS research, the RUSTlab (Ruhr University Science and Technology Studies lab) is also a laboratory for experimenting with modes of building caring relations (cf. Mol 2008, Mol et al. 2015, Puig de la Bellacasa 2017) in academia. A core device for driving this experiment is a document we call “lab coding” to empha...
Conference Paper
The recently constituted association stsing offers scholars a new platform to do STS in and through Germany (therefore the wording stsing). Specific about this platform is its creative and open understanding of collaboration on the one hand and critical reflection of national, international, institutional, and intergenerational challenges of STS re...
Presentation
Please also check out Andreas' comment on this public lecture: https://rustlab.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/comment-on-mewes-lippert-data-methods-and-writing-methodographies-of-sts-ethnographic-collaboration-in-practice/
Conference Paper
while its work environment demands a high level of concentration, rapid decision-making, and empathy. Nurses and MDs working night and day shifts above the Arctic Circle in Norway are additionally challenged by extreme circadian changes during the polar night and midnight sun periods. These specific work and environmental conditions lead to the ass...
Conference Paper
Hospital staff belongs to a high-risk group suffering from sleep deprivation and sleep disorders while, simultaneously its work environment demands a high level of concentration, rapid decision-making, and empathy. Nurses and MDs working night shifts above the Arctic Circle are additionally challenged by extreme circadian changes during the polar n...
Presentation
Comment by Ruth: https://rustlab.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/comment-mewes-temporalities-of-sleep-sleep-shift-work-and-absence-of-a-natural-sleep-cycle/
Chapter
Psychiatrische Ergotherapie orientiert sich an der Frage, wie die Handlungsfähigkeit psychisch erkrankter und stationär untergebrachter Menschen im Alltag wiederhergestellt werden kann. Dabei fußt sie allerdings auf einem kaum explizierten und untertheoretisierten Alltagsverständnis. Julie Sascia Mewes' ethnografische Studie analysiert, welche impl...
Chapter
Psychiatrische Ergotherapie orientiert sich an der Frage, wie die Handlungsfähigkeit psychisch erkrankter und stationär untergebrachter Menschen im Alltag wiederhergestellt werden kann. Dabei fußt sie allerdings auf einem kaum explizierten und untertheoretisierten Alltagsverständnis. Julie Sascia Mewes' ethnografische Studie analysiert, welche impl...
Chapter
Psychiatrische Ergotherapie orientiert sich an der Frage, wie die Handlungsfähigkeit psychisch erkrankter und stationär untergebrachter Menschen im Alltag wiederhergestellt werden kann. Dabei fußt sie allerdings auf einem kaum explizierten und untertheoretisierten Alltagsverständnis. Julie Sascia Mewes' ethnografische Studie analysiert, welche impl...
Chapter
Psychiatrische Ergotherapie orientiert sich an der Frage, wie die Handlungsfähigkeit psychisch erkrankter und stationär untergebrachter Menschen im Alltag wiederhergestellt werden kann. Dabei fußt sie allerdings auf einem kaum explizierten und untertheoretisierten Alltagsverständnis. Julie Sascia Mewes' ethnografische Studie analysiert, welche impl...
Chapter
Psychiatrische Ergotherapie orientiert sich an der Frage, wie die Handlungsfähigkeit psychisch erkrankter und stationär untergebrachter Menschen im Alltag wiederhergestellt werden kann. Dabei fußt sie allerdings auf einem kaum explizierten und untertheoretisierten Alltagsverständnis. Julie Sascia Mewes' ethnografische Studie analysiert, welche impl...
Chapter
Psychiatrische Ergotherapie orientiert sich an der Frage, wie die Handlungsfähigkeit psychisch erkrankter und stationär untergebrachter Menschen im Alltag wiederhergestellt werden kann. Dabei fußt sie allerdings auf einem kaum explizierten und untertheoretisierten Alltagsverständnis. Julie Sascia Mewes' ethnografische Studie analysiert, welche impl...
Chapter
Psychiatrische Ergotherapie orientiert sich an der Frage, wie die Handlungsfähigkeit psychisch erkrankter und stationär untergebrachter Menschen im Alltag wiederhergestellt werden kann. Dabei fußt sie allerdings auf einem kaum explizierten und untertheoretisierten Alltagsverständnis. Julie Sascia Mewes' ethnografische Studie analysiert, welche impl...
Chapter
Psychiatrische Ergotherapie orientiert sich an der Frage, wie die Handlungsfähigkeit psychisch erkrankter und stationär untergebrachter Menschen im Alltag wiederhergestellt werden kann. Dabei fußt sie allerdings auf einem kaum explizierten und untertheoretisierten Alltagsverständnis. Julie Sascia Mewes' ethnografische Studie analysiert, welche impl...
Chapter
Psychiatrische Ergotherapie orientiert sich an der Frage, wie die Handlungsfähigkeit psychisch erkrankter und stationär untergebrachter Menschen im Alltag wiederhergestellt werden kann. Dabei fußt sie allerdings auf einem kaum explizierten und untertheoretisierten Alltagsverständnis. Julie Sascia Mewes' ethnografische Studie analysiert, welche impl...
Chapter
Psychiatrische Ergotherapie orientiert sich an der Frage, wie die Handlungsfähigkeit psychisch erkrankter und stationär untergebrachter Menschen im Alltag wiederhergestellt werden kann. Dabei fußt sie allerdings auf einem kaum explizierten und untertheoretisierten Alltagsverständnis. Julie Sascia Mewes' ethnografische Studie analysiert, welche impl...
Research
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STS scholars frequently engage in collaborative research, as groups of STS scholars as much as in collaborations with colleagues in other fields or non-academics. This SI explores how ethnographic data is generated and transformed for STS analysis in a range of such collaborative contexts. The special issues (SI) aims to lead beyond reflexivity acc...
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The workshop focuses on the methods of participant observation and collaboration in and around the field in STS ethnography. By that, we seek to strengthen the capacity for methodography, the empirical study of research methods in practice. Prior to the workshop participants share draft articles on the workshop theme. These are discussed throughout...
Article
In this paper, three qualitative researchers with professional backgrounds in social anthropology, occupational therapy, and occupational science present their methodological and theoretical standpoints and resultant analytical approaches on a single set of ethnographic data – an event occurring in an in-patient psychiatric unit. In doing so they p...
Book
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Objects are central to all of our means of social interaction. Over the past decades Science and Technology Studies have been virtuous in developing methods for studying objects from a social science perspective. The literature often presents results pointing to the social lives of objects along with conceptual discussions of objects and materialit...
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Möchte die Forscherin oder der Forscher Meinungen, Erfahrungen, Einstellungen, Werte oder Ähnliches erforschen, so muss ein qualitativer Forschungsansatz gewählt werden. In diesem Kapitel werden qualitative Methoden und Datenerhebungsinstrumente vorgestellt und diskutiert, die häufig in den Gesundheitswissenschaften angewandt werden. Zusätzlich wer...
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Objective: The article examines how voice-hearing as an (in)direct experience can become a subject of ethnographic observation. Methods: An ethnographic participant observation was conducted over a five-month period of time in two "Trialogue" self-help groups organized by the "Netzwerk Stimmenhören", an NGO based in Berlin, Germany. Additionally...

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