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Maria Grewe, M.A.

 

Research interests:

  • Material culture
  • economic Anthropology
  • Political anthropology
  • ritual research
  • waste Ethnology

 

Current research project:

  • Dissertation project: "Containers, file sharing and repair workshops: everyday cultural figurations of finiteness and sustainability discourses" (working title)

 

Biographical:

  • Since October 2015 academic assistant at the Department of Folklore of the University of Freiburg
  • October 2012 to October 2015 Fellow of the project college "Experience and Dealing with Finitude" of the Collegium Philosophicum of Kiel University
  • July 2012 MA in European Ethnology / Folklore at the University of Kiel with the topic "Divorce as a threshold phase: an empirical investigation on the transformation process of the symbols and values ​​of divorced women"
  • 2006 to 2012 Master of European Ethnology / Folklore, Education and Economics at the University of Kiel and the University of Gothenburg
  • Born 1987

 

Editorship:

  • Markus Tauschek / Maria Grewe (ed.):

Scarcity, lack, abundance. Cultural scientific positions in dealing with limited resources. Frankfurt 2015.


publications:

  • Grewe, Maria: Repair as a sustainable practice in dealing with limited resources? Cultural scientific notes on the repair café. In: Markus Tauschek / Maria Grewe (ed.): Shortage, lack, abundance. Cultural scientific positions in dealing with limited resources. Frankfurt 2015.
  • Grewe, Maria: Repairing in community: a case study on the cultural handling of material finiteness. In: Andreas Bihrer./ Anja Franke-Schwenk / Tine Stein (ed.): Finiteness. On the transience and limitations of man, nature and society. Bielefeld 2015. (forthcoming)
  • Grewe, Maria: Repair in community - how to repair the world. In: Evangelical Press Service: "save the world" in concrete terms: what hinders and what helps with the "Great Transformation"? (Conference of the Ecclesiastical Service in the World of Work (KDA) and the Protestant Academy of the North Church), 7/15.
  • Grewe, Maria (2014): "Eat like a queen for free" - dumpster diving and wasteful consumer culture. Online at http://transformations-blog.com/eat-like-a-queen-for-free-dumpster-diving-and-the-wasteful-consumer-culture/.
  • Grewe, Maria (2013): Divorce as a Cultural Phenomenon: How Women Remember a Divorce. In: Kiel leaves to folklore 45, p. 29-48.
  • Kuhne, Juliane; Grewe, Maria (2014): Conference Report. Conference Report. 39th Congress of the German Folklore Society e.V. from 26.-28. September in Nuremberg. Materialization of culture. Discourses things practices. In: Kiel leaves to folklore 46, pp. 165-169.