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Zeitschrift für DiskursforschungJournal for Discourse StudiesJUVENTAZeitschrift für Diskursforschung 2| 14Herausgegeben von Reiner Keller | Werner Schneider | Willy Viehöver Jens SoentgenDas »argumentum ad ignorantiam« als Schlüssel zu den Risikodiskursen über Grüne Gentechnik und Mobilfunk Florian EllikerNationale Identität und Staatsbürgerschaft.Diskursive Identifikationen am Beispiel der schweizerischen Volksinitiative »für demokratische Einbürgerungen« Jules Duchastel / Danielle LabergeBeyond the quantitative and qualitative cleavage:Confluence of research operations in discourse analysis  Constanze SpießSprachstrukturelle Ebenen, linguistische Methoden und Perspektiven der Diskurslinguistik2. Jg. | H. 222014www.juventa.de JUVENTAJan KruseQualitative InterviewforschungEin integrativer AnsatzGrundlagentexte Methoden, 2014, 712 Seiten, broschiert, € 34,95 (44-2901)In dem Methodenbuch wird forschungsphasenorientiert sowohl methodo-logisch umfassend als auch praxisnah in die zentralen Aspekte qualitativer Interviewforschung eingeführt und dabei ein integrativer Ansatz verfolgt, der in den verschiedenen Forschungsphasen und -dimensionen ein zen-trales Ziel versucht nicht aus den Augen zu verlieren: die Offenheit gegen-über den Forschungsgegenständen und den Forschungsprozessen vor dem Hintergrund der methodischen Herausforderungen und Problemen qualitativer Sozial-/Interviewforschung.Brigitte Aulenbacher / Maria Dammayr (Hrsg.)Für sich und andere sorgenKrise und Zukunft von Care in der modernen GesellschaftArbeitsgesellschaft im Wandel2014, 256 Seiten, broschiert, € 29,95 (44-3042)Das Buch befasst sich mit Blick auf die Krise und Zukunft von Care mit der Selbst- und Fürsorge als modernem Konzept, mit Care, Demokratie und Ökonomie, Ethik und Ökonomie, Gleichheit und Gerechtigkeit im Wohl-fahrtsstaat, Migration und Haushaltsarbeit, privater und professioneller Sorgearbeit, Arbeitsbedingungen im Care-Sektor. Michael Beetz / Michael Corsten / Hartmut Rosa / Torsten WinklerWas bewegt Deutschland?Sozialmoralische Landkarten engagierter und distanzierter Bürger in Ost- und Westdeutschland2014, 394 Seiten, broschiert, € 29,95 (44-2920)Was Deutschland bewegt, das sind Krisen und Innovationen, das sind Wirtschaftsentwicklungen und Regierungsprogramme, und das sind Medienevents und Katastrophen. Was aber treibt uns Deutsche wirklich an? Wie reagieren wir auf sozialen Wandel? Was tut sich in Ost und West? Diese Studie beschreitet neue Wege und vergleicht die Lebensansichten engagierter und disengagierter Bürger in Deutschland.JUVENTAUm_ZfD_2_2014.indd   1 05.06.2014   14:39:30Beltz Juventa | Zeitschrift für Diskursforschung Heft 2/2014InhaltsverzeichnisWilly Viehöver / Reiner Keller / Werner SchneiderEditorial  ................................................................................................................................... 114ThemenbeiträgeJens SoentgenDas »argumentum ad ignorantiam« als Schlüssel zu den  Risikodiskursen über Grüne Gentechnik und Mobilfunk ............................................... 117Florian EllikerNationale Identität und Staatsbürgerschaft.Diskursive Identifikationen am Beispiel der schweizerischen  Volksinitiative »für demokratische Einbürgerungen« ...................................................... 142Jules Duchastel / Danielle LabergeBeyond the quantitative and qualitative cleavage: Confluence of research operations in discourse analysis ................................................. 166Constanze SpießSprachstrukturelle Ebenen, linguistische Methoden und  Perspektiven der Diskurslinguistik  ...................................................................................... 184RezensionSebastian Friedrich Matthias Kaufmann: Kein Recht auf Faulheit.  Das Bild von Erwerbslosen in der Debatte um die Hartz-Reformen.  ............................ 204Bericht zur internationalen TagungJanine Luth»Risikodiskurse, Diskursrisiken: Europäische Perspektiven  auf den sprachlichen Umgang mit Technikrisiken«  vom 9. bis 11. September 2013 in Heidelberg .................................................................... 209Reiner Keller, Rolf ParrPublikationsreihen zur Diskursforschung im Überblick (Teil 1) .................................... 215Obituary/Nachruf, Univ.-Prof. Dr. Herbert Gottweis ....................................................... 221ZfD_02_2014.indd   113 18.07.2014   16:04:44Bericht 221Beltz Juventa | Zeitschrift für Diskursforschung Heft 2/2014Obituary/Nachruf,  Univ.-Prof. Dr. Herbert Gottweis(February 8, 1958 – March 31, 2014)On March 31, Herbert Gottweis, Professor in the Department of Political Science of the University of  Vienna and Chair  of  the Life-Science-Governance Research Platform at the same university, sadly passed away. His death is a significant loss for his family, his friends, his collaborators and colleagues at the University of Vienna, and the interna-tional community.Born in Vienna in 1958, Herbert Gottweis studied Political Science at the University of Vienna. He graduated in 1984 with a dissertation on the »World of Law Making« in Austria,  which  was  published  in  1987.  In  1984,  Herbert  moved  to  the  University  of  Salzburg,  where he held the position of  University  Assistant  until  1997.  He took leave from that position to spend several years in the United States. On an Erwin Schrödinger Fellowship of the Austrian Science Fund (1989-1990), he was at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and subsequently joined the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT, also in Cambridge, as an Andrew Mellon Foundational Fellow (1992-1993). He was then Assistant Professor in the Depart-ment of Science and Technology Studies at Cornell University, in Ithaca, New York (1993-1995). In those »American« years at Cornell and in Cambridge, he developed an interest in the research field – biotechnology and biomedicine – that would cut across two dec-ades of his career. He also encountered new fields of inquiry, the already fairly established Science and Technology Studies, and the field of Critical or Interpretive Policy Analysis, which was only just emerging. Herbert was deeply influenced by both fields and by their major tenets – he combined an interest in science and technology with an interest in the ways  in  which  power  operates  through  discourses,  narratives,  and  rhetoric.  He  also  helped to institutionalize the field of Interpretive Policy Analysis. Yet he did not choose just  one of  these  fields  over  the  others.  Instead,  he  chose  to  work in  all  them at  once,  without ever becoming territorial about any of them. In 1995, at the age of 37, he returned to Austria. Although Herbert had encountered in the United States many of those elements that would define his professional identity in the upcoming years, the years in Austria after 1995 helped to crystalize his professional and personal identity. First, in the first few years after his return, he wrote his second book, which was ap-proved as his »habilitation« in 1997 and published by MIT Press the following year. Gov-erning  Molecules  was  pioneering  at  least  from  two  perspectives—for  the  object  with  which this engaged and for the way in which this research object was explored. The book covered the politics of biotechnology, which at the time was virtually unexplored within ZfD_02_2014.indd   221 18.07.2014   16:04:55222  BerichtBeltz Juventa | Zeitschrift für Diskursforschung Heft 2/2014the Political Science field. The book was also pioneering for the way in which Herbert engaged  with  the  politics  of  biotechnology.  He  developed  and  used  what  he  called  a  »post-structuralist« approach, combining a Foucaultian interest in power with narrative analysis, using this approach to make sense of the politics of biotechnology in different countries, at once uncovering and explaining these differences. When I met him as a stu-dent at the Department of Political Science at the University of Vienna in 2004, he invited students to pay attention to the politics of meaning and to the ways in which phenomena started or were made to »signify.« One of his favorite questions was how a particular phe-nomenon was embedded in the »discursive economy« of a country. Moreover, second, in the mid-1990s he met Ursula, who would become his wife. Over the coming years his wife Ursula and their three children, Theresa, Raphael and Clara, provided him with the emotional and personal stability that allowed him to venture into post-strucutralist inquiries and to maneuver with ease in the academic world, which was then about to transform rapidly.  Herbert  did not see transformations – such as  an in-creasing internationalization of universities, the emergence of mode-two science, and the related,  ever-increasing importance of  third-party-funding – as  threats.  Rather,  he  ap-proached them as opportunities to be seized, inviting others – especially his junior fel-lows – to follow his example. In 1998, at the age of forty, he was appointed Professor of Comparative Politics at the Department  of  Political  Science  at  the  University  of  Vienna.  Herbert  turned  to  third-party  funding  to  build  his  research  group,  establishing  first  an  informal  group  called  »Transformations in Public Policy«, then joining forces with colleagues from the life sci-ences  to  found  the  interdisciplinary  »Life-Science-Governance  Research  Platform«,  a  platform that he chaired until his death. From a distance he seemed to be a hierarchical person – one of the first conversations that I had with him was about the dress code at workshops. But in steering his group, he was anti-hierarchical, always encouraging mem-bers to articulate ideas regardless of their title or positions. He also strongly believed in and indeed modeled supporting people, giving them the space to develop their own in-tellectual ideas, not only allowing but at times also encouraging them to disagree with him.Herbert was awarded several grants in the ELSA program of the Austrian Genome Program and participated in several consortia of the Sixth and Seventh Framework Pro-gram. Perhaps it is fair to separate these projects into two parts – a first part in which he studied the governance of the life sciences as well as the governance through the life sci-ence from an often critical distance, and a second part in which he began to engage with the life sciences and life scientists, often joining interdisciplinary projects in which he and his collaborators assumed responsibility for the ethical part in an otherwise predomin-antly scientific project consortium. He often led focus group research in order to develop an understanding of what publics thought about particular issues. This second part was also influenced by another position that he held from 2005 on, when he was the Vice-Chair of the Austrian Science Fund, which gave him responsibility for the social sciences and humanities in Austria. He held a clear vision of how the social sciences should work, often advocating for those ideas in which he believed strongly. ZfD_02_2014.indd   222 18.07.2014   16:04:55Bericht 223Beltz Juventa | Zeitschrift für Diskursforschung Heft 2/2014Tragically, his research topics became very personal in the last two years of his life. In spring 2012, he was diagnosed with an aggressive cancer. Consistent with the spirit he demonstrated in much of his professional life, he framed this new turn not as a fact of destiny but as a challenge to be fought. He modified his work schedule, traveled less than in previous years, and began a book manuscript with the working title »The Politics of Undecidability: Life, Death and Democracy.« He died on March 31, at the age of 57. He left  so  much  to  his  collaborators  and  to  the  international  research  community,  which  makes this loss difficult to grasp. Ingrid MetzlerLife-Science-Governance Research Platform, Department of Political Science, University of ViennaI  am  grateful  to  my  colleagues  Christian  Haddad,  Walburg  Steurer,  Ursula  Naue  and   Johannes Starkbaum for their helpful comments and to Deborah Oliver for editing. ZfD_02_2014.indd   223 18.07.2014   16:04:55

Obituary/Nachruf, Univ.-Prof. Dr. Herbert Gottweis (February 8, 1958 – March 31, 2014)

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