{"id":12036,"date":"2025-02-27T09:50:33","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T08:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wissen.soziologie.uni-mainz.de\/?page_id=12036"},"modified":"2025-08-06T10:05:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T08:05:09","slug":"johannes-beetz","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wissen.soziologie.uni-mainz.de\/en\/johannes-beetz\/","title":{"rendered":"Johannes Beetz"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Sociological theories
Science studies
Critical theory & Marxism
Poststructuralist theory
Materialism
Subject theory
Discourse research<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n


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2015-2020<\/strong>
University of Warwick, Centre of Applied Linguistic – Doctoral candidate in Discourse Studies<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2014<\/strong>
Magister Artium
Title of the thesis: Materiality and Subject. (In)Tangible Materialities and Decentred Subjects in Marxism, (Post-)Structuralism, and Material Semiotics” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

2007-2014<\/strong>
Studies of Sociology, Philosophy and American Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2005-2006<\/strong>
Studies of Sociology, Philosophy and Modern History, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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since 02\/2025<\/strong>
Research funding officer for humanities and social sciences in the Department of Research and Technology Transfer, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz<\/p>\n\n\n\n

since 05\/2023<\/strong>
Research associate, Institute for Sociology, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz<\/p>\n\n\n\n

since 05\/2023<\/strong>
Scientific coordinator at the research unit [im Rahmen<\/strong> der Forschungsinitiative 2008-11<\/strong>] SoCuM-Sozial- und Cultural Studies Mainz<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2017-2018<\/strong>
Lecturer at the Department of Sociology, University of Warwick, UK<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2015-2018<\/strong>
Research associate in the DISCONEX project, University of Warwick\/ EHESS Paris: Scholarship student of the European Research Council (ERC)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2010-2012<\/strong>
Graduate assistant at the Institute of Sociology, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2010-2012<\/strong>
Graduate assistant at the Research Center on Social and Cultural Studies Mainz (SOCUM), Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2009-2010<\/strong>
Student assistant at the Institute of Sociology, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/jgu-base-section>\n\n\n

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Monographs and editorships<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(2016): Materiality and Subject in Marxism, (Post-)Structuralism, and Material Semiotics. Basingstoke: Palgrave. Link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

With Veit Schwab (ed.) (2017): “Material Discourse – Materialist Analysis: Materialist Approaches in Discourse Studies”. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. Link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

With Benno Herzog and Jens Maesse (eds.) (2021): Discursive Practices and the Role of Ideology: Discourse Studies meets Critical Theory Journal of Multicultural Discourses (JMD). Abington-on-Thames: Routledge. Link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

With Benno Herzog and Jens Maesse (eds.) (2018): “Marx and Discourse”, <\/strong>Critical Discourse Studies, Volume 15, No. 4, 2018. link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contributions to collections and journals<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(2021): “Bigger Cages, Longer Signifying Chains – Ideology as Structural Limitation and Discursive Practice” in Johannes Beetz, Benno Herzog, and Jens Maesse (Eds.): Discursive Practices and the Role of Ideology: Discourse Studies meets Critical Theory Journal of Multicultural Discourses (JMD). Abington-on-Thames: Routledge. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With Veit Schwab (2018): “Conditions and Relations of (Re)Production in Marxism and Discourse Studies”. <\/strong>In Johannes Beetz, Benno Herzog, and Jens Maesse (eds.): Marx and Discourse. Critical Discourse Studies, Volume 15, No. 4, 218 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With Veit Schwab (2017): “Material-Discursive Entanglements: Mapping Materialist Discourse Studies”. In Johannes Beetz, Veit Schwab (Eds.): Material Discourse – Materialist Analysis: Materialist Approaches in Discourse Studies. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With D\u00e9sir\u00e9e Bender (2013): Differenzmarkierungen einer Fernsehdokumentation. Eine von ethnomethodologischen media studies inspirierte Untersuchung. In: Bonn, Eva; Kn\u00f6ppler,
Christian; Souza, Miguel (Eds.): Was machen Marker?<\/a> Bielefeld: Transcript. pp. 155\u2013188. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(2019): “The Discursive (Re)Production of Sociology. Practices and Disciplinarity” at the DNC3ALED Congress on “Knowledge and Power in a Polycentric World. Discourses across languages, cultures, and space”. Paris, Universit\u00e9 de Cergy-Pontoise, France; September 2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(2018): “On the Materiality of Discourse and the Discursive (Re)Production of Material Conditions” Contribution to the “Materialism and Theory” Symposium at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, November 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(2018): “Doing Social Science. Notes on the Sociology of Sociology | ‘Doing’ des sciences sociales. Notes sur la sociologie de la sociologie” Lecture at the Journ\u00e9es d’\u00e9tude “Les chercheurs et leurs pratiques : discours, savoirs, pouvoirs | Researchers and Their Practices: Discourse, Knowledge, Power” at the \u00c9cole des Hautes \u00c9tudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, June 2018. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(2017): “Materialism without Matter? Some Thoughts on the Notion of Materiality in Science and Technology Studies” Invited lecture at the Contemporary Philosophy of Technology Research Group at the University of Birmingham, May 2017. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(2017): “Ideology as Discursive Practice – On Althusser’s Theory of Ideology” Lecture at the DIPE Winter School on “Discourse, Ideology, and Political Economy”, Universitat de Val\u00e8ncia, January 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(2015) “Entering Academia – Subject-positioning in the material discourse of the social sciences”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lecture at the “InterDisc. Interdisciplinary Discourse Studies Summer Course 2015”, University of Aalborg, August 2015. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/jgu-base-section>\n\n\n

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Seminar: Methods of qualitative empirical social research (winter semester 2021\/2022)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<\/jgu-base-heading>\n\n\n\n

Seminar: Communication and Interaction (SoSe 2023)<\/p>\n\n\n<\/jgu-base-heading>\n\n\n\n

German Sociological Association (Section Methods of Qualitative Social Research)
DiscourseNet
DiscourseNetDIPE (Discourse, Ideology, and Political Economy) Research Group. Founding member and coordinator
Committee member of the Contemporary Philosophy of Technology Research Group, University of Birmingham.
Editorial board member: Post-filosofie Journal <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/jgu-base-section>

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Sociological theories
Science studies
Critical theory & Marxism
Poststructuralist theory
Materialism
Subject theory
Discourse research<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n


Consultation hours by appointment<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n
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<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n

2015-2020<\/strong>
University of Warwick, Centre of Applied Linguistic - Doctoral candidate in Discourse Studies<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2014<\/strong>
Magister Artium
Title of the thesis: Materiality and Subject. (In)Tangible Materialities and Decentred Subjects in Marxism, (Post-)Structuralism, and Material Semiotics\" <\/p>\n\n\n\n

2007-2014<\/strong>
Studies of Sociology, Philosophy and American Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2005-2006<\/strong>
Studies of Sociology, Philosophy and Modern History, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n

since 02\/2025<\/strong>
Research funding officer for humanities and social sciences in the Department of Research and Technology Transfer, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz<\/p>\n\n\n\n

since 05\/2023<\/strong>
Research associate, Institute for Sociology, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz<\/p>\n\n\n\n

since 05\/2023<\/strong>
Scientific coordinator at the research unit [im Rahmen<\/strong> der Forschungsinitiative 2008-11<\/strong>] SoCuM-Sozial- und Cultural Studies Mainz<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2017-2018<\/strong>
Lecturer at the Department of Sociology, University of Warwick, UK<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2015-2018<\/strong>
Research associate in the DISCONEX project, University of Warwick\/ EHESS Paris: Scholarship student of the European Research Council (ERC)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2010-2012<\/strong>
Graduate assistant at the Institute of Sociology, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2010-2012<\/strong>
Graduate assistant at the Research Center on Social and Cultural Studies Mainz (SOCUM), Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2009-2010<\/strong>
Student assistant at the Institute of Sociology, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Monographs and editorships<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(2016): Materiality and Subject in Marxism, (Post-)Structuralism, and Material Semiotics. Basingstoke: Palgrave. Link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

With Veit Schwab (ed.) (2017): \"Material Discourse - Materialist Analysis: Materialist Approaches in Discourse Studies\". Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. Link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

With Benno Herzog and Jens Maesse (eds.) (2021): Discursive Practices and the Role of Ideology: Discourse Studies meets Critical Theory Journal of Multicultural Discourses (JMD). Abington-on-Thames: Routledge. Link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

With Benno Herzog and Jens Maesse (eds.) (2018): \"Marx and Discourse\", <\/strong>Critical Discourse Studies, Volume 15, No. 4, 2018. link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contributions to collections and journals<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(2021): \"Bigger Cages, Longer Signifying Chains - Ideology as Structural Limitation and Discursive Practice\" in Johannes Beetz, Benno Herzog, and Jens Maesse (Eds.): Discursive Practices and the Role of Ideology: Discourse Studies meets Critical Theory Journal of Multicultural Discourses (JMD). Abington-on-Thames: Routledge. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With Veit Schwab (2018): \"Conditions and Relations of (Re)Production in Marxism and Discourse Studies\". <\/strong>In Johannes Beetz, Benno Herzog, and Jens Maesse (eds.): Marx and Discourse. Critical Discourse Studies, Volume 15, No. 4, 218 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With Veit Schwab (2017): \"Material-Discursive Entanglements: Mapping Materialist Discourse Studies\". In Johannes Beetz, Veit Schwab (Eds.): Material Discourse - Materialist Analysis: Materialist Approaches in Discourse Studies. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With D\u00e9sir\u00e9e Bender (2013): Differenzmarkierungen einer Fernsehdokumentation. Eine von ethnomethodologischen media studies inspirierte Untersuchung. In: Bonn, Eva; Kn\u00f6ppler,
Christian; Souza, Miguel (Eds.): Was machen Marker?<\/a> Bielefeld: Transcript. pp. 155\u2013188. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n

(2019): \"The Discursive (Re)Production of Sociology. Practices and Disciplinarity\" at the DNC3ALED Congress on \"Knowledge and Power in a Polycentric World. Discourses across languages, cultures, and space\". Paris, Universit\u00e9 de Cergy-Pontoise, France; September 2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(2018): \"On the Materiality of Discourse and the Discursive (Re)Production of Material Conditions\" Contribution to the \"Materialism and Theory\" Symposium at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, November 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(2018): \"Doing Social Science. Notes on the Sociology of Sociology | 'Doing' des sciences sociales. Notes sur la sociologie de la sociologie\" Lecture at the Journ\u00e9es d'\u00e9tude \"Les chercheurs et leurs pratiques : discours, savoirs, pouvoirs | Researchers and Their Practices: Discourse, Knowledge, Power\" at the \u00c9cole des Hautes \u00c9tudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, June 2018. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(2017): \"Materialism without Matter? Some Thoughts on the Notion of Materiality in Science and Technology Studies\" Invited lecture at the Contemporary Philosophy of Technology Research Group at the University of Birmingham, May 2017. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(2017): \"Ideology as Discursive Practice - On Althusser's Theory of Ideology\" Lecture at the DIPE Winter School on \"Discourse, Ideology, and Political Economy\", Universitat de Val\u00e8ncia, January 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(2015) \"Entering Academia - Subject-positioning in the material discourse of the social sciences\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lecture at the \"InterDisc. Interdisciplinary Discourse Studies Summer Course 2015\", University of Aalborg, August 2015. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n
\n

Seminar: Methods of qualitative empirical social research (winter semester 2021\/2022)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Seminar: Communication and Interaction (SoSe 2023)<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

German Sociological Association (Section Methods of Qualitative Social Research)
DiscourseNet
DiscourseNetDIPE (Discourse, Ideology, and Political Economy) Research Group. Founding member and coordinator
Committee member of the Contemporary Philosophy of Technology Research Group, University of Birmingham.
Editorial board member: Post-filosofie Journal <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wissen.soziologie.uni-mainz.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wissen.soziologie.uni-mainz.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wissen.soziologie.uni-mainz.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wissen.soziologie.uni-mainz.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1488"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wissen.soziologie.uni-mainz.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12036"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/wissen.soziologie.uni-mainz.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12795,"href":"https:\/\/wissen.soziologie.uni-mainz.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12036\/revisions\/12795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wissen.soziologie.uni-mainz.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wissen.soziologie.uni-mainz.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wissen.soziologie.uni-mainz.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}