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Mathis Heinrich

Thesis Working Title

European Monetary and Financial Crisis Managament: Materiality and Discourse in Variegated Capitalism

Research Interests

My research interests cover a wide range of almost all aspects related to International and Comparative Political Economy, European Integration and Critical Social Theory. Based on the theoretical framework of a so called "Neo-Gramscian Extension of the Regulation Approach", my work is highly influenced by the critical theories of Karl Marx, Antonio Gramsci and Karl Polanyi, but also Max Weber and more contemporary writings such as of Nicos Poulantzas and Michel Foucault.

In my PhD I am especially interested in the dynamics behind variegated European actor-specific interpretations of the current global financial crisis and the Euro-zone crisis, and how these interpretations (strategically) structure the process of European Governance and possible crisis management policies of the EU. Special attention is paid here to (national and transnational) capital fractions and the agential and discursive selectivities inherent in contemporary struggles about the definition of the crisis and the transformation and/or maintenance of certain economic imaginaries (meaning making). Therefore, I am drawing on the wider agenda of the Cultural Political Economy Approach, which places the interplay of micro- and macro-structural dynamics in the process of reducing the complexity of social and political practices at the heart of my research and leads to my special interest in concepts and methods of Critical Discourse Analysis and Theories of Everyday Life Practices.

I am part of the Cultural Political Economy Research Centre (CPERC) at Lancaster University, administrating the CPERC Reading Group and working as a research student for the Great Transformation Project directed by my supervisor Bob Jessop.

• 2011. "Gegen das 'Europa des Kapitals' oder 'nach den Sternen greifen'. Europaeische Staatlichkeit und die Frage emanzipatorischer Strategien." [trans.: Against a 'Europe of Capital' or 'reaching for the stars'. European Statehood and the question of emancipatory strategies] (with Nikolei Huke). In Die Sterne zum tanzen bringen. Eine radikaldemokratische Kritik der EU. Ed. by JungdemokratInnen /Junge Linke Bundesverband e.V. Frankfurt/Main: Druckkollektiv.
• 2008. "Auf der Überholspur in die EU. Neoliberale Transformation in Estland." [trans.: "On the Fast Track to EU. Neoliberal Transformation in Estonia."]. In Liberalisierung und Privatisierung in Europa. Ed. by H-J. Bieling, C. Deckwirth and S. Schmalz. Münster: Westfl. Dampfboot, pp. 245-276.
• 2006. "In schlechter Verfassung? Ursachen und Konsequenzen der EU-Verfassungskrise." [trans.: "In Bad Constitution? Causes and Consequences of the EU Constitution Crisis."] (with Martin Beckmann and Frank Deppe). In PROKLA Vol. 36, No. 3, pp. 307-324.

Current Teaching

SOCL 324: Media in a Global Age - Seminar tutor

Other Interests and Hobbies

Besides my academic life I enjoy playing tennis and piano and watching the games of my favorite football club "FC Cologne"!

Contact Details:

Office hour: Tuesday 1-2 pm

Department of Sociology, Bowland North B103

Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YN

Tel.: +44 (0)1524 592826, E-Mail: m.heinrich@lancaster.ac.uk

Keywords: Capitalism, Class politics, Critical discourse analysis, Cultural Political Economy, European Union, Gramsci, International political economy, Political economy, Regulation Approach, Strategic-relational approach , Supranational governance

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