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Dr des Amelie Kutter

Sociology: Research Associate

Degree: Dr phil (des.) European University Viadrina; MA (Diplom) Free University Berlin

Associated research centres and groups: Cultural Political Economy Research Centre, Language, Ideology and Power Group (LIP)

Research Interests

As a member of the Great Transformations project directed by Bob Jessop at the Cultural Political Economy Research Centre I am working on discourses of the current financial and economic crisis. My research interest is in the semiosis of politics in the postnational constellation - a focus I have applied to subjects such as polity-construction in the EU multilevel setting (PhD thesis), Europeanisation in Central and Eastern Europe, postsocialist transformation, and transnational political communication. More often than not, the discourse and field context of mass media has been the prism of these studies. My work draws on discourse theory, institutionalism, and critical realist approaches to social science. This research perspective is coupled with a strong interest in text analytical methods ranging from content analysis to corpus analysis and linguistic critical discourse analysis. I am co-administrating the CPERC Reading group.

Career details

I received my MA (Diplom) in political science from Otto-Suhr Institute at Free University Berlin in 2001 and have since then worked as lecturer and researcher at TU Dresden, European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Free University Berlin, with research stays at Institut d'études politiques de Paris (CERI, Sciences Po), Institute for Advanced Studies at Lancaster University, and at the Centre of International Relations in Warsaw. I was member of EU-funded projects on EU enlargement and European public spheres and received scholarships from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the German Academic Exchange Service for my PhD-related work. I was awarded the Phd (des) in Political Science and Cultural Studies by European University Viadrina (Frankfurt/Oder) in 2011.

Recent and upcoming presentations:

(2012) How to bring the citizens closer to the Union: democracy discourse and the EU constitutional debate. Presentation to be given at the IPA Annual Conference, Tilburg University, July 5-7

(2012) Recontextualised: Facets of Europeanisation in Polish and French Media Debates on the EU Constitution. Presentation to be given at the European Studies Conference, CEISR, Portsmouth, June 28-29

(2012) Adjusting Imbalances. Crisis Narratives in the German Financial Press. Presentation to be given by Amelie Kutter at the PSA Conference, Belfast, April 3-5

(2012) Krisenlektionen in der deutschen Finanzpresse: Korpusanalyse als exploratives Verfahren der Sozialwissenschaft [Crisis lessons in the German financial press: corpus analysis as explorative technique in the social sciences]. Presentation given by Amelie Kutter at the conference 'Sprachliche Konstruktionen sozial- und wirtschaftspolitischer Krisen in der Bundesrepublik von 1973 bis heute', Trier University, March 8

(2012) Their death was prematurely reported: imaginaries of socio-economic formation in the German financial press. Presentation given by Amelie Kutter at the Northern International Political Economy network meeting at Lancaster University, 17 February

(2012) "A stabilising factor and model in the world" - the EU's public representation in the realm of foreign policy. Paper given by Amelie Kutter at the workshop 'Speaking Europe Abroad: Institutional Cooperation and the Making of EU's Discourse' at the Institut des Etudes Européennes, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 14-15 February

(2011) Totgesagte leben länger. Die Fortschreibung ökonomischer Ordnung in der deutschen Finanzpresse 2006-2010 [Its death was prematurely reported: the perpetuation of socio-economic formation in the German financial press 2006-2010]. Presentation given by Amelie Kutter at the Workshop 'Ökonomie - Diskurs - Regierung', Mainz University, 11-12 November

(2011) Rückkehr des Staates? Die Legitimation ökonomischer Ordnung in der deutschen Finanzpresse 2006-2010 [State redux: legitimations of socio-economic formation in the German financial press 2006-2010]. Presentation given by Amelie Kutter at the workshop 'Legitimationen der Ökonomie. Ökonomie der Legitimation', Bremen University, 30 September - 1 October

(2011) Legitimation Practices in Multilevel Settings: EU Constitutional Talk Recontextualised. Presentation given by Amelie Kutter at the 6th ECPR General Conference at the University of Iceland in Reykjavik, 25-27 August

(2011) Selectivities in Discourses of Crisis Management. The Example of the German Financial Press 2006-2010. Presentation given by Amelie Kutter at the Interpretative Policy Analysis Conference in Cardiff, 25 June

(2011) Un-tripling Crisis: Economic Imaginaries in the German Financial Press. Presentation given by Amelie Kutter at the CPERC Annual Workshop, Lancaster University, 5 May

(2011) Learning in Crisis, Learning from Crisis, Lessons from the Past. Aspects of Policy Learning in the Global Financial Crisis. Presentation given by Bob Jessop, Mathis Heinrich, Joo Hyoung Ji, and Amelie Kutter, at the ECPR Joint Sessions, StGallen, 13 April

(2011) International Crisis as Engine of Institutionalization? Media Debates on Armed Conflicts and Development of the European Security and Defense Policy (1990-2005). Presentation given by Cathleen Kantner and Amelie Kutter at the ISA Annual Convention, Montreal, 16-19 April

(2011) Selectivities in crisis perceptions: the example of the German financial press. Presentation given by Amelie Kutter at the Centre for Theoretical Studies, University of Essex, 24 February

Publications

Recent peer-reviewed working papers

(2012) Corpus-based content analysis: a method for investigating news coverage on military intervention, International Relations Working Paper 2012/1, Stuttgart University, Stuttgart (co-authored with Cathleen Kantner)

(2011) How to get rid of the noise in the corpus: cleaning large samples of newspaper texts, International Relations Working Paper 2011/2, Stuttgart University, Stuttgart (co-authored with Cathleen Kantner, Andreas Hildebrandt, and Mark Püttcher)

(2008) The Perception of the EU as an Emerging Security Actor in Media Debates on Humanitarian and Military Interventions (1990-2006), RECON Online Working Paper 2008/19, Arena Oslo, Oslo (co-authored with Cathleen Kantner and Swantje Renfordt)

Books

(2011) Polity-construction in multilevel settings: recontextualisation and the example of the Polish and French media debates on the EU constitution; unpublished manuscript of the doctoral thesis defended at European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (O.) in June 2011

(2006) Das Erbe des Beitritts: Europäisierung in Mittel- und Osteuropa [The legacy of accession: Europeanisation in Central and Eastern Europe], Europäische Schriften, Baden Baden: Nomos (co-edited with Vera Trappmann)

Journal articles

(2012) The perception of the EU as an emerging security actor in media debates on humanitarian and military interventions, in: European Journal of International Relations (co-authored with Cathleen Kantner and Swantje Renfordt) (forthcoming)

(2010) Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe: the ambivalent legacy of accession (with Vera Trappmann), in: Acta Politica, 45(1): 41-69

Contributions to books and dictionaries

(2012) Totgesagte leben länger: die Fortschreibung ökonomischer Ordnung in der Finanzpresse, in: Maeße, Jens (ed): Ökonomie, Diskurs, Regierung. Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven, VS Verlag (under review).

(2012) Politischer Diskurs, in: Wörterbuch interdisziplinäre Diskursforschung (WID), co-authored with Martin Nonhoff, edited by the research network DiscourseNet with Suhrkamp (under review)

(2012) Legitimation, in: Wörterbuch interdisziplinäre Diskursforschung (WID), co-authored with Martin Nonhoff, edited by the research network DiscourseNet with Suhrkamp (under review)

(2009) Computer- und korpuslinguistische Verfahren für die Analyse massenmedialer politischer Kommunikation: Humanitäre und militärische Interventionen im Spiegel der Presse, in W. Hoeppner (ed.), Technischer Bericht Nr. 2009-01. GSCL-Symposium Sprachtechnologie und eHumanities, Duisburg: Universität Duisburg-Essen, pp. 62-71 (together with Peter Kolb, Cathleen Kantner, and Manfred Stede).

(2008) L'héritage de l'adhésion: européanisation des politiques de représentation des intérêts en Europe centrale et orientale (co-authored with Vera Trappmann), in: Bafoil, F. and T. Beichelt (eds.): L'européanisation d'Ouest en Est, Paris: L'Harmattan, 365-399.

(2008) Horizonterweiterung? Die Analyse der EU-Osterweiterung in den Internationalen Beziehungen [Extending horizons? The analysis of EU enlargement in IR], in: Brand, A. and S. Robel (eds.), Internationale Beziehungen - Aktuelle Forschungsfelder, Wissensorganisation und Berufsorientierung. Dresden: TUD Press, 367-399.

(2007) Petitioner or Partner? Constructions of European Integration in Polish Print Media Debates on the EU Constitutional Treaty, in: Fairclough, N., G. Cortese and P. Ardizzone (eds.): Discourse and Social Change, Bern: Peter Lang, 433-457.

(2006) Unia Europejska jako antagonizm. Strategie dyskursywne w polskiej debacie o przyszlosci integracji europejskiej [Constructing the EU as an antagonism: Discursive strategies in the Polish debate on the future of European integration], in: Horolets, A. (ed.): Europa w polskich dyskursach [Europe in Polish discourse], Torun: Adam Marszalek, 21-34.

(2006) Das Erbe des Beitritts: Zur Analyse von Europäisierungseffekten in mittel- und osteuropäischen Gesellschaften [The legacy of accession: how to analyse repercussions of Europeanisation in Central and Eastern European societies] (co-authored with Vera Trappmann), in: Kutter, A. and V. Trappmann (eds.): Das Erbe des Beitritts. Europäisierung in Mittel- und Osteuropa. Europäische Schriften, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 13-56.

(2006) Europäische Sozialpolitik in der erweiterten Europäischen Union [European social policies in the enlarged European Union] (co-authored with Vera Trappmann), in: Witkowski, M. and J. Dlugosz (eds.) Perspektiven für Europa - die neue Öffnung? Bern: Peter Lang, 31-52.

(2005) Die EU und der Strukturwandel in Polen. Die Transformation der polnischen Stahlindustrie unter dem Einfluss des EU-Beitritts [The transformation of Polish steal industry during EU accession preparation] (co-authored with Vera Trappmann), in: Salimi-Asl, C., E. Wrasse and G. Schuch (eds.): Die Transformation nationaler Politik: Europäisierungsprozesse in Mitteleuropa, DGAP-Schriften zur internationalen Politik, Berlin, 277-300.

Associated Keywords: Comparative media studies, Corpora and sociolinguistics/discourse, Critical discourse analysis, Cultural Political Economy, Discourse, Europeanisation, European society, International relations, Media, Political theory, Post-structuralism, Public spaces

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