Presentation
Project 2023-24: “Following ANT: an intellectual history of Actor-Network Theory”.
The project is to research and write the intellectual genesis and international history of “actor-network theory” between the 1970s and the present. Alexandra Kowalski is currently a visiting scholar at the CSI in Paris. She teaches sociology at Central European University in Vienna. She’s a historical sociologist with interest in cultural policies, social theory, the sociology of art and knowledge, and social change in a broad systemic sense. She received her doctorate from New York University.
She has just completed a book manuscript in French entitled “Un projet Francais: L’Inventaire Général et la naissance du patrimoine.”
Publications
“When Cultural Capitalization Became Global Practice: The 1972 World Heritage Convention” in Nina Bandelj and Fred Wherry eds. The Cultural Wealth of Nations, De Gruyter(2011)
“That Banal Object of Nationalism: “Old Stones” as Heritage in the Early Days of French Public Television” in G. Zubrzycki ed. National Matters (2018)
“The Wandering Memorial: Figures of Ambivalence in Hungarian Holocaust Memorialization” in Olivette Otele, Luisa Gandolfo, and Yoav Galai ed. Post- Conflict Memorialization: Missing Memorials, Absent Bodies, Palgrave (2021)
“Reflexive Habits: Dating and Rationalized Conduct in New York and Berlin” (with M. Krause), The Sociological Review, 61:1 (2013)