Dr. Nina Krienke
Post-doctoral research fellow
Department of Politics and Economics
Room 3640 / +49-421-218-69637
krienke@uni-bremen.de
Research Project
Protest as a Democracy Test: Protest Culture under Transformation and as a Transformative Power (ProTest)
Dissertation project
Processes of political meaning-making and contentious positioning. Recent Romanian cycles of mass protest and their activists' motives and demands
Research Interests
- civil society and protest culture in periods of societal change
- democracy theory and philosophy of the political
- politics and contemporary history of Eastern Europe
Education
0/2018-12/2024 PhD candidate, Research Centre for East European Studies at the University of Bremen
10/2014 - 06/2017 MA in Democratic Politics and Communication at the University of Trier; Title of MA thesis: Two sides of the same coin? The ‚paradigm of catch-up modernization‘ and the ‚simultaneity problem‘ in Transformation Studies
2010 - 2013 BA in Systematic Musicology and Political Science at the University of Hamburg; Title of BA-thesis: The emotional substance of microtonality
Work Experience
03/2016 - 05/2016: Intern at the redaction of the Journal Eastern Europe, Berlin
09/2015 - 10/2015: Intern at GIZ Ukraine, Kiev (Reform advisory fund for the Ukrainian Government, Strenghtening administrative authorities to reform public finances)
01/2014 - 03/2014: Research assistant and author at the Federal Agency for Civic Education, Hamburg
10/2013 - 08/2014: Intercultural communications consultant and language mediator (Romanian) at the street magazine Hinz&Kunzt, Hamburg
Scholarships and Awards
05/2024-07/2024: DAAD- Research scholarship for PhD candidates, 2024 (57694190)
02/2024-06/2024: Completion grant, Research Centre for East European Studies at the University of Bremen
10/2019-02/2024: Full doctoral scholarship at the German Academic Scholarship Foundation
2017: Award for the best thesis in the department of Political Science in 2017, conferred by the Alumni Association of Political Sciences at the University of Trier
Publications
Krienke, Nina (2024): Processes of political meaning-making and contentious positioning. Recent Romanian cycles of mass protest and their activists' motives and demands, dissertation thesis, https://doi.org/10.26092/elib/3539
Nina Krienke (2023) The Political Economy of Eastern Europe 30 Years into the ‘Transition’. New Left Perspectives from the Region, Europe-Asia Studies, 75:6, 1049-1051, DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2023.2224185 (review)
Krienke, N. (2022). Interpreting the Political, Politicizing Interpretation: Doing Politically Sensible Social Science Research. Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies, 22(6), 562–575. https://doi.org/10.1177/15327086221105665
Krienke, Nina (2019): Ausgang aus der Gemunkelzone. Der Einfluss des Westens in der Ukraine, in: Osteuropa 3-4/2019, S. 193-210, https://www.zeitschrift-osteuropa.de/hefte/2019/3-4/ausgang-aus-der-gemunkelzone/