Dr
Hella Dietz, former Fellow of the Max Weber College and winner of the
"Prize of the Ambassador of the Republic of Poland" published her
monograph on Polish opposition movements with the publisher Campus Verlag (Polnischer Protest: Zur pragmatistischen Fundierung von
Theorien sozialen Wandels).
The
study examines two Polish protest movements, Solidarnosc and the
lesser-known Workers' Defence Committee (KOR), and shows alleged paradoxes of
Polish society. In her monograph, published in the series "Theory and
Society" („Theorie und Gesellschaft“), she bases her research on sociological theories of
American pragmatism and the protests and human rights research. Dr Dietz is currently Research Associate at the Institute of Sociology at the University of Göttingen. Her research interests include theories of action, American pragmatism, theories of social movements, critical theory, the sociology of emotions, the European Studies and research on human rights. Her Habilitation project revolves around the essence of narrative sociology. From 2003 to 2007 she received a scholarship from the Study Foundation Klaus Murmann of the Foundation of German Business, and then spend another year as Gastkollegiatin at the Max Weber College, Erfurt. For her dissertation, entitled "From the opposition of values to the values of the opposition - a pragmatist reconstruction of civil society opposition in Poland" („Von der Opposition der Werte zu den Werten der Opposition – eine pragmatistische Rekonstruktion der zivilgesellschaftlichen Opposition in Polen“), which she completed in September 2007, she was awarded the 3rd prize of the "Prize of the Ambassador of the Republic of Poland" for promoting outstanding innovative dissertations. This prize is awarded for studies of Polish history and culture of nationwide outstanding dissertations and master's theses in the humanities and social sciences since 2012. Her new monograph on the Polish protest is a revised and expanded version of this thesis.
Contact: PD Dr. Bettina Hollstein (bettina.hollstein@uni-erfurt.de)
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