Ohme-Reinicke, Annette | Germany

Annette Ohme-Reinicke studied political science at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt/Main. She was involved in student politics and conducted research into the ongoing forms of social protest movements there. She completed her doctoral work in 1999 at the University of Flensburg, where she taught sociology, concentrating on themes such as critical theory, feminism, and the critical sociology of technology.

From October 2000 to July 2001 she was a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies on Science, Technology and Society, Graz.

Project at IAS-STS: Technological development and social protest movements

The project centres on the interrelationship between technological progress, social protest, and scientific reflection on this process over the past few decades. Technological progress is viewed as a synthesis of social forms, which change under the influence of social protest movements. The research focuses on the question of how the changes in social forms are articulated in various western societies. The project examines the subjects and interest groups that have led to conflict, including conflicting interpretations of technology. Social movements have initiated social and, later, scientific reflection on these processes and conflicts. The project goes on to analyse the impact of social movements on the development of technology itself, and to illuminate the subtexts of social scientific research on technology as these subtexts are affected and then "written" by social movements.

Selected Publications

"Moderne Maschinenstürmer. Zum Technikverständnis sozialer Bewegungen seit 1968" Frankfurt/Main, Campus, 2000