Hannah Grün is a research assistant at the Department of Sociology/Microsociology at Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg and a PhD candidate in the Hamburg research group “care transformations.” They hold an MA degree in Global Political Economy from the University of Kassel and previously studied Social Sciences and Gender Studies at Humboldt University of Berlin. Hannah Grün is a member of the editorial collective of the independent journal “ephemera: theory and politics in organization.”
Inspired by Science and Technology Studies, their ethnographic research focuses on the infrastructuring of care in later life, particularly following a lesbian co-housing initiative.
Focus
- Science and Technology Studies (STS)
- Feminist theories of care and social reproduction
- Infrastructuring of care in later life
- Co-housing in later life
- Queer aging and technology
- Co-design
Memberships
- EASST – European Association for the Study of Sciences and Technology
- stsing e.V. – Association for Science and Technology Studies in and through Germany
Publications
Wiedemann, Lisa/Grün, Hannah (2021): Care as a “high-tension zone”: Investigating frictions and temporalities in technologized care arrangements, Working Paper für die Transforming Care Conference, TCC 2021.
Grün, Hannah (2021): Caring with: Für eine Politik der _Mit_Sorge in Zeiten der Covid-19 Pandemie. In: Fischer, Jörg/ Tuider, Elisabeth (Hrsg.): Sozialer Zusammenhalt. 4. Sonderband Sozialmagazin. Weinheim/Basel: Beltz Juventa, S. 97-119.
Conferences, talks & workshops
“Care as a high-tension zone: Investigating the ambivalences of care in the midst of the pandemic”, open-panel co-hosted with Lisa Wiedemann, EASST 2022, Madrid, Juli 2022.
“Aging-with many: Conceptualizing ecologies of care in the field of Ambient Assisted Living”, talk, 4S 2021, Toronto/online, Oktober 2021.
“format /C: Digitalisierung und utopische Zukünfte? Eine Kurzwerkstatt”, Workshop with Felix Nickel, Herr*Krit 2021, Uni Kassel/online, Juli 2021.
“Care as a ‘high-tension zone’: Investigating frictions and temporalities in technologized care arrangements”, talk with Lisa Wiedemann, TCC21 Venedig/online, Juni 2021.
„Critters, Chaos, Capital: Thinking-with care in times of digital transformation“, talk, TU Berlin, Juni 2019.
Letzte Änderung: 31. August 2026