Punk in gender studies
The University of Basel is filling the professorship for Cultural Anthropology and Gender Studies with two people on a job-sharing basis. Their previous research focus: the music subculture of punk.
The professorship for Cultural Anthropology and Gender Studies at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences has been newly created following two retirements. Marion Schulze and Alain Müller, a pair of researchers, have been appointed Assistant Professor and Assistant Professor (with tenure track); Schulze will focus on gender studies and Müller on cultural anthropology. However, bridging the gap between the two subjects is also central to both of them. They will each be employed on a 50 percent basis from January 1, 2020, as the University Council noted.
In her dissertation, Marion Schulze investigated the gender arrangements and conventions of hardcore punk with participatory field research on three continents, providing a blueprint for integrating the gender perspective into subculture theory.
In his research, Alain Müller proposes a systematic approach using the example of the music subculture hardcore punk and the urban sport of street workout in order to "anthropologically grasp the articulations of local and global as well as the collective construction of different geographical spaces and scales".
