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Valentin Fröhlich, MSSc BSc

Project staff ÖAW DOC-team 114 „The Contested Provisioning of Care and Housing“

Short Biography

Ph.D. student and DOC-team fellow of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW). Project staff ÖAW DOC-team 114 „The Contested Provisioning of Care and Housing“, opens an external URL in a new window.

 

Research Interests

Critical Theory of Society

History of Philosophy & Contemporary Philosophy

Sociology of Care

 

Academic CV

05/2023 – 07/2023 Delf University of Technology (TU Delft)
Research Stay at the Department of Urbanism

02/2023 – 04/2023 Corvinus University Budapest
Research Stay at the Institute of Social and Political Sciences

since 06/2020 Johannes Kepler University, Linz
Doctorate Programme: Social Sciences & Humanities (Dr. phil.)

since 10/2018 Catholic Private University, Linz
Master Programme: Art History & Philosophy (MA)

02/2018 – 09/2019 Johannes Kepler University, Linz
Master's Degree in Sociology (MSSc)

09/2013 – 02/2018 Johannes Kepler University, Linz
Bachelor's Degree in Sociology (BSc)

 

Academic Positions

since 08/2021 Johannes Kepler University, Linz
Project Staff ÖAW DOC-team 114 „The Contested Provisioning of Care and Housing“

since 04/2019 Catholic Private University, Linz
Student Research Assistant at the Institute of the History of Philosophy

Publications

Monographs

Fröhlich, Valentin & Pimminger, Florian (2020): Kapitalismus – Macht – Demokratie: Michel Foucault und Colin Crouch im Dialog. Linz: Trauner. (zugl. Masterthesis).

Reviews:
Politix 46/2020,, opens an external URL in a new window S. 50–52.
Soziologieblog,, opens an external URL in a new window vom 24.08.2020.

 

Journal Articles and Contributions to Edited Volumes

Fröhlich, Valentin / Pillinger, Anna / Pimminger, Florian (2024 i.E.): Sich um die Sorge sorgen. Umkämpfte Sorgeerbringung zwischen Vermarktlichung, Technologisierung und Vergemeinschaftung. In: Atzmüller, Roland / Binner, Kristina / Décieux, Fabienne / Deindl, Raphael / Grubner, Johanna / Kreissl, Katharina (Hg.): Gesellschaft in Transformation. Sorge, Kämpfe und Kapitalismus. Weinheim und Basel: Beltz Juventa, S. 79-88.

Fröhlich, Valentin (2023): Analysing Senior Care in its Change - The Twofold Hybridity in the Societal Embedding of Marketised and Communitised Care. International Karl Polanyi Society Debates: "The Contested Provisioning of Care and Housing: Insights from Karl Polanyi", opens an external URL in a new window, Vienna.

Fröhlich, Valentin & Harrer, Dominik (2022): Die Negation des Erfolgs. Über die Gouvernementalität der Alltäglichkeit. In: Mühlbauer, Josef & Gabriel, Leo Xavier (Hg.): Zur Imperialen Lebensweise. Wien/Berlin: mandelbaum verlag, S. 31–46.

 

Other Publications

Benjamin Baumgartner / Valentin Fröhlich / Florian Pimminger / Hans Volmary (Eds.) (2021): The Contested Provisioning of Care and Housing. Working Paper of the DOC-team 114: “The Contested Provisioning of Care and Housing”, No. 1/2021, opens an external URL in a new window, Linz & Vienna.

Baumgartner, Benjamin / Fröhlich, Valentin / Pimminger, Florian / Volmary, Hans (2021): Karl Polanyi und die Grenzen der Marktgesellschaft. Rezension von: Aulenbacher, Brigitte / Marterbauer, Markus / Novy, Andreas / Thurnher, Armin (Hg.) (2018): Karl Polanyi. Wiederentdeckung eines Jahrhundertdenkers. In: Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft 47(1), opens an external URL in a new window, S. 148–152.

Scientific Community Service

Lectures

Fröhlich, Valentin & Pimminger, Florian: Gemeinschaftliche Care-Arrangements: Auf dem Weg zu neuen Sorgekulturen? Vortrag mit anschließendem Gespräch. Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, 7. März 2024.

Fröhlich, Valentin: Author meets Critics: The Migration Turn and Eastern Europe. Author: Attila Melegh. Critics: Darinka Czischke, Valentin Fröhlich, Anna Safuta. Transformative Change in the Contested Fields of Care and Housing in Europe. International Conference of the Research Project "DOC-team 114: The Contested Provisioning of Care and Housing", Johannes Kepler University Linz, 4.-6. December 2023.

Baumgartner, Benjamin / Fröhlich, Valentin / Pimminger, Florian / Volmary, Hans: Care and Housing – Insights from Crossover Research in Europe. Transformative Change in the Contested Fields of Care and Housing in Europe. International Conference of the Research Project "DOC-team 114: The Contested Provisioning of Care and Housing", Johannes Kepler University Linz, 4.-6. December 2023.

Fröhlich, Valentin & Pimminger, Florian: Abwege auf ausgetretenen Pfaden oder Spuren neuer Gemeinschaftlichkeit? - Sorge und Sorgearbeit in Österreich, Ungarn und den Niederlanden. 17. FSW-Expert:innen-Forum Einsamkeit. Unser Weg zu mehr Gemeinsamkeit in jedem Alter, Urania Dachsaal, Wien, 13. November 2023.

Fröhlich, Valentin & Pimminger, Florian: Contested Narratives and Imaginations of Care and Care Work in Marketised and Communitised Senior Care Arrangements. Age and Care Graz: Aging in a Caring Society? Theories in Conversation, University of Graz, 20.-22. September 2023.

Fröhlich, Valentin & Pimminger, Florian: Senior Care Brokerage on Diversified Markets: Agency-mediated Live-in Care in Austria, Hungary, and the Netherlands. 6th Transforming Care Conference Sheffield, The University of Sheffield, 26.-28. June 2023.

Baumgartner, Benjamin / Fröhlich, Valentin / Pimminger, Florian / Volmary, Hans: A Polanyi-inspired Perspective on the Variegated Marketisation of Housing and Care. Insights from Austria. Institute Seminar of the Institute of Social and Political Sciences, Corvinus University Budapest, 24. April 2023.

Fröhlich, Valentin & Pimminger, Florian: Senior Care Marketization in Transition: Transnational Live-in Care in Austria, Hungary, and the Netherlands on the Move. The Symposium on Care Migration - Care Marketization: Reflections on a Complex Interplay. The International Symposium of the Research Project "'Ideal' Migrant Subjects: Domestic Service in Globalization", Johannes Kepler University Linz, 23.-24. March 2023.

Aulenbacher, Brigitte / Fröhlich, Valentin / Pimminger, Florian: Live-in-Care, Caring Communities und die Diskussion um die Zukunft des Sorgens am Beispiel häuslicher Altenbetreuung und -pflege. Momentum22: Transformation, Hallstatt, 13.-16. Oktober 2022.

Fröhlich, Valentin & Pimminger, Florian: Live-in-Care and Caring Communities at the Intersection of Path-Dependency and Innovation: A Comparison of the Care-Regimes in the Netherlands, Austria and Hungary. ESPANET 2022 Vienna. Social Policy Change between Path Dependency and Innovation at University of Vienna, 14.-16. September 2022.

Fröhlich, Valentin & Pimminger, Florian: Live-in-Care and Caring Communities: Betreuungs- und Pflegearrangements und ambivalente Sozialpolitiken im österreichischen Care Regime. 5. Forschungskonferenz Sozialpolitik von ESPAnet Austria an der Universität Wien, 14. September 2022.

Fröhlich, Valentin & Pimminger, Florian: The Contested Market- and Community-Shift in Senior Care: Live-In-Care and Caring Communities in the Care-Regimes of Austria, Hungary, and the Netherlands. 17th EASA (European Association of Social Anthropologists) Biennial Conference. EASA2022: Transformation, Hope and the Commons, School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics at Queen's University Belfast, 26.-29. July 2022.

Fröhlich, Valentin & Pimminger, Florian: Senior Care Provision between Market and Community: Contested Care-Regimes in Amsterdam, Budapest, and Vienna. Forschungsworkshop: "The Contested Provisioning of Care and Housing: Insights from Karl Polanyi". International Research Workshop of the ÖAW DOC-team 114, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, 4.-5. Mai 2022.

 

Conference Organisation

Chair: The Provision of Care and Housing (Session): Sarah Kumnig & Katharina Litschauer: Housing Provision Between Commodification and Decommodification: Contested Instruments and Practices in Vienna; Klaus Wegleitner & Patrick Schuchter: Caring Communities: Experimental Spaces for Caring Societies?; Cornelia Klinger: Homeward Bound: The Place and Space of Care. Transformative Change in the Contested Fields of Care and Housing in Europe. International Conference of the Research Project "DOC-team 114: The Contested Provisioning of Care and Housing", Johannes Kepler University Linz, 4.-6. December 2023.

Conference: Aulenbacher, Brigitte / Fröhlich, Valentin / Pimminger, Florian / Novy, Andreas / Baumgartner, Benjamin / Volmary, Hans: Transformative Change in the Contested Fields of Care and Housing in Europe. International Conference of the Research Project "DOC-team 114: The Contested Provisioning of Care and Housing", Johannes Kepler University Linz, 4.-6. December 2023.

Chair: Forms of Care Marketization and Migration Compared (Session): Prieler, Veronika / Jelínek, Matouš / Krause, Kristine / Sapieha, Mariusz: Care Relocation and Live-in Care in Europe as Results of Transnationalisation and Marketisation of Care: Are They Two Sides of the Same Coin? and Gábriel, Dóra: Marketization of Senior Care and Lifestyle Migration in Hungary. The Symposium on Care Migration - Care Marketization: Reflections on a Complex Interplay. The International Symposium of the Research Project "'Ideal' Migrant Subjects: Domestic Service in Globalization", Johannes Kepler University Linz, 23.-24. March 2023.

Research Workshop: Aulenbacher, Brigitte / Baumgartner, Benjamin / Fröhlich, Valentin / Novy, Andreas / Pimminger, Florian / Volmary, Hans: "The Contested Provisioning of Care and Housing: Insights from Karl Polanyi". International Research Workshop of the ÖAW DOC-team 114, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, 4.-5. Mai 2022.

Conference: Fröhlich, Valentin / Gruber, Franz / Meiche, Birgit / Rößner, Christian / Spieß, Christian / Winkler, Katja (Inhaltliche Vorbereitung): Moralischer Fortschritt? Die Entwicklung der Menschen- und Bürgerrechte und die ambivalente Rolle des Christentums. Mit Vorträgen von Hans Joas und Cornelia Richter, Katholische Privat-Universität Linz, 17. November 2021.

 

Other

Registererstellung - Gesamtregister: Birus, Hendrik: Gesammelte Schriften: Band 1 (2020): Komparatistik im Spannungsfeld von Philologie und Philosophie / Band 2 (2021): Von Lessing bis Celan – Aus komparatistischer Sicht / Band 3 (2022): Goethe-Studien. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag.

Teaching and Course Organisation

SoSe 2024 - "Abschied vom Humanismus: Martin Heidegger und Jacques Derrida" (SE Ausgewählte Themen der Philosophie)

SoSe 2024 - "Meister Eckhart mit Blick auf Husserl" (SE Ausgewählte Themen der Philosophie)

WiSe 2023/24 - "Gorgias von Leontinoi und Platons Gorgias" (SE Antikes Denken und dessen Rezeption)

SoSe 2023 - "Aristoteles: Substanzbücher (Metaphysik VII-IX)" (SE Ausgewählte Themen der Philosophie)

WiSe 2022/23 - "Schellings Freiheitsschrift und ihre Interpretation durch Heidegger" (SE Antikes Denken und dessen Rezeption)

SoSe 2022 - "Anselm von Canterbury" (SE Ausgewählte Themen der Philosophie)

WiSe 2021/22 - "Platonismus in Spätantike und Mittelalter" (SE Antikes Denken und dessen Rezeption)

WiSe 2021/22 - "Antike und Mittelalter" (VL Geschichte der Philosophie)

SoSe 2021 - "Moralität oder Sittlichkeit? Hegels Kritik an Kant" (SE Spezielle Fragen der Philosophiegeschichte)

SoSe 2021 - "Lektüre neuplatonischer Texte: Plotin, Proklos" (SE Ausgewählte Themen der Philosophie)

SoSe 2021 - "Leibniz: Monadologie" (SE Ausgewählte Themen der Philosophie)

WiSe 2020/21 - "Moderne Klassiker der Sprachphilosophie" (SE Antikes Denken und dessen Rezeption)

SoSe 2020 - "Aristoteles: Nikomachische Ethik" (SE Ausgewählte Themen der Philosophie)

Interviews and Media Reports

Soziologieblog, 18.03.2024: “Transformative Change in the Contested Fields of Care & Housing in Europe” — ein Konferenzbericht von Kristin Bürbaumer & Stefan Schütz. Verfügbar unter: https://soziologieblog.hypotheses.org/14672, opens an external URL in a new window

Dorf TV, 04.12.2023 / 05.12.2023 : Aufzeichnungen der Konferenz “Transformative Change in the Contested Fields of Care & Housing in Europe”
- Welcome and Introduction. Verfügbar unter: https://www.dorftv.at/video/43520, opens an external URL in a new window
- Transformative Change in the Fields of Care and Housing. Verfügbar unter: https://www.dorftv.at/video/43575, opens an external URL in a new window
- Care and Housing - Insights from Crossover Research in Europe. Verfügbar unter: https://www.dorftv.at/video/43576, opens an external URL in a new window
- Bridging Research on Care and Housing. Verfügbar unter: https://www.dorftv.at/video/43529, opens an external URL in a new window

Die Presse, 04.12.2023: Sorgekultur: Die Zeiten der Großfamilie sind vorbei. Verüfgbar unter: https://www.diepresse.com/17879792/sorgekultur-die-zeiten-der-grossfamilie-sind-vorbei, opens an external URL in a new window

Kurier, 17.11.2023: Pflegenotstand entsteht durch wettbewerbsgetriebene Ökonomisierung. Verfügbar unter: https://kurier.at/chronik/oberoesterreich/linz/pflegenotstand-sorgearbeit-jku-linz-guter-stoff/402670276, opens an external URL in a new window

Feministische Studien, 31.10.2023: »Care Migration – Care Marketization. Reflections on a Complex Interplay«. Internationales Symposium der Abteilung für Gesellschaftstheorie und Sozialanalysen des Instituts für Soziologie der Johannes Kepler Universität Linz am 23. und 24. März 2023. Verfügbar unter: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/fs-2023-0033/html, opens an external URL in a new window

Bezirksrundschau Linz-Land, 25.05.2023: Die Zukunft der Betreuung. Verfügbar unter: https://www.meinbezirk.at/linz-land/c-lokales/die-zukunft-der-betreuung_a6059460, opens an external URL in a new window

Bezirksrundschau Freistadt, 22.05.2023: Forscher aus Bad Zell im Portrait. Verfügbar unter https://www.meinbezirk.at/freistadt/c-lokales/forscher-aus-bad-zell-im-portraet_a6051549, opens an external URL in a new window