Jana Hitziger
Vita
Jana Hitziger is a social science researcher specializing in (post-)apocalyptic futures, disaster preparedness, digital platforms, and qualitative methods of social research.
Since October 2025, she has been a doctoral researcher in the “Climate Futures in Digital Cultures” research area of the university-wide “Embracing Transformation” program at Leuphana University Lüneburg, where she is also affiliated with the Center for Digital Cultures (CDC) and the Institute for Sociology and Cultural Organization (ISCO).
In her doctoral thesis, provisionally titled “Anticipatory Technologies for Darker Futures – Ethnographic Explorations of Solidarity-Based Preparedness Technologies in Germany,” she examines how disaster preparedness is evolving in the Anthropocene, focusing on the entanglement of digital technologies, ecological crises, and social practices.
She is editor of the social and cultural science journal “Behemoth – A Journal on Social Dis/Order.”
Previously, she studied social sciences and philosophy at the University of Erfurt, sociology and social research at the University of Bremen, and criminology at the University of Hamburg with a scholarship of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation.
She worked as a research assistant at the Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies “Futures of Sustainability,” at the Chair of Sociology of Security and Resilience at the University of Hamburg, at the Institute for Democracy and Civil Society in Jena, at the Chair of Practical Philosophy, and at the Chair of Political Theory at the University of Erfurt.
Projects
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Embracing Transformation: Climate Futures in Digital Cultures
Armin Beverungen (Project manager, academic) , Jan Müggenburg (Project manager, academic) , Daniel Irrgang (Coordination) , Jana Hitziger (Project staff)
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Publications
Journal contributions
- Tech vs. Hate: Muster und Dilemmata des Deplatformings deutschsprachiger Hassakteure
Maik Fielitz (Author) , Jana Hitziger (Author) , Karolin Schwarz (Author) , 01.01.2021 , in: Wissen schafft Demokratie, 9 , p. 196-207 , 12 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
Courses
The seminar introduces historical cultural studies as an enterprise that is characterized to a particular degree by the reflection of its respective historical present. Their topics, questions, and specific approaches often go back to very different contemporary experiences of crisis, which have made seemingly fixed certainties precarious.
The seminar assembles - not least against the background of again highly topical experiences of crisis - a series of those historical contemporary diagnoses in order to
(1) to discuss cultural studies topics and methods in their diversity and to understand them in their socio-economic, political and cultural context
(2) to thematize the interrelation of cultural-scientific modes of problematization and experiences of crisis, and thereby
(3) to identify continuities as well as ruptures with regard to current questions and problems in cultural studies.