Dr. Anna Oechslen
Research Associate | Economy and Civil Society
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Anna Oechslen joined the Research Area „Economy and Civil Society” at the IRS in November, 2017. Since March 2023, she has been working as a postdoc researcger in the research group "Creativity and Work". She studied Social Science and Modern South and Southeast Asian Studies at the Humboldt University of Berlin and the University of Sussex in the UK. Anna Oechslen wrote her dissertation in empirical cultural studies at the University of Hamburg as part of the IRS lead project "Platform Ecology" (2018-2021). In it, she researches the everyday life of graphic designers who establish translocal work relationships via digital platforms. Her research focuses on the digitalization and globalization of work practices, feminist research approaches, and ethnographic methods.

During the winter semester 2023/2024, she covers the junior professorship for anthropological studies in culture and history at the University of Hamburg.

Projects

Ongoing Third-party Funded Projects

Third-party funded project 02/2024 - 07/2027
REmote-Working Multiple Impacts in the Age of Disruptions: Socioeconomic Transformations, Territorial RethinKING, and Policy Actions (REMAKING)

The project "Remaking: REmote - working Multiple impacts in the Age of disruptions: socioeconomic transformations, territorial rethinKING, and policy actions" understands remote work as a lever that contributes to shaping ongoing social, economic and spatial structural transformations. The project aims to create a policy-oriented framework that reflects the new and multi-layered realities of work and facilitates policy makers to pursue place-based policies that balance the opportunities and risks of remote forms of work, and to exchange practices to promote mutual learning on remote work in the context of disruptions and megatrends. more info

Completed Lead Projects

Platform Ecology: Creative Collaboration in the Field of Tension between Virtual and Concrete Spaces in the Case of Fashion Design

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Completed Qualification Projects

Global Platform Work – Negotiating Relations in a Translocal Assemblage

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Selected Publications by Year

2024
Oechslen, A., & Stingl, I. (2024, Aug). Das Zuhause als Ort von Plattformarbeit: Anschlüsse an die feministisch-geographische Forschung. https://ak-feministische-geographien.org/rundmail/
2023
Oechslen, A. (2023). Global Platform Work: Negotiating Relations in a Translocal Assemblage. (Arbeit und Alltag; Vol. 25). Campus. https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:101:1-2023082220441408512840
Repenning, A., & Oechslen, A. (2023). Creative Digipreneurs: Artistic Entrepreneurial Practices in Platform-Mediated Space. Digital Geography and Society, 4, [100058]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.diggeo.2023.100058
2022
Ibert, O., Oechslen, A., Repenning, A., & Schmidt, S. (2022, Mar 14). Geht regional auch digital? Handlungsansätze zur Gestaltung von regionalen digitalen Plattformen. Leibniz-Institut für Raumbezogene Sozialforschung. http://hdl.handle.net/10419/251348
Ibert, O., Oechslen, A., Repenning, A., & Schmidt, S. (2022). Platform Ecology: A User-centric and Relational Conceptualization of Online Platforms. Global Networks, 22(3), 564-579. https://doi.org/10.1111/glob.12355
2020
Oechslen, A. (2020). Grenzenlose Arbeit? Eine Exploration der Arbeitskulturen von Crowdwork. In D. Eckhardt, S. May, M. Röthl, & R. Tischberger (Eds.), Digitale Arbeitskulturen: Rahmungen, Effekte, Herausforderungen (pp. 83-94). (Berliner Blätter; Vol. 82).. https://doi.org/10.18452/22135
  • https://www2.hu-berlin.de/ifeeojs/index.php/blaetter/article/view/1071
    • 2019
    Oechslen, A. (2019). "Rage against the Cage": Raum einnehmen als feministische Protestpraxis. Gender Bulletin, (45), 27-45. https://www.gender.hu-berlin.de/de/publikationen/gender-bulletin-broschueren/bulletin-texte/texte-45/bulletin_texte_45.pdf
  • https://www.gender.hu-berlin.de/de/publikationen/gender-bulletin-broschueren/bulletin-texte/texte-45/bulletin_texte_45.pdf

    • Selected Publications by Type

    Monograph
    Oechslen, A. (2023). Global Platform Work: Negotiating Relations in a Translocal Assemblage. (Arbeit und Alltag; Vol. 25). Campus. https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:101:1-2023082220441408512840
    Journal Article
    Repenning, A., & Oechslen, A. (2023). Creative Digipreneurs: Artistic Entrepreneurial Practices in Platform-Mediated Space. Digital Geography and Society, 4, [100058]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.diggeo.2023.100058
    Ibert, O., Oechslen, A., Repenning, A., & Schmidt, S. (2022). Platform Ecology: A User-centric and Relational Conceptualization of Online Platforms. Global Networks, 22(3), 564-579. https://doi.org/10.1111/glob.12355
    Oechslen, A. (2019). "Rage against the Cage": Raum einnehmen als feministische Protestpraxis. Gender Bulletin, (45), 27-45. https://www.gender.hu-berlin.de/de/publikationen/gender-bulletin-broschueren/bulletin-texte/texte-45/bulletin_texte_45.pdf
  • https://www.gender.hu-berlin.de/de/publikationen/gender-bulletin-broschueren/bulletin-texte/texte-45/bulletin_texte_45.pdf
    • Contribution to Anthology
    Oechslen, A. (2020). Grenzenlose Arbeit? Eine Exploration der Arbeitskulturen von Crowdwork. In D. Eckhardt, S. May, M. Röthl, & R. Tischberger (Eds.), Digitale Arbeitskulturen: Rahmungen, Effekte, Herausforderungen (pp. 83-94). (Berliner Blätter; Vol. 82).. https://doi.org/10.18452/22135
  • https://www2.hu-berlin.de/ifeeojs/index.php/blaetter/article/view/1071
    • Expertise / Position Paper / Policy Paper
    Ibert, O., Oechslen, A., Repenning, A., & Schmidt, S. (2022, Mar 14). Geht regional auch digital? Handlungsansätze zur Gestaltung von regionalen digitalen Plattformen. Leibniz-Institut für Raumbezogene Sozialforschung. http://hdl.handle.net/10419/251348
    Other transfer publication
    Oechslen, A., & Stingl, I. (2024, Aug). Das Zuhause als Ort von Plattformarbeit: Anschlüsse an die feministisch-geographische Forschung. https://ak-feministische-geographien.org/rundmail/

    Talks

    2024
    Studying flexible workplaces through visual methods: The cases of coworking, gig working and creative entrepreneurship

    40th EGOS Colloquium

    July/06/2024
    Università di Milano Bicocca, Mailand, Italy

    "I make sure it's more fun than work for them". Plattformarbeit als Management von Emotionen

    Gefühlswelten. Perspektiven aus der Emotionsforschung

    April/30/2024
    Universität Marburg, Marburg, Germany

    2023
    On/offline spaces in creative processes

    RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2023

    August/31/2023
    Royal Geographical Society & Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

    »Freelancers must be able to put up with all Types of Clients«: Affective Labour and Precarious Subjectivities in a Platform-mediated Work Environment

    39th EGOS Colloquium

    July/06/2023
    University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy

    Plattformökologie: Eine nutzer‐zentrierte und relationale Perspektive auf wirtschaftliche Interaktionen im on/offline Raum

    16. Rauischholzhausener Symposium zur Wirtschaftsgeographie

    April/29/2023
    Schloss Rauischholzhausen, Rauischholzhausen, Germany

    The Home as a (Digitally Mediated) Workplace. Comparative Perspectives on Care Work and Online Freelancing

    AAG Annual Meeting 2023

    March/26/2023
    Denver (online), Denver, United States

    2022
    It's like Shooting in the Dark. Agency and Uncertainty in Gig Work

    ReWorking Work: Labour and Livelihoods in the Global South

    June/29/2022
    Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

    It's like Shooting in the Dark. Agency and Uncertainty in a Global Assemblage

    6th Global Conference on Economic Geography 2022

    June/07/2022
    Trinity College und University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

    2021
    Creative digipreneurs and socio-technical niches: work practices of entrepreneuring in a platform mediated environment

    On-/Offline Interferences. Digitalisation and Socio-Spatial Transformations

    November/16/2021
    IRS, Erkner (digital), Germany

    Platform Ecology: A User-centric and Relational Conceptualization of Online Platforms

    On-/Offline Interferences. Digitalisation and Socio-Spatial Transformations

    November/15/2021
    IRS, Erkner (digital), Germany

    Platform Ecology: A User-centric and Relational Conceptualization of Online Platforms

    II Digital Geographies Conference (Virtual): Critical Perspectives on the Platform Economy

    October/29/2021
    Lissabon, Lissabon, Portugal

    Creative digipreneurs and connective media platforms: practices of socio-technical niche construction on and beyond Instagram

    Digital Geographies Conference

    October/28/2021
    Virtual conference, University of Lisbon, Portugal

    Aligning Relations - Work and Life in Seamful Spaces

    RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2021

    September/03/2021
    virtuell, London, United Kingdom

    Creative digipreneurs and socio-technical niches: work practices of entrepreneuring in a platform mediated environment

    37th European Group of Organisation Studies Colloquium (EGOS)

    July/10/2021
    Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU), online, Amsterdam, Netherlands

    Making Long Distance Work - Reflections on Studying Everyday Practices in On-/Offline Workplaces

    Jahrestreffen des AK Labour Geography 2021

    February/11/2021
    Online

    2020
    Shooting in the Dark: Dealing with Uncertainty in a Digital Work Environment

    Swiss Geoscience Meeting

    November/07/2020
    ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

    Standing out in the crowd - performing identities in global platform labour

    16th Conference: European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA)

    July/22/2020
    Lisbia (online), Lisboa, Portugal

    2019
    Grenzenlose Möglichkeiten? Über die Fortsetzung globaler Hierarchien in der Infrastruktur von Crowdwork-Plattformen

    Deutscher Kongress für Geographie 2019

    September/28/2019
    Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany

    2018
    Global Platform Labour - Negotiating the Value of Work in a Transcultural Space

    Reshaping Work in the Platform Economy

    October/25/2018
    The Student Hotel, Amsterdam, Netherlands

    Global Platform Labour - Negotiating the Value of Work in a Digital Age

    Sommerschule Gender and Space

    September/11/2018
    Haus für Bildung & Begegnung, Herzberg, Switzerland