Julia Heinle
Research Associate | Economy and Civil Society
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Julia Heinle has been a doctoral student in the research group "Borders and Memory" since April 2024. In the DFG-funded Emmy Noether Junior Research Group, Julia investigates processes of remembering and forgetting in a case study on the German-Danish border. Julia's research interests lie within the socio-spatial materiality of border memories. In May 2023, Julia completed a Master's degree in Political Science from the University of Copenhagen (MSc), and previously studied Political Science (B.A. Governance and Public Policy) at the University of Passau. She completed a semester abroad in 2018 at the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur.

Julia's research interests include theoretical approaches and discussions surrounding New materialism, critical border and migration studies, memory studies as well as feminist and postcolonial theories. Methodologically, Julia works in the qualitative-interpretative paradigm and is particularly interested in mapping approaches, discourse and dispositive analysis as well as possibilities for the inclusion of the nonhuman.

Projects

Ongoing Third-party Funded Projects

Third-party funded project 11/2023 - 10/2026
Das sozial-räumliche Gedächtnis der europäischen Grenzen: Dispositive des Erinnerns und Vergessens

Disruptive events such as the reorganisation of borders after the Second World War have a profound impact on how societies and spaces change. This leads to a fundamental question: how do we remember these borders, and what influence does this memory have on the concept of a borderless Europe? The Emmy Noether Independent Junior Research Group "The Social-Spatial Memory of European Borders: Dispositifs of Remembering and Forgetting" explores how past disruptive events, such as wars, geopolitical conflicts and political unifications, have influenced the current state of borders. more info