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Birgit Sauer

Birgit Sauer is professor of political science at the University of Vienna. She is deputy speaker of the research platform “GAIN – Gender and Ambivalent In_Visibilites”. She is deputy speaker of the Vienna Doctoral School of Social Sciences. Her research fields include right-wing populism and gender, feminist state theory, democracy and politics of emotions and affects. She was member of several EU research projects, including projects on right-wing populism and media, gender and right-wing populism, violence against women, gender, migration, and religion. She also conducted research on affective state transformation. Recent publications include: Otto Penz and Birgit Sauer: Governing Affects: Neoliberalism, Neo-Bureaucracies, and Service Work, Routledge 2020.