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Environmental Sociology, Sociology of Space, Social Theory, Governance, Housing

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Curriculum Vitae

Margaret(e) Haderer studied philosophy and social sciences in Vienna (University of Vienna), Paris (Université Paris 8) and Budapest (Central European University). She holds a PhD in political science from the University of Toronto. Her book Rebuilding Cities and Citizens: Mass Housing in Red Vienna und Cold War Berlin, opens an external URL in a new window (Amsterdam University Press, 2023) draws and expands on her doctoral research. It offers a study of the relationship between political ideologies and the production of space.

After Margaret’s return to Vienna and a care-related career break, she was awarded the Marie Jahoda-Grant, opens an external URL in a new window by the University of Vienna, which supported her in finding her way back into academia in Austria. In 2018, she received funding for a three-year research project titled Urban Experiments in Socio-ecological Transformation, opens an external URL in a new window from the Austrian Science Fund, opens an external URL in a new window. The institutional host of the project was the Institute for Social Change and Sustainability, opens an external URL in a new window at WU Vienna, where Margaret worked until resuming her current position as a University Assistant at TU Vienna in 2022. From 2020 to 2022, she also served as a co-ordinating lead author (CLA) for an assessment report by the Austrian Panel for Climate Change (APCC) on structures for climate-friendly living, opens an external URL in a new window. Recently, she also co-edited two special issues: one in the European Journal of Social Theory, opens an external URL in a new window (2022) and one in the journal Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy (2023).

Research Interests

Margaret’s research activity is shaped by two main interests:

  • An interest in space (including residential space) understood as an embodiment and site of negotiation of norms and ideals of property, autonomy, participation, gender, and nature-society relations.
  • An interest in framings of, approaches and ‘solutions’ to social-ecological challenges such as climate change, including their scope and limitations.

To deliver a better understanding of why “sustaining the unsustainable” (Blühdorn 2007) tends to be the norm rather than the exception in late modern societies despite widespread transformation-‘talk’ and a plethora of proposed ‘solutions’ is a key driver of her work.

Revisiting the housing question (one of her previous research foci) from a socio-ecological angle (her recent focus) is one of Margaret’s endeavors at TU Vienna.

Current foci of her teaching are social science methods and underlying methodologies, social theory, environmental sociology, sociology of space and housing.

Overview of current courses: TISS, opens an external URL in a new window.

Haderer, M. (2023). Experimental Climate Governance as Organized Irresponsibility? A Case for Revamping Governing (also) through Government., opens an external URL in a new window Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy, 19(1).

Novy, A., Haderer, M., Kubeczko, K., Aigner, E., et al. (2023). Perspektiven zur Analyse und Gestaltung von Strukturen für ein klimafreundliches Leben, opens an external URL in a new window. In: APCC Special Report: Strukturen für ein klimafreundliches Leben edited by Görg, C., V. Madner, A. Muhar, A. Novy, A. Posch, K. Steininger and E. Aigner. Springer Spektrum: Berlin/Heidelberg. (preprint, opens an external URL in a new window)

Haderer, M. (2023). Rebuilding Cities and Citizens. Mass Housing in Red Vienna and Cold War Berlin, opens an external URL in a new window. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. ISBN: 9789463724944, opens an external URL in a new window.

Bärnthaler, R., Haderer, M., Novy, A., & Schneider, C. (2022). Shaping Provisioning Systems for an Eco-Social Transformation, opens an external URL in a new window. International Karl Polanyi Society, IKPS Paper Series, # 003, opens an external URL in a new window, p. 1-26.

Blühdorn, I., Butzlaff, F., & Haderer, M. (2022). Emancipatory Politics at its Limits? An Introduction., opens an external URL in a new window European Journal of Social Theory, 25(1), 3–25.

Haderer, M. (2022). Does Emancipation Devour its Children? Beyond a Stalled Dialectic of Emancipation., opens an external URL in a new window European Journal of Social Theory, 25(1), 172–188.

Haderer M. (2020). Revisiting the Right to the City, Rethinking Urban Environmentalism: From Lifeworld Environmentalism to Planetary Environmentalism., opens an external URL in a new window Social Sciences, 9(2),15.

Haderer, M. (2018). “Economic Policies Are the Best Social Policies”: West German Neoliberalism and the Housing Question After 1945., opens an external URL in a new window American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 77(1), 149-167.