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Prof Dr. Gabriele Rosenthal

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Discipline:

Sociology
University:

University of Göttingen
Country:

Germany

Contact Details:
- Email: grosent@gwdg.de
Website Links:
- www.uni-goettingen.de/en/28238.html

Biography: Prof Dr. Rosenthal is a German Sociologist who is recognized internationally for introducing the Method of Biographical Case Reconstruction using Biographical Narrative Interviews. She is also renowned in the field of general and interpretative sociology, biographical research, qualitative methods, ethnicity, migration, conflict studies and intergenerational relations. Gabriele Rosenthal is a Professor for Qualitative Methods and Director of the Center of Methods in Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Göttingen in Germany. She served as President of the Research Committee RC38 “Biography & Society” of the International Sociological Association (ISA) from 2002 to 2010. She is currently a member of the Board of the DGS (2019-2021). Numerous publications and books have been published by Prof Rosenthal and they include Child Soldiers in Context. Biographies, Familial and Collective Trajectories in Norther Uganda (2020, together with Artur Bogner), Interpretative Social Research (2015), Biographies in the Global South and Life Stories Embedded in Figurations and Discourses (2017, together with Artur Bogner). She has published twenty-two journal articles across different journals and still counting. Most recent includes Biographies – Discourses – Figurations: Methodological considerations from the perspectives of social constructivism and figurational sociology (2017).

Selected Publications:

Bogner, Artur / Rosenthal, Gabriele (2020): Child Soldiers in Context. Biographies, Familial and Collective Trajectories in Norther Uganda. Göttingen: University Press, Göttinger Series in Sociological Biographical Research. Free download: https://doi.org/10.17875/gup2020-1325
Rosenthal, Gabriele (2018): Interpretative Social Research. Göttingen: University Press. (in German 2015). Free download: https://doi.org/10.17875/gup2018-1103
Rosenthal, Gabriele (2018): Challenges in Biographical Research. In: Schulz, Markus S. (Ed): Frontiers of Global Sociology. Berlin/New York: Epubli, 268-275.
Rosenthal, G. / Bogner, A. (Eds.) (2017): Biographies in the Global South. Life Stories Embedded in Figurations and Discourses. Frankfurt a. M.: Campus.
Bogner, A. / Rosenthal, G. (2017): Biographies – Discourses – Figurations: Methodological considerations from the perspectives of social constructivism and figurational sociology. In: Rosenthal, G. / Bogner, A. (Eds.): Biographies in the Global South. Frankfurt a. M.: Campus, 15-49.
Rosenthal, G. / Bahl, E. / Worm, A. (2017): Illegalized Migration Courses from the Perspective of Biographical Research and Figurational Sociology: The Land Border Between Spain and Morocco. In: Rosenthal, G. / Bogner, A. (Eds.): Biographies in the Global South. Frankfurt a. M.: Campus, 185-208.
Rosenthal, G. (Ed.) (2016): Established and Outsiders at the Same Time. Self-Images and We-Images of Palestinians in the West Bank and in Israel. Göttingen: University Press, Göttinger Series in Social and Cultural Anthropology.
Bogner, A. / Rosenthal, G. (2014): The “Untold” Stories of Outsiders and Their Significance for the Analysis of (Post-) Conflict Figurations. Interviews with Victims of Collective Violence in Northern Uganda (West Nile). In: FQS: Volume 15 (3), Art. 4.
Rosenthal, G. (2012): A Plea for a More Interpretative, More Empirical and More Historical Sociology. In: Kalekin-Fishman, D. / Denis, A. B. (Eds.): Tradition and Renewal: The Shape of Sociology for the Twenty-First Century. Sage, 202-217.
Rosenthal, G. / Bogner, A. (Ed.) (2009): Ethnicity, Belonging and Biography. Ethnographical and Biographical Perspectives. Münster: LIT Verlag.
Rosenthal, G. (2004): Biographical Research. Seale, C. / Gobo, G. / Gubrium, J. F. / Silverman, D. (Eds.): Qualitative Research Practice. London: Sage, 48-64.
Rosenthal, G. (2003): The Healing Effects of Storytelling. On the Conditions of Curative Storytelling in the Context of Research and Counselling. In: Qualitative Inquiry, 9 (6), 915-933.