Research Interests:

  • (Feminist) Science and Technology Studies

  • Sociology of work and industrial sociology

  • Sociology of emotions

  • Affects and emotions in technology development

  • Emotion AI

  • (Agile) management and work

Since 09/2023
Research Associate at the Department of Sociological Theory, University of Kassel

07/2022-08/2023
Head/Coordinator of the doctoral program "Vermittlung und Übersetzung im Wandel. Relationale Praktiken der Differenzbearbeitung angesichts neuer Grenzen der Teilhabe an Wissen und Arbeit", Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

02/2022
PhD at the Department of Science, Technology and Society, Technical University of Munich

2015-2018
Research assistant at the Chair of Sociology of Science, Technical University of Munich

2014-2015
MSc in Science, Technology and Society at University College London (UCL)

2013-2014
Academic stay abroad at the Département d'histoire, Université de Montréal, Canada

2010-2014
BA in Culture and Technology with core subject History of Science and Technology (BA) at the Technical University of Berlin

 

Awards and scholarships:

2018-2021
Doctoral scholarship from the Hans Böckler Foundation

2016-2017
Fellowship "Freies Wissen. Making science open" from the Stifterverband für die deutsche Wissenschaft and Wikimedia

2014
Prize for Best Contribution to the Department of Science and Technology Studies, University College London

 

Memberships:

European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST)

Center for Emancipatory Technology Research (ZET)

German Sociological Association (DGS)

International Sociological Association (ISA)

Winter term 26/27

Sociological Theory: Order and Chaos

Sociology, University of Kassel

Sustainable Futures? Climate Change through the Lense of Social Theory

Sociology, University of Kassel

Summer term 26

Raving Society - Sociology of Techno Music

Sociology, University of Kassel

Frictions, Fractions and the In-Between - New Materialism and Posthumanist Perspectives

Sociology, University of Kassel

Winter term 24/25  
BA Empirical Research Project: Ethnographies of Emotions and Technology, Part 1
Sociology, University of Kassel

MA Affect, Emotion, Power. Theoretical Approaches in the Sociology of Emotions and Affect Studies
Sociology, University of Kassel

Summer term 24  
MA It’s all a Question of (the Right) Technology? Current Debates and Theories on the Relationship between Technology in Society
Sociology, University of Kassel

MA Colloquium in Social Theory and Reading Course
Sociology, University of Kassel

Summer term 23  
MA It’s all a Question of (the Right) Technology? Current Debates and Theories on the Relationship between Technology in Society
Institute for Pedagogy, Martin-Luther-University of Halle-Wittenberg

Winter term 17/18     
BA & MA Work is half the life? Introductory Course to the Sociology of Work 
School of Governance, TUM    

Summer term 17   
BA It’s all a Matter of Technology? Introductory Course in Sociology of Technology & Science and Technology Studies 
School of Governance, TUM

Summer term 16/17   
BA Core Seminar II: Sociological Theory
School of Education, TUM

Summer term 16  
BA Core Seminar I: Introductory Course to Sociology 
School of Education, TUM

Books

  • Wenten, Klara-Aylin (2025). The Mechanisms of Agile Management. London: Routledge. [Link]
  • Dinkelaker, Jörg/Wenten, Klara-Aylin (2024, ed.): Translations and Participation. Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives, Bielefeld: transcript. [Link]

Journal articles (peer-reviewed)

  • Coban, Alev/Wenten, Klara-Aylin (2021): Who Cares for Agile Work? In/Visiblized Work Practices and their Emancipatory Potentials. In: Nanoethics, Vol. 15, pp. 15-70. [Open Access]
  • Frey, Philipp/Schaupp, Simon/Wenten, Klara-Aylin (2021). Towards Emancipatory Technology Studies. In: Nanoethics, Vol. 15, S. 19-27. [Open Access]
  • Dickel, Sascha/Schneider, Christoph/Thiem, Carolin/Wenten, Klara-Aylin (2019): Engineering Publics: The Different Modes of Civic Technoscience. In: Science and Technology Studies Journal. The Many Modes of Citizen Science. Vol. 32, No. 2, pp. 8-23. [Open Access].

Book Chapters

  • Geminn, Christian/Baumann, Joel/Heesen, Jessica/Mühl, Lisa/ Wenten, Klara-Aylin (2026): AI Companions: Gegenwärtige und zukünftige Herausforderungen konversationeller KI-Agenten. In: Friedewald, Michael/Roßnagel, Andreas/Karaboga, Murat/Geminn, Christian (Hrsg.): Datenschutz und Digitalpolitik in krisenhaften Zeiten: Ausgewählte Beiträge der 10. Konferenz der Plattform Privatheit vom 01. und 02. Oktober 2025. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, S. 113–136. [Link]
  • Ochs, Casten/Wenten, Klara-Aylin (2026): Care: Sorge als Gegenstand, Theorie, Methode und Ethik der Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung. In: Krüger, Anne/Schrape, Jan-Felix/Schubert, Cornelius/Schubert, Julia (Hrsg.): Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung: Eine Einführung in zentrale Konzepte und aktuelle Forschungsperspektiven. De Gruyter, S. 101–118. [Link]
  • Wenten, Klara-Aylin (2019): Controlling Labor in Makeathons. On the Recuperation of Emancipation in Industrial Labor Processes. In: Meyer, Uli/Seibt, David/Schaupp, Simon (eds.): Emancipation and Domination in Digitalized Industries. London: Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 153-177.

Reviews

  • Wenten, Klara-Aylin (2026): Transformation durch Innovation? Alfons Botthof / Jakob Edler / Katrin Hahn / Harmut Hirsch-Kreinsen / Matthias Weber / Jan Wessels (Hrsg.), Transformative und agile Innovationssysteme: Neue Praktiken und innovationspolitische Herausforderungen. Frankfurt am Main: Campus 2023, 415 S., br., 34,00 € und Jürgen Howaldt / Miriam Kreibich / Jürgern Streicher / Carolin Thiem (Hrsg.), Zukunft gestalten mit Sozialen Innovationen: Neue Herausforderungen für Politik, Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft. Frankfurt am Main: Campus 2022, 388 S., br., 34,00 €“, In: Soziologische Revue, Vol. 49, No. 2, S. 172–180. [Link]
  • Wenten, Klara-Aylin (2023): Von der Kraft, die es braucht, Widerstand zu leisten. Rezension zu „Die wunden Punkten von Google, Amazon, Deutsche Wohnen & Co. Was tun gegen die Macht der Konzerne?“ by Nina Scholz. In: Soziopolis. [Link] 
  • Wenten, Klara-Aylin (2019): Prognostizierst du noch oder simulierst du schon? review about "Die Echtzeitgesellschaft. Wie smarte Technik unser Leben steuert" by Johannes Weyer. In Soziopolis [Link]

Wenten, Klara-Aylin (2025). The Mechanisms of Agile Management. London: Routledge.

This book is about the underlying mechanisms of agile management that control work processes in the context of industrial tech development. It challenges commonly held beliefs in adaptability, collaboration and flattened hierarchies claimed to be achieved by agile approaches. In asking how these promises are put into practice, this book offers novel insights into how work is controlled in times of increasing flexibility and constant change in the world of work and management.
Through a rich analysis of a case study… [mehr]