Dr. Sarah Uhlmann

• Since 10/2023: Research assistant at the Chair of International Relations at the University of Kassel
• 11/21-09/23: Postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Political Sociology at Friedrich Schiller University Jena; scholarship holder of the Graduate Academy
• 2021: Doctorate in Sociology at the Humboldt University of Berlin at the Institute of Social Sciences. Topic: Title: Reproduction struggles in the city. A comparative case study of urban social movements in New York City, Buenos Aires and Hamburg Supervision: Prof. Klaus Eder and Prof. Donatella della Porta; Grade: summa cum laude
• 06-12/2015: Visiting scholar at the graduate school of the 'City University of New York City' (CUNY)
• 2013-2020: Ph.D. candidate at the Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences (BGSS)
• 2003-2012: Studied Political Science, Sociology and Medieval and Modern History at the University of Leipzig and Barcelona

• (Feminist) Political Economy
• Social movement and protest research
• Social and spatial transformation
• City and space
• Empirical social research

• Transregional and transurban research

2025:

• Laufenberg, Mike/Uhlmann, Sarah (eds.) (2025): Special Issue Care on the Move, Research Journal Social Movements, De Gruyter Oldenbourg.
• Laufenberg, Mike/Uhlmann, Sarah (2025): Struggles for social reproduction: social movements from the perspective of feminist political economy. In: Research Journal Social Movements, De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 38 (3), 397-424, https://forschungsjournal.de/fjsb/wp-content/uploads/fjsb_2025-3_laufenberg_uhlmann.pdf.
• Uhlmann, Sarah/Reichle, Leon Rosa/Steenblock, Anna (2025): Social reproduction. In: Pollmann, Anna (ed.), Key concepts of social cohesion: A critical vocabulary. Wallstein Verlag, 726-741, https://www.wallstein-open-library.de/9783835356979-040.html (open access).

2024:

• Uhlmann, Sarah (2024): Urban social movements as extended class actors: struggles over reproduction in Buenos Aires, New York City and Hamburg, in: Global Political Economy, https://doi.org/10.1332/26352257Y2024D000000012
• Herb, Irina/Uhlmann, Sarah (2024): On the contradiction between accumulation and the reproduction of life: Social Reproduction Theory as a comprehensive analysis of capitalist societies?, in: PROKLA. journal for critical social science 54, pp. 11-31.

2023:

• Uhlmann, Sarah (2023). Shared experiences? Shared struggles? Class and social reproduction from a feminist perspective, in: Outside the Box, Zeitschrift für feministische Gesellschaftskritik, https://outside-mag.de/gemeinsame-erfahrungen-geteilte-kaempfe/.
• Uhlmann, Sarah (2023): Urban reproductive struggles. A materialist interpretation of housing and urban policy movements, in: Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen, 36(1), 30-48.

2022:

• Uhlmann, Sarah (2022): Reproductive struggles in the city. Urban social movements in New York City, Buenos Aires and Hamburg, series Raumproduktionen, Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot.

2018:

• Uhlmann, Sarah (2018): The riot as harbinger and symptom of a crisis: on the riots during the 2017 G20 summit in Hamburg, in: Momentum Quartely, 7(4), 171-232

2016:

• Uhlmann, S., Frenzel, J., Greif, P. & Klein, F. (2016): Riots - On the localization of a blurred phenomenon, in: Sub\Urban. Journal for Critical Urban Research, 4(1), 7-24,
• www.zeitschrift-suburban.de/sys/index.php/suburban/article/view/217.
• Uhlmann, S., Frenzel, J., Greif, P. & Klein, F. (eds.): Thematic issue: Riots, sub\urban. Journal for critical urban research, 4(1), 2016.
• Uhlmann, Sarah (2016), Review of: Corinna Hölzl, Protest Movement and Urban Politics. Urban conflicts in Santiago de Chile and Buenos Aires, in: Peripherie: Politik. Economy. Culture, 36, pp. 132-134.

BA seminar: Introduction to feminist political economy (Wed, 12-14 from 22.10.2025, weekly)

MA-Seminar: Territoriality in social struggles (with focus on LA) (Thu, 10-12 from 23.10.2025, weekly)

Consultation hours in winter semester 25/26 take place by appointment. Please register in advance by email (at least 1 week in advance), stating the topic to be discussed.

Further dates on request.