Alexander I. Stingl

Senior Lecturer, Director of Postgraduate Studies, and designated director for the MA program "Sustainability and Society" in School of Political Science and Sociology, University of Galway (formerly, until August 2022:National University of Ireland Galway).Fellow of the Global Research Network co-directing (with Wael Saghir) the Think Tank "Digital Culture, Finance, and Ecological Sustainability". Visiting Faculty at the Paris Institute for Critical Thinking.

Former Chercheur associé with the Global Legal Studies Network at the Fondation Maison des sciences de l'homme, andform

WIRL-COFUND Fellow (Marie Curie COFUND) at Institute of Advanced Study and Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies University of Warwick. Author of Care Power Information (2020, Routledge) The Digital Coloniality of Power (2016, Lexington/Row­­man), Between Discursivity and Sensus Communis (2010, OPUS), and Aufklärung als Flaschenpost (2009, VDM), as well as co-author with S.Weiss and S.Restivo of Worlds of ScienceCraft (1st 2014, Ashgate, 2nd 2016, Routledge). In 2019, he was named the chair of the scientific committee for “Juridifying the Anthropocene” (directed by G.Lhuilier&B.Parance which is contributing ideas and expertise for the Agence Française du Developpmente and the Court de Cassation). He is the managing editor of the book series Decolonial Options for the Social Sciences [Lexington/Rowman]. Formerly with the University Erlangen-Nürnberg, University Kassel, Drexel University, College of Leuphana University. Awarded various fellowships and grants, including most recently the 2018/19 Independent Scholar Fellowship (ISF4) of the Independent Social Research Foundation. In 2017, he worked under the direction of Olivier Bouin and Marc Fleurbaey on the International Panel on Social Progress (IPSP).

Research Interests

The transnational policy network and scientific-legal discourse of “the Bioeconomy”; Extractive Studies and Environmental Humanities; Decolonial options for the social sciences; Sociology and the cognitive and neurosciences; Digital divisions and social (in)justice; Transmediality and popular culture. In his current main area of research, the Bioeconomy is found situated in the interstices of biotechnological development, policy-making, and legal adjudications. Whereas policy-makers and politicians generalize and reduce all living entities to “biomass”, scientists look at highly individualized yet fuzzy categories, which jurists mediate through transnational (extractive) property law practices.