Sebastian Weste, M.A.

Sebastian Weste is a Research Associate and PhD candidate at the Institute for Sociology and a member of the Center for Conflict Studies at the University of Marburg. He is conducting research in the MeDiMi project “Doing Human Rights: How the Categories of ‘Human’ and ‘Migrant’ Are Made (Ir-)Relevant in Everyday Life”. Sebastian Weste obtained his bachelor’s degree in Social Work, with a specialization in theater pedagogy, mundane phenomenology, and ethnography, from the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund. Concurrently, he pursued an “Akademiestudium” in Cultural Studies, focusing on social theories, at the FernUniversität in Hagen. He subsequently earned his master’s degree in Sociology, with a focus on the sociology of knowledge and practice theories, from the University of Marburg. He wrote his master’s thesis on “Temporalized Bodies. Ethnographic Investigations into Clinical Sleep Research”. As a Student and Research Assistant, he was involved in various research projects in which he investigated and published on the disruption and stabilization of patterns of orientation in everyday life. His research interests are situated in the fields of sociology of knowledge, sociology of everyday life, human differentiation, and interpretative social research methods.

Contact: sebastian.weste@uni-marburg.de