M Richter
Biographic Data
| ID | 12087 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Richter |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Richter |
| SIGNATURE | RICHTER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | HES-SO Valais-Wallis |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3147-3882 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1938 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Rethinking Social Work in Prison through Posthuman Care Ethics
Carceral social workers have to balance ambivalences between the interest of incarcerated people and the criminal justice system. Theprofessional ethics of social work practice provide some answers to this challenge. Nevertheless, they are strongly based in a humanist understanding of our world. We therefore set out to explore how social work practice in carceral settings unfolds and how we could understand it, not only from the perspective of tr…
En libération conditionnelle
Cet article s’intéresse aux expériences temporelles vécues par des personnes astreintes à un suivi probatoire en Suisse. Il permet de comprendre la manière dont cette période transitoire est vécue par les personnes concernées, tout en amenant un regard critique sur le cadrage institutionnel qui régit les suivis dans deux cantons suisses. Il montre que si les personnes en libération conditionnelle sont assujetties à un ordre temporel exogène, elle…
Critical Post‐Humanism and Social Work in the City
Social work has a long history of dealing with social issues and working towards an inclusive city. The complexity of these issues requires conceptual thinking that goes beyond “the human” and encompasses spatiality, materiality, as well as non‐human beings and their connectedness. I propose to explore “post”‐theories for this purpose, which constitute a major reconfiguration of thinking in the field of social work and research on social inclusio…
Carceral Geographies/Geographien des Einschlusses
While a broad debate on carceral geographies has been part of human geography and related disciplines in English-speaking academia, there are only scarce publications among German-speaking geographers. This special issue aims at bringing different researchers (Tobias Breuckmann, Julia Emprechtinger, Sarah Klosterkamp, Nadine Marquardt, Marco Nocente, Marina Richter and Anna Schliehe) and their rich and diverse research insights in the carceral fi…
Economic Rationalities and Notions of 'Good Cure and Care
The development of the health care system in Switzerland has recently been driven by different processes such as economic rationalization, bureaucratization, or digitalization, while maintaining professional notions of 'good cure and care.' Drawing on qualitative data from a Swiss acute hospital, we analyze how potentially market driven modes of governance manifest themselves in the everyday activities of nurses and physicians. We show how profes…
Social work in confinement
Social work in prisons not only works with and for people who are confined; it also constitutes a form of social work that is carried out under conditions of confinement. This article draws on carceral geography to understand the corporeal and spatial aspects of social work in prison settings. Based on insights from two prisons in Switzerland, we argue that understanding carceral social work as a spatial and materially situated practice helps to …
Analytical and Methodological Disruptions
Leseprobe ----- Bibliographie: Ammann, Carole/Richter, Marina/Thieme, Susan: Analytical and Methodological Disruptions: Implication of an Institutional Ethnography in a Swiss Acute Hospital, ZDfm – Zeitschrift für Diversitätsforschung und -management, 1-2020, S. 71-75. https://doi.org/10.3224/zdfm.v5i1.08
Negotiating social differences and power geometries among healthcare professionals in a Swiss hospital
In this article, we analyse two parallel processes taking place in the Swiss healthcare sector, namely differentiation and standardisation: On one hand, the health sector is increasingly characterised by differentiation that originates from the specialisation of training, the differentiation and academisation of nursing, the feminisation of medicine, the migration of healthcare personnel, and the entry of men into nursing professions. In addition…
Jan Amos Komeński und seine Beziehungen zu den polnischen Lutheranern in der 1. Hälfte des 17. Jahrhunderts
Text of a paper presented at the conference "Reformation from the perspective of 500 years. History-Culture-Society" at Siedlce University in November 8, 2017
Can you feel the difference? Emotions as an analytical lens
Against the background of emotional geographies, I analyse negotiations of belonging and experiences of difference. Emotions serve as the analytical lens through which these negotiations and experiences are analysed. Based on this notion, I will analyse migrants' accounts with respect to their emotional qualities and spatial articulations. In particular, I will focus on emotional accounts, such as childhood stories and other biographical stories,…
Conducting commissioned research in neoliberal academia
The article deals with the unease we experience during various commissioned research projects. On the one hand, as social scientists, we feel committed to conducting 'good research' that acknowledges quality criteria such as flexibility and transparency and in particular allows for musing and reflexivity to 'discover' new aspects of our research topic. On the other hand, we are situated in the context of present-day neoliberal academia. This mean…
Transnational networks and transcultural belonging
Migration scholars often assume a close association between transnational social practices and transcultural forms of belonging. Nonetheless, we argue that the distinction of both concepts is analytically important and helpful in understanding the transnational lives of second-generation migrants. To analyse the biographical accounts and network maps of second-generation Spaniards living in Switzerland, we draw a theoretical distinction between s…
Freiheit und Macht
Gesellschaftstheorie in der Tradition der Kritischen Theorie beansprucht, zugleich Gesellschaftsanalyse wie Emanzipationstheorie zu sein. Anhand des so genannten Humanismusstreites zwischen Jean-Paul Sartre und Michel Foucault rekonstruiert Mathias Richter deren methodisch gegensätzliche Forschungsprogramme und erkundet die Relevanz von Sartres praktisch-kritischem Humanismus einerseits und Foucaults theoretischem Antihumanismus andererseits für …
O4-1.5 Macro-level determinants of health among adolescents in welfare states
Introduction Previous studies have shown that macro-level factors, such as income inequality, wealth of countries or welfare state characteristics are crucial determinants of health and health inequalities among adults. So far, comparative research has rarely focused on children and adolescents. This study is among the first to examine whether different macro-level determinants are associated with differences in subjective health and socio-econom…
O4-1.4 National income and income inequality, family affluence and life satisfaction among adolescents in 35 countries
Introduction This study examines 13 year olds' life satisfaction cross-nationally and investigates variation in its relationship with family affluence, and the impact of national income and income inequality on this relationship. Methods Data from the 2006 Health Behaviour in School-aged Children: WHO-collaborative Study (N =58 352 across 35 countries) were analysed using multilevel linear and logistic regression for outcome measures life satisfa…
Contextualizing Gender and Migration
Focusing on two main aspects of the Spanish-Galician migration experience, this article attempts to analyze how migrants’ actions and discourses are shaped by notions of gender. First, the discourse of returning will question notions of family and how differently men and women define their positions as members of a family. While men seem to link their social identity to immovable goods of prestige back in Galicia, women are able to redefine their…
Merkmale der Artenvielfalt in Hochgebirgen
Gebirge bilden aufgrund ihrer geomorphologischen, petrographischen und klimatischen Komplexität in Relation zur umgebenden Klima- bzw. Vegetationszone «hot spots» der Phytodiversität. Das Ausmaß der erhöhten Artenzahlen (Abb. 2) hängt dabei von verschiedenen Faktoren ab: Massenerhebung, interne orographische Differenzierung, floristische und klimazonale Lage, Frequenz und Umfang natürlicher Störungen sowie Position des Gebirges gegenüber advektiv…
Foster-Home Placement of Psychotic Patients with Histories of Problem Drinking
Handbuch der Lichttechnik
Transnational networks and transcultural belonging
Migration scholars often assume a close association between transnational social practices and transcultural forms of belonging. Nonetheless, we argue that the distinction of both concepts is analytically important and helpful in understanding the transnational lives of second-generation migrants. To analyse the biographical accounts and network maps of second-generation Spaniards living in Switzerland, we draw a theoretical distinction between s…
Negotiating social differences and power geometries among healthcare professionals in a Swiss hospital
In this article, we analyse two parallel processes taking place in the Swiss healthcare sector, namely differentiation and standardisation: On one hand, the health sector is increasingly characterised by differentiation that originates from the specialisation of training, the differentiation and academisation of nursing, the feminisation of medicine, the migration of healthcare personnel, and the entry of men into nursing professions. In addition…
Contextualizing Gender and Migration
Focusing on two main aspects of the Spanish-Galician migration experience, this article attempts to analyze how migrants’ actions and discourses are shaped by notions of gender. First, the discourse of returning will question notions of family and how differently men and women define their positions as members of a family. While men seem to link their social identity to immovable goods of prestige back in Galicia, women are able to redefine their…
Economic Rationalities and Notions of 'Good Cure and Care
The development of the health care system in Switzerland has recently been driven by different processes such as economic rationalization, bureaucratization, or digitalization, while maintaining professional notions of 'good cure and care.' Drawing on qualitative data from a Swiss acute hospital, we analyze how potentially market driven modes of governance manifest themselves in the everyday activities of nurses and physicians. We show how profes…
Conducting commissioned research in neoliberal academia
The article deals with the unease we experience during various commissioned research projects. On the one hand, as social scientists, we feel committed to conducting 'good research' that acknowledges quality criteria such as flexibility and transparency and in particular allows for musing and reflexivity to 'discover' new aspects of our research topic. On the other hand, we are situated in the context of present-day neoliberal academia. This mean…
O4-1.4 National income and income inequality, family affluence and life satisfaction among adolescents in 35 countries
Introduction This study examines 13 year olds' life satisfaction cross-nationally and investigates variation in its relationship with family affluence, and the impact of national income and income inequality on this relationship. Methods Data from the 2006 Health Behaviour in School-aged Children: WHO-collaborative Study (N =58 352 across 35 countries) were analysed using multilevel linear and logistic regression for outcome measures life satisfa…
Handbuch der Lichttechnik
Foster-Home Placement of Psychotic Patients with Histories of Problem Drinking
Merkmale der Artenvielfalt in Hochgebirgen
Gebirge bilden aufgrund ihrer geomorphologischen, petrographischen und klimatischen Komplexität in Relation zur umgebenden Klima- bzw. Vegetationszone «hot spots» der Phytodiversität. Das Ausmaß der erhöhten Artenzahlen (Abb. 2) hängt dabei von verschiedenen Faktoren ab: Massenerhebung, interne orographische Differenzierung, floristische und klimazonale Lage, Frequenz und Umfang natürlicher Störungen sowie Position des Gebirges gegenüber advektiv…
Contextualizing Gender and Migration
Focusing on two main aspects of the Spanish-Galician migration experience, this article attempts to analyze how migrants’ actions and discourses are shaped by notions of gender. First, the discourse of returning will question notions of family and how differently men and women define their positions as members of a family. While men seem to link their social identity to immovable goods of prestige back in Galicia, women are able to redefine their…
Freiheit und Macht
Gesellschaftstheorie in der Tradition der Kritischen Theorie beansprucht, zugleich Gesellschaftsanalyse wie Emanzipationstheorie zu sein. Anhand des so genannten Humanismusstreites zwischen Jean-Paul Sartre und Michel Foucault rekonstruiert Mathias Richter deren methodisch gegensätzliche Forschungsprogramme und erkundet die Relevanz von Sartres praktisch-kritischem Humanismus einerseits und Foucaults theoretischem Antihumanismus andererseits für …
O4-1.5 Macro-level determinants of health among adolescents in welfare states
Introduction Previous studies have shown that macro-level factors, such as income inequality, wealth of countries or welfare state characteristics are crucial determinants of health and health inequalities among adults. So far, comparative research has rarely focused on children and adolescents. This study is among the first to examine whether different macro-level determinants are associated with differences in subjective health and socio-econom…
O4-1.4 National income and income inequality, family affluence and life satisfaction among adolescents in 35 countries
Introduction This study examines 13 year olds' life satisfaction cross-nationally and investigates variation in its relationship with family affluence, and the impact of national income and income inequality on this relationship. Methods Data from the 2006 Health Behaviour in School-aged Children: WHO-collaborative Study (N =58 352 across 35 countries) were analysed using multilevel linear and logistic regression for outcome measures life satisfa…
Transnational networks and transcultural belonging
Migration scholars often assume a close association between transnational social practices and transcultural forms of belonging. Nonetheless, we argue that the distinction of both concepts is analytically important and helpful in understanding the transnational lives of second-generation migrants. To analyse the biographical accounts and network maps of second-generation Spaniards living in Switzerland, we draw a theoretical distinction between s…
Can you feel the difference? Emotions as an analytical lens
Against the background of emotional geographies, I analyse negotiations of belonging and experiences of difference. Emotions serve as the analytical lens through which these negotiations and experiences are analysed. Based on this notion, I will analyse migrants' accounts with respect to their emotional qualities and spatial articulations. In particular, I will focus on emotional accounts, such as childhood stories and other biographical stories,…
Conducting commissioned research in neoliberal academia
The article deals with the unease we experience during various commissioned research projects. On the one hand, as social scientists, we feel committed to conducting 'good research' that acknowledges quality criteria such as flexibility and transparency and in particular allows for musing and reflexivity to 'discover' new aspects of our research topic. On the other hand, we are situated in the context of present-day neoliberal academia. This mean…
Jan Amos Komeński und seine Beziehungen zu den polnischen Lutheranern in der 1. Hälfte des 17. Jahrhunderts
Text of a paper presented at the conference "Reformation from the perspective of 500 years. History-Culture-Society" at Siedlce University in November 8, 2017
Analytical and Methodological Disruptions
Leseprobe ----- Bibliographie: Ammann, Carole/Richter, Marina/Thieme, Susan: Analytical and Methodological Disruptions: Implication of an Institutional Ethnography in a Swiss Acute Hospital, ZDfm – Zeitschrift für Diversitätsforschung und -management, 1-2020, S. 71-75. https://doi.org/10.3224/zdfm.v5i1.08
Negotiating social differences and power geometries among healthcare professionals in a Swiss hospital
In this article, we analyse two parallel processes taking place in the Swiss healthcare sector, namely differentiation and standardisation: On one hand, the health sector is increasingly characterised by differentiation that originates from the specialisation of training, the differentiation and academisation of nursing, the feminisation of medicine, the migration of healthcare personnel, and the entry of men into nursing professions. In addition…
Social work in confinement
Social work in prisons not only works with and for people who are confined; it also constitutes a form of social work that is carried out under conditions of confinement. This article draws on carceral geography to understand the corporeal and spatial aspects of social work in prison settings. Based on insights from two prisons in Switzerland, we argue that understanding carceral social work as a spatial and materially situated practice helps to …
Carceral Geographies/Geographien des Einschlusses
While a broad debate on carceral geographies has been part of human geography and related disciplines in English-speaking academia, there are only scarce publications among German-speaking geographers. This special issue aims at bringing different researchers (Tobias Breuckmann, Julia Emprechtinger, Sarah Klosterkamp, Nadine Marquardt, Marco Nocente, Marina Richter and Anna Schliehe) and their rich and diverse research insights in the carceral fi…
Economic Rationalities and Notions of 'Good Cure and Care
The development of the health care system in Switzerland has recently been driven by different processes such as economic rationalization, bureaucratization, or digitalization, while maintaining professional notions of 'good cure and care.' Drawing on qualitative data from a Swiss acute hospital, we analyze how potentially market driven modes of governance manifest themselves in the everyday activities of nurses and physicians. We show how profes…
Critical Post‐Humanism and Social Work in the City
Social work has a long history of dealing with social issues and working towards an inclusive city. The complexity of these issues requires conceptual thinking that goes beyond “the human” and encompasses spatiality, materiality, as well as non‐human beings and their connectedness. I propose to explore “post”‐theories for this purpose, which constitute a major reconfiguration of thinking in the field of social work and research on social inclusio…
En libération conditionnelle
Cet article s’intéresse aux expériences temporelles vécues par des personnes astreintes à un suivi probatoire en Suisse. Il permet de comprendre la manière dont cette période transitoire est vécue par les personnes concernées, tout en amenant un regard critique sur le cadrage institutionnel qui régit les suivis dans deux cantons suisses. Il montre que si les personnes en libération conditionnelle sont assujetties à un ordre temporel exogène, elle…
Rethinking Social Work in Prison through Posthuman Care Ethics
Carceral social workers have to balance ambivalences between the interest of incarcerated people and the criminal justice system. Theprofessional ethics of social work practice provide some answers to this challenge. Nevertheless, they are strongly based in a humanist understanding of our world. We therefore set out to explore how social work practice in carceral settings unfolds and how we could understand it, not only from the perspective of tr…
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