Gloria Albrecht is a M.A. student at the Institut for European Ethnology at Humboldt University of Berlin (IfEE). She completed her Bachelor’s degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology and Political Science at the Free University of Berlin in 2021. Currently she works as a student assistant at the youth department of the German Trade Union Confederation (DGB) and focuses her research primarily on labor relations and labor disputes. The particular exploitation of migrant workers and the (re)production of precarity within political economy constitute a central aspect of her work. As part of the interdisciplinary study project Transforming Solidarities - Practices and Infrastructures in the migration society, she conducted ethnographic research on the working conditions at the Tesla Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg, where she examined the composition of its workforce as well as the (im)possibilities of defiance.

Roland Atzmüller is Associate Professor at the Department for Social Theory and Social Analyses at the Institute of Sociology, Johannes Kepler University Linz/Austria since 2017. After studying Political Science in Vienna and Manchester he worked at the Working Lives Research Center (FORBA) in Vienna between 2002 and 2011 moving to the JKU in 2011. He works on critical social theories, welfare state and social policy transformations. Recent publications include: Atzmüller, R.; Bodenstein, M., & Knecht, A. (2020). Punishing the poor and fighting „immigration into the social system“ – Welfare reforms by the conservative and far-right government in Austria 2017–2019. Zeitschrift für Sozialreform – Journal for social policy research. 66, 525–552. And: Atzmüller, R. (2022). Renationalisierung der Sozialpolitik: Die Zerstörung gesellschaftlicher Solidarität durch autoritären Populismus und neue Rechte. In T. Fehmel, & S. Betzelt (Eds.), Deformation oder Transformation? Analysen zum wohlfahrtsstaatlichen Wandel im 21. Jahrhundert (pp. 25–48), Wiesbaden: Springer VS.

Manuela Bojadžijev is a professor at the Institute for European Ethnology and the Berlin Institute for Migration Research at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Her work focuses on migration research from a global perspective as well as globalised and digital cultures. In addition to conceptual, methodological, and epistemic questions of migration research, she is interested in the "dispute over migration" in migration societies and in how social change is narrated, lived, and carried out in and through representations of migration and flight. She also examines, usually in cooperation with others, current transformation processes of mobility, migration, and racism in interaction with changes in the world of work and life through digitalisation and logistics, especially in urban spaces and geopolitical constellations.

Fabienne Décieux is currently working as a research assistant at the Department of Social Theory and Social Analyses at the Institute of Sociology of the Johannes Kepler University Linz. She is a sociologist, and her main research areas are social theory, sociology of work and care, social policies, and gender studies. At [SoLiXG], she is focusing on EU policy discourses and imaginaries of “digital sovereignty”, “resilience”, and the “twin transition“ as well as the semiconductor industry in Austria.

Lukas Egger studied Political Science at the University of Vienna, where he completed his doctorate with a thesis on English colonialism in Virginia, slavery and racism. He currently works as a scientific project staff member at the Johannes Kepler-University (JKU) in Linz. He has published on Political Theory, Racism and Historical Sociology and has been teaching in the Political Science, Sociology and Gender Studies Departments in Vienna and Linz. His main research interest is to investigate how historically changing property relations are connected to various political regimes and different modes of dehumanization of specific populations. At [SoLiXG] he tries to connect these research interests with the subject matters of digitalization and digital sovereignty, analysing the EU recovery plans and the semiconductor industry in Austria.

Alexander Harder is a PhD student at the Institute for European Ethnology at the Humboldt University of Berlin and the Berlin Institute for Integration and Migration Research (BIM), where he is a founding member of the “Culture, Society and the Digital Lab”. He studied Political Science at Freie Universität Berlin, and Gender Studies at Humboldt-Universität Berlin. His research interests include right-wing ideologies and movements, ideologies and imaginaries of digital technology and media theory. With “Cultures of Rejection“ (2019–2022), he investigated the socio-cultural conditions for right-wing politics in contemporary Europe. At [SoLiXG], he is focusing on the development of 5G and 6G infrastructures and the investments in semiconductor fabrication as elements of “digital sovereignty“.

Contact: alexander.harder(at)hu-berlin.de

Stefan Jonsson is Professor at the Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO), Linköping University. His research focusses on European modernity and coloniality, representations of crowds and collectivities, racism and social difference, and political aesthetics. His writings include Subject Without Nation (2000); A Brief History of the Masses(2008); Crowds and Democracy (2013); Eurafrica (co-authored with Peo Hansen, 2013)); Austere Histories in European Societies (co-edited with Julia Willén, 2016), as well as several books in Swedish on postcolonial theory, multiculturalism, diversity, racism, and racialization. He is completing a book on the political emergence and cultural figuration of the twenty-first-century crowd. Stefan Jonsson is also a critic and commentator at Sweden’s major newspaper Dagens Nyheter.

Karin Krifors is Associate Professor at the Institute for Research on Ethnicity, Migration and Society (REMESO), Linköping University. Her research concerns geographies and social relations of race, gender and labour from the perspective of changing capitalist processes, e.g. in the journal article Logistics of Migrant Labour (2021). Krifors has also studied conviviality as antiracism, and results from the ethnographic research can be read in e.g. the article Rural Multiculturalism? (2022). Other research areas concern border control and effects of the increased use of algorithmic and biometric tools and rationalities on migrant groups.

Loren Grbic completed her Master’s and Bachelor’s degree in Sociology at the Johannes Kepler University (JKU) in Linz, Austria. In her master thesis she conducted a Bourdieusian field analysis of the field of digitalization in elderly care. Her areas of interest are (un)paid care work, digitalization in the care sector and feminist digitalization studies. Together with the Linz Team of [SoLiXG] Loren is focussing on the topics of the semiconductor industry in Austria and imaginaries of “digital sovereignty”, “resilience”, and the “twin transition“.

Anna Pillinger is a PhD researcher at the Institute of Sociology at the Johannes Kepler University in Linz and a member of the “Center for Emancipatory Technology Research” (ZET). She holds a MA in Science,Technology, Society at the University of Vienna. At [SoLiXG], she is focusing on EU policy discourses and imaginaries of “digital sovereignty”, “resilience”, and the “twin transition“ as well as the semiconductor industry in Austria. In her doctoral thesis she works on the social shaping of digital care technologies and how they co-constitute care and care-work.

Contact: anna.pillinger(at)jku.at

Helen is Professor and Head of Research IXDM, at Basel Academy of Art and Design, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW). They also hold an associate professorship in Queer Feminist Technoscience at University of Plymouth. Helen organises with The Institute for Technology in the Public Interest (TITiPI), together they convene communities to hold computational infrastructures to account and to create spaces for articulating what technologies in the “public interest” might be. With TITiPI they are the PI on the CHANSE funded project [SoLiXG]. They are also CO-I on ‘Regenerative Energy Communities’, working at the intersections of energy design and agro-ecology (Swedish Energy Agency). Helen is co-editor of ‘Data Browser 06: Executing Practices’ (2018) and STHV SI ‘Sensors and Sensing Practices’ (2019), Interactions: Survival, Resistance and Radical Care (2022) ,‘Plants By Numbers: Art, Computation and Queer Feminist Technoscience’ (2023) and the series co-editor for Future Media (Goldsmiths Press).

Mauricio Rogat is postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO), Linköping University. He has a background in social anthropology and defended his dissertation "Even flows and deferred lives: the logistification of migrant settlement" in Sweden, at the School of Global Studies, Gothenburg University, 2022. At [SoLiXG], Mauricio is primarily following the technological development and standardisation of 6G wireless telecommunication and its connections to (digital) sovereignty.

Femke Snelting develops projects at the intersection of publishing, trans*feminism, and Free Software. In various constellations, she works on re-imagining computational practices to disinvest from technological monoculture and the regime of The Cloud. With Miriyam Aouragh, Seda Gürses and Helen Pritchard, she runs The Institute for Technology in the Public Interest, a trans-practice gathering of activists, artists, engineers and theorists on what computational infrastructures do to collective life. With Jara Rocha, she edited Volumetric Regimes: Material Cultures of Quantified Presence (Open Humanities Press, 2022). The publication results from a collective disobedient research project which interrogated the concrete and at the same time fictional entities of “bodies” in the context of volumetric technologies. In the research project Ecologies of Dissemination she develops, together with Eva Weinmayr, feminist and decolonial approaches to Open Access. She also contributes to Nubo, a cooperative which provides locally hosted, Open Source digital services. In the context of SoLiXG, she develops Counter Cloud Imaginaries, non-sovereign institutional infrastructures and focuses on methods for infra-resistance. Femke regularly teaches at New Performative Practices (Stockholm University of the Arts) and supports artistic research at MERIAN (Maastricht).

contact: femke(at)titipi.org

Marthe Völker is a M.A. student at the Institute for European Ethnology at the Humboldt University of Berlin (IfEE). She completed her Bachelors Degree at the University of Vienna in Cultural and Social Anthropology. In her research she has a special focus on the contradictory (re)production of capitalist modernity (including imaginations, expectations and narratives) e.g. regarding the forming of nationalist, racist and antisemitic ideologies. To analyze the current way of socialization through capitalist mode of production and to critizise the societal conditions without forgetting the specific historical context, she makes use of ethnographic methods. Her main focus in the SoliXG project is the semiconductor industry in East Germany (“Silicon Saxony”) and the transformation of labour, the imagination of progress and the migration regimes accompanying this.