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Christian Borch

Associate professor , MSc (political science), PhD
Christian Borch

Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy

Porcelænshaven 18B
DK-2000 Frederiksberg
Tel.: +45 3815 3627
Cell phone: +45 3142 2148
Fax:+45 3815 3635
E-mail: cbo.lpf@cbs.dk



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I am currently working on two projects. First of all, I am interested in the role and management of architectural atmospheres in various settings (urban, organizational, domestic, etc.). I am particularly interested in how people experience architectural atmospheres and what behavioral effects the latter induce. Second, I am completing a project on the history of sociological crowd semantics. I here trace the development of the notion of the crowd from late nineteenth-century social theory through today and explore the contemporary potentials of reinvigorating classical issues relating to crowd theory, such as suggestion.
For link to my full research webpages, see www.cbs.dk/borch
Editor-in-chief of Distinktion: Scandinavian Journal of Social Theory

Primary research areas

  • Architectural atmospheres
  • Sociology of crowds
  • Power and politics
  • Urban theory
  • Economic sociology
  • Theoretical criminology
  • Gabriel Tarde
  • Niklas Luhmann
  • Peter Sloterdijk
  • Michel Foucault

Administrative functions

PhD Coordinator, MPP


Selected publications

Articles
  • ‘Between Destructiveness and Vitalism: Simmel’s Sociology of Crowds’, Conserveries mémorielles 8, 2010, Special Issue on ‘Crowds, Events, Affects’.
  • 'Organizational Atmospheres: Foam, Affect and Architecture', Organization 17(2), 2010: 223–41.
  • 'Body to Body: On the Political Anatomy of Crowds', Sociological Theory 27(3), 2009: 271–90.
  • 'Schaum-Organisationen: Über das Management von Atmosphären', pp. 375–87 in Koenraad Hemelsoet, Marc Jongen, and Sjoerd van Tuinen (eds) Die Vermessung des Ungeheuren. Philosophie nach Peter Sloterdijk. Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2009.
  • 'The Mobile Parliament: Taking Regional Matters of Concern Seriously', Distinktion 18, 2009: 69–86 (with Uffe Lind).
  • 'Einleitung: Tardes Soziologie der Nachahmung und des Begehrens', pp. 7–38 in Christian Borch & Urs Stäheli (eds) Soziologie der Nachahmung und des Begehrens. Materialien zu Gabriel Tarde. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2009 (with Urs Stäheli).
  • 'Foam architecture: managing co-isolated associations', Economy and Society 37(4), 2008: 548–71.
  • ‘Modern mass aberration: Hermann Broch and the problem of irrationality’, History of the Human Sciences 21(2), 2008: 63–83.
  • ‘Market Crowds between Imitation and Control’, Theory, Culture & Society 24(7–8), 2007: 164–80 (with Jakob Arnoldi).
  • ‘Crowds and economic life: bringing an old figure back in’, Economy and Society 36(4), 2007: 549–73.
  • ‘Crowds and Total Democracy: Hermann Broch’s Political Theory’, Distinktion 13, 2006: 99–120.
  • ‘The Exclusion of the Crowd: The Destiny of a Sociological Figure of the Irrational’, European Journal of Social Theory 9(1), 2006: 83–102.
  • ‘Crowds and Pathos: Theodor Geiger on Revolutionary Action’, Acta Sociologica 49(1), 2006: 5–18.
  • ‘Crime Prevention as Totalitarian Biopolitics’, Journal of Scandinavian Studies in Criminology and Crime Prevention 6(2), 2005: 91–105.
  • ‘Urban Imitations: Tarde’s Sociology Revisited’, Theory, Culture & Society 22(3), 2005: 81–100. [Turkish translation in tesmeralsekdiz 03, 2008 ; German translation: 'Urbane Nachahmung', pp. 342–71 in Christian Borch & Urs Stäheli (eds) Soziologie der Nachahmung und des Begehrens. Materialien zu Gabriel Tarde. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag].
  • ‘Systemic Power. Luhmann, Foucault, and Analytics of Power’, Acta Sociologica, 48(2), 2005: 155–67.
  • 'Zur Kritik der Sanktionen', kultuRRevolution. Zeitschrift für angewandte Diskurstheorie 47, 2004: 20–25.
Books
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Full publication list (pdf)



Last updated by Anje Schmidt 19/05/2011