Paul Polivka is a pre-doctoral fellow at the Collaborative Research Center “Structural Change of Property”. He studied geography (B.Sc.) at the University of Freiburg and the University of Vienna, as well as social science sustainability research (M.A.) at the University of Würzburg. In his doctoral research, he will examine the role of experiential knowledge in democratic processes of understanding within socio-ecological transformation conflicts. He is particularly interested in the dynamics of interaction between people of different class positions and the related issues of epistemic inequality in deliberative processes.
Main areas of interest: democratic theory and participation, political sociology, socio-ecological transformation, class analysis, resonance theory
