Hamburg Institute for Social Research

No justice for all! Green masculinity, extractivism, and global energy transitions

This article develops the concept of “green masculinity” as a socio-political order grounded in patriarchal structures that legitimizes car fetishism, large-scale technological control, extractive dominance, and violence against feminized bodies and territories as central strateg...

Trajectories and Prospects of Grand Theory in the Social Sciences

This essay introduces the special issue on “Trajectories and Prospects of Grand Theory in the Social Sciences.” It situates the question of “grand theory” in broader debates about the state of theory and highlights a number of distinctions that can aid sociological and historical...

Migration and tuberculosis transmission in Hamburg, Germany: insights from 25 years of molecular epidemiology

Abstract Background Tuberculosis (TB) epidemiology in low-incidence settings is increasingly influenced by the importation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (Mtbc) strains from high-incidence regions. Globally, more virulent “generalist” lineages such as Lineage 2 (L2) and Li...