Felizitas Juen

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Junior Researcher

Department for Educational Sciences

PH Zurich
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8090 Zurich

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Felizitas Juen is currently working as a team member of the Doctoral Programme «Educational research in the professional field (BiB)». She is a member of the organizing committee for the final conference of the project Parental Engagement in the Context of Educational Childhoods: Formation and Negotiation Strategies in Families with a Migration Background (ELEN) | PHZH.

From 2022 to 2025, she was a PhD researcher in the SNF-funded research project Negotiating naturechildhoods. A Common Worlds Ethnography in Swiss Kindergartens of the Anthropocene, exploring more-than-human-relations in Swiss kindergartens. Currently, she is engaged in the process of writing her doctoral thesis from this project with the working title “Unraveling NatureChildhoods with Young Humans and More-than-humans: Entangled Ethnographic Explorations based on Karen Barad’s Agential Realism” under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Ina Dietzsch in the Department of Empirical Cultural Studies at the University of Marburg.

Felizitas Juen graduated from the Zurich University of Teacher Education in 2008 (B.A. Pre-Primary Education) and worked as a kindergarten teacher in Switzerland for nine years.

From 2017 to 2020, she studied Empirical Cultural Studies and Sociology in Freiburg im Breisgau, with a Bachelor’s thesis on non-human and human agency in atmospheres of a Freiburg apartment building.

During her subsequent Master’s degree in Empirical Cultural Studies, her Master’s thesis in 2023 investigated clothing in the forest kindergarten, which interwove parenting, childhood and clothing research.

Focus on research, teaching, services

Inspired by Science and Technology Studies and Feminist Theories, she is interested in human-nonhuman relations (ANT, New Materialism) regarding objects, environments and animals from an empirical cultural studies perspective. She examines power relations, negotiations and ruptures from an ethnographic perspective.

Teaching: Summer Term 2025, University Marburg, Institut für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft, Block course “HumAnimal – Exploring Multispecies Relations through Posthumanist Perspectives”

Publications

  • Juen, Felizitas/Rissler, Georg (2025)Multiple Vulnerabilisierungen in multispecies-Welten. Überlegungen zu relationalen Verletzlichkeiten aus der qualitativen Kindheitsforschung – Multiple Vulnerabilities in Multispecies Worlds: Reflections on Relational Vulnerabilities from Qualitative Childhood Research. Zeitschrift für Qualitative Forschung, 25(2), 205–216. Fritzsche, Bettina/Rosen, Lisa/Khakpour, Natascha (Hrsg.): Verstrickungen und Verletzbarkeiten: (Macht-)Asymmetrien in Forschungsbeziehungen als Herausforderung qualitativer Ungleichheitsforschung.

  • Juen, Felizitas (2021)Strafe als gemeinsame Handlung? Eine andere Perspektive auf elterliche Strafe. In: Sieferle, Barbara (Hg.): Strafen. Kulturanthropologische Perspektiven (= Freiburger Studien zur Kulturanthropologie, 5). Münster 2021, S. 118–130.

    Projects

    Teaching (training)

    Heterogeneity in a migration society (BE.P120)

    Further information

    Education and Social Sciences

    • Member of the Zurich Reconstructive Research Group
    • Representative of doctoral students at PH Zurich; University development project WeDo (further development of doctoral studies)
    • Member of SIEF (International Society for Ethnology and Folklore)
    • Member of EKWS (Swiss Society for Empirical Cultural Studies)
    • Member of DGEKW (German Society for Empirical Cultural Studies) and the Commission on Human-Environmental Relations
    • Member of SGBF (Swiss Society for Educational Research)
    • Member of 4S (Society for Social Studies of Science)
    • Ensa First Responder for Mental Health, Pro Mente Sana Foundation

    • Resource Management throughout the Doctoral Process. 28. Mai 2026

      DEEP PhD+ Network Meeting.

      Deep Consortium

      • Projekt-, Zeit- und Ressourcenmanagement in der Promotion. 11. März 2026

        BiB-PhD-Kolloquium.

        PH Zürich

        • Climbing Muddy Hills: Methodological Challenges of Early Childhood Ethnography in More-Than-Human Entanglements. 9. September 2025

          Oxford Ethnography and Education Conference.

          Oxford

        • «Dass sie bei mir … ja, eine andere Welt gezeigt bekommen» – Überlegungen zu Responseability in ethnographischer Forschung. 22. Mai 2025

          Vernetzungstagung der SGBF-AG Bildung in gesellschaftlichen Macht- und Ungleichheitsverhältnissen BGMU. «Wissensproduktion zu/in Macht- und Ungleichheitsverhältnissen».

          PH FHNW, Muttenz

        • Unravelling disciplinary boundaries and NatureChildhoods in intra-actions. 7. Mai 2025

          Adventures in Posthumanism Online Doctoral Conference «De/Colonising Disciplinary Practices».

          Institute of Education, Plymouth University

          • Masterclass with Karen Barad. 4. April 2025

            Participant; Masterclass by Karen River Barad on «Telling the Truth: Thinking Objectivity as Questions of Justice».

            Center for Gender Studies, Universität Basel

          • Emerging vulnerabilities in human–non-human encounters: Playing golf with slugs​. Mit Georg Rissler. 10. September 2024

            Kongress der SGS/SSA «Vulnerable Gesellschaften: Risiken und Reaktionen»

            FHNW Basel/Muttenz

          • Entangled Approaches in Educational Fields​: ​ Ethnographic Research with Young Humans and More-than-humans in Times of Uncertainty. 27. August 2024

            ECER «Education in an Age of Uncertainty: Memory and hope for the future».

            University of Cyprus, Nicosia

          • New Materialism, Young Humans, and More-than-Humans: Ethnographic Perspectives on Intraactions in Early Childhood Education. 16. Juli 2024

            European Association for the Study of Science and Technology EASST and the Society for Social Studies of Science 4S Conference «Making and doing transformations».

            Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

            • Interdisziplinarität: Oberflächlicher Trend oder Antwort auf komplexe Realitäten? 6. Juli 2024

              18. Doktorand:innentagung der DGEKW.

              Universität Vechta

            • Ethnographisches Schreiben und Repräsentation posthumanistisch: Dezentriert(e)-Verwoben(heit) schreiben und Multispezies-Repräsentation. Mit Georg Rissler. 27. Juni 2024

              8. Internationale Erziehungswissenschaftliche Ethnographie-Konferenz «Re-Writing (against) Culture».

              PH Zürich

              • CommonWorlding und die Erzeugung von Öffentlichkeiten im Kindergarten des Anthropozäns: ein posthumanistisch-neumaterialistisch-kindheitstheoretischer Ansatz. 19. April 2024

                «Kindheitsforschung und ihre Öffentlichkeiten»: Jahrestagung der Sektion Soziologie der Kindheit in der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie.

                Leuphana Universität Lüneburg

              • «The Child and the Gap»: Soziomaterielle Perspektiven auf More-than-Human-Kindheiten. 17. April 2024

                Pre-Konferenz «Let’s fill the gap! Neues für die Kindheitsforschung» des Netzwerks sozialwissenschaftliche Kinder- und Kindheitsforschung.

                Leuphana Universität Lüneburg

              • Vorstellung des Dissertationsvorhabens im Rahmen des SNF-Projekts «NaturenKindheiten in Verhandlung: Eine Ethnographie von Umwelt- und Naturbeziehungen im Kindergarten des Anthropozäns». 28. November 2023

                Forum Promotion.

                PH Zürich

                • Relational Fields and Field Relations: Entanglements in the Process of Common Worlding. Mit Georg Rissler. 22. August 2023

                  ECER «The Value of Diversity in Education and Educational Research».

                  University of Glasgow

                • Negotiating Nature Childhoods. A Common Worlds Ethnography in Swiss Kindergartens. Mit Georg Rissler & Felizitas Juen. 28. Juni 2023

                  SGBF-Kongress 2023 «Zeiten des Umbruchs? Bildung zwischen Persistenz und Wandel».

                  PH Zürich