Janet Burch MA
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Janet Burch MA
Office: 108
Kasernenplatz 3
6003 Luzern
Phone: 041 229 56 80
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Janet Burch MA (née 1983) graduated in Sociology at the University of Lucerne with a minor in law (Lucerne) and Economic Geography (Zurich). She finished her undergraduate studies with a Bachelor’s thesis about the “Distinction of centre / periphery using the example of the Inca Empire”.
She took the study program “Global Society and Global Governance” and was a scientific undergraduate assistant of Prof. Dr. Cornelia Bohn. Her Master’s thesis “Forms of economic practices in Lima, Peru: Discourse of corruption and informality” was awarded with the prize of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Lucerne. The aforementioned thesis is the starting point of the ongoing Ph.D. project. Since august 2009 she is an assistant of Prof. Dr. Rudolf Stichweh. Furthermore, she works as a review editor of the journal “Soziale Systeme”.
Main research:
Theory and empiricism of differentiation, world society, themes of inclusion and exclusion as well as network theory
Publications
Journal Articles
2010. „Das Inkareich als Zentrum / Peripherie-Gesellschaft“, in: Soziale Systeme. Zeitschrift für soziologische Theorie, Jg. 16, Heft 1. 75-102.
Talks
Globalización e informalidad. Prácticas económicas en Lima Metropolitana. Talk at the "Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú" in Lima, Peru, 18th of August, 2011.
Globalización e informalidad. Prácticas económicas en Lima Metropolitana. Talk at the "Instituto de Estudios Peruanos" in Lima, Peru, 14th of July, 2011.
Forms of economic Practices in Lima, Peru. Talk at the Conference “Variants of Differentiation in the Regions of World Society” in Luzern, Switzerland, from the 10th to the 11th of June 2011.
