Mortier

Wissenschaftlicher Werdegang

10/2015 - 03/2018
Kollegiatin im Graduiertenkolleg "Materialität und Produktion"
seit 10/2014
Mitglied der philGRAD, Graduiertenakademie der Philosophischen Fakultät
seit 04/2014
Doktorandin im Fach Romanistik an der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
seit 04/2013
Selbstständige Dozentin Erwachsenenbildung spanische Sprache / Kultur
11/2013 - 05/2015
Werkstudentin im Online-Unternehmen Knippos.com in den Bereichen Marketing, Kundenservice und Logistik
09/2012 - 11/2013
Studium zum Master of Science in Business & Management an der Plymouth University (GB) in Kooperation mit der Fontys Internationale Hogeschool Economie (NL)
09/2010 - 03/2011
ERASMUS-Stipendium für ein Auslandsstudium an der Universidad de Alicante (SP)
10/2008 - 08/2012
Studium zum Bachelor of Arts in Romanistik und Geschichte an der Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf

Abstract des Dissertationsprojektes

Materiality and productivity in Cuban entrepreneurship
The dissertation project aims to analyse the Cuban entrepreneurial culture in 2016, five years after the implementation of President Raúl Castro's socio-economic reforms, by emphasising the role of material culture and cultural hybridisation. In contrast to most of the work done on entrepreneurship in Cuba, the analysis will not solely work with methods and theories from the economic, social or political science (e.g. Feinberg 2013; Ritter and Henken 2015), but will extend those with concepts of the cultural sciences such as materiality (e.g. Hahn 2014) and hybridity (e.g. García Canclini 1989, Bhabha 1994, 2012). The latter will allow to elaborate theories and methods out of the specific context instead of imposing Western models and theories. Furthermore, it will allow to make the emergence of cultural processes of production observable which are stimulated by the Cuban third space opening up where socialism and capitalism meet. The benefit of this project is thus to demonstrate how the implementation of interdisciplinary methods, especially from the cultural sciences, can help to observe and assess international economic developments without imposing Western value systems and thereby making economic concepts more productive. In order to keep the ability to be led by the process of researching and not by expected findings, the estimated results are kept quite open. It is expected that Cuban entrepreneurship is characterised by and benefits from Cuban practice of cultural hybridisation, which in turn is produced and represented in Cuban practices of entrepreneurial behaviour and its resulting products. The chosen laboratories are the Cuban paladares of Havana which belong to the oldest and "most lucrative, dynamic, and sizeable examples of private enterprise" (Ritter and Henken 2015: 249) while being not simply places to eat, but "creative imaginings of Cuba's history and culture" (Feinberg 2013: 15). Paladares are in this research interpreted as the products of a specific Cuban cultural, social, historical and political process, materialising itself through the practice of entrepreneurship.

Kontakt
deborah.mortier(at)hhu.de