Antje Scharenberg

Antje is a social movement scholar, ethnographer and International Postdoctoral Fellow at the Chair of Media and Culture at the University of St. Gallen. Her research focusses on transnational social movements and maritime civil society in Europe, investigating what it means to act politically beyond and outside of the nation-state in times of border-crossing challenges relating to migration, environmental issues and digital capitalism.

Antje studies transnational resistance in different contexts. In the Human Error project, her particular focus is on how civil society actors build collective agency in the face of ever more present algorithmic decision making as well as questions regarding data justice, data feminism and the transnational alliances of civil society. In her current position as International Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of St Gallen, Antje also investigates ocean activism and what it means to act politically at sea, with a particular focus on civil sea rescue in the Mediterranean and marine environmental activism the European Atlantic.