Paula Diehl

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Paula Diehl (born in 1970 in Porto Alegre, Brazil) is a political and communications scientist and teaches political theory, history and culture at the University of Bielefeld. In 2002 she gained her doctorate from the Humboldt University in Berlin with her thesis on Power – Myth – Utopia. The Body Images of the SS Men (1933–1938). In 2013 she wrote her habilitation thesis on The Political Representative and the ‘Vacant Locus of Power’ Diehl has been a visiting professor at Sciences Po in Paris, at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Bologna and at the University of Pennsylvania in the USA and at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris.

Publications (a selection):
Das Symbolische, das Imaginäre und die Demokratie. Eine Theorie politischer Repräsentation. Nomos Verlag 2015
‘Populismus und Massenmedien’. In Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung, 5-6/2012 (16-22)
Inszenierungen der Politik. Der Körper als Medium (ed. with Gertrud Koch). Fink 2007
Macht – Mythos – Utopie. Die Körperbilder der SS-Männer (= Politische Ideen. Vol. 17). Akademie-Verlag 2005