Dr. Ina Kuhn

University of Freiburg
Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography of Everyday Life

Member of the Young Academy for Cultures and Societies Research
October 2025 – September 2028

Last Update: 22.10.2025

Curriculum Vitae

Ina Kuhn has been working as a research assistant at the Institute of Cultural Analysis / European Ethnology since 2017. From 2020 to 2024, she was a research assistant in the DFG-research project “Living or Surviving the Future?”, in which she conducted empirical research on current ideas of the good life and future practices at utopian festivals in Germany. She published the results with her dissertation on “Laboratories of the Good Life”. In October 2025, her DFG-funded postdoc project “Sober Everyday Lives” , in which she ethnographically examines how people with addiction experience navigate abstinence in an alcohol-affine everyday culture in Germany.

Selected Publications

Kuhn, Ina (2026). Sober Situations. An Autoethnographic Excursion through Abstinent Everyday Life in Germany. In: Parsons, Alastair (ed.). Anthropology of Addiction. London. [accepted for publication]
Kuhn, Ina (2025). Nüchternheit. Zum Nicht-Trinken als Alltagspraxis und Gegenwartsphänomen, Zeitschrift für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft (121), 181–203. doi: 10.31244/zekw/2025/02.03
Kuhn, Ina (2023). Der tauschlogikfreie Geldtopf. Ethnographische Einblicke in alternativ-ökonomische Zukunftspraktiken auf Utopie-Festivals In: Kühn, Cornelia (Hg.). Gemeinwohlorientiert – Ökologisch – Sozial? Aushandlungen um alternative Wirtschaftspraktiken in der Zivilgesellschaft (191–209). Wiesbaden. doi: 10.1007/978-3-658-38503-3_10

Dr. Ina Kuhn

Curriculum Vitae

Selected Publications

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