Staff Profile

My research is about knowledge-production and policy-making in the area of post-immigrant integration and citizenship. I am interested in the interaction between state regulation and disruptive agency, the politics of crisis and the circulation of far-right ideas.

Before joining Newcastle, I held fellowships at the European University Institute and at the Centre for Ethnicity and Citizenship, University of Bristol, and taught political sociology at the University of Lincoln.

Degree Programme Director, UG Sociology

2024/25: SOC2087 Identity and Difference in Multicultural Britain

• Articles

  • Dobbernack J. Making the "left behind" as a subject of crisis. The Sociological Review 2024, 72(2), 258-275.
  • Dobbernack J. Civic Inclusion for Permanent Minorities: Thinking through the Politics of "Ghetto" and "Separatism" Laws. Ethnic and Racial Studies 2022, 45(16), 568-590.
  • Dobbernack J. Making a presence: Images of polity and constituency in British Muslim representative politics. Ethnicities 2019, 19(2), 292-310.
  • Dobbernack J. The missing politics of muscular liberalism. Identities 2018, 25(4), 377-396.
  • Dobbernack J. Zivilisation und Politik. Positionen in der Beschneidungsdebatte [Civilisation and Politics. Positions in the debate on male circumcision]. Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen 2016, 29(2), 34-43.
  • Brown W, Dobbernack J, Modood T, Newey G, March AF, Tønder L, Forst R. What is important in theorizing tolerance today?. Contemporary Political Theory 2015, 14(2), 159-196.
  • Dobbernack J, Meer N, Modood T. Misrecognition and Political Agency. The Case of Muslim Organisations in a General Election. British Journal of Politics and International Relations 2015, 17(2), 189-206.

• Authored Books

  • Dobbernack J. The Politics of Social Cohesion in Germany, France and the United Kingdom. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2014.
  • Dobbernack J, Modood T. Tolerance, Intolerance and Respect: Hard to Accept?. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

• Report

  • Dobbernack J. Citizenship, Nationality and Immigration in Germany. Ottawa: Global Centre for Pluralism, 2017.