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Katharina Crepaz

Senior Researcher
Center for Autonomy Experience

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Interessi di ricerca:

genere, diversità e intersezionalità
gender, diversità e salute
minoranze e protezione delle minoranze
migrazione e migration policy, "vecchie" e "nuove" minoranze
determinanti sociali della salute; disuguaglianze nella salute
inclusione e partecpazione di persone marginalizzate (minoranze, persone con background migratorio, persone con disabilità)

Short CV:

PD Katharina Crepaz PhD è senior researcher presso il Center for Autonomy Experience, Eurac Research. Ha conseguito due lauree Mag. Phil. (M.A.) in Scienze politiche e Studi inglesi e americani e una laurea in Studi scandinavi presso le Università di Innsbruck e Vienna, in Austria. Nel 2015 ha conseguito il dottorato di ricerca in Scienze politiche presso l'Università di Innsbruck. Nel 2020 ha ottenuto l'abilitazione scientifica presso l'Università Tecnica di Monaco di Baviera e ha ottenuto la venia legendi (capacità di insegnamento) in Scienze della salute con particolare attenzione alla governance delle diversità. In qualità di Privatdozentin (docente con abilitazione) insegna ancora alla TUM, principalmente su genere e diversità e sulle determinanti sociali della salute. A dicembre 2022 le è stato conferito il premio per l'abilitazione scientifica del Freunde der TUM e.V.

Katharina Crepaz lavora all'Eurac da marzo 2020, prima come membro dell'Istituto sui diritti delle minoranze, da ottobre 2022 fino a aprile 2023 al Center for Advanced Studies, e da maggio 2023 al Center for Autonomy Experience. Prima di arrivare a Bolzano, è stata ricercatrice post-dottorato presso il Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy (Fellow-Group: "Dis[cover]ability and Indicators for Inclusion" e presso la cattedra di Sociologia della diversità dell'Università Tecnica di Monaco, Germania, dal 2015 al 2020. Dal 2016 al 2019 è stata anche docente esterna presso l'Istituto di scienze politiche dell'Università di Innsbruck, Austria.

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https://katharinacrepaz.com/ - Personal Website (full CV, publications, teaching, blog)

https://www.linkedin.com/in/katharinacrepaz/ - LinkedIn Profile

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1033-0823 - ORCID

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Z-_jkmQAAAAJ&hl=en - Google Scholar

Scientific Publications

Edited book2026

Pandemie als transversale Krise: Rückblick und Konsequenzen für die Post-Covid-Gesellschaft

Crepaz K, Kircher C, Pechlaner H

Harald Pechlaner, Katharina Crepaz, Christoph Kircher

ISBN: 978-3-8376-7339-5

Welche gesellschaftlichen Auswirkungen hatte die Covid-19-Pandemie? Die Beiträger*innen aus Gesundheits-, Politik- und Medienwissenschaft sowie Soziologie und Pädagogik betrachten die Ausnahmesituation aus interdisziplinärer Perspektive und zeichnen ein facettenreiches Bild. Covid-19 erweist sich dabei nicht nur als Katalysator bestehender Krisendynamiken, sondern auch als Beleg für die Multidimensionalität gesellschaftlicher Krisen. Besonders im Fokus steht die krisenhafte Nähe heterogener Gesellschaftsbereiche, die einen fundierten Einblick in die Transversalität und Interdependenz zeitgenössischer Krisen zulässt – auch über den akademischen Tellerrand hinaus.

Fonte

Inbook2026

Entwertet, aber unentbehrlich: Feministische Perspektiven auf Care-Arbeit und Männlichkeitsbilder im Kapitalismus

Crepaz K

Katharina Crepaz

This essay explores the structural devaluation of care work within capitalist societies through an intersectional feminist lens, highlighting its continued association with women and its marginalization both economically and socially. Despite its foundational role in social reproduction, care labor remains underpaid, invisible, and outsourced – often to women from economically disadvantaged backgrounds. Drawing on feminist theorists such as Federici, Fraser, and Tronto, the essay frames care not merely as private labor but as a political and societal necessity. It further examines how caring masculinities challenge hegemonic male norms and open paths toward a more equitable distribution of care responsibilities. The essay argues for systemic change through reduced working hours, gender‑transformative policies, and a cultural shift in the perception of masculinity. Ultimately, care is envisioned as a transformative principle for building a more just, democratic, and sustainable society.

DOI

DOI: 10.5771/9783495991589-121

Edited book2026

Frauen-, Geschlechter- und Queer-Geschichte: Internationale Perspektiven und lokale Verortung

Crepaz K, Prackwieser J

Josef Prackwieser, Katharina Crepaz

ISBN: 978-3-8376-7496-5

Wie werden Gender- und Queer-History-Projekte im lokalen Kontext und im kleinstädtischen Raum umgesetzt? Die Beiträger*innen widmen sich anhand des Fallbeispiels Südtirol der Frauen-, Geschlechter- und Queer-Geschichte in Minderheitengebieten. Südtirol repräsentiert einen Kontext intersektionaler Diversität, in dem verschiedene Arten von Minderheiten (z.B. hinsichtlich ihrer sexuellen Orientierung, ihrer Geschlechtsidentität oder ihres Migrationshintergrundes) aufeinandertreffen. Aus den Forschungsergebnissen lassen sich nicht nur neue theoretische Aspekte für die Gender Studies gewinnen, sondern auch praktische Implikationen für das Leben in einer Gesellschaft, die von multipler Diversität geprägt ist.

DOI Fonte

DOI: 10.14361/9783839474969

Inbook2025

Diversität und Gesundheit - Digitalisierungsprozesse als Herausforderung und Chance

Crepaz K

Katharina Crepaz

DOI Fonte

DOI: 10.25162/9783515135528

Inbook2025

Intersectionality, Artificial Intelligence and Algorithmic Fairness: An Oxymoron or a Reality?

Medda-Windischer R, Crepaz K

Roberta Medda-Windischer, Katharina Crepaz

Progetto: EDIS - Vecchie e nuove minoranze

This chapter discusses the growing importance of artificial intelligence (AI) systems across different areas of human life, and subsequent concerns about these new technologies exhibiting biased or even discriminatory behaviour, especially in contexts where multiple dimensions of diversity, such as gender, colour, religion or ethnicity, overlap. Using Kimberlé Crenshaw's (1989) concept of intersectionality as our main framework and adding perspectives from current legal and social science discourses, we argue that discriminatory AI is a human-made problem and can therefore only be tackled through a human-centred approach. This approach includes discussing protected attributes and their (in)stability, vulnerability, and essentialist versus non-essentialist attribution of group identity, as well as focusing on human-made inequalities and power imbalances, with a special attention to minority women, as the source for biased AI systems. AI models are biased and discriminatory because our society structures are as well; solutions only addressing technological challenges therefore fall short of tackling the underlying issue of inequalities. The chapter analyses the EU AI Act and the European Centre for Algorithmic Transparency as possible strategies for mitigating discriminatory effects through AI governance and conclude that successfully creating fair AI will not be possible without addressing the societal roots of its discriminatory behaviour.

DOI Fonte

DOI: 10.4324/9781003510161-13

Edited book2024

Gender Report Südtirol

Tomaselli A, Crepaz K, Gruber M

Alexandra Tomaselli, Katharina Crepaz, Mirjam Gruber

Der Gender Report soll auf der Grundlage wissenschaftlicher Erkenntnisse einen Überblick darüber geben, wie die verschiedenen Aspekte und Dynamiken von Gender bisher in Südtirol behandelt wurden, und gleichzeitig Anregungen für Reflexion und innovative Perspektiven bieten. Der Bericht soll als Instrument zur Verbreitung und Sensibilisierung zu diesem wichtigen Themas dienen, indem er nicht nur eine Momentaufnahme liefert, wie Gender das Leben in Südtirol beeinflusst, sondern auch das lokale entwickelte Wissen festigt und über Erfahrungen und bewährte Praktiken aus anderen Kontexten reflektiert. Darüber hinaus bietet er eine Einführung in die aktuellen Diskussionen über Gender-Konzepte und -Dynamiken auf internationaler und lokaler Ebene und zeigt mögliche Lücken auf, die es in Zukunft zu schließen gilt.

DOI Fonte

DOI: 10.57749/EEH8-3F92

Inbook2024

The European Citizen's Initiative (ECI): Bottom-up participation through social movements – lessons learned and ways forward for the Minority Safepack initiative

Crepaz K

Katharina Crepaz

From its official launch in 2012, the Minority Safepack initiative has always been a somewhat-troubled project. It was first refused registration by the European Commission in 2013, a decision that the authors successfully appealed, leading to an annulment of the Commission decision in February 2017. A successful signature collection process followed, and an expert group drafted legal proposals in order to put the Initiative’s contents into practice. However, despite a positive evaluation on behalf of the European Parliament and its Resolution, in January 2021, the Commission concluded that “no additional legal act is necessary” to implement the initiative. The Commission’s decision was regarded as a blow to both minority and diversity representation as well as to citizen’s participation and direct democracy. The present chapter evaluates the European citizens’ initiative as an instrument to ensure political participation, with special focus on the reform process that the tool itself has undergone over the past few years to make it more inclusive and more accessible, and provides an overview of the most recent developments regarding the Minority Safepack (from submission of signatures to the Commission onwards). The chapter discusses whether the Minority Safepack can be considered a success for a Europeanized civil society regardless of its final outcome, and analyzes through a comparative look to other successful European citizens’ initiatives and their outcomes whether a follow-up to the proposals laid out by Minority Safepack might still be possible, even after the Commission’s rejection of the initiative.

DOI Fonte

DOI: 10.4324/9781003394280-13

Journal article2023

"Ich bin Viele" - (trans-)migrantische Identität als Kritik am Nationalstaat

Crepaz K, Roller K

Katharina Crepaz

DOI Fonte

DOI: 10.3224/zdfm.v8i1-2.09

Inbook2023

Soziale Innovation und transformative Befähigung im "Zeitalter der Krisen"

Crepaz K

Katharina Crepaz

Wir leben in einem neuen „Zeitalter der Krisen“: Die durch die Covid-19 Pandemie ausgelöste Gesundheits- und Gesellschaftskrise, die Klimakrise durch den menschen-gemachten Klimawandel, die Energiekrise, die uns unsere Abhängigkeit von autokratischen Regimen verdeutlicht, und seit dem Angriff auf die Ukraine auch wieder Krieg in Europa. Soziale Innovation, transformative Befähigung und Zukunftsbildung könnten Möglichkeiten darstellen, mit solchen multiplen Krisen umzugehen und partizipativ, bottom-up und inklusiv Lösungsansätze zu entwickeln. Krisen sind Transformationstreiber, und Soziale Innovation kann uns dabei helfen, von einem Reagieren auf externe Einflüsse zu einem Agieren im Sinne einer aktiven Gestaltung zu kommen. Dazu müssen Bürger*innen durch Rahmenbedingungen und eigenes Engagement befähigt werden. Im Umgang mit langfristigen Krisenszenarien kann der UNESCO-Ansatz der Zukünftebildung hilfreich sein, der mit seiner Idee einer „Demokratisierung der Zukünfte“ viele Ideen der Sozialen Innovation (lokale Verortung, Beteiligung aller Bürger*innen) widerspiegelt.

DOI

DOI: 10.13124/9788860461926_17

Journal article2022

Minorities and Health During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Health Inequalities and Discrimination

Crepaz K

Katharina Crepaz

When the Covid-19 pandemic first hit Europe in February 2020, solidarity was one of the most frequently invoked concepts. However, despite the narrative of everyone being a potential target for the virus, some groups, like minorities, were more susceptible to the virus. This can mainly be traced back to health inequalities, stemming from differences in social determinants of health: low socioeconomic status, crowded housing conditions that make social distancing impossible, employment in essential jobs with no remote working possibilities, and lack of access to health care, just to name the most prominent ones. In addition to health inequalities, minorities were also disproportionately affected by discrimination and racism, at the individual, group-related and systemic level. Addressing health inequalities, racism and discrimination is therefore the most important step in reducing minorities’ vulnerability to Covid-19 and constitutes both a foundation for societal cohesion as well as an important public health concept in the face of potential future pandemics.

DOI Fonte

DOI: 10.1163/22116117_006

Report2021

"Alte" und "neue" Minderheiten: Regionale Synergien, Unterschiede und Perspektiven

Crepaz, K

Katharina Crepaz

Progetto: MinMig - Accogliere la diversità linguistica, religiosa e culturale attraverso un'analisi comparata delle rivendicazioni delle minoranze e dei migranti (EDIS)

DOI

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5656755

Report2021

"Old" and "new" minorities: Regional synergies, differences and perspectives

Crepaz K

Katharina Crepaz

Progetto: MinMig - Accogliere la diversità linguistica, religiosa e culturale attraverso un'analisi comparata delle rivendicazioni delle minoranze e dei migranti (EDIS)

DOI Fonte

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5656645

Inbook2024

The European Citizen's Initiative (ECI): Bottom-up participation through social movements – lessons learned and ways forward for the Minority Safepack initiative

Crepaz K

Katharina Crepaz

DOI Fonte

DOI: 10.4324/9781003394280-13

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Scientific Publications

Pandemie als transversale Krise: Rückblick und Konsequenzen für die Post-Covid-Gesellschaft

Entwertet, aber unentbehrlich: Feministische Perspektiven auf Care-Arbeit und Männlichkeitsbilder im Kapitalismus

Frauen-, Geschlechter- und Queer-Geschichte: Internationale Perspektiven und lokale Verortung

Diversität und Gesundheit - Digitalisierungsprozesse als Herausforderung und Chance

Intersectionality, Artificial Intelligence and Algorithmic Fairness: An Oxymoron or a Reality?

Gender Report Südtirol

The European Citizen's Initiative (ECI): Bottom-up participation through social movements – lessons learned and ways forward for the Minority Safepack initiative

"Ich bin Viele" - (trans-)migrantische Identität als Kritik am Nationalstaat

Soziale Innovation und transformative Befähigung im "Zeitalter der Krisen"

Minorities and Health During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Health Inequalities and Discrimination

"Alte" und "neue" Minderheiten: Regionale Synergien, Unterschiede und Perspektiven

"Old" and "new" minorities: Regional synergies, differences and perspectives

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Scientific Publications

Pandemie als transversale Krise: Rückblick und Konsequenzen für die Post-Covid-Gesellschaft

Entwertet, aber unentbehrlich: Feministische Perspektiven auf Care-Arbeit und Männlichkeitsbilder im Kapitalismus

Frauen-, Geschlechter- und Queer-Geschichte: Internationale Perspektiven und lokale Verortung

Diversität und Gesundheit - Digitalisierungsprozesse als Herausforderung und Chance

Intersectionality, Artificial Intelligence and Algorithmic Fairness: An Oxymoron or a Reality?

Gender Report Südtirol

The European Citizen's Initiative (ECI): Bottom-up participation through social movements – lessons learned and ways forward for the Minority Safepack initiative

"Ich bin Viele" - (trans-)migrantische Identität als Kritik am Nationalstaat

Soziale Innovation und transformative Befähigung im "Zeitalter der Krisen"

Minorities and Health During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Health Inequalities and Discrimination

"Alte" und "neue" Minderheiten: Regionale Synergien, Unterschiede und Perspektiven

"Old" and "new" minorities: Regional synergies, differences and perspectives

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