Lic. Maria Amancay Jenny
University assistant (PhD student)
University of Salzburg, Department of Educational Science, Working Group Social Pedagogy Erzabt-Klotz-Str. 1, Room 2.251, 2nd floor, 5020 Salzburg
Tel.: +43 (0) 662 / 8044-4238
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Consultation hours: Thursday 11am-12pm or by appointment. Registration by e-mail is absolutely necessary.
Short CV
Amancay Jenny has been concerned with fundamental questions about social inequality and how it can be addressed since the beginning of her studies. Intersectional and transnational perspectives play a particularly important role in her search for answers that will enable everyone to live together in solidarity and justice. Amancay Jenny is a university assistant and doctoral candidate at the Department of Education at Paris Lodron University. She studied special needs education at the Universidad de Sevilla (Spain) and subsequently worked in educational practice in Spain. In Austria, she studied pedagogy and educational science at the Paris Lodron University in Salzburg, specialising in social pedagogy, gender and migration. During her studies, she worked as a tutor and study assistant in the Social Pedagogy working group and was also involved in various research projects as a research assistant. In addition to her academic work, Amancay Jenny also has professional experience in schools, in teacher training and in voluntary association and community work. Amancay Jenny is a representative for Family, Gender, Disability & Diversity at the Department of Education.
Main research areas
- Social inequalities – social justice
- Critical women’s and gender studies
- Social movements
- Migration and mobility
- Social pedagogy
- Qualitative methods
Research projects
- Dissertation project: ‘Forming Gangs – An Approach to Collectivisation Processes in Women’s* Movements’ (working title); main supervision: Prof. Dr Birgit Bütow; secondary supervision: Prof. Dr Susanne Maurer
- Participation in inpatient child and youth welfare in Salzburg (Duration: 05/2023 to 01/2024; Supervision: Prof. Dr Birgit Bütow; Funded by: Children and Youth Advocacy of the Province of Salzburg (kija))
- MENTORIAL – Mentors in a sponsorship project for ‘unaccompanied refugee minors’ in Austria. A biographical-reconstructive and processual perspective on adult volunteers (Duration: 12/2017 – 2020; Head: Ass.-Prof. Dr Eberhard Raithelhuber)
- Youth research in Austria (Duration: 11/2015 – 01/2016; Head: Prof. Dr Birgit Bütow; Funded by: Federal Ministry for Families and Youth)
- Scientific monitoring of the project ‘open.heart – families and sponsors for unaccompanied minor refugees’ (Duration: 08/2015 – 11/2017; Head: Ass.-Prof. Dr Eberhard Raithelhuber)
University teaching
- Methods of Qualitative Social Research (BA Pedagogy PLUS)
- BA Social Work (Bertha von Suttner Private University)
- Practice of Qualitative Social Research (BA Education PLUS)
- Socio-educational relationships (BA Education PLUS)
- Case-related field studies in the context of social-emotional development (teacher training programme, PH Salzburg)
Publications (selection)
- Jenny, M.A. & Lechner, T. (2024, forthcoming). The relational dimension in care relationships – Explorations of a pedagogy against cruelty. Yearbook of Educational Gender Studies, 20, n.p.
- Jenny, M.A. (2024, forthcoming). Review Rhodes, Jean E. (2020): Older and Wiser. New Ideas for Youth Mentoring in the 21st Century. Austrian Yearbook for Social Work, Vol.6, n.p.
- Holztrattner, M., Jenny, M.A., Penetsdorfer, A.M. & Bütow, B. (2022). Families in crisis? Between destabilisation, refamilialisation and retraditionalisation. In: N. Dimmel and G. Schweiger (Eds.), Children and adolescents in a pandemic society (pp. 141-158). Wiesbaden: Springer.
- Jenny, M.A. (2022). The pay for housework campaign – Silvia Federici. AEP Information, 1, 47 – 55.
- Jenny, M.A. (2021). Contradictions, ambivalences and eccentricities – Irene Stoehr. In: B. Buchinger, R. Böhm, E. Großmann (Eds.), Women fighters (pp. 155-173). Vienna: Mandelbaum.
- Jenny, M.A. (2020). ‘Wos a wichtig is eben, dass wer do is.’ – Perspectives of mentors on their mentoring relationship with young people with refugee experience. Unpublished Master’s thesis, University of Salzburg.
Lectures (selection)
- ‘Inclusion and exclusion in the context of social pedagogical research – a methodological and research ethical reflection’ with Dr Melanie Holztrattner. ÖFEB – Section Conference Social Pedagogy, 21-22 September 2023, University of Klagenfurt.Lecture.
- ‘…to find out how we, how maybe utopias that you have in your head, can work.’ An Approach to Collectivisation Processes in Social Movements Youth in Crisis.Austrian Youth Research, 22-26 June 2023, University of Innsbruck. Poster presentation.
- ‘Banden bilden – Kollektivierungsprozesse in Frauen*bewegungen’ Methodenworkshop Rekonstruktive Soziale Arbeit, 15-17 September 2022, ASH Berlin. Presentation of dissertation project.
- ‘Unravelling the Reconstructive Process in a Study on Relationships’ The making and doing of family in, through and with education and social work Trier University, 24.9.2021. Online lecture.
