Historian of early 20th-c. administrative paperwork, information & labour; Nazi Germany; quantification
Mayer,J.F. and Staudacher,A. (2014): Unterhaltungsmedien und die Bologna-Hochschulreform: Eine filmisch-narrative Diskursanalyse, in: Diskursforschung. Ein interdisziplinäres Handbuch, Johannes Angermüller, Martin Nonhoff et al (Eds.), transcript, Bielefeld, pp.245-273.
Mayer, J.F. (2015), Measuring the Uncountable? The Curious Career of Paul Flaskämper, in: Viewpoint. Magazine of the British Society for the History of Science 107,7.
Mayer, J. F. (2012) "Ideological Competition in Economics: Economists and Economic Discourses in (West-) Germany and France 1950-2007", see here (with P. Schaefer)
Mayer,J.F.(2009) "Menschen–Zahlen–Transformationen: Verdatung des Organischen" see here.
Mayer,J.F.(2009) "Engineering Society. The Scientisation of the Social in Comparative
Perspective 1880-1990", GHI Washington Bulletin 44, Spring 2009: 130-136;
See also GHI London Bulletin Vol. XXXI, No. 1, May 2009: 120-126.
Mayer,J.F.(2009) "Diskursanalyse meets Gouvernementalitätsforschung. Methodisch- Methodologische Perspektiven zum Verhältnis von Subjekt, Sprache und Wissen" see here
Mayer, J.F. (2018). Sigrid Wadauer, Thomas Buchner, Alexander Mejstrik (Eds.), The History of Labour Intermediation. Institutions and Finding Employment in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, in: www.hsozkult.de
Mayer, J.F. (2017), Wolfgang Göderle, Zensus und Ethnizität. Zur Herstellung von Wissen über soziale Wirklichkeiten im Habsburgerreich zwischen 1848 und 1910, in: www.hsozkult.de
Mayer, J.F. (2014), Michael C Schneider, "Wissensproduktion im Staat. Das Königlich Preußische Statistische Bureau 1860-1914, in: www.hsozkult.de
Mayer, J.F. (2014), Tom Crook and Glen O'Hara (Eds.) "Statistics and the Public Sphere. Numbers and the People in Modern Britain, c.1800-2000", in: The English Historical Review, 129 (540): 1228-1231.
Mayer, J.F. (2014), Jean-Guy Prévost and Jean-Pierre Beaud, "Statistics, Public Debate and the State, 1800–1945. A Social, Political and Intellectual History of Numbers", in: Cultural History 3(1): 93-5.
Mayer,J.F.(2011),P. Meusburger, D. Livingstone, H. Jöns, "Geographies of Science (Knowledge and Space)" in: Journal of Historical Geography 37(2): 245-6 (with Luise Fischer).
Mayer,J.F. (2012): The State and Spaces of Official Labour Statistics in the Federal Republic of Germany, c. 1950-1973, PhD thesis, University of Edinburgh, 504pp.
Mayer, J.F. (2004): La Gouvernmentalité des Residences Fermées: Les Effets d'un Mouvement Sécuritaire à Toulouse, Mémoire, IEP Toulouse, 96pp.
'The Same but not the Same': The Discursive Constitution of Large Housing Estates in Germany, France and Poland, by, Glasze, Pütz Germes, Schirmel, and Brailich, (from German), published in Urban Geography (2012), 33 Number 8, pp.1192-1211 (with P. Kirkness).
The Emergence of Territory/Die Entstehung von Territorium, by Stuart Elden, Erlangen Working Papers on Cultural Geography, 2011, 1, pp. 1-11 (translated from English into German), see here (with Luise Fischer).