Here you can find an overview of the 39 work packages being addressed in the current funding period of RISC (2024 – 2029).
For an overview of the 109 research projects that were implemented during the first funding period (2020 – 2024), please refer to our German website.
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B_07 - Solidarity Practices in Processes of Societal Transformation
While responses to (actual or perceived) marginalization are often characterized by withdrawal or regressive revolt (exit), this work package (WP), situated within Research Focus 2 of Research Area B, centers on solidarity practices within and alongside marginalized milieus. The core…
» View detailsD_01 - Culture Wars and Criticism of Moralism: Struggles over Values and Identities
06/2024 – 05/2029
This work package (WP) examines meaning structures and historical developments of conflicts over values, identities, and knowledge regimes in Germany and the transatlantic context, focusing on culture wars surrounding morality and the struggle against discrimination and oppression. It…
» View detailsD_02 - Transnational Ideological Transfer of the Populist and Extreme Right
06/2024 – 05/2029
This work package (WP) seeks to contribute to an understanding of the worldviews, images of others, and identity-based self-interpretations of the populist and extreme right. It undertakes a transnational analysis of the circulation of values, ideologies, and policies that are grounded in…
» View detailsD_03 - Racist West and Antisemitic Rest? Global Cohesion at the Tension between Postcolonial Critique and Critiques of Antisemitism
06/2024 – 05/2029
The relationship between postcolonial critique and critiques of antisemitism has long been marked by tension. In recent years, however, the two approaches appear increasingly irreconcilable. This is evident in memory-political controversies over the relationship between colonialism and…
» View detailsD_08 - Representation in Public Space: Inclusive and Diversity-Oriented Memory Culture in Museums
06/2024-05/2029
This work package (WP) explores the cultural dynamics of hegemony and counter-hegemonic practices by examining struggles over the representation of marginalized queer biographies within the museum as a site of memory culture. It investigates the reciprocal relationship between…
» View detailsD_10 - Migrant and Minority Conceptions of Social Cohesion: Transnational and Translocal Dimensions
06/2024-05/2029
This work package (WP) investigates which cohesion-relevant identities and imaginaries migrants and members of minority groups develop and how these shape their understandings and practices of social cohesion. Closely related to this are questions about the role of perceived and actual…
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