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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D_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_04 - Youth as a Generation of Crisis? Socialization in Conflict and Transformation
06/2024-05/2029
This work package (WP) develops both a foundational and a knowledge-transfer-oriented profile for the relationship between youth and social cohesion. Within Priority Area 2, it identifies key socialization dynamics in the youth-cultural production and reproduction of social cohesion. It…
» View detailsD_06 - Transformation of the Societal Order of Deliberation
06/2024 – 05/2029
The aim of this work package (WP) is to contribute theoretical and conceptual groundwork that helps address the guiding questions of Research Area D concerning the foundations and conditions of societal debates over knowledge, values, and identities. Using the concept of a “deliberative…
» View detailsD_07 - Prototypes of Social Cohesion
Digital platforms and social media are typically perceived as problematic when it comes to questions of social cohesion. Facebook, X/Twitter, and TikTok are associated with radicalization and hate speech and are therefore considered a threat; platforms such as Airbnb, Deliveroo, and Uber…
» 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_09 - Allyship: Solidary Engagement, Identity, and Social Cohesion
06/2024 – 05/2029
Democratic societies are characterized by ongoing processes of negotiation over interpretive authority, normative frameworks, identities, and participation, which require continual reconfigurations of collective action. As a specific practice of such action, this work package (WP) offers…
» 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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