Research at the Chair of Comparative Cultural Studies and Qualitative Research (Sociology)
At present, the Chair is conducting several research projects on how - under the conditions of global mobility and migration - (national, cultural, ethnic) affiliations and marked differences are negotiated in inter- and intracultural contexts.
A second focus is the empirical analysis of migration and/or media-related transformation processes in society, and their methodological reflection.
Research at the Chair of Comparative Cultural Studies and Qualitative Research (Sociology)
Arts and culture in the polarised city: Dresden's cultural institutions as mediators between 'diversity' and 'ethnopluralism'? (KupoS)
The project 'Arts and culture in the polarised city' takes the societal tendencies of social division that have become apparent in recent years and the increase in conflictual discursive debates as a reason, and investigates the significance of arts and culture in the communication processes within a society. The research project is divided into two subprojects. Subproject 1 records and examines the Dresden arts and cultural landscape in the period of 2014-2017 with regard to changing self-conceptions, mediation claims and concepts, as well as (political) self-positioning and other-positioning in the polarised city. Subproject 2 examines processes of societal polarisation and examines the conditions, potentials and limits of mediation by art and cultural institutions, using as an example an exhibition of supra-regional significance on an issue that may evoke potentially conflicting positions (in Dresden's urban society). To this end, the process of mediation, appropriation and reception is analysed in situ using ethnographic and discourse-analytical methods.
More information can be found on the homepage of the ZfI under KupoS.
Invective coding of intercultural encounters: Ethnographical analysis of situations in intercultural trainings and integration courses
The subproject R of the CRC 'Invectivity: Constellations and Dynamics of Disparagement' investigates how marking cultural differences is structured by the potentiality of invectivity, which communication forms of realisation or avoidance of invectives are characteristic features of interculturally coded social situations, and to what extent these contribute to the dynamisation, erosion or stabilisation of social order (ideas). In an ethnographic-praxeological approach, the subproject focuses on the situational realisation of intercultural actualities and the associated negotiation processes of diverging social or normative validity claims in two practical areas of intercultural learning and teaching: (A) Intercultural competence training for members of German organisations in fields of activity which are based on and reproduce trans-national cooperation (e.g. business, science); (B) Integration courses in the context of refugees and migration, aimed at regulating trans-national mobility practices within the national regulatory framework of the Federal Republic of Germany.
More information about the project and the CRC can be found here.