Forschung

Lifeworlds in Crisis

By looking at people’s lives during short or extended periods of emergency, hardship or general uncertainty that occur in all parts of the world and on varying scales, the projects in our group go beyond the exclusion of modalities of continued everyday living during exceptional times, as postulated by Agamben (2005). We extend the focus on the maintenance of community relations (Ticktin 2006) to lay the focus on manifold forms of everyday practices and navigating (Vigh 2008) through such times by gathering situationally relevant knowledge and negotiations of sameness and difference with others who are also living through intense times.

In the professorship’s working group "LinC" (Lifeworlds in Crisis) we meet once a week during the semester to discuss our current research projects which deal in a variety of ways with the everyday coping and understanding of crises.

All our members are currently working on exciting projects: