The State, Political Norms and Political Conflicts


The Pole "The State, Political Norms and Political Conflicts" aims to collate and compare social science works on political conflicts, their dynamics, and their resolution, with particular attention paid to how they impact not only legal and bureaucratic norms, but also social and professional (and vice versa).

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Mobilities, Migrations, Reconfiguration of Spaces


The Pole’s salient themes are: the transformation of spaces, the evolution of mobility and migratory processes. The temporal, social, and spatial dimensions of change are examined from an interdisciplinary perspective.

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Dynamiken und Erfahrungen der Globalisierung


Ziel des Forschungsschwerpunkts ist es, Phänomene des „Globalen“ in der Geschichte und Gegenwart zu identifizieren und untersuchen. Ziel ist es, sowohl die vielfältigen und komplexen Prozesse der globalen Vernetzung und Zirkulation zu analysieren als auch ihre Bedeutung als Maßstab von Erfahrungen und Begriffen für Lebensformen, Theorien und epistemische Objekte zu hinterfragen.

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Critical Thinking in the Plural. Conceptual Approaches in Research in the Social Sciences


The Research Pole Critical Thinking in the Plural. Conceptual Approaches in Research in the Social Sciences is an interdisciplinary forum that examines the multiple forms of contemporary critical thinking, the paradigms and conceptual contexts of social science research, their conceptual sources, and their hermeneutic presuppositions.

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Environment, climate, energy: Societies and their ecological challenges


The research focus (Pol 5) deals with socio-ecological transformation processes from a transdisciplinary perspective. The project focuses on the actors, objects and dynamics of environmental policy and climate governance; the analysis, discussion and elaboration of future scenarios; and on the construction of environmental and climate issues as socio-political problems.

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