Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Institut für Europäische Ethnologie

In der interdisziplinären Forschungsgruppe „Recht – Geschlecht – Kollektivität“ kooperieren Geschlechterforscher:innen aus der Rechtswissenschaft, der Soziologie, der Europäischen Ethnologie und der Geschichtswissenschaft. Mit Fokus auf den Zusammenhang von Recht, Geschlecht und Kollektivität stellt die Forschungsgruppe die Austauschprozesse, Wechselwirkungen, Widersprüche und Ambiguitäten ins Zentrum, die dort entstehen, wo alltagsweltliche, institutionelle und rechtliche Praktiken aufeinandertreffen. Gefragt wird nach den konstituierenden und regulierenden Funktionen, die den spezifischen Modi, Praktiken und Mobilisierungsformen des Rechts zukommen, und in welcher Weise Geschlechternormen und -verhältnisse in verschiedene Dimensionen der Kollektivität hineinwirken.

Im Koordinationsprojekt laufen die Fäden der sechs Teilprojekte sowohl inhaltlich als auch organisatorisch zusammen. Inter- und Transdisziplinarität sind nicht nur Arbeitsmodi, sondern erfordern eigene epistemische Zugänge. Wo Inter- und Transdisziplinarität mehr als Schlagwörter sind und theoretisch sowie methodologisch adäquat umgesetzt werden, erfahren wir Entscheidendes für die empirischen Fragestellungen der Forschungsgruppe und qualifizieren die Wissensproduktion (die disziplinäre Grenzen ohnehin längst überschreitet).

Um das Erkenntnispotenzial der Forschungsgruppe zu vertiefen, aufzuarbeiten und zu einem eigenständigen theoretischen Beitrag auszuarbeiten, werden die Beitrags- und Erkenntnisinteressen der unterschiedlichen Disziplinen, das verbindende Begriffsrepertoire sowie die Beiträge zur Methodik interdisziplinärer Forschung im Rahmen des Koordinationsprojekts systematisiert. Bezogen auf die inhaltlichen Schwerpunkte der Forschungsgruppe liegt das besondere Interesse darin, den heuristischen Mehrwert einer inter- und transdisziplinär verfahrenden, geschlechtertheoretischen Rechtsforschung anhand konkreter (Rechts-)Probleme und mit einem genuin transdisziplinären Begriffsrepertoire sichtbar zu machen und darüber neue Gesprächszusammenhänge zwischen inner- und außerwissenschaftlichen Kontexten zu eröffnen.

Team

Projektleitung

Prof. Dr. Beate Binder

Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter

Patrick Wielowiejski, M.A.

Homepage: www.recht-geschlecht-kollektivitaet.de/

Projektbeschreibung

Automation threatens economic disruption. The Project aims to understand how competition between China and the US to develop automated technologies shapes the future of work. Focusing on warehouses linked to Alibaba and Amazon in Australia, Germany and Malaysia, the Project asks how automation changes labour conditions and modifies geopolitical tensions. Digital simulations of automated technologies in warehouses key to the China- US rivalry will seek to augment knowledge about the governance of labour and territory. Intended outcomes include insights into how automation is a geopolitical and economic concern for policy makers. Benefits should offer strategies for organisations negotiating automation’s effects on workforces.

Projektleitung

Manuela Bojadžijev u.a.

Projektbeschreibung

This project is part of the interdisciplinary BMBF-funded research consortium Food4Future, which aims at developing innovative solutions for the future of food. The consortium proposes two scenarios for 2050: no land and no trade. With these scenarios operating as creative disruptors, the single subprojects develop organisms, cultivation technologies, as well as economic and social analyses for the future of food.

The aim of our subproject is to investigate eating as a more-than-human practice that brings together all kinds of human and non-human actors, environments, and futures. The project serves a double function: The first is inwards, meaning an analysis of the logics and practices of the Food4Future research projects. The aim is to contextualise the Food4Future program as an effort of anticipating the future and navigating environmental uncertainty and to bring it into discussion with stakeholders and diverse social groups. The second will build on the insights from the former, meaning an ethnographic approach to the multiplicity of eating practices and practices of anticipating future food and food security.

Team

Leitung

Jörg Niewöhner

Mitarbeiterin

Anna Heitger

Projektbeschreibung

Link zur Webseite

Challenging Populist Truth-Making in Europe: The Role of Museums in a Digital ‘Post-Truth’ European Society (CHAPTER) is funded by the Volkswagen Foundation. Through ethnographic research and digital innovation, it develops approaches and best practice examples to support museums in challenging the growing influence of populist truth-making in Europe. The project is based at the Institute for European Ethnology at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, the Ludwig Uhland Institute for Historical and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Tübingen, the Jagiellonian University (JU) in Krakow and University College London (UCL). It cooperates with museums and board members from different European countries, as well as with software developer Fluxguide in Vienna. A key goal of the project is to work with young visitors from the UK, Poland and Germany to co-design a museum app that inspires critical reflection on the power of populist truth-making. The project brings together a broad range of anthropological fields, including digital anthropology, museum anthropology, political anthropology and the anthropology of emotions/affects to develop a European perspective on how museums can challenge the power of populist truth-making in contemporary digital societies.

Team

Projektleitung

Prof. Dr. Christoph Bareither

Prof. Dr. Sharon Macdonald

Prof. Dr. Haidy Geismar

Prof. Dr. Roma Sendyka 

Postdoc

Dr. Julia Leser

PhDs

Helena Kieß

Pia Schramm

Alice Millar

Marlena Nikody

Projektbeschreibung

Link zur Projektwebsite

Holocaust-themed folk art from Poland constitutes an important and as-yet-unexamined source that offers a unique perspective on the “dispersed” Holocaust that took place outside of the death camps, in full view of local “bystander” populations Created throughout the postwar decades, carvings and paintings of Holocaust scenes by Polish vernacular artists, who remembered pre-war Jews and witnessed the atrocities against them, have been largely forgotten in the holdings of Polish ethnographic museums or reside in private (mostly German) collections, without ever having been systematically examined as a source of knowledge about post-traumatic memory processes.

This project, funded by the DFG and NCN’s joint initiative “Beethoven,” focuses on such vernacular representations of the Shoah, and their impacts and instrumentalizations in East, West, and reunited Germany from 1945 until today, examining their role in Polish and German memory cultures. The study seeks, further, to determine to what extent German collectors stimulated memory of the Holocaust among Polish artists, and whether Germany’s “orientalist” gaze on Poland influenced the way this art was produced and received in the German states. Finally, the project will yield insights into the ways that Poles and Germans have negotiated their respective collective statuses as victim, witness, and perpetrator.

The project is carried out jointly with Roma Sendyka (Jagiellonian University in Kraków) and Erica Lehrer (Concordia University Montreal).

Team

Projektleitung

PD Dr. Magdalena Waligóska-Huhle

Weitere

Dr. Ina Sorkina

Dr. Alexander Friedman

Dr. Marta Duch-Dyngosz

Projektbeschreibung

Link zur Projektwebsite

While urban centers across East-Central Europe suffered unprecedented damage and population losses during WWII, with some of them entirely wiped out and many others depopulated, it was the archipelago of smaller towns often with a substantial Jewish majority—the shtelts—that faced a complete demise. This project, funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation, looks at the long-term consequences of systematic population exchange at the epicenter of the so-called “Holocaust by bullets,” in the “lost towns” of the Polish-Belarusian-Ukrainian borderlands. It examines both the strategies of obliterating or adopting (and adapting) “disinherited heritage” after 1945, applying both historical and anthropological methods. In focus are three interrelated phenomena of: overwriting, “displaced memories,” and the revival of Jewish heritage after 1989/1991. By mapping the fate of “lost towns” across state borders, the project offers a contribution to our understanding of not only the economic, social and cultural ramifications of the process of appropriation and repopulation of vacated spaces, but also of space-related practices of remembering and forgetting.

Team

Projektleitung

PD Dr. Magdalena Waligóska-Huhle

Weitere

Dr. Ina Sorkina

Dr. Alexander Friedman

Dr. Marta Duch-Dyngosz

PLUNDERED LIVES aims to write the history of the great plunder of small things—everyday household objects, and personal items, including clothing, looted on a mass-scale by local non-Jews during, and in the aftermath of, the Holocaust. While historical research has focused on the top-down and centralized Nazi state’s takeover of Jewish financial assets, real estate, businesses, or art objects, we know nothing about the afterlives of unmarked objects of daily use that changed hands in the course of the Holocaust and continued being used for decades in the small local communities of East-Central Europe. The main objectives of the project are to document different modes of how Jewish personal possessions were appropriated by non-Jewish local populations of East-Central European shtetls; examine how they have been redeployed, adapted, and misused by their new owners; and assess the social and psychological trans-generational impact of this kind of plunder on the communities of both the beneficiaries and the victims. Breaking with the top-down view on Holocaust dispossession, this project focuses on eight microstudies of communities located in three different administrative units of German-occupied East-Central Europe. PLUNDERED LIVES’ novelty is in a combination of a microhistorical analysis with qualitative approaches of social studies and social psychology; extending the typical time frame (1939-1945) to include dispossession practices that continued after WWII; and experimental outreach strategies of digital crowdsourcing, curatorial interventions in public spaces, and cross-generational interviewing to elicit responses from the implicated communities and document hitherto inaccessible material in private possession. Highly interdisciplinary, PLUNDERED LIVES will open avenues for future research into the fields of genocide studies, anthropology of conflict, social psychology, economic history and forensic studies.

Projektleitung

PD Dr. Magdalena Waligórska