Landnahme, Acceleration, Activation. Dynamics and (de-)stabilisation of modern growth societies

在我们最初的应用中，我们的论点是，不断发展的土地、加速和激活过程的升级逻辑可能已经超过了一个临界阈值，超过这个阈值，资本主义现代性的动力化必要性本身就面临着一个关键的挑战。在研究小组工作了三年多之后，我们认为这篇论文比以往任何时候都更有话题性。一方面，许多早期工业化社会，包括一些重要的欧元区国家，继续面临经济增长危机，而另一方面，对基于无节制的化石燃料消费的增长模式的批评不断增加。增长批判冲动已进入国际精英话语，它们在创新和生产过程数字化的背景下被讨论，并引发了越来越多的社会运动。在这种多方面的后增长话语中，研究小组扮演着重要的角色，已经成为关于增长资本主义危机的国际辩论的场所。我们的城市名称、加速和激活的关键概念以各种方式影响了社会学辩论，甚至公共和政治话语。我们打算在第二个筹资期继续发展和扩大这些发展。在我们最初关注增长的社会经济和社会文化驱动因素之后，我们现在将把注意力转向社会政治增长引擎和向后增长星座过渡的可能轨迹。研究小组打算主要解决三个研究问题：(1)增长的必要性和障碍以及新的不平等对“生产性主体”的构成和再生产产生什么后果？(2)经济危机和缓慢增长与民主问题有什么关系？(3)什么样的后增长社会是可以想象的、理想的和现实的？有什么迹象表明这种社会正在发生转变吗？这种转变过程如何以民主的方式进行？我们将把这三个问题综合体与四个新强调的元主题（危机的概念和理论、公共社会学、男子气概的增长和结构、去增长运动）联系起来。（...）第一阶段的指导性术语将辅以新的类别（恢复力/民主化；异化/共鸣，外部化/再分配）。在我们最初目标的扩展中，我们现在追求三个目标：首先，更系统地将关于增长资本主义危机的辩论嵌入全球南北背景中。其次，通过深化和扩大致力于批判性公共社会学的国际科学机构网络内的合作，进一步推动这一点。第三，利用这一网络，在全球对话中探索和辩论向后增长社会转型的可能性。

In our initial application, our thesis was that the escalatory logic of incessant processes of Landnahme, acceleration and activation may have surpassed a critical threshold, beyond which the dynamisation imperatives of capitalist modernity are themselves becoming subject to a crucial challenge. After more than three years of work at the Research Group we consider this thesis more topical than ever. On the one hand, many early-industrialised societies, including some important Eurozone countries, continue to face an economic growth crisis, while on the other hand the criticism of growth models based upon unbridled consumption of fossil fuels continues to grow. Growth-critical impulses have entered into international elite discourse, they are discussed in the context of innovation and digitalisation of production processes, and they have sparked growing social movements. Within this multifaceted post-growth discourse, the Research Group plays an important role, having become a site for international debates on the crises of growth capitalism. Our key concepts of Landnahme, Acceleration and Activation have influenced sociological debates and even public and political discourse in various ways. We intend to build upon and extend these developments in the second funding period. Following our initial focus on the socio-economic and socio-cultural drivers of growth, we shall now turn our attention to the socio-political growth engines and to possible trajectories of transition toward a post-growth constellation. The Research Group intends to primarily address three research questions: (1) What consequences for the constitution and reproduction of "productive subjects" arise from the imperatives of and hindrances to growth, as well as from new inequalities? (2) How do economic crises and slow growth relate to the democratic question?(3) What contours of a post-growth society are conceivable, desirable and realistic? Does anything indicate transitions toward such societies? How can such processes of transformation proceed in a democratic fashion?We will relate these three question complexes to four newly accentuated meta-themes (notions and theories of crisis, Public Sociology, growth and constructions of masculinity, degrowth movements). (...)The guiding terminology of the first phase will be complemented by new categories (resilience/democratisation; alienation/resonance, externalisation/redistribution). In an expansion of our original objectives, we now pursue three goals: Firstly, to more systematically embed the debate on the crisis of growth capitalism within a global north-south context. Secondly, to further this by deepening and expanding cooperation within an international network scientific institutions committed to a critical Public Sociology. And thirdly, to draw on this network for fathoming and debating the possibilities of transformation towards post-growth societies in a global dialogue.