Discourse and practices in shrinking regions. An analysis of the subjective relevance of shrinkage discourses using the example of the municipality of Altenburger Land

一些社会结构的发展，如向外移民，社会和技术基础设施的减少，人口的减少等等，都被关于萎缩的论述所涵盖和把握。因此，它涉及到处理这种诊断的政治、方案和空间规划方式，这种诊断通常是一种空间诊断。基于这一观察，该项目研究是否以及如何对收缩话语可以获得相关的科目。首要问题是：在被贴上标签（和污名化）的地区，关于萎缩的过程和论述如何影响公民的日常生活？这将与市Altenburger土地（图林根州）的例子的使用进行分析。分析的实体是主体，他们在日常生活中面临着收缩现象。这些问题表现为高空置率、人口外流和基础设施密度下降，但也表现为歧视。该项目遵循的假设是，收缩话语影响主观模式的解释，并在此范围内预先配置过程的基础上个人的决定（如外迁）。同时，收缩话语除了具有霸权特征外，并不决定个体的决策，更不是由于话语与主体之间的线性关系。将特别承认缩小地区的主题的替代和反霸权解释。该项目有助于加深对基于对话语和主题的非线性理解的收缩的社会和空间维度的相互关系的理解。

Several social-structural developments such as outmigration, thinning out of social and technical infrastructure, a decline in population and more are covered and grasped by a discourse on shrinkage. It thus implicates political, programmatic and spatial-planning ways of dealing with this diagnosis which is regularly a spatial diagnosis. Based on this observation, the project examines if and how discourses on shrinkage could gain relevance for subjects concerned. The leading question is: How do processes of and discourses on shrinkage impact on the everyday life of the citizens in regions labeled (and stigmatized) accordingly? This will be analyzed with the use of the example of the municipality Altenburger Land (Thuringia). Entities of the analysis are subjects, who are confronted with phenomena of shrinkage within their everyday life. These are manifested as e.g. high vacancy rate, outmigration and a decreasing density of infrastructure, but also discursively e.g. by stigmatization. The project follows the hypothesis that shrinkage discourses influence subjective patterns of interpretation and insofar preconfigure processes based on individual decisions (such as outmigration). Simultaneously, shrinkage discourses, besides his hegemonic characteristics, do not determine individual decisions and certainly not owing to a linear relation between discourse and subject. Special recognition will be given to alternative and counter-hegemonic interpretations by the subjects in shrinking regions. The project contributes to a deepened understanding of the reciprocal relationship of the social and spatial dimension of shrinkage based on a non-linear understanding of discourse and subject.