Socio-Cultural Constructions of Vulnerability and Resilience. German and Polish Perceptions of Threatening Aquatic Phenomena in Odra River Regions

该项目的目的是调查在多大程度上感知和应对潜在的脆弱性和复原力——与河流地区的洪水等水生现象有关——与复杂的社会文化知识结构联系在一起并受到其影响。该项目旨在解决脆弱性和复原力研究领域存在的一个研究缺口：在那里，受人类生态学和自然灾害研究的强烈影响，迄今为止，脆弱性和复原力这两个术语仍然以本质主义的方式被视为事实。虽然这是一个合理的观点，但它忽略了一个事实，即社会在过去和现在受到自然现象的文化影响的经验的基础上，可能在社会上构建自己的脆弱或有复原力的现实，这种现实成为一种自成一体的现实，肯定会对行动战略产生影响。所需要的是关于文化知识秩序在脆弱性和恢复力的社会文化建构中的作用的经验和概念工作。在此背景下，该项目的研究问题是：在特定的社会文化国家和地区背景下，脆弱性和恢复力结构是如何根据经验构建的，它们是如何根植于各自社会的文化知识秩序中的？研究重点将集中在德国和波兰选定的奥德拉地区：eisenenttenstadt，法兰克福/奥得，Slubice和弗罗茨瓦夫地区，自1997年以来，洪水已经成为一个热门话题，这一年发生了严重的奥德拉洪水。因此，由社会学、文化科学和文学研究学者组成的德国-波兰研究团队旨在理解和概念化如何通过话语构建对脆弱和弹性的感知，以及文化知识如何融入这些构建。

The aim of the project is to investigate in how far perceiving and coping with potential vulnerabilities and resiliencies - related to aquatic phenomena such as floods in river regions - is tied to and influenced by complex socio-cultural knowledge constructions. The project intends to address an existing research gap which can be identified in the field of vulnerability and resilience studies: There, strongly influenced by human ecology and natural hazards research, up to now, the terms vulnerability and resilience are still conceived of in an essentialist way as matters of fact. Although this is a legitimate perspective, this ignores that societies, on the basis of their past and present culturally influenced experiences with natural phenomena may socially construct their own reality of being vulnerable or resilient, a reality which becomes a reality sui generis and definitely has consequences for action strategies. What is required is empirical and conceptual work on the role of cultural knowledge orders in the socio-cultural construction of vulnerability and resilience. Against this background the research question of the project is: How are vulnerability and resilience constructions structured empirically in specific socio-cultural national and regional contexts and how are they rooted in cultural knowledge orders of a respective society? The research focus will be on selected Odra regions in Germany and Poland: the region of Eisenhüttenstadt, Frankfurt/Oder, Slubice and Wroclaw, where floods have become a hot topic at the very latest since 1997, the year of the severe Odra flooding. Thus, the German-Polish research team that comprises scholars from sociology, cultural science and literary studies aims at understanding and conceptualizing how perceptions of being vulnerable and resilient are discursively constructed and how cultural knowledge is woven into these constructions.