The organization of consumer protection - political actors and legal frameworks

在第一个资助期，我们分析了反歧视法律是如何在男性主导的组织中实施、调整和改变的，成立了哪些新的集体，以及它们如何影响法律及其实施。这也是我们在第二个资助期进行研究的起点，我们在第二个资助期询问在消费者保护领域法律和性别之间的界面上集体是如何组织的。为了让研究小组获得全面的洞察，我们调查了消费者保护中反映了哪些普遍和普遍的想象力。为了审查目前相关的两个案例，我们使用了政治主张分析和专家访谈相结合的混合方法。由于对女性卫生用品征税(1)，以及在柴油排放丑闻(2)之后建立了示范宣示行动(一个新的消费者集体诉讼框架)，问题是：消费法中可以遵守哪些集体化进程，以及这些进程如何与法律相关和如何改变法律。此外，我们还分析了以合法性语义或新网络的形式提到了哪些国际和跨国的歧视，以及在这一过程中歧视形式是如何处理的，甚至是新产生的。除了这两种情况的共同特征外，还可以确定具体情况，使它们之间的比较富有成效。总体而言，通过我们的项目，我们正在解决组织、性别和法律社会学之间的研究差距，因为在机构领域和重组过程中，法律对组织的意义仍然没有得到充分的研究。

In the first funding period, we analyzed how anti-discrimination law is implemented, adapted and changed in male-dominated organisations, which new collectives have been organized and how they influence the law and its implementation. This is also the starting point for our research in the second funding period in which we ask how collectives are organized at the interface between law and gender in the field of consumer protection. To achieve overall insight for the research group we investigate which imaginations of the general and common are reflected in consumer protection. In order to examine two currently relevant cases, we use a mix of methods that combines a political claims analysis with expert interviews. Because of the taxation of female hygienic articles (1) and the creation of the Model Declaratory Action (a new consumer class-action framework for redress) in the wake of the diesel emissions scandal (2), the question is asked: which collectivization processes can be observed in consumer law and how these processes relate to and change law. In addition, we analyze which international and transnational references are made - in the form of semantics of legitimacy or new networks - and how forms of discrimination are processed or even newly produced in the process. Beyond the common features of both cases, specifics can be identified that make the comparison between them fruitful. Overall, with our project we are addressing a research gap at the interface between organizational, gender and legal sociology, as the significance of law for organizations in institutional fields and in processes of reorganization, is still inadequately researched.