EXC 2055: Contestations of the Liberal Script (SCRIPTS)

EXC 2055：自由主义文字的争论（SCRIPTS）

• 批准号: 390715649
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Freie Universität Berlin
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Clusters of Excellence (ExStra)
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/390715649?language=en
• 关键词: EXC; 2055; Contestations; Liberal; Script

The liberal script is under pressure. Some of the most severe challenges liberal democracies are facing today emanate from authoritarian and non-liberal states as well as from violent non-state actors. These actors reject the liberal script defined as ideas and institutional prescriptions about the organisation of society based on the core principle of individual self-determination. Within liberal societies, populist movements question the meanings of the liberal model of political and social order. This is not the first time the liberal script has been contested. It has evolved through contestation and resistance both from within and outside liberal societies. However, current contestations are puzzling when measured against the broad developments in world society over the past decades. There have been few interstate wars, poverty reduction in many countries of the global South, modest unemployment rates in most of the consolidated economies of the global North, and a significant improvement of the Human Development Index.The Cluster of Excellence SCRIPTS puts the current contestations of the liberal script in a broader historical, global, and comparative perspective by addressing three sets of questions:(1) To what extent do current challenges target core principles of the liberal script? Which alternative scripts exist to the liberal model and how does their appeal develop? How do current contestations compare to previous ones?(2) What are the causes of these contestations? Under which conditions does the liberal script lose or gain attractiveness, and what drives the rise of alternative scripts? Are the causes for current contestations different from earlier ones?(3) What are the consequences of the intensified contestations of the liberal script? Are these contestations of a temporary nature or do they indicate the decline of the liberal script in the long run? Which implications do contestations and the responses to them have for politics, societies, individuals, and the global challenges the world is facing in the 21st century?In tackling these questions, the Cluster brings together the social sciences and area studies with their Western and non-Western perspectives, with their comprehensive expertise in quantitative and qualitative methods, as well as their generalising conceptions and local understandings. The notion of double reflexivity conjoins these different perspectives, allowing us to discuss how core principles of the liberal script and the social sciences themselves were and are affected by entangled processes of contestations. We aim at generalisable knowledge while being aware of the relativity of knowledge production. This approach does not juxtapose but rather integrates different theoretical and methodological perspectives. It promises to produce new answers and insights to the most relevant questions in the social sciences concerning the organisation and development of politics and society in modern times.

自由派的剧本面临压力。自由民主国家今天面临的一些最严峻的挑战来自独裁和非自由国家以及暴力的非国家行为者。这些行动者拒绝自由主义脚本，自由主义脚本被定义为基于个人自决的核心原则的社会组织的思想和制度规定。在自由社会中，民粹主义运动质疑政治和社会秩序的自由模式的意义。这并不是自由主义剧本第一次受到质疑。它是通过来自自由社会内外的反对和抵制而发展起来的。然而，与过去几十年世界社会的广泛发展相比，目前的状况令人困惑。国家间的战争很少发生，全球南方许多国家的贫困减少，全球北方大多数综合经济体的失业率温和，人类发展指数显着改善。卓越集群通过解决三组问题，将当前自由主义脚本的解释放在更广泛的历史，全球和比较的视角中：（1）当前的挑战在多大程度上针对自由主义脚本的核心原则？自由主义模式有哪些替代方案，它们的吸引力是如何发展的？目前的监测站与以前的监测站相比如何？(2)造成这些问题的原因是什么？在什么情况下，自由主义剧本会失去或获得吸引力，是什么推动了另类剧本的兴起？目前的情况与以前不同吗？(3)对自由主义剧本的强化批判的后果是什么？这些变化是暂时的，还是表明自由主义文字的长期衰落？在21世纪的世纪，政治、社会、个人和全球面临的挑战对这些问题有什么影响？在解决这些问题时，该小组将社会科学和区域研究与西方和非西方观点结合起来，利用他们在定量和定性方法方面的全面专业知识，以及他们的概括概念和当地理解。双重反身性的概念将这些不同的观点结合起来，使我们能够讨论自由主义脚本和社会科学本身的核心原则是如何受到纠缠的过程的影响的。我们的目标是可概括的知识，同时意识到知识生产的相对性。这种方法不是将不同的理论和方法论观点并置，而是将它们结合起来。它承诺产生新的答案和见解，在社会科学中最相关的问题，有关组织和发展的政治和社会在现代。