Coordination Funds

协调基金

• 批准号: 445476926
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Jürgen Martschukat
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Lehrstuhl Nordamerikanische Geschichte
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Units
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/445476926?language=en
• 关键词: Coordination; Funds

The research group explores voluntarism as a driving force of human practices and as modus operandi of social and political order in the past and present. A leading assumption of our research group is that voluntariness has an antinomic structure: exercised as an act of freedom, it also depends on multiple conditions that endorse, expect, and even demand certain types of behavior. Against this backdrop, nine subprojects examine (a) voluntariness as norm, (b) voluntariness as resource of both political participation and economic exploitation, and (c) voluntariness as discursive strategy for a liberal-democratic legitimation of patterns and politics, which, after all, leave only little room to manoeuver to the individuals. Empirical explorations of voluntariness sharpen our understanding of the historical and political significance of human actors and the conditions of their political and social participation.Our research interest is inspired by the current significance of voluntariness in neoliberal societies. With philosophical and sociological subprojects explore the power of voluntariness as resource for political participation and economic yield in contemporary flexible capitalism, others develop historical genealogies of voluntariness. Here, the shaping of the liberal democratic citizen and subject since the age of revolution in the late 18th century is of crucial significance. This liberal and democratic self was meant to lead an autonomous life based on voluntary engagement and foresighted investment in themselves and their future. We follow the traces of this form of life beyond the history of modern societies as far back in time as to the history of ancient Athens. Yet we also “provincialize” (D. Chakrabarty) this nexus of democracy, liberalism and voluntariness in several respects, by asking for religiously driven voluntariness in medieval martyrdom, for voluntary participation in modern dictatorships, as well as for the relation of voluntariness, decolonization, and the global politics of migration and repatriation. Accordingly, our interdisciplinary research group consists of mostly historians, with central subprojects also in the fields of political sociology and practical philosophy.Our analytical perspective is inspired by the cultural history of the political and by governmentality studies. We seek to understand voluntariness and voluntary practices as embedded in a network of discourses, of political paradigms and concepts, and of modes of subject formation, all contributing to an amalgamation of different types of external conduct and self-conduct. Based on our interdisciplinary and empirical work, we will also contribute to the conceptual debate on governmentality and the cultural history of the political and sharpen the understanding of how subjects and societies are governed through voluntariness.

该研究小组探讨了唯意志论作为人类实践的驱动力以及过去和现在社会和政治秩序的运作方式。我们研究小组的一个主要假设是，自愿性具有一种矛盾的结构：作为一种自由行为来行使，它还取决于认可、期望甚至要求某些类型行为的多种条件。在此背景下，九个子项目研究了（a）作为规范的自愿性，（b）作为政治参与和经济剥削的资源的自愿性，以及（c）作为自由民主模式和政治合法化的话语策略的自愿性，毕竟，这给个人留下了很小的回旋余地。对自愿性的实证探索加深了我们对人类行为者的历史和政治意义及其政治和社会参与条件的理解。我们的研究兴趣受到当前新自由主义社会中自愿性的重要性的启发。通过哲学和社会学子项目探索自愿性作为当代灵活资本主义中政治参与和经济收益资源的力量，其他项目则发展了自愿性的历史谱系。在这里，18世纪末革命时代以来自由民主公民和主体的塑造具有至关重要的意义。这种自由和民主的自我意味着过一种基于自愿参与和对自己及其未来的有远见的投资的自主生活。我们追寻这种生命形式的踪迹，超越了现代社会的历史，甚至可以追溯到古代雅典的历史。然而，我们也在几个方面“地方化”（D. Chakrabarty）民主、自由主义和自愿性的这种联系，要求中世纪殉道中宗教驱动的自愿性，自愿参与现代独裁统治，以及自愿性、非殖民化以及移民和遣返的全球政治之间的关系。因此，我们的跨学科研究小组主要由历史学家组成，中心子项目也在政治社会学和实践哲学领域。我们的分析视角受到政治文化史和政府治理研究的启发。我们寻求理解嵌入话语网络、政治范式和概念以及主体形成模式中的自愿性和自愿实践，所有这些都有助于不同类型的外部行为和自我行为的融合。基于我们的跨学科和实证工作，我们还将为关于治理和政治文化史的概念辩论做出贡献，并加深对主体和社会如何通过自愿进行治理的理解。